Blake Bennions running

Easy plus 4 strides. Built up to a sprintish on the last 2 strides, I need to rush through strides less when I do them and focus on actually doing them well. Planning to get up in 8 hours and do a 10-12 mile day with some half marathon pace miles.

Keep both getting crap sleep and bad runs

With Kolten and Jake. It was hot. I guess it's not just me, those guys heart rates were also irregularly high on this run averaging 8:15 pace. Couldn't escape the heat even starting at 6:45.

2 mile warm up and strides with Jake.

Mile in 5:30, felt smoother than last week

8x600m with 2 mins recovery and goal was 1:54

Splits were:

1:53, 1:54, 1:54, 1:53, 1:54, 1:54, 1:53, 1:50.

Felt like I could not breathe in this mugginess and the track was slick but my legs carried me through. Pretty happy with this one, I think those fast ladder workouts the past couple weeks are paying off. 5:02 pace is pretty good for this workout. Now I just need to do it for 8x800m and then 4xmile.

Also a chance I jump into Des News 10k since Jake forgot to cancel his race. If probably just run 32:xx especially with this workout two days out. Would be a good tempo, which I have been struggling to get myself to do.

Not much time today, shake out for tomorrow's race + 4 strides. Legs felt pretty heavy from yesterday's workout- but I still have another night of sleep. I think I might be able to run sub 32 if I was fresh but I'll just be happy with a new PR.

Legs were trashed from Wednesdays workout, I think that just tanked this for me worse than I had expected. I have also likely lost some fitness. But this was effectively 1.5 minutes slower than I ran at salt lake 10k with 600 feet elevation loss compared to flat haha. So pretty huge difference in performance.

Marathon winning time was 2:39 and 3rd place was 2:50 so I am a little bummed I didn't keep on course for that, bonking while pacing a 2:50 marathon and getting sick twice during the last 2 months was a big mistake. But this has helped reignite the fire within my belly, which has been suffering due to muggy weather and generally feeling off. Time to build back up to 60-70 miles per week and make stuff happen.