Patrick's Blog

I ran over to Sugarhouse park and did a lap barefoot. It felt great haha.

Did the Avenues hills run then did the Shriners run backwards. I felt great so I was in a group with Tomy, Chris and Natalie.

We did a little speed then a bit of stuff weird stuff that felt really slow to me. Anywase the workout was half mile with team, then drills and stretching then a mile of speed changes. The workout was 3 1200s at 2 mile pace then 6 200s at mile pace. My times went 4:30, 4:40, and 4:50 which all suck but I have never done the 2 mile and don't plan on doing it. Anywase so my 200s all got faster because I really push the shorter stuff haha, so they went 36, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32. Then I did a mile and a half cooldown. We did a lap inbetween each 1200 to be at a mile after each set. The workout was not as hard as I thought it would be.

Today was a tri meet at East but first we had team pictures. So I sprint up there to take the pictures but the meet wasn't set up so everyone had to set it up at 2:50 when the pictures were supposed to be at 2:45 so I had to leave to go to the APUSH seminar so I couldn't be in the track picture:( again......... So I raced the mile so I did a half mile warm up because I arrived late due to the seminar then I did a half mile of speed changes. I did strides and drills while waiting at the starting line. I was seeded 12th and 4th from east. So the gun goes off and I didn't get out as fast as last time because I thought I could hold on if I didn't get out faster... That was a dumb idea because I died the same amount but still started slower so I got a slower time. My first 400 was 74 and each went like this, 2:40, 4:12 then 5:32 which sucks. So Caden passed me on lap 2 then stayed about 10 meters ahead of me until the last lap when Abigail passed me so I outkicked her and out kicked Caden so I had a good finish. But I didn't race well because I wasn't even tired after that. Then I did a mile and a half of jogging around, then another half mile of speed changes and strides and drills for the 800 because of my horrible mile. My 800 was even worse, I did my first 400 at 72 then my final time was 2:38 which is 2 seconds faster than my mile time. WHICH SUCKS!! Then I did a half mile cooldown in shame.

Today was supposed to be a 6 mile tempo run at Liberty but I had to leave early for peer court so I did a half mile with the team, stretching and drills. Then we ran down to Liberty, ran to the drinking fountain, then we ran to the starting line and started. I made it one lap then had to go back. So I did just under a mile and a half of tempo haha! Then I went to peer court. Hopefully I race better saturday than I did yesterday.

Did the usual track warm up, drills and stretching then broke into groups. Distance did 2 miles warm up, 2 miles speed changes, 2 miles cooldown. I ran with Abigail, Tomy, Natalie, Chris, Sam, Caden and Kiley. By the end it was just me, Tomy, Natalie, and Chris. I am stoked for the invitational tomorrow.

Today when arriving at the race, checking in and getting seeded; I was in heat 6 with Dakota and Caden. I was seeded 4th overall. So I did about a mile warm up with Caden, ran over to the bathroom and then did a mile of speed changes with Caden on the street. We still had 2 heats till they called us so I did strides and drills, then I grabbed my spikes and went to the starting line to do more strides. We all lined up, the gun went off and we had a false start. We line up again and Caden stepped over the line so we had to restart. So we lined up for a third time we we were off.

I got out pretty good, I got out in fourth place which is where I needed to be at that time. So we go through the 400 at 74 which is good because I was aiming for a 5:15. So after the curve Dakota was about 5 meters ahead of me so Caden goes and passses me and gets up to Dakota so I tried to match him but I couldn't. We went through the 800 at 2:40 so if I was going to get my goal I would need to negative split. So anywase I decide to push the third lap; or what I thought was pushing it but in fact I got slower! My 1200 was 4:17 or 4:18, somewhere around there. Im going along the far end of the straightaway and letting the wind push me and I was gaining some ground on Dakota and Caden, not enough to catch them but some. But at the 200 from there on it was all against the wind. I pushed my hardest against that STUPID wind to get through it but about 3 or 4 guys passed me in the final kick which has never happened before because I usually have a good kick.

I don't know what happened today, usually when someone passes me to the extent that Caden did, I try to match them so they don't get to far ahead of me. I didn't do that today. But I am not making excuses even though the wind was horrible today along the stretch to the finish line. Today was not my day at all, I went into this race totally expecting to PR so instead I ran 20 seconds slower than I did last year at this meet. I am getting slower and I don't know why!

Then Caden and I went on a mile and a half cooldown; well it was 15 minutes so were assuming it was a mile and a half. When we were done with the horrible cooldown and STUPID RACE! We went to Iceberg and pigged out! Then we got totally sunburned and fried!! Like its sad how burned we are. Other than the total negative race I had, today was a good day..............