Blake Bennions running

Beautiful sunset run after watching my Bengals destroy the Steelers. All is right in the universe.

Nice run on the cross country course. Foot felt a little odd towards the end, I think I need new insoles.

Also first time I've reached 500 miles in a year since 2017... back when I was on the SUU track/xc team. That's kind of sad. 2018 was apparently just 430 but I may have missed entries for a while when I was still on the team, 2019 was 260 (somehow), 2020 was 430.

Weird to think about how little I've run the past 3 years, I guess I've averaged 5-10 miles per week. Running volume is a large part of what makes a year a good one- so I need to get back on it. Even with my achilles injury there's no reason I shouldn't be able to do 15-20 miles a week and get around 1000 miles per year. 2021 should end at around 700-800 miles total, next year I want to get to 1000. Lots of big things coming next year.

Nice long (for me at the moment) run around the fields behind the track. Finished with 4 200ms. I wanted to run them between 35 and 37. The first two felt fast but turned out to be 39 and 38. The last two were better with 36 and 35. I think part of it was being tired, and another part of it was rusty legs. They all felt pretty similar.

Ran over to the gym and worked out with Ro, lots of fun today! Ran and walked home. My new running shoes feel kind of crunchy towards the front, I'm going to try new insoles but I'm worried they might just be trashed.