Patrick's Blog

Today I needed a break on homework so I went over to sugarhouse park, did a lap and came home. It was a good short very much needed recovery run. Woke up late because of the dance, have had a great weekend of little homework and the dance..!..

Today met up with Larry at Sugarhouse Park and did a workout. I started with a lap warm up, then another lap of alternating lightposts. Then I did the actual workout. It was 2 500s uphill. My times were 1:46 for both of them. I started out really conservatively and then I died up the hill but I did do faster than I did last time. For a recovery from these, I just did a 500 back to the starting line. Then I just did a lap cooldown and called it a day, until I got home when I stretched and slaved away at doing APUSH

Today I went to Bills workout. We started with a lap around the school's block for a warm up then we went into the halls for drills. They went high knees twice, butt kicks twice, lunges twice, toes and heels. Then we went into the commons and did 3x1 of step ups. We then broke into our groups. The distance was going on a long run. I was only planning on going ten today. So I started out with Tomy, Natalie, Chris and Bill but I broke away from them at guardsman avenue and went on my own run. Right after guardsman ave, I had to go to the bathroom really bad so I ran down to the Seven Eleven on 1300 East and went to the bath room and then ran back up to the University of Utah football stadium. Then I took the shriners run until I got to 4.75 which was about a half mile onto 11th avenue then I turned around and went back the same way. I was going to turn at 5 but including the warm up, I would be at ten for the day. Then waiting for my mom to pick me up, I stretched with Dominique.

Today I went over to sugarhouse park and met up with Larry for a workout. I started with a half of a lap warm up then I finished out the lap with speed changes. Then I immediately went into doing the speed and hills. I only had to do one today but it was longer. I did 600 meter long uphill sprint to represent the third lap in the mile. I did this all uphill sprint in 2:02 which is 16 seconds slower than what I did the 2 500's on monday which is really good. I know I can do better and PR in the mile this weekend. Then for a cooldown I went on a out and back run up 2100 South until I got to 4.25 then I turned around and came back the same way to even out at 6.5 for the day. I did the cooldown run thing slow to get rid of the lactic acid build up in my legs. Then Tonight I am going to stretch and study AP Biology because the new sub is such a crazy not good teacher!

Today went to Bills workout. Started with 2 vertical lap warm up, then stretching circle, drills and then arm swings. We then broke into our groups and we went for our run. The distance ran down to Fairmont park then at the park did 6 strides, then we jogged back as a group. When we got to 9th and 9th we weaved in and out of streets until we got to 6 miles. Overall easy peasy lemon squezy stuff before the race tomorrow and saturday.

Today was the UHSTCA indoor track Part 1. So when I arrived at the oval, the line for registration was freaking out the door! So after my mom and I waited in that line for ever, Tomy met up with us at the front because the people who were checking us in ran out of change so they were calling people up with one dollar bills or fives or smaller than 20's. So after that big fiasco I didn't have that much time so I ran over to the stuff, changed my shoes and went immediately on my warm up. I went down stairs in the oval and did about a half mile just jogging around. Then they seeded us and I was in heat 3 with Dakota. So they call us onto the track but they still had 2 heats till we went so Dakota and I changed our shoes, well I did becuase Dakotas spikes were not to be found. So we did strides, drills and stretching; pretty much anything to stay warmed up and waste time until we raced.

They finally call us to the starting line and they lined us up according to our seeded time. So of course Dakota and I are put in the back. The gun goes off and since there is a lot of people to pass to get to the front, we were boxed in. Going around the curve we worked together to pass people and try to stay on the inside..... That didn't work. So we go around the 400 at 78 seconds. That did not seem that slow to me but going much faster I would have for sure died later in the race. Dakota and I start passing a few people and working our way up. Going around the 800 we hit 2:45 which is exactly what my first lap time was so I was staying really consistent. Then the dreaded third lap starts. I remember its just like the hills and to push through it. I picked up the pace and start to gap on Dakota. I didn't hear what the 1200 time was but we slowed down a little but not to bad. I think the lap was 84 seconds because our last lap was 77 seconds as well. Then on the last lap we just go all out and start to really pass people. With about 200 meters to go, Dakota passes me but going around the curve I was on the outside of him trying to pass him and I eventually did just after the curve. Then I just kicked it in because I saw the clock and I knew I could have broken 5:30 if we weren't boxed in on the 3rd lap! Then when I saw my time I was pretty pleased.

I finished the day; after feeling better because I felt pretty sick after my race, I finished the day off by going on a half mile cooldown while waiting for Chris and Tomy's race to start. Then I go and cheer for them and stretch because tomorrow I have the 800..... YIPEE!!! 

Today was the second day of the UHSTCA Indoor track meet. So when I arrived at the oval, my team was just about to go and warm up so I quickly go and change my shoes and join them across the ice. We did 4 sets of all of the drills then we started the warm up. We did about 3 laps around the ice until the hockey people kicked us off because we were interfering with something. So we went downstairs and ran for 6 minutes just going around the place and we called it a mile. Then the girls got seeded so we went and got our spikes ready. They call they boys over to the bull pen so I got seeded in the first heat because Bill put my time as a 2:45 which is slow. 

When we went to go sit down to get our numbers, they told me my spikes were to long, so I told them that I would change them when we walked over their. So I asked the guy who shot the gun if my spikes were to long and he said no and he didn't care. So we line up and i was in seed 3 which is good because I new I could get a good time if I got out good but the guy who was seeded 1st was not there so I really was seeded 2nd. The gun goes off and we go. The guy who was seeded in front of me went out sprinting and I was thinking of going out with him but I knew he would die. Going around the first 400 I took the lead at 73 seconds. Then a big group of about 10 come up to me and we are all a big group going around the final curve to the final stretch. 5 of the guys in that group did outkick me but I did out kick a lot of them. When I saw my time I was pretty happy because my goal was to break 2:30 and I was only 2 seconds off of that. Then when I was done I cooled down by stretching and walking around the Nike outlet store because they had a really good sale on running stuff for Simplot:)