Patrick's Blog

This morning, since it was freezing outside I went early to get it done, I went over to Sugarhouse Park and did a lap and came home then did LOADS of homework.

This morning we had Track Practice on the First day of SPRING BREAK!! So when I got to the track, not many people were there. As a team we did a 2 mile warm up then a mile of speed changes. By the end I was in a group with Tomy, Natalie, Scott, Chris and Abigail. Then we heard the workout. It was 400x800x400 2 sets. We were supposed to hit out best mile pace then for the 800 half of our best mile pace then minus five seconds. Since mine is a 5:25, that felt to slow for me so I decided to do 75 on the 400s then do the mile pace on the 800s. So my times went like this, 75, 2:44, 76 for the first set. After these I was not that tired at all so we took a lap then started the second set. I ran the 400s with Natalie and the 800 with Bill. My times went 74, 2:54, 75. I am not sure about the 800 time but I know it was a lot slower than what I needed it to be. Today I had an okay workout, I want to do more workouts like these because this seemed like a really good workout. Then we did the foothill loop for a cooldown.

Today since we had practice at 8:30, I accidently slept in till 10:30 and it felt great but it was too late to go to practice. So I ran over to Sugarhouse park, Did a lap and then went passed my house .37 out and back to get the .75 I need to get to even mileage.

Went to track practice, we did usual 2 laps warm up, stretching, and drills then everyone did the distance workout. Started with mile warm up, mile of speed changes, ran to the bathroom. Then found out the workout, it was the 200 400 workout. So I was partnered with Kevin in a group with Caden-Dakota and Yance-Abigail. I ran a 400 then Kevin would do the last 200 with me trying to outkick me. Then he would do a 400 and I would try to outkick him. My group was supposed to get 75 for the 400s. So For the first one I lead and we did 71 which didn't feel fast, it felt fine and I didn't get outkicked. The rest of my 400 times went like this 71 and 74 so they were all faster than supposed to be. Then my 200s went like 32, 33, 35 so also all faster than supposed to be and I out kicked Kevin on the last 2 times. Then after I went to the zoo I ran a half mile thinking I could go farther but couldn't because my mom came and picked me up at about Clayton because we were going to see the Hunger Games.

I went on my own run today because everybody else went up to Arcadia. Ran up to 1700 south, down to Shop N Go and over to Sugarhouse park, did an inside lap in there and came back along 2100 South and turned north of 1900 East and ran home from there. When I got home I went on the Hamstring machine, Quad Machine and did calf raises. Afterwards a ton of stretching.

This morning I met up with Sarah at the Highland High School track to do some stride kind of stuff before our race tomorrow. So I ran to Highland, met up with Sarah and did 2 miles of speed changes on the track and then we cooldowned home (as if we weren't cool enough socially and from the freaken snow!!!); we went along 2100 south, turned on 1700 east, over to downington, up to 1900 east and then home. Later I will do some more but right now my hands are freezing and I can barely move them...........

PM: Tonight I went over to Sugarhouse park and met up with Levi for a short shake out run. I got there early and did a mile warm up, half mile of J's then stretched. Levi then showed up and I did another lap of regular J's and then we did 2 laps of Curve J's where you run hard for the whole curve then 50 meters of the straightaway. Took a recovery lap and then a timed 400 in 73 seconds I think. Then I did a half mile cooldown and stretched and finished off the day in a 10 minute ice bath. 

Today the three of us that were racing today showed up at UVU totally exhausted and freezing. I only got 5.5 hours of sleep last night because I couldn't fall asleep and it was like 25 degrees when we arrived at the track. So we all went and checked in for the mile and warmed up with Sarah. I did 2 laps on the track and it was hurting my knee so I stopped and stretched then did another lap with Caden. We all went over to the Bullpen to get seeded and Caden and I were in heat 4, I was hip number 13 because of my incredibly slow time from last week.

Caden and I did about a mile and a half warm up including strides and the jogging we did around the Bullpen. We finally lined up, after we lost our entire warm up from standing at the line and at the Bullpen forever. The gun goes off and since I was up on the second shelf thing I had to wait till the 100 meter mark to cut in and I was in second place at that point. Then I cut in and Caden passed me again and I mentally gave up. I went through the 400 at 76 which is a lot slower than I wanted so I tried to push this next lap. My 800 was 2:47 which is way slow. The third lap I started to pick up the pace at the 600 meter mark and it was a good thing. Then on the last lap I passed one person on the far end of the track then I saw a kid about 10 meters ahead of him so I passed him at about the 200 and from the 300 I was kicking pretty hard but I got outkicked again this time. My final time was 5:43 which is faster than last week but still incredibly slow!! I need to focus and push these next few races!! Then when I got home, after I watched Kiley race in Arcadia I did a 3 mile run to finish out for the week.