Blake Bennions running

Easy run

10 miles with Jake including a 4x 4 on 3 off, 4x 2 on 2 off.

Paces for the 4 minutes were: 5:49, 5:36, 5:21, 5:27.

Paces for the 2 minutes were: 5:26, 5:23, 5:32, 5:49. That last 2 minutes that we did at 5:49 pace was all uphill and easily the hardest effort but felt really good.

After the run I drove up north and played 80 minutes of tennis with Adam, I'm counting that as 2 miles but it definitely felt more like 5-6 in terms of energy spent.

After all that I stopped by starbucks and got my free venti pumpkin spice latte breve... only day of the year I'll willingly go to Starbucks. It's a little scary I'm officially to my last year before 30, but this was a perfect start to the first day of 29.

Was already dark at 8:30 tonight when I started my run

Premeet with Jake. He is only racing peach days and did 8x400 at 79-80. I did every other 400 with him. Felt pretty good. Hoping to win both park city open race and peach days 5k tomorrow and Saturday!

Warmed up and then left to find a toilet and unfortunately missed the start of the race. I thought it was at 8:30 and apparently it was 8:10. So I started on the course around the 10 minute mark, so I finished like 21st of 27 competitors in the coaches race with a time of like 26 minutes and I caught Joy right at before the line. Was a fun meet!

Course record for the peach days 5k! Most years it's won in like 16:30-17:30 and this year there were 7 people sub 17 and 2nd place was also sub 16. So a little harder to win than I'd expected.

I went out with Jake and Spencer before they continued on to the 10k route and I turned off for the 5k, and to my surprise like the entire pack of guys that were right behind us all followed me for the 5k. I kept hoping to drop them but just managed to put a few seconds of distance on 2nd place per mile, which did the trick.

I've now won 3 races this year which has been a lot of fun. Probably would have been 4 if I'd made it to the starting line yesterday... I'll get it next year haha.