Patrick's Blog

Today at 7:15 I went to another XC practice and we did the cemetary run. I was supposed to do the full 7 but my leg started acting up around the streets so stopped and stretched it out and it felt a ton better. I lost susannah and natalie and suzzette who i was running with so I went up and found myself at del taco. I went back and saw abigail and becca so I decided to run with them. We got lost but ended up doing six miles just by weaving in and out of streets trying to find the cemetary. I went faster at the end because I felt that we were going to slow and I knew where we were then so I just went faster and finnished. My finnish pace was what I should of done the whole time because it felt really good. I can tell that i am very  much improving.

Today at 7:15 in the morning I went to my XC practice and we did the JCC trail run behind the JCC swimming pool. I had a ton of pain going up there so I decided to take it slow going up then get faster to a good time on the way back. The more I run on my leg it hurts at the start of the run but towards the end of the run it starts to feel really good like I need to go slow at the biginning for a warmup then get progressivcly faster. I like the trail and I think I should push harder on them because trails are my biggest weakness. I suck at them so much. I am good at hills but not at trails. I need to start to push a ton more on the trails. So I can stay with the faster people on everything.

At 7:15 I had a XC practice and we did Js. Those are we sprint about 200 meters then slow jog the other 200 meters. I felt so horrible during them. Either my legs arent used to speed anymore or something is up again. It was my phemere that ws hurting so I stopped and stretched it out a ton. After that I went and did the I street run with my parents and I felt really good while doing that. I loved it. I can tell that it is working because im getting faster at it and my legs are getting stronger.

Today at 8:00 in the morning I slept in so I couldnt go to XC practice so I went on my own run for 4 miles at a good happy pace not to fast but not to slow. At about a 7:30 pace just as a guess. I liked the run because I got some hills in but not to many and so good flat which felt really good on my legs. After that I had track practice so I went to that and I did two miles of speed with tomy which also felt really good. We were doing some stuff to work on form and speed for the mile. Overall today was a good running day even though I slept in.

At night I went to the I street run and did that. Im getting faster at it because everytime i go a bit faster and get done sooner. I like this run and I can tell that its helping me a whole lot.

At night my XC team had the slurpee run with the team from Illinois. I liked the run and eating the slurpee while your running, its really fun. The team from illinois didnt talk much until after the run because they didnt know us at all but after the run i guess they knew us a bit more because they were talking to us a whole lot more. When I was running it I got lost a whole ton while trying to find all of the seven elevans, overall the begginning was good then the end i was feeling really sick and my stomach was really hurting.