Patrick's Blog

Tonight, I went over to sugarhouse Park and it was totally iced over. With like an inch of ice over it. So my workout was easy because the whole place was iced over. I just did 2 laps around the park and then I went home. When I got home, I need more miles so I went 2 more miles. Nice easy slow pace to get a recovery run in.

AM: This morning, I decided I need more miles so I went on a mile out and back run. This was probably the coldest I have ever ran in, in my whole life! IT SUCKED!!!!

PM: Today after school, I went to Bills workout. We started by jogging down to Liberty Park and going to the drinking fountain. When we got there we found out the workout. It was 6 800s with a half mile recovery. We jogged over to the starting line and we lined up. I was in a group with Abigail and Kevin and we were supposed to do 3:05 pace. On the first one we did 3:05 then our times went like this 3:07, 3:09, 3, 3:05, and 3:05. I felt pretty good on the last ones but the first few I was really tired. Starting on the 2nd or 3rd ones I started doing them alone and I did the rest alone, my group stayed with me for like one of them. It was a rather lonely speed workout during the speed parts. Then as a cooldown, we jogged around the park telling some people to meet us by the drinking fountain then when we got to the fountain, we just went back up to the school. We went around a block before the big hill so we could walk up the hill. When I got home I noticed the TREES WERE PICKED UP!!!!!!!! Later, when I warm up a bit, I will do my core, crunches, push ups, side planks, and weighted arm swings.

Tonight, I went over to sugarhouse park and did some speed and hills. I met with Larry their and he sent me on a warm up. I went out 5 minutes and back, I got about a mile and a half in. Then he said, since my hips are really sore from yesterdays workout, I only had to do 4 500s but if they are all under 2 minutes I only had to do 3 (The reason for 2 minutes is 300 meters of it is all uphill). So for the first one I go and I get a 1:50. That did not seem that hard. It honostly felt like I was just jogging up the hill but that is a 5:47 mile. Then for the next one I did 1:49 so that one was faster. At this point I was really questioning my race on saturday because with these times and for most of it being uphill, I should have run faster of Saturday, and since I knew I could do the last one under 2 minutes I only had to do one more:) Then for the third one I started out at a pretty good pace, then going up the hill I slowed down so about half way up the hill I really pushed it and pumped the arms hard and I got a 1:49 so I was really consistent and got faster at all a sub 5:47 pace. Bummer about my race knowing I should have run faster, but rather this race than any race later in the season. Then for recovery for each I just did the 500 backwards. Then for a cooldown, since I needed about 2 miles, I did a little over a lap on the road and went home and watched American Idol.

Today, we started with a lap around the block for a warm up, Then we went into the hall, did high knees; stride, butt kicks; stride, quick skips; stride, and big skips; then stride. Then the whole team did 3x1 of wall sits and 3x1 of step ups. We then broke into our groups. The distance did a fartlek workout today. We started by jogging over to Sugarhouse park for a warm up. Chris and I broke away from the group because I had to leave early so I wanted to get all of the fartlek in before I went home. So when Chris and I get to the park, the team is really far behind us so we decide to just go for it. The workout was 5x4x3x2x1 with a recovery of 3x3x3x2x1. It was a good workout overall. Chris kept me pushing on the Ons and the Offs also. We almost made it a mile with the five minute one, we were about 150 meters away from a mile. I then had to break away from him and head back. I still had a 3x2x1 on the ons left so I just did them while I was going back to east along 1300 east. When I got to the two minutes and one minute, it was nice because I really got pushing and opening up on the stride and it was all uphill so it was killing the quads going up the hills. I got about 2 of the little blocks after 1300 south when I was done with the speed part of the fartlek, so I just used that less than a half mile as a cooldown at like a 7:30 pace because I needed to get back. I averaged todays run at 7:10

Tonight, I went and met up with Levi at Sugarhouse Park. I did a lap warm up with him then stretched. Then to loosen up my legs because I think I am racing tomorrow, I did 4 lightposts on and 4 off then we just finished out the lap for a cooldown.

Today, I was going to do the Weber indoor Invitational. So when we were driving out there, this monstrous blizzard appears out of know where. It gets so bad that its flooding the freeway and we couldn't see the lane lines so we decide to turn around and go home.

So since I only needed 2 miles for the rest of the week, I just went from my house out and back 2 miles. Nice but very wet and cold run.