Blake Bennions running

Felt a little off today so I just ran 4. I was feeling a little more normal towards the end. Gully tomorrow!

Hmm, mediocre feeling run today. I slept in today and missed running with the team so that was sad. So I took today to run faster paces instead. I ran 1.5 in the park outside of the rec center at under 7:00 pace after hot tubbing and then went inside for 4.8 on the treadmill at 6:20 pace. I was going to do 6 miles on the treadmill but I was short on time.  I probably would have finished just for the mental boost but I was already running a little late. At 3 miles I was thinking of cutting it off at 4.5 because of the time and then when I got there I thought I might as well run 30 minutes on the treadmill. Then I hurried off to work. 6:20 pace felt a little more uncomfortable after the first 2 or 3 miles than I would like, not too bad, but not as good as I would like. But I only need to be running 6:45 pace on my runs at SUU this fall so its ok if 6:20 isn't as easy as I want it to be. I also saw that there were no swiss runners fast enough to represent them at the European Athletic Championships in the 800m, 1500m, 3000m steeplechase, or 5000m this year, so if I can get a lot faster over the next few years hopefully I can represent the Swiss in one or a couple of those events. I don't know exactly what times I need to be allowed to compete, but I will find out and those will be my goals! My dream is to get to compete there for 2018 or 2020! The actual qualifying standards are pretty dang fast but if no swiss runners reach those times they can send 1 unqualified athlete. So my goal is under 1:50 for the 800m, and the standard is like 1:47.6 so I'm hoping if I run like 1:49 my senior year then that will be good enough that they will let me in :p. But who knows, I haven't even started my college running, maybe I will reach these goals earlier and shoot higher, or maybe I will never run faster than 1:55. Maybe the 800m won't be a strong event in college, and I will be a 5000m runner, this year I'm just starting and getting into college running shape. I'm just going to do my best and enjoy running, but still having something really cool and exciting to hope for is motivating!

Haven't been feeling too fast this week, I ran treadmill and then over to Brighton track, I did 4 flying 40s and then I ran back to the rec center. I ran into Tayte at the track and we ran together for a little, that was cool! I slept in to 8:13 today so I missed going to practice again, I have been going to bed early but then getting up has been harder, weird weird week. Oh well, I got todays workout done. Tomorrow I will be at porter rockwell for sure! Also last day of work so that's good. So I will run a good 25ish miles the next 3 days and then I will do like 4 saturday, sunday off and then monday is the first practice with SUU!

Nice run with the team today, felt solid. Tomorrow will be a nice long run and then at Alta, last one of the year and my last practice with Alta. It's coming quick!

10 miles at Alta I ran with Brandon mostly, we stayed with David and Fin on the way up. It felt pretty good. Last practice with the team today, both girls and guys teams are going to do really well this season, a lot of young strong runners who can make Alta a powerhouse in the coming seasons! Tomorrow I will run with Kramer and Andrew and then Saturday going to Cedar City!

Ran with Kramer, Andrew, and Brady, first time meeting Brady so that was cool! Today's run was a lot of fun, we ran 3.5 miles up dimpledell road from Kramer's house and then back. Those guys are going to be so good at byu, I want to keep up and be as fast as they're going to be!

I will do anything easy shakeout run with Tayte this afternoon and then that will be the last run before I leave.

3 cool down miles with Tayte after his track workout we ran from Brighton to the rec center and around that area, felt good. Just getting the last stuff ready to go I'm leaving in just 16 hours!