Patrick's Blog

Today I went to Bills workout and it was a tempo run. So we met up at the track and did a half mile warm up, stretching circle then a half mile of drills. The distance jogged down to Liberty park and went the short way to the drinking fountain then over to the starting line. I was in a group of 6:30-6:40 per mile for 6 miles! CRAZY! So I was with Kiley and Sarah S. We started out fast and did like a 6:22ish first mile, then we were consistent. Sarah fell off just after mile one. Good job Sarah for pushing through it though! Then around mile 4, kiley had always been a little bit ahead of me but thats when I totally died. I averaged a 7 minute mile over everything when I was on pace at mile 4. Then we jogged around the park a bit then saw COOL CARLOS! Natalie got her first kiss from an old homeless man!!!!!!!!YAY NATALIE! Then we jogged around till I got to 12 then I stopped while everyone else did 12.5. HARD and EXHAUSTING workout! It was the farthest I had ever run in my life at one time.

Today, Since the juniors at East were taking the ACT everyone else had no school today, unfortunately I took the ACT. So after that, we had a workout out at the oval. We started with a mile warm up, stretching, another mile warm up then a mile of speed changes and a recovery lap. The workout was 2 800s and then 10 300s! I only had to do 5 300s because I was hitting eight today not ten. So for the 800s I was with Dakota inbetween Sarah and Abigail. For the first on we did 2:53 which I feel like is way slow for me! Then we did a lap recovery then another one. This one I let Sarah lead for a bit but on the last turn, she started to slow down a bit so I passed her and I got 2:56 which is way slow! Oh well.......... Then we did another lap recovery and started the 300s. My goal time was 60 seconds which again I feel like is to slow but what do I know haha. I was in a group with Bill, Abigail, and Kiley. For the first one Bill lead, and we did 59, then Kylie lead and we got 59, then Abigail lead and again we got 59. Then I lead and we got 56 haha oops. Then Bill lead again and Bill and I got 57 because we were battling down the final stretch. I was victorious haha but the girls were smart and held back because they got 59 on all of them. Then I did a lap recovery and for the recovery of the 300s we just jogged over to the start. Then I did 3 miles on the bike for cooldown and called it a day. Well after learning how to stretch safely! Tomorrow I will do weights and core.

Today since I had an APUSH seminar I couldn't go to practice. So after the seminar I did a shakeout run because my legs were exhausted. I jogged over to Sugarhouse park, did a lap, then a lap of speed changes with I cooldown until I got to 6 miles.

Today we did a relay contest with the whole team. So we did the usual half mile warm up, then stretching circle then drills. Then we broke into teams. My team consisted of Dakota, Abdi I thiink is his name then another kid who I don't know. Sp the relays were 4x400, 4x200 and another 4x200. For the 400 I did it in 64 seconds, then for the 200 I did it in 33 seconds then for the last 200 I did it in 29 seconds. My team won all of these events except the last 4x200, we dominated!

Today at practice we had another speed workout. We started with a half mile warm up, stretching, drills then another mile warm up and a mile speed changes. Then the workout was 800x600x400x300x200x400x400x300x200x100. I was in a group with Kiley, Abigail and Dakota. Our times consisted of 2:48, 2:07, 75, 50, 33, 92, 80, 54, 30, 12. I don't know why the 600 was so slow and the second and third 400s were slow, but they were ridiculously slow. Anywase after I did a 2.5 mile cooldown to get to 8 for the day then I stretched. Tonight I will try to take a 15 minute ice bath and do my core and hamstring weights later.

Today I called Kevin and Levi to pace me in a timed mile over at the Highland High School track. So we started with a half mile warm up then a half mile of speed changes. We then stretched and I put on my spikes and did some strides. Kevin and Levi both thought I wanted them to pace me at a 5:30 pace not at 5:10 pace. So Levi would do the first two laps with me, then Kevin would do the third lap with me and Levi would finish me off with the last lap. So Levi and I line up and we go, I was not allowed to use my watch and I started with the foot that I am not used to starting with, it was weird. So for our first lap Kevin yelled we went through at 76 seconds and our 800 was 2:50 which is way to slow. So Kevin picked it up with me and got me back on track. Then Levi brought me in at 5:30 exactly. So I did negative split but I was way disappointed with my time because I wanted a 5:10 not a 5:30. Then I did a 5 mile cooldown running over to 33rd south and back. When I got home, I did my core.