Patrick's Blog

This morning I woke up really really early and got my run done. I did a mile warm up, then 2 800s and 2 400s with equal recovery. Then I did a half mile at the track after the last 400 and then I jogged home.

PM: I ran down to Sugarhood Park and stretched. Then I did 5 laps of J's then I heard the workout. I did 3 200s at a pretty consistent pace of 33, 33, 32. I jogged across the field for recovery but they were continuous running. After the 200s I did a little over a mile cooldown and called it a good day. I was warned about tomorrow's workout............ :(

This morning I went over to Sugarhouse park to do a workout. I was an idiot thought cause they locked the track due to the fireworks. So I did a mile warm up then a mile of one lightpost on and one off. Then I stopped and stretched and found out the workout. It was supposed to be 2 600s with 200 recovery inbetween. So the first one was uphill and I did a 1:58 which is good but I didnt get out fast enough. Then I did the second one down the hill and my time was 1:57 which is horrible! So I had to redo it so I jogged the 600 back up to the start and redid it. This time my 600 was 1:50 which is better but still not fast enough. Then my parents came and got me because we had to mow 3 lawns so i am counting that as a 1.5 mile cooldown:)

PM: Five miles at Tiny Tots. Did a mile and a half warm up, then jogged another lap warm up with the kids then jogged around 3 laps with the kids while they were doing speed changes. Then did another lap around the track then I did a cooldown till five miles which was about 2 miles. 

This morning I accidently slept in till 8:30 so I didn't go for my morning run till late. I just ran down to Sugarhouse Park and came back.

Before the Sugarhouse fireworks I went another 5 miles around the park just waiting for the fireworks to start, well and before I met up with all of my friends haha. 

This morning I woke up late again because I got 4 hours of sleep so I got up at 6:30 and did the same run as yesterday. It was very boring.

PM: I went and did a run on my own. I warmed up a 400 then stretched and did 4 500s all uphill then I did a 400 cooldown and called it a day and then when I got home I did that last 400 meters from my house to get it to two miles. I ran about halfway up to 1700 East and back with a group of 3 girls screaming at me to go faster at the turn around point:)

This morning I woke up and went to my first Cross Country workout with the "team", we all went up and met at the park-n-ride and then drove up to pipeline trail. I forgot how much I like to run on trails.. I drove up there myself and drove Sarah B and Natalie up the canyon. It was soo cool to be the one driving up the canyon:) so since I had a dentist appointment at 8:15 to get my cavities filled I couldnt stay the whole time. So Bill and them all started the run with out telling everyone so the entire group except Bill and that other kid were about a half mile behind. So I started with Kiley and Abigail but they were going to slow.... SORRY! So I spead it up to like a 7:24 pace then I stayed at that the whole run. I almost caught Bill but I stayed about 10 meters behind him until I had to turn around because well............. So I was winning the run!!! YAY!!! I turned around at the bridge up Pipeline trail and then came back down and got 2 cavities filled:((( IT HURT!!! I hate the Dentist! 

PS: it was fun to see my old running buddies again. See you in a week HAHA 

Here is my Garmin Link, I finally got my Garmin Fixed!

PM: I met up with Levi at night because I think I have a race tomorrow. So we did a half mile warm up, then 2 laps of progressively faster J's. Then we stretched. I jogged over to the 200 and did a 200. We did a running start so we started 50 meters before the 200 so we could get up to full speed by the time we were at the 200. I got out fast and took the lead from Levi and he was one stride behind me. But at the top of the curve I got ahead of me and went through the 200 in 26 seconds which is a PR! Then we got water and I did a half mile cooldown. 

This morning I wore my old running shoes because I was too lazy to put on my newer ones. I found out I didn't race today, it was just for the younger kids so I just ran 2 miles to finish out my miles for the week.