Patrick's Blog

Today since we had no cross country practice and I have a race tomorrow, I decided to go for a little shake out run. I went from my house over and down to Sugarhouse park. I went running really late in the morning so it was really really hot. When I got down to the park I did a lap and came back the same way and it is exactly 3 miles. My blisters didn't hurt at all even though I am wearing the shoes that I think gave me them. I was going really slow because the heat was just draining my energy every step that I took. When I got home I did my crunches, push ups, bicycle crunches, and side to sides. Then I am going to take an ice bath later tonight.

Here is my Garmin connect URL:

http://connect.garmin.com/player/96542055 

Today was the Freedom 5K and Half Marathon. I ran the 5K. I started the race with a warm up of one mile trying to stay as flat as possible but in the avenues that is quite impossible. After the warm up I stretched and did drills. Then some Half marathoners ran by and when there was a window of few runners they lined us up. I was put in front because I would be towards the front of the race  and I pushed people out of my way to get there:) I was standing next to a kid from Taylorsville high school and he placed in region and state supposedly this year. Good job dude. So the gun went off and I had a fairly good start, I was staying up with the Taylorsville kid, but then this girl passed me and mentally I started to give up but then I noticed I was in 3rd place overall and I wanted a trophy so I was looking at my garmin and it was showing that I was going pretty consistent, all sub seven minute miles. Then another person passed me then another then another and pretty soon I was in fifth overall. I gave up by this time. There was this group of three runners behind me and they passed me but then I passed them again so I thought the finish was right around the corner, then it wasn't, an uphill was here. So I tried to stay consistent and just get passed them. Then I could see the capitol building so I knew the finish was near. I just kept picking up the pace. I finished the race eighth overall in the males division and eleventh overall including girls. It felt pretty good all throughout the race but when we were about at mile two my ankle started to ache, not like a sharp pain but it was definitely there. Then when I finished I went and got my medal and did a mile cool down. When I got home I did my crunches, push ups, bicycle crunches, side to sides, calf raises, and quad machine stuff. Then I did two more miles on the elliptical to strengthen a bit more.

Here is my URL to my Garmin Connect:

Warm UP-

 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96777904

Race-

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96777914

Cooldown-

 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/96777924

Then after I did my core I felt that I should go for another mile, so I did. Then I found a dead birds egg with the baby still in it:( and I found out that my grandma is in the hospital:( 

Today for cross country we met at sunnyside. The advanced group had to leave the park go up to foothill over to some random street down to gaurdsman avenue and then go to shriners hospital. When we get to the drinking fountain we go up a hill on virginia street and follow the cemetery till the fire station then we turned around. It was four miles exactly to the cemetery. I was totally exhausted throughout the entire run so I stayed back with sarah. My legs were like lead with the empire state building as my toes. Then when we had to go back it was just as horrible because it was a ton of uphill going back. When we finally got back I did my core, crunches, push ups, bicycle crunches and side to sides.

here is my Garmin Connect link: 

Part 1 

 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/97046980

part 2

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/97046987

PS: hopefully it works now Tomy, I think that I unlocked everything but I am not to totally positive. 

Today for Cross Country practice we met at Cottonwood Complex. The advanced group went for a three mile warm up. We left the park turned left and went from like 39th or something down to 11th over to 45th and back to the park. It was exactly three miles. But before we did that we did a lap around the baseball fields. Then we went and stretched and when we were done with those we had to do 8 strides at the starting line of the regions course. When we were done with those we lined up to do the Bessy's. The first one I went out I thought was a pretty good pace but to my surprise I was right with Bill and Natalie. So on every one of the Bessy's I was right with them. For the first one I did a 1:53 which is a 15 second PR from last year. The second one I started out the same pace and was trying to pass Natalie but then on the final stretch she out kicked me. For the second one my time was 1:53 as well. Then for the third one I started out with Bill and I don't know if he started out slower or if everyone did but I stayed with him and finally passed him and Natalie and finished ahead of them I think. My time for the third one was 1:54 so I slowed down a bit on that one.Then on the fourth and final one I was determined to beat Bill again so he started out a bit faster than we usually did to try to catch up with Dakota so I sped up and caught both of them. I eventually passed Dakota but then Bill was a bit harder. I passed them on the turn about to go down the hill. I was kicking as hard as I could afraid that Natalie was coming because I knew she had a faster kick than me, but then out of my surprise here comes Bill and he beats me by a half a second. I was so mad because I knew I had it in me to beat him but it was to close to the finish line to actually catch him. For the fourth one I did a 1:53 so throughout all four of then I was FREAKING consistent. Then we went and got water. We did the Regions course as a cooldown, I did the first half with Sam, Jesse, and another girl. GREAT JOB guys. Then the second half with Michelle. When I got home I am going to do my core and my leg weights thingies. 

