Patrick's Blog

Weekly trail run with Suzette. This morning I met up with Suzette at Pipeline and we went 2 out and 2 back. Good run, but a slower pace than I would have liked. It is fun to run with her again. Felt great. 

Went down to the Olympus track and did mile warm up, mile speed changes, mile cooldown. By the end I was so exhausted and hot. The heat takes it out of you. 

This afternoon I met up with Danny and Christian. I did a half mile before they got there. Danny and I did a lap around the park. Then we went over to the big hill and did 3 hills and walked down the hill backwards. Then we went over to the back of the park to run a couple 400's. We did 1 going up the hill and I ran 82, then we turned and ran one going down the hill and I ran 75. good run. 

AM: Met up with Suzette this morning at JCC. We planned on going 5 but they are doing construction so we had to park at the JCC parking lot in a pay meter and we could only pay for 30 minutes so we ran 15 out and 15 back. We mad it 1.8 miles out then turned around and finished to once we got back. I forgot how hilly this run is! It felt great. I will run again this afternoon to get more mileage. 

Didn't get my second run in yesterday because I was caught up watching the DNC. Today I went over to Sunnyside park for a fartlek workout. I did a mile and a half warm up then stretched while I figured out how to turn on the alarm thing on my garmin. Once I figured that out, I did 8X1on/1off. I got 2.3 miles in. Then I cooled down around Sunnyside park until I got to 5 miles. I felt really good during this run. I forgot how much I really like fartlek workouts. I am finally feeling like a runner again. 

This afternoon I met up with Christian, Danny, and IDA! Ida is back from her mission! We did a lap around the park, stretched for a bit, a mile lap around the river, then a mile around the park, then Ida and I did a half mile to finish out at 4 for the day.

Weekly trail run with Suzette! We did pipeline but then we turned up Grandeur peak. That is a very very beautiful run but a VERY VERY steep run. We went up that for about a mile then turned around and headed back to pipeline. It was a great run! The trail was absolutely packed though, I wonder if something is going on?