Me, Myself and I

Hello everyone, this is my first blog and I'm going to dedicate it to get back to running fast. I plan on writing about my training goals, training runs, races, my daily workouts and the difficultly I may I have. I'm going to let everyone know right now I am a terrible speller so there will be spelling errors so I apologize right now.

I want to start off with a little info about myself. My name is Brandon Johnson, I am from around Lansing Michigan. While in high school I was ok runner for averaging 20 miles a week. I really didn't care till my junior year of high school when I broke 5 min in the mile. My Personal records were 17:10 (5k cross country), 800 (2:04) Mile (4:40) and 2 mile was 10:55. Then I went off to Saginaw Valley State University were I feel I didn't deserve to run because a 4:40 miler should be running in college but I guess I improved and by my junior year I got a scholarship for running and ended my college running with a 4:25 mile, 8:41 (3k) 15:03 (5k) 25:38 cross country 8k, 31:10 outdoor track 10k personal records. My junior and senior year we qualified for cross country nationals and placed 5th and 11 th as a team. Now I've been injured the last 2 1/2 years and i'm trying to get back into it slowly and hopefully healthy. I've been slowly getting up the mileage and doing tempos and fartlek and trying to get up the strength. (I'll talk more about that later in a different post.)

I also am a Cross Country coach at my local high school and I love it. I want to help these kids improve and hopefully they will get to experience what I got to in college athletes and possible get a running scholarship. I've been at OHS for two years now and I've had 3 different student athletes qualify for states one being All-State two straight years. Last year the girls team was 1 point away from qualifying for states which was a killer but hopefully it will give them a huge goal to go after. It's been at least 5-7 years sense the girls made states and it's been 15 + for the guys. I just got offered the Middle school Assistant coaching position also, so that will help with getting them ready and stealing them from other fall sports haha ...at least I hope I can !!!.

I also run for a few different stores/companies the last couple years. First Playmakers shoe store in Okemos Michigan , It's been in runners world and few other magazine as a top running store in the country. I recently been getting some help fro Gu energy and Brooks ID program. Oh, I almost forgot, I wear test shoes for Runners World which is awesome because you all know shoes are really really expensive.

Well I think that pretty much everything about me in terms of running, Got to get some rest for tomorrows long run.
Peace Brandon