Patrick's Blog

AM: Woke up in the morning and since we didn't have school today, I decided to go for a shakeout run after Simplot. I jogged over to Sugarhouse Park and did a lap around the park alternating the light posts of one on one off. Then I just jogged home for a cooldown. I stretched and did my core after.

PM: Tonight I went over to Sugarhouse park again for a workout with Larry. I did a lap warm up then a lap of 2x1 of lightposts. Then the real workout started. I didn't notice how out of shape I was until this workout. I did the 600 uphill thingy again but I had to go faster. I started out good, my first 400 was a 61 which is a PR but then I hit the hill and about halfway up the hill I had to stop and puke and barely could jog back to the finish line for the last 200 meters, I did my time for that one in 2:26. Larry was happy because it was my first time I had puked in a workout:) So then since my time had sucked really really really bad, he had me do it again. I jogged back to the start and I went out again. Again my first 400 was a 61 but then I hit the hill and almost had to stop and puke, I was able to hold it in and never did puke but I was coughing everywhere and could barely jog that last 200. My time for this one was 2:20 which is a bit faster but still really really really sucks. Then for a cooldown, I just jogged back to my car and called it a day. I figured out what made me puke though; it was the root beer that I had been drinking all day; until 5:30 when I met up with Larry at 6:) 

Today I went to Bills workout and wore my mizunos because my Nike's are hurting my ankle again, or its something serious....... Anywase, I went with the farthest distance group today. We ran over to Sugarhouse park, did the sort of outside loop by going by the freeway until17th then we turned right and did the cemetery run. I went out 4 and back the same way because I need my distance back and it was really tough to keep up with everybody. I was in a group for about 3.5 miles with Abigail, Kiley, Tomy, Natalie, Chris, Sara, and Bill. At the 4 I decided to turn around and came back the same way. It was weird, when I was running back along 13th east I didn't see Dakota or anybody and when I got back to the school Dakota and them were not back even though they went shorter. It was weird.

Well, the guilt caught up to me and I had to do the next 2 miles to get to 10 for the day otherwise I would feel way to guilty. So before I ate dinner, I ran down to the drinking fountain at Sugarhouse park and back to my house. I remembered measuring it during the summer so I knew it was a about a mile. I came home and stretched while watching TV and did my core before bed. 

Today I went over to Sugarhouse park and did a speed workout. I started with a lap warm up and then I stretched. I did 2 100 progressive strides to open up the legs and stride out. Then we walked over to the 400 hill. The workout was 4 400s with a 400 recovery. I really wanted to average at a 5:20 mile so I needed to do 80 seconds for each. My first time was 80 seconds and I was not that tired so I wished I pushed harder on that one. I jogged back down to the start and started again. My times went as followed: 80, 81, 84 so I did a 5:25 mile, just a bit slow than I wanted but the track is not uphill, it is flat so I know I can run the 5:20 on the flat track by the start of out door season. Then I just did a 600 meter cooldown and went home and stretched while watching American Idol.

Today, I went to Bills workout. We did the normal vertical lap warm up. Then we did step ups, 3 sets of circuits, wall sits and stretched. Then we went on a run. I was told to go for an hour or so.  I went from the teacher parking lot, out turning left of 1300 east, going up on 8th south to guardsman and did the shriners run from there. That brought me to six when I got back to the school. Then I decided to stop at the track because I was at like 40 minutes at this point so I did a mile at the track and I saw Bill there, from the track I did .3 of a mile at the teacher parking lot with Kylie to finish out her run with her. So I did almost a mile more than 7 but the extra I did is evening out the mileage for whatever I needed throughout the week. I shouldve just gone the 8 with the fast group because we went the same pace and I got back about 8 minutes before everybody else. Next time I will go with them. My distance and speed is coming back. 

Tonight I met Kevin, Levi and Larry at Sugarhouse park. So Kevin, Levi and I did a 2.75 mile warm up around the park on the outside then running to the bathroom because they are open now. So then we did a timed 600 going up the hill. I was a bit nervous because when I did this on Monday, my times sucked because I had to stop and puke. This time, I just blocked that out of my mind and ran it. I started out with Kevin and Levi, but Levi broke away from us at about 200 meters so Kevin and I pushed hard up and over the hill and if there was 100 more meters we would have caught Levi because I think he died going up the hill. But then us three went on a lap cool down and stretched after. Did my core when I got home.

Today since I slept in and missed practice I had to go on my own run. I wanted to do a speed workout at Highlands track, but there was a really creepy guy doing like a drug deal there and like steeling metal so I decided not to stay. I did an outside lap around the park, then went in the park till I got to 4. I went back to the track, sprinted two laps because they were still there and I didn't want to stay..... IT WAS WAY SCARY!!!! Then I ran home and went up to Clayton Middle School and ran back to my house. It was a good but very scary run today to finish out my mileage for the week. Last week I did 15 miles and this week I did 40, hopefully that is not too bad on my legs later in the game........