Patrick's Blog

Today after slaving away helping out my mom totally clean out the garage. Like get rid of everything!!!! I decided to go for a little run, but since it was the heat of the day I had my dad take me to the gym. I did four miles at the gym at a nice easy pace while watching Pokemon:) Then I did a ton of weight things to strengthen my arms.

Today for cross country it was the first day of hill week or "hell weak"-Bill Cobler. We started the week out by meeting at sugarhouse park. We started with a big grass lap as a warm up then we jogged over to the starting spot. While we were waiting for everyone to finish the lap we stretched for a little while and we waited for bill to be done putting the course up. We did a total of six hills where they went on the hill closest to 21st south we ran up the hill half way, turned right ran down that to the bottom made at sharp turn right again ran up half of it again then turned right again and ran up the hill again. Then we stayed on top of the hill for like 50 meters or something then we did switch backs down the hill and ran to the finish. The entire hill is exactly .35 of a mile. We did that 6 times. My goal was to finish right with or in front of vuong. I stayed with him pretty much throughout the entire thing until the down hills and the flat parts because he sprinted ahead of me. My times were 2:30, 2:28, 2:30, 2:30, 2:30, 2:30. I was really consistent on them but on the last up hills on all of them I think I could have pushed a bit more because from that point on it is all downhill. Then when we were done with that we ran to another weird part on the state course. It is right after the pond and Bill said we were jogging it so I was not expecting to go fast. For the first one I did only jog it but then on the second one I sped up a ton. Then the Varsity did a four mile cooldown around the park. Since I accidentally turned off my garmin distance thing the timer kept going so one of my miles it thought was way slow but then I realized the distance was not getting any bigger so I turned it on again. After this I was totally dead so I was not going to finish it out to 10. When I came home I did my core and my leg weights.

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Tonight after peer court, my mom picked me up and we went to Steiners. She wanted to workout and I needed more miles. So I ran 4.5 miles on the treadmill at an easy pace, just a nice easy run.

Today for cross country I knew it was going to be a long run because I forgot my Garmin so I wouldn't know how far I ran. So we met at the JCC trail and ran out almost to the 4 mile mark, about to the 3.75 mark and ran back. Since we were at JCC though, we had to pick up the rocks, about the size of baseballs or bigger, I supposedly grabbed too small rocks so I had to go back and get bigger ones... So I got the ones about have the size of my hear. Then when we get to the lookout point we drop them off at the team rock pile, the pile is getting huge. But when we got to the monster huge humongous hill we had to run up that 10 times. I was trying to do the first 5 nonstop but I made it to the 4th one but then I had to stop at the bottom and catch my breath. I was also trying to go all of them with out walking but I had to walk about 20 feet on the last 3. Then when we were finally done we still had about 2.5 miles to run which absolutely sucked. I ran those last miles with Dakota, Annie and Chris. When Annie and I got to all of the river crossing things we stopped and like went swimming. We covered our face in it, we covered our hair our legs, and arms. But by the time I was at the bottom I was feeling great because I was not dyeing of heat stroke anymore. Then when I could move again later in the day when I got home I did my core.

When I was at my grandmas waiting for my two aunts and my new married into the family uncle to arrive at my grandmas house, I decided to run on her treadmill. I ran 2.5 miles at a steady pace. My miles where 7:48, 7:36 and then a 7:08 for the last half mile. Good run, tried to stay on my toes the entire time but it was difficult. 

Today for cross country we did the hike up to lake Blanche. We started out doing fine but then randomly it got freaking steep so me Dakota, Bennion, and Chris all broke away from the group and went a faster pace than them because we wanted to get to the lake. When we got there Dakota and I went down to the lake and skipped rocks. I failed miserably. Then we went down to the waterfall then back to our stuff. Then we took a quick ice bath in the river making my legs feel really refreshed. Then I had to go but no one would go back down with me so I waited for everyone else to get back from the snow. Then when everyone one else was done at the snow I freaking booked it down the mountain to go school shopping because they had been waiting for like over 90 minutes.

No running, at camp tuttle for peer court.

No running, still at camp tuttle for peer court.

In the morning before my yard sale, I went for three miles around the neighborhood. Then I came home and did my leg weights. I am going to go for another run later and do my core later.

I was hoping to get to fifty miles this week but the week ended, I thought the entire day that it was friday not saturday so I was thinking I could do the ten mile jump instead of five mile jump. But I could only do the five mile jump this week. So I went four miles from my house, down to sugarhouse park and did one lap on the road then I went down a half mile then turned around and ran home. I found these people who did the coolest hill workout today. They brought like a 100 feet tarp and when the sprinklers at the park were on they put the tarp down and used it as a slip n slide and when they got to the bottom they had to sprint up the hill. We should do that for a workout!!!!!!