Blake Bennions running

Somehow feeling super wrecked still, legs felt rusty but also depleted. I deferred my Des news marathon entry to 2027. Got some other fun races coming up though. If I can stop this endless spiral of wrecked training weeks.

Had a great 4th of July and today we took Whitney to rush fun complex and she got to do bumper cars and try out bowling, mini golf, a big foam pit with lots of climbing stuff, and lazer tag all for the first time. I was pretty impressed with how she did for a 3 year old.

Very windy today, body still feeling like poop. Not sure how this bug wrecked my whole system so bad.

7:30 pace for this run got my heart rate up to 160. Not sure if I'm just not recovered yet or I just was set back that much. Either way it's time to start rebuilding. Gonna start with some faster speed on the track tomorrow.

Warmed up with Kolten and Henry and then did 200, 320 (accidentally started at the 4x100 transition start instead of the 300m for lane 4), 400, 500, 600, 500, 400, 300, 200 with Henry. Had 2-4 kind of rest between ach.

Splits were 31, 50 (probably 47 for the 300), 66, 1:27, 1:46, 1:29, 1:11, 51, 31.

So I fell off a bit especially the last 400 and 300. But pretty good really, I'd say my mile time right now is clearly around 4:35-4:45.

Body just doesn't want to run these days, been one long rut going back to like mid May when I got sick the first time. Just gotta keep getting out every day and do some fast but low stress workouts like yesterday until the magic comes back. Glad I pulled out of Des news, things will come around but the last thing my body needs is an all out marathon rn. Mileage is lower than I'd like to to be but I don't think it's wise to push it quite yet. Got to play some risk with the boys tonight, that was fun.

20 minute sauna

Ran Whitney to her swim lesson and back. She also made it all the way to the park on her bike tonight (close to half a mile), and then I carried her bike back home once she was done- which was a solid workout.

5 more miles in the heat, was 91° but I felt great. My legs are a bit sore from Wednesday but I generally felt better than I have since before the Ogden half. It was the first run this entire summer that was what I want in a nice warm summer run, I used to love this weather and it's been killing me this year up until today. Maybe my body just needed to adjust to the heat, and maybe racing through a half marathon while sick and then running an under fueled marathon 3 weeks later was a dumb idea. Probably nothing too mysterious about why I've had an 8 week rut, I likely just vastly underestimated the stress those events had on my body. Got 4 strides in today.

Got out late and ended up on a very hot run. Felt pretty good outside of the heat. Did 4 strides.

Whitney came over from her room in the middle of the night and gave me a hug and then just went back to bed. This morning I asked her why she came over and she said "I wanted to be friendly". Was very adorable.