Patrick's Blog

Today since I had soo much homework to do, I couldnt go for that long. So my whole family went up to the avenues and while I ran the I street 4 mile loop, they walked for a little bit. After I did that loop, My dad dropped my 2 miles away from the house and I was supposed to run that very hard. I did those two miles in 12:21 minutes, which is not that fast but it was sort of a cooldown/ speed last 2 miles. After all of that I came home and did the Weights, arm swings, calf raises, push ups, crunches and weighted lunges.

This morning I had to get up and study Physics for a while so I went on the elyptical and did 2 miles while studying physics. I went to school and then to track practice. At practice I did a half mile warmup, then we did 6 one houndred meter sprints then went up to the top floor jogged 100 meters, then went down a floor and walked 100 meters. We did that 6 times so it added up to a mile. Then I went on the distance run. Me, Abigail, Sarah, and Hussain is how I think you spell his name, we went on an adventure run. We started at the school, ran up1 mile to a gulley, did 2 miles in the gulley, did another half mile in there and ran to sunnyside park to finnish out that mile. Then we went to the park and did 1.5 laps in there so we were at 4.5 and I wanted six so we ran back, more like sprinted back because were supposed to sprint the last part of the run everyday. After that I went home and watched TV and did my weights, weighted arm swings, crunches, and push ups.

Today at track, we started with a half mile warm up. Then we did the team stretching things, the 20 push ups, and then the hurdle stretches that are way hard. Then I did one lap of speed changes and then the speed started. We started with 4 timed 200 under 39 for all of them, while jogging the other 200 on the grass. My first was 31 seconds, I stayed up with Tomy for that one. Second was39, also staying with Tomy on all 4 of them. Third was 35, fourth was 35. So that put my at 1.75 miles so far. Then we did 2 timed 400s with a lap in between the two. My time was supposed to be 74 seconds but I was 80 for the first one Also staying with Tomy and my second one was 75. That put me at 2.5 miles. Then we did another timed 200 with jogging the curve and then we took a lap recovery. So we did 3 miles right now. Then we did another 200 which my time was 34 seconds jogging the other 200 and taking another lap of recovery.that put us at 3.5. So then we did our last timed 400 and my time was finally 74 seconds. Then since I was at 3.75 miles and also Ricky complained we had to do a longer cool down so I did 2.25 mile cool down because I was way sore. 

AM:

2 on the elyptical  while studying physics.

PM: 

At track today, since yesterday we did some speed, todays workout was quite easy. We started by putting the metal pole thingy up around the track because of the big meat that is coming up on friday. Then we did uniforms, sweat sizes, and signing up for our event for friday's meet. Then the actual running workout started. We started with a  mile warmup and then the stretching so we dont get injured this close to a meet. Then, me, tomy, and ricky all as a group did 2 miles of speed changes. Then when we were done with those I stretched because throughout the entire workout my legs had been killing me because of how sore they were. Then we all went to different 100 meter marks on the track and timed the girl in a 400 because yesterday there last 400 time was not the greatest. That put me at 3 miles so then I did a 2 mile cool down to give me 7 for the day. Then after my workout Tania wanted me too pace her in a 800 because that is what she is running on friday. So I did that with her so I ended up with 7.5 for the day.

Today since it was a day before a race, I only did 4 miles. I did a mile warm up, 1 mile of "J's" which are you sprint 150 meters and recover the last 50 meters then repeat, I did that for one mile. Then I did a 2 mile cool down.

So since today was our first race of the season I wanted to start the season under 6 minutes. So I did a 1.5 mile warm up then stretched. Then I did strides, high knees, butt kicks, high skips and some other things. Then I raced. It was a great race to start out the season with.