Patrick's Blog

Well guys, I am blogging again... I guess that means I am training again! Well on Saturday I raced at the USATF regionals Track and Field meet in the 4x100;) and the 800 which I placed first and second in each. So I got up on Sunday and was incredibly sore so this morning I woke up early and went for a shake out run, but could barely make it a mile because I was so sore!
In the PM I met up with Levi and Larry for a light speed workout to loosen up my legs. So I did 2 laps in lane 8 as a warm up, then I did 8x150 and 8x300 all at 60 seconds. That was really really slow but the first few were hard to get my legs going that fast. But by the end of the workout it was hard going that slow! I just jogged around the last curve for recovery and started again so they were all continuous. Then I stretched A TON and did a mile cooldown.

When I got home from my mile this morning, I did my squats, crunches, arm swings, side crunch things, and calf raises. I LOVE SUMMER!!!! So much extra time to do what I should have been doing the whole time!

PS! My birthday is in two DAYS!! 

This afternnoon since I am having my birthday party tonight I went on a short run because I had to get home to get ready for the party. So I went to practice early, did a two mile 'run' around the park, met up with Larry and did 8x150 sprints then cooled down till at three miles..... OFF TO PARTY!!!

I AM 18!!!!!  So since it is my 18th birthday today, I went to CCC because the kids sang happy birthday to me:) I helped out the 8 and younger kids on their workout because I didnt bring running clothes but I planned not running. (Really bad grammar but I am to lazy to fix it;)) Anywase, I jogged around on the grass cheering the young kids to keep running, then did an 800 meter cooldown with them to keep them moving til the end of practice:)

Today we got up at like 5 and was out the door by 6 and on the road to our mine up in Idaho. But, to our utter amazement, the free way was closed, backed up, and to a dead stop right passed downtown Sale Lake City, so We sat in the car, kept sitting, and sitting, sitting, sitting, and sitting then decided to take the side streets through Bountiful to get passed this traffic jam. Once we passed lagoon, and farmington we were on the road.
        So When I got to the Hotel, I unpacked and immediately went down to the weight room and ran on the treadmill. Since I had been sitting in the car ALL DAY my legs were incredibly sore. I ran 1.5 miles then stretched, did the quad machine, the hamstring machine, and weighted calf raises then did a half mile cooldown.

This morning my sister and I got up early and went down to the weight room. I was going to run outside but I didn't want to run outside because it is kind of sketchy here when it is dark. So I did a 3 mile warm up, the quad machine, hamstring machine, 3x20 squats then a mile cooldown.

Later today I am going to do a fartlek workout.... Fartlek on the treadmill is going to suck!

I didn't run this run barefoot, I just got some new shoes that I havn't put into the blog yet. Anywase, I met up with Sarah S. at the East High School Track for a longer run. We decided to do the shriners run. We started out really fast, going like a 6:50 pace for the first mile, and since it was 103 degrees we could definitely feel that!! We slowed down a lot to like an 8:30 which is what we averaged for the rest of the run until the last mile which we picked it up a bit. Because of the heat and fear of passing out because of lack of water, we decided to stop at every sprinklers that were on to cool ourselves off. That really helped! We felt great for the whole run after we stopped for sprinklers. We went out 3 to the drinking fountain which took us across 11th avenue. We stopped at the drinking fountain, stretched, then ran back the same way. We were going to do one last mile on the track, but by this time it was 10 PM and the pitch black track was really sketchy. So we drove home!:) Throughout this whole run, my left calf was really hurting! Not like it was stiff or anything, it felt like I was tearing it...... Weird