Blake Bennions running

AM- 4.5 easy miles with the team

PM- 7.7 easy miles with the team. 12 miles today, about 10 tomorrow, probably 16 Wednesday, guessing 12 on Thursday, 4 on Friday, 10 on Saturday. So about 65 miles for the week! We will find out if this prediction is acurate later. Grass relays is Saturday, I think it will be fun, I am going to read some of my posts from track and try to get that mentality about these races. My plan for grass relays is to race it like the 3200m, 5:05 for the first mile, try to repeat on the second, and then give on heck of a kick. 

Easy 4 miles with one big uphill and downhill. I feel good, my body feels ready for the day! Workout after school, probably 6 miles total.

After school I did a 1.5 mile warm up followed by 3 miles on the track, 200m in 34, 200m easy. I hit all of my 200s in 32-34. The last two were supposed to be 30 but I hit 33 for them. Not feeling good on the last two at all, I believe that when a workout feels unreasonably hard for you, it's because you needed that workout. So I didn't do well today but I think it's because I've been lacking the thing this workout trains and this will improve my running a lot. When I recover I will be a very improved runner. Tomorrow is an aerobic threshold test, I'm excited to find out mine, my aerobic strength is something I have confidence in after a good summer of training including Jupiter Peak Steeplechase.

AM- 4.5 miles easy, 8 laps in lane 8, lower loop, 4 barefoot striders. I also played 4 games of ultimate frizbee in 6th period.

PM- 9 miles in 68 minutes. We were behind by quite a bit until the last 2.5 miles, I'd been trying to pull people along but at that point I just took off. I wasn't feeling good today but I wanted to do the workout right. We actually ended up going faster than we needed too for the last mile, people like really pushing it the last mile. I felt happy with my effort. Mentally and physically I'm breaking down but that's good, it's the only way to get out of my comfort zone and adapt to the workload, thus becoming a better person, and a better runner. I also dropped one of my 4 ap classes so my stress should be decreased a little. Tonight I will just do some homework, relax, maybe nap, and possibly do some sit-ups, maybe a few push ups.

AM- 4.5 easy miles, I love my new film studies and seminary class.

PM- 5.5 miles including 8x flying 40s. We were going to do 4x1200m at 5:00 pace but not everyone was feeling up to it so coach Murphy had us do flying 40s. I was fine with just doing flying 40s, I would have loved to do 4x1200m at a good fast pace but my body hurt just fine with the workout we did, and I'm no expert on team building but I had fun and thought it was good bonding time, I really like some of the varsity guys this year, good guys! I felt motivated to run for my team today at grass relays, more so than I've ever felt in cross country. I'm ready for some good hard racing, some big mileage, and some hard workouts this season! I know I'm going to enjoy it!

A mile warm up, 800m at race pace, 2:34, and a mile cool down. I'm running the 4th leg so not the most exciting one, but just as important as the others. I want to run somewhere between 10:15 and 10:30 tomorrow. It shouldn't be that much different from a 3200m and the 3200m isn't so hard.

Not happy with the race, looking back it felt WAY too easy. I slowly passed runners that I am a lot faster than, I could have run another mile at this pace easy. The only hard parts were the hay bales where I felt like I couldn't breathe going over and they hurt, but the rest was too easy, I don't like this course because there's no where to kick, it was too far away to do much of a kick before the 3 hay bales and after that you have to prepare for the gauntlet and after that you have to prepare to hand off so the result was I didn't really kick. I passed 4 teams but it should have been more, I am very motivated to go run a fast 5k at the next race, I'm determined and hungry, I want success. I'm going to go hard the next time I race, its too easy to run slow when I go out conservatively in races. I need to go at a 5:10 for the first mile of a race like pre-region, I want to stick with people I should be sticking with and beating them. I should be running with all the guys I was running with in track, and will be running with in track this spring. I know I have the ability, I know I have the speed, and I put in the mileage, I need to start racing like it. After I got home I did 4.25 miles, a 400 in 60 seconds in the middle of the run. Adam Jensen did awesome today, 5th overall I think! And Cubby did good too, our team did well as a whole so I was happy about that.