Blake Bennions running

Easy weekend finished with an easy run. This week I'm planning on

Monday: 8-10 in the gully with the team

Tuesday: 7 total with 3 miles timed. I am going to try and stay under 5:30 pace for the 3 and if I can for the first 2 then I will run max effort for the last mile.

Wednesday: 10 at Porter Rockwell with the team

Thursday: 10 at Alta with team

Friday:5-10

Saturday: Maybe 2-4, maybe none. Saturday isn't an easy day to run these days

Sunday: 5-8 miles.

Then next week I will increase my mileage on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday. This week I'm planning on like 45ish, next week will probably be my first above 50 since I've come home. And then I will have one last week after that before going to cedar city!

Switched monday and tuesday, and I might do less tomorrow, like 7-8. Anyways I ran 17:12 for the 3 timed miles, could have been a decent amount faster but I wasn't eating super healthy over the weekend and the running app on my phone just sucks! I threw off my pace haha, it said I was going 5:05 the first lap so I slowed down to what it said was 5:25sih and it felt easy so I was like awesome. Then at the half mile the pace it started rising, so I sped up to try and keep it under 5:30 but it kept rising, I kept it at 5:31 for a while, but THEN I came through the mile in slower than 5:40 and was like what the heck! And then it pooped down to 5:41 so I was like ok, this is stupid. So that apps pace thing is horrible, to be fair though, it is a phone. I need to get a watch, and running shades. Hopefully I can make it over to wasatch running tomorrow after I run.

Didn't get a run in before work and I finished at about 8 so Wasatch running was closed but I went home, had dinner and then drove to the gully and ran at about 9:30, it was dark so I used the flashlight on my phone. Unfortunately 3 or 4 miles in my phone died so I was left to make it back with no light haha. Mostly I was just worried about my ankle, there were a few close calls but it went ok and I got back fine. I know this wasn't the brightest idea, but oh well, now I know not to do the gully at night without bringing an headlight or something, but mostly I should just run during the day haha. Good run though, the city looked awesome!

I'm glad I don't work Wednesdays because this run kicked my butt. I will hot tub for sure though. Also I think today would be a good day to buy stuff for college and go to Wasatch running. Today we did 60 minutes of 2 minutes hard 3 minutes easy. We got to the 4.5 mile going out. Didn't feel the greatest today, probably because I decided to do 40% of my weekly mileage in a 12 hour time frame. Train smarter Blake! I dropped back from Brandon and Tayte with about the 3 miles left mark, then Ian and I regrouped with them with about a mile left but then I dropped back again because my body was about to blow up so took it easy the last .75. Sometimes I wish running wasn't so hard on the bowels. Also I started talking to Jacob Allred who's back from his mission and will be coming to suu this fall too! I'd be surprised if I could get him to show up to a run before school but I bet he'd enjoy a gully or Alta run.

Good Alta run! Thursdays are busy days haha, tomorrow I am thinking of like 6 miles and not sure what I will do Saturday yet. Saturday I might just go for an easy 2-3 and play some soccer with my brother. I ordered my laptop for school, so now I need to get some kitchen supplies and some stuff for my room and I will be all set! Besides packing clothes and hygiene stuff, but that's pretty simple. The suu packet says to decrease mileage in August, but since rim already at lowish mileage I guess I should just stop increasing and leave it in the low 40s after this week?

Went to Cottonwood Heights rec center with Nick and played basketball, hot tubbed, swam, more hot tub, then ran around the park next to the rec center for 1.5, then treadmill for 3 miles at 6:20 pace. Today was the first day this week running felt good, maybe it was the hot tub. I feel good! Tomorrow will either be off, or it will be like 2-3 miles. Saturdays are really busy. Then sunday I will go for like 4-6, whatever feels good.