Patrick's Blog

Today my mom, dad, and I all went out to the East High track for a short nice shake out run because I have not been on one of those in a while. So as my parents were walking vigorously around the track to get a new PR at speed walking ;) I did a run. I started with a mile at the track doing two grass laps. Then I went out. I went up to 15th east and went into that trail, I forgot what it was called. Then as I was doing my lap in that trail loop thing I saw Janie Kearl and her friends. So I said hi and kept going. Then I exited the trail and just went back. Later tonight I am going to do my crunches, push ups, and weighted arm swings and take a 15 minute ice bath and stretch.  HAPPY NEW YEAR

Today, since I have practice tonight, I decided to just go over to the track and do speed changes. So when I got there, the sprinters were there doing their workout. So I did a mile warm up doing grass laps, and I then started with the speed changes. I did 2 laps of J's and 2 laps of regular speed changes. I was going to do four of each but since I have practice tonight, I figured its going to be speed so I only did 2 of each. Then for a cooldown I did my 2 grass laps. Overall it was a easy light workout that was very much needed. Then when I was waiting for my mom to be done walking, I went over to the sprinters group and talked while doing my core and holding my knee up for a minute thingy. Then when I was finishing up doing that Susannah came to the track so it was a  big group of East or Old East track runners their for the second day of January.

PM: When I got home from my practice at East High Track, I did my other core stuff including calf raises, arm swings and squats; I need to get back into those fast. Anywase, so tonight I went over to the Highland Track for a workout. So I started with a mile warm up and then the speed changes. I did 2 laps of jogging the curves and sprinting the straightaways then I did 2 laps of jogging the straightaways and sprinting the curves. Then I took a one minute break and started the speed. The workout was 5 300s at 58 pace because that would be roughly a 78 second 400 which is what I need to do at the first track meet of the season for a mile of course. So on the first one I got out what I thought was fast but I guess not really because I finished the first one at 59 seconds, then my times went like this; 59, 58, 58, 57. I guess it was I just needed a bit faster warm up to get to going the right pace. Sure, I admit after the fourth one, doing the last one was a bit iffy but I knew that the faster I run it the faster I can be done and it will pay off in the end. This is one of those workouts that one does a lot and a ton of effective stuff in that short amount of time. Then when I was done, I went over to the park and did a mile cooldown. Sub 5 minute mile here I come!!!!

Well its the first day back from Christmas Break and it sucks!!! So for track practice we started with a .6 warm up around the block then waiting for everyone to get back we stretched. Then we went over to the hallway and did high knees, butt kicks twice, skips, lunges, snaps, and tippy toes; all for 50 meters then stride for another 50 meters. We then did wall sits and step ups. Finishing the core work with 8 100 meter strides. We were all broken up into 4 lines. We had to race the other people in the other 3 lines. I was up against Chris, Natalie, and Tomy. On the last one, the entire team raced and only one sprinter beat everyone and it was Nate. Then the distance went on their run. By this point I was at a mile exactly. So the run was staying on 9th south, up until foothill, turning right on foothill and down around that block until past guardsman avenue to the Cemetery across from the University of Utah's football stadium. Then the Varsity went into the stadium and did 2 laps around that and then took 1300 east back to East High School. I ran with Bill, Chris, Tomy and Natalie until Foothill then I missed the light and they made it so I spent the rest of the run chasing them down. This was a good run for me because I really pushed it. This was the fastest I have ever run 6 miles and it didn't feel that hard until I was done and I felt really sick. But during the run I felt great. When I got back to the teacher parking lot, I had to add .4 of a mile to make it an even 7 so I did a lap around the grass and parking lot and did a small lap around the parking lot to get the even. Then we finally got our XC Hoodies XD. I did the run today at a 7:30 pace even.

When I came home I did my crunches, push ups, squats, and lunges. 

Today I did not go to practice because I had an AP United States History study seminar I had to go to. So instead I came home and did core. I did crunches, push ups, squats, calf raises, and holding my knee up for a minute; I did each set 3 times. Then ending out the workout with 3 sets of those sideways planks for each side. I did those like this 1 minute for each side, 45 seconds for each side, then 30 seconds for each side; I will eventually work my way up to the full one minute for all three.

Today for practice we started by jogging up to the track then doing two laps around the track bringing us to about a mile. Then we stretched while we were waiting for everyone to be done. Then we did dynamic stretching of side lunges, ski things, stepping quad stretch, and two others. Then we did swinging our leg side to side and front and back to each leg 10 times. Then we broke into groups, the distance group went on a run. Since I had to leave, I could only stay until we got to guardsman then I had to keep going up Sunnyside Avenue till 1900 East because today I wanted to get at least some running in so I decided to run home. We did the first mile and a half pretty slow so it was harder to catch back up to the pace I should be running instead of just going straight into it. I averaged 7:37 but the last two miles were sub seven minute pace. Then when I got home I stretched, did crunches, push ups, and side planks; everything three times.

Today I went to practice at Sugarhouse park with Larry and Levi was their. So Levi and I did a mile warm up, then 3 laps of speed changes jogging the straightaways and sprinting the curves and 3 laps of speed changes logging the curves and sprinting the straightaways. Then we walked over to the park to do a timed lap around the park. I went first then Levi went one minute after me to chase me and so I would keep pushing. I did that lap in 9:05 which is OK but it is slower than what I did last time by two seconds. That could be because I have not done that in a long time and I am still getting my Speed back. Then Levi and I did a 2 mile cooldown. Overall it was nice to have Levi back to push me again because the last two weeks I know I could have gone faster if I had someone to push me. Then I came home and did my push ups and crunches.