Blake Bennions running

We ran to the gully today and did a time trial. But the top 6 guys had to stick together, Brayden droped back to run with cubby so we finished we 5 but brayden could have kept with us. 4 of our top 5 guys had major prs for the gully, Kramer didnt because he was running with us but Davis, Alec, Chase and I all had great PRs all over a minute. We finished with a time of 43:40, My PR and Alecs as well was a 44:40 and Chase had like a 7 minute PR, Davis also had a large PR. Cubby and Ashton had PRs as well. There arn't many days when I've been able to say I gave it my all and I was happy with the result, today is one of those days. Hopefully more of these days will happen at the races! But a 43 minute range time in the gully, I'm definentely happy to be heading into Nebo with that, I want to get faster but I'm happy with the time. Hopefully next time I run this it will be a 42 range! I really felt good about this run, I can't wait for nebo!

Am: 4.5 miles, the first 3.75 were easy. Next .5 were barefoot easy on the inside of the track, last .25 were striders.

Pm: 6.5 miles, best buy loop. We took it easy, it was a nice run. Overall, today was just easy mileage. It was a nice easy recovery day from the maximum effort at the gully yesterday. I think we're doing a track workout tomorrow, I'm excited! Actually I'm not sure what I can do on a track workout right now, I think I will definintely take my inhaled medicine tomorrow, I haven't taken it for like a week because they were hurting my throat and voice but I think its a good idea to take them on speed and race days at least.

We ran to the gully and did 4x400s. My times were 1:30, 1:32, 1:34, 1:38. We had 7 minutes of rest between each 400. Obviously these would be horrible times on the track, but its all uphill and windy. It got harder to finish the last 150 each time.

3 laps around the track, then 2 lower loops, then 4 striders. I feel pretty good, I sort of wish my lungs feeling better though. The race is tomorrow, I am really determined to do well.

I havnt really had the same motivation every since that last stress fracture, it just doesn't matter as much. I like running and I want to suceed but the motivation, fire, and hunger for improvement I used to have just doesn't seem to be there anymore. I promised myself when I started running that I would never give up and never quit, because the only way to get truly good at something is to stick with it. So I'm not going to stop, I just need to keep going and never give up. I feel like there's something more I could have put into today's race but for some reason I just couldn't do it. My lungs were the only thing hurting going into mile 3 but I was just dropping and dropping. The only reason I'm still on varsity is because my good friend from EFY over the summer, Kyle Gibbs from Woods Cross, passed me and it gave me motivation and reassured me that I could still finish ok. I just got behind Kyle and just kept right with him up until the end, I would not have broken 17 if I hadn't had my friend's support.

We ran up at Jeremy ranch, it was really nice but I didn't do to well on the last 2 miles. Coach Murphy said I should try to enjoy running more so I will work on that, I will try to find ways to enjoy each days run more. I have heard that you should enjoy the process more than the finish, or something close to that, so I think I need to do that. I think tomorrow I should just concentrate on other stuff, and I will just do some core tonight as well.