Patrick's Blog

Last night my dad took me over to sugarhouse park, then dilworth, clayton, sunnyside, rowland hall, popperton park, 11th avenue, and then the avenues to run. I was just doing 3 miles but I wanted to do them alone so we had to go to like 6 different parks to try to find one that I was the only person in. This run was hard to do but I managed to push through it

I woke up at 5 this morning thinking I was running this morning but I am not because I have practice tonight with Levi and Larry and I have a race tomorrow. Later in the day though I will hit up the treadmill when I am done reading:(

I did three miles on the tread mill.

Later, I met up with Larry and Levi. I did a half mile warm up, then 2 laps of progressively faster J's with my spikes on. Then I jogged over to the 200 start, got my hair wet and ran my 200. I did it in 29 so slower but I started out slower, my first 100 was like 16 so I hauled it coming home! Then I changed shoes, did a lap, then a half mile cooldown. 

I found out I couldn't race today because the race is only for Midgets and younger so I helped time. Then Vuong and I did a run. We went up to Sunnyside, did a lap in there, ran down to the gully and ran a lap in there then ran back to the track. We were dieing in the heat! IT WAS 100 DEGREES! Way to hot to be running in that! Then later I went to sugarhouse park with my dad, did a lap warm up, one timed 400 nearly keeled over because of the heat, so I was done.

This morning I woke up early because I wanted to hit up the 7/11s for free slurpee day! So I did a mile warm up, and my workout was 800, 800, 400, 400 with equal recovery. Once again my dad didn't let me wear my watch so I don't know my times. I just had to feel like it was pushing. Then I did a mile cooldown. Later that day I did a little run on the treadmill because I had to go to the Tiny Tots track dinner so I coulnd't run after that. My dad and I went to 7/11s but found out it didn't start till 11 AM so we only got one slurpee:( even though we went to 3 7/11s! 

I woke up really late this morning and I slept through my alarm. I went outside and was boiling! I still needed to run so I ran out until I couldn't handle it which was about 2.5 out and I came back! I NEED WATER! I will run later when it cools off though.......

PM: this afternoon I met up with Dave for a workout. I drove down to sugarhouse park myself then did a mile warmup around the park and I was already sweating like a pig because it was 103 degrees! Anywase I put my spikes on and did 2 laps of J's then I stretched. Dave came and was doing 200s so I did them with him. We were going to do 4 at 32 pace. For all of them we did a running start so my watch says they were 36 seconds when they werent! So for the firsst one I was leading because we switched off who eas leading and I brought us through at 29 so a bit too fast. Then we jogged across the field and started again. My times went like this 30, 30, and 31 so the 32 was way too slow. Then I cooled down till I got to 4 miles.....

This morning I woke up early to get my pre race run done. I did a half mile warm up with the Highland cheerleaders;-) then immediately went into the 3 laps of J's then stretched for a few seconds then did a 3 lap cooldown. Then I realized I needed another mile so I quickly did another mile at like 7:10 pace around the park and called it a morning. Then today I am going boating with my Best friend!!!!

This morning was the All County Championship track and field meet! So I arrived at the meet just going out and running hard. I was running the 800 finals and my 4x400 meter team made the finals from previous meets so we got to go straight to finals:) when I heard the intercom call final call for the 400 I warmed up with this Jared kid I knew from previous meets who ran the 400. We did two laps warm up then stretched and cheered on the kids 400 then he had to line up so I did my J's alone. So I did two laps of J's then I went and got my water bottle, took my pants and shirt off so I was in  my uniform then got my spikes and went over to the start because they had called final call for the 800. I was in Heat 4 seed 3 so I had a while till I actually raced. I did about 6 strides across the field then stretched and did drills while I was talking to Linsey and Larita. They lined us up and it was a tight squeeze but we all fit. There was like 30 of us on the first line!

The gun goes off and I elbowed my way to the front of the pack and took the lead immediately. I thought that the whole pack was right behind me but it was actually a group of 4 guys including me. we were strung out by like 2 meters apart from all of us. Going through the 200 I was feeling great so I sped up to gap people but the second place went with me. Me and the kid right behind me gapped the rest of the pack by like 25 meters at the 300 meter mark so I knew it was going to be down to me and this kid for the win. We went through the 400 in 74 which is incredibly slow! So immediately I pick up the pace and this kid goes with me! So at the 600 mark this kid pulls away from me. I try to go with him but we stay about 10 meters apart for the rest of the race. My final time was 2:21.24 so we negative split by 8 seconds ending with a 66 last lap! Which is good but it shows that I didn't use all of my energy in that race! Then I jogged around until my heat for the 4x400. I got about a mile and a half in this time. Then I went and gathered up my 4x400 team which was Rich, Me, Austin, and Vuong. Rich wasn't there and no other boys who looked our age was there either! So we got Gabrielle to run in our team. Vuong started us out and immediately got us a good 50 meter lead. Then he passed me the baton and I got a 100 meter lead on the second place person! Then I passed it on to Gabrielle and she kept the lead!!!! Then when Austin got the baton he got another 50 meter lead on the second place team! So we had a 150 meter lead on the second place team! I did a 61 second 400 for my leg. So I went undefeated today! Then waiting for the awards I cooled down with Vuong. we then heard we were DQ'd in the 4x400 for having a girl! If anything they should have given us another award! THAT IS STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!So after Tolbert Yelling at the Kearns coach for whining that we had a girl and we still killed them by 150 meters I went home with a champions T-Shirt from the 800 and a medal and the winning baton:)

Overall a really good racing day! I am happy I did Tiny Tots Track! Tiny Tots Cross Country is coming up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!