Patrick's Blog

Three mile shake out run around sugarhouse when I got home from my grandmas house.

Well this run sucked!!!!!!!!! So we started with the usual 2 laps warm up, then stretching then six laps of drills, stride, jog, stairs, jog, repeat. We did high knees, butt kicks, power skips, lunges, then karaoke both ways. Then we jogged over to Kernodles Hill and did 10 strides up it. Then distance finally went on our run. THIS RUN SUCKED!!!!!!! It was sooo hot, felt long, boring, tiring, etc. It was so hot I ran the whole day today shirtless haha and got my tan on haha. But we ran up emigration canyon 4 miles and back. It took me 74 minutes of running, 45 up the canyon then 29 coming back. I felt ok coming back but on a rock in the road I tweeked my knee and now I can barely walk. Hopefully it feels better by tomorrow.

Yesterday I tweeked my knee running down the canyon and it was hurting all day today but I decided to try practice anywase. So I started with the warm up and that absolutely killed it so we stretched and even bending my knee in some of the stretches hurt my knee so I decided not to do the workout and Bill didn't want me to race tomorrow:( so I came home, took an ice bath and iced my knee and sore calfs.

Today since I am not racing at the meet, I went to the APUSH Seminar and then drove out to the meet. But Rich missed the bus so I gave him a ride out to the meet also. When I arrived there, Bill asked me how my knee is and I said it was better, still a little sore but I think I can run tomorrow. I still decided not to run today to make sure it is totally healed, I wanna try tomorrow out with the Tempo and see how that feels. After helping Abigail and Gavin run the Javelin spot, I went and FREAKED  out at THE ENTIRE TEAM for not cheering anyone on when they were racing. I am if your not going to cheer, you might as well leave the meet when your done! After freaking out at the team multiple times because they didn't cheer until the very end of the meet, I cheered for the 4x400 guys and girls and went home on the bus. When I got home I iced my knee and my calfs because I want to start running again tomorrow.......... Hopefully

1st day back from taking a few days off for my knee and it was too soon. We started with the two vertical laps in the school because it was pooring, stretching, drills in the halls, wall sits, high knee line thing and then step ups. Then distance did a fartlek workout down at Liberty when it was pooring rain! I jogged down with Caden and my knee was not hurting at this point. But when we got to the drinking fountain it hurt a bit but I was going to tough it out, which was the worst thing I could have done to it. The workout was 5 sets of 2 on 1 off 1 on 1 off, five of each. I ran with Caden and we were staying consistent 75 second 400s for the ons then for the offs we slowed down a bit for Kiley to catch up to us. My knee hurt a bit but not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to. Caden and I got about 4 miles in the fartlek workout according to my watch but I didn't start it until the light at the park. When we finished we went back to the drinking fountain and when we stopped I immediately collapsed because my knee couldn't hold my weight. So we decided to walk back the opposite way, walk a few steps and then collapse- then Caden help me up then collapse again. When we got to the light at 7th east and 9th south, the team was on the opposite side of the street so I called over to Bill and he knew something was up so he offered to have me walk to 9th and 9th and he would pick us up at the coffee garden, Thanks Bill. So we stopped at the coffee garden after about a half hour of walking the half mile from me collapsing to the ground and my parents came and got us and drove us up to the school. I found out I have something called Plika or something in my knee and I can't run for about a week, and I need to ice it and apply heat everyday. Just as I was getting my speed back, this happens. GREAT!!!!