Later tonight I need to go 2 more miles because I need 10 for the day but at the moment it is just to hot for me to go running and I don't feel like killing myself. TODAY!!!!!!.!!!!!!. 

Here is MY Garmin Connect URL for today: On the URL I accidentally turned off my Garmin for about .7 of a mile on the Cooldown. BTW

 http://connect.garmin.com/player/97262744

When we went to my grandmas I took my Garmin and went out 1.25 miles and came back the same way. During this my knee was really killing me like someone was putting a knife or something to the bone all throughout the run. I was sluggish and starving and everyone was BBQing so that didn't help. Hopefully tomorrow is better and not painful.

 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/97375582

Today for Cross Country practice we met at the park-n-ride. Then we drove up millcreek canyon to the pipeline trail. We went 4.6ish out in the trail then came back. Coming back sucked soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much. It was freaking painful and I was really dehydrated, my blisters hurt and my toes killed. Then when we got back I had to do .75 up the canyon to finish out to an even 10 miles. I was going slow today because it hurt to much to go fast so I went with Abigail, Amanda, Kevin, and some new red head....... Sorry I dont know his name, He gels his hair down with a part though, its snazzy though. Then I came home and did my core.

here is my Garmin Connect:

http://connect.garmin.com/player/97474035 

Sorry for not putting in my blog yesterday, I went straight from Cross Country practice to the store then straight to Lagoon. But anywase for Cross Country we met at Liberty Park. We started with a lap warm up then some stretching while we waited for people to finish the lap. Then we broke into groups to do our lap of Firemen. My group was Sarah, Me, Alesandro, Sam, Blake and another kid who I don't know his name. We were starting out good but then everyone except a few people died so we had to really slow it down which wasn't good for me. I think I was put in the wrong group but oh well it was ok. Whenever it was my turn I sprinted as if I was in the faster group to atleast try to get my speed work in. Then after that we met up again and did a lap cooldown and the advanced group had to go another .25 out and back to make it an even 5 for the day. Overall it was a really easy workout and I felt really good about it. Then when we got back we did arm swings and our core. Then I went on the Catapult at lagoon...... IT was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is my Garmin Connect:

 http://connect.garmin.com/activity/97910141

Today I was originally going to do the Hobbler 5K while everyone else did the Half Marathon, But I didn't. I woke up way too late, since I was at Lagoon yesterday till 11:30 so I didn't get to bed till about 1 so I would of gotten 2 hours of sleep. Oh well. So before I went to steiner today I did my core of crunches, bicycle crunches, and the other stuff that I don't know the name of. Then since it was raining and the original plan was going to the avenues and do five there but since the weather was to severe today I decided to not try to go against the weather and just hit up the treadmill. I started on like a 6.8 if I remember correctly then I went up 15 seconds faster each half mile until I was at a 6:48 pace then I just finished the like 1.5 miles or so I had left at that. When I started I put it at a 3.0 for an incline then every half mile I went down .5 until I hit zero. Overall it was a bad day because during the run my left quad started to really hurt and it was farther in than the muscle. Hopefully it goes away soon because it felt really weird all throughout the entire run.