Blake Bennions running

Warmed up and ran an all out 400m in 59 seconds. Then did 4x200m buildups. Just happy to be under 60 seconds for the 400m. I'd like to get back down under 55 seconds by this time next year. For now I'll just try to get over 30 miles this week and keep doing strides and buildups every run.

Felt great today, averaged just under 7:00 pace and it didn't feel like I was pushing it any point. I did 4 strides towards the end of the run and the last one was probably closer to 200m. Some good changes are starting to happen, I'm getting back into shape. I'm still a ways from the best shape of my life, but that's the goal. I want to get faster and stronger than I've ever been and this time I want to maintain it until age starts to eat away at my fitness.

I started out easy and then did a harder mile. I decided to do a couple 400s at mile pace, I ran 73 and 74. Those felt pretty good, I think next week I'll do an 8x400m workout at 70-72. I think I'll start doing those more often and then after a while I'll start doing 5 or 6x1000m workouts at 5:20 pace.

Meh run. I need to do more Spartan specific workouts. At least one run a week needs to be lots of random core/hang/lifting workouts mixed with running at under 6:30 pace.