Blake Bennions running

AM: We did 4 miles in the morning, then we did 6 striders. It was a nice run and felt good.

PM: We did the gully longer run, it was an easy run. I guess I will look forward to the max effort 400 tomorrow. I'd really like to get in a 20 mile day sometime but I would probably get a stress fracture, state meet next week. Running has been feeling good lately, I don't really even want to take a break from running after state but I probably will once it gets colder. I really need to get a break through at state, I need to change everything about my race.

We warmed up 2 miles and then did some striders before the workout. The workout was 2000 meters at race pace which I hit at 6:33, then 1200 meters at race pace which I hit at 4:00 or maybe a little under. Then we did an 800 which I hit at 2:32, and a 400 which I hit at 1:06 for. Then we cooled down 5 laps. It wasn't a great workout for me but I guess it wasn't too bad. Tomorrow I have to miss the team run at 9 am for a PSAT, it makes me feel bad. I don't want to miss any of the workout. I'm just happy school is over after tomorrow, well sort of. I think I will spend the long weekend doing some productive things rather than just goofing off.

We ran an easy run in the gully today, it felt really good, it was the best weather its been for a while. I'm starting to be confident in my legs and lungs, the only thing I feel is really holding me back is that my arms keep hurting in long VO2 max workouts, especially races. I'm going to hope and pray they don't hurt at state because I really think I can run the race on the faster half of the 16 minute range. I'm really excited for what our team can do, and I want to make sure I do everything I can to help us make it to Portland. I played tennis with my brother and he wanted to run home afterwards so I ran with him, he did track for a season back in high school which is 50% of the reason I tried out for indoor track 2 years ago, it's crazy how fast the past 23 months have gone by, but at the same time I feel like I've been running for a long time. High school is a pretty short part of life, but its definintely a very important part.

I went with the team up to Jeremy Ranch, it was good weather although a little windy. I'm pretty tired, I guess thats what 4 hours in a car and an hour and a half of running does to you... I feel terrible about my ability today, I know I should be thinking positive but I just feel like I could never run a 16:30 even, I just can't race that long and a 5k isn't even that long of a race. I guess I will just stick to the plan and run behind whoever is in 6th for our team and then run my hardest the last mile and do my best not to let anyone pass me, I guess we will see how I do. I hope my team can get us that runner up trophy.

Nice easy run around the neighborhood and I stopped by the library, I felt really good today. Its really nice to run on my own every once in a while, I felt like going some more miles but I was only supposed to run for 45 mins. This probably the nicest weather for the rest of the year so I've been outside for a lot of the day. I am excited to see what speed workout we are doing tomorrow, last one before state!

3 mile warm up, then an 800, then we did about a mile in  between that 800 and the first 400, then we just jogged a little before another 400, then we cooled down a good for a mile. My splits were 2:20 for the 800, it was horrible! It definintely didn't help that I almost got tripped on the way back and then 20 meters later some lady walked her dog straight through our 800 and I had to jump out of the way so that I didn't knee her dog in the face, I don't like that lady very much to say the least. Then my first 400 wasn't very good at 58 seconds and my final 400 was decent at 56 seconds.