Patrick's Blog

This afternoon was my first day running injured again. So I did a mile and a half warm up, stretched waiting for Tim to get there. Did another mile warm up when Tim got there then started  the workout. It was 7 500s up the hill and it SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!! My times stayed consistent but got a little slower:( . Then I did a two mile cooldown. It felt weird to be running in a cast but I only have to wear it this week so thats good.

Early this morning my dad and I were out the door at 5:30. I did a mile warm up, and then 4 800s with a 400 recovery. Then I did a mile cooldown and did my leg weights.

PM: I went over to sugarhouse park and did a mile warm up going backwards, then a mile and a half of J's going backwords then 2 200s with jogging 200 recovery then a half mile cooldown because I had to go. 

This morning I slept in and didn't care if I was going to run in the heat or not. So after I mowed my grandmas lawn I went on a hilly four mile run around her neighborhood.

PM: Later I went to sugarhouse park for a lightpost workout. I did a mile warm up, a lap of 2 on one off then stopped to get water, then a lap cooldown then a littlebit around the rugby players to get to five. 

This afternoon after doing the Ben drama and all of that I finally got my run in. I went from my house, ran down to sugarhouse park, ran into the Highland Track which got me to 1.25, then I did a mile of speed changes, then I did a big grass lap in the park then ran back to my house. I had to add on a little when I got home. But it was a hot run but my legs felt great!. Hopefully they feel this good or better tomorrow!!!

This morning I was racing over at Wheeler Farm. When I got there I met up with Tim and we did a mile warm up. Then we stretched and did strides. They called the 5K runners over to the starting line. Tim and I didn't know where the starting line was but when we found it we got on the line at the front and lined up. They shot the gun and we are off. Tim, me and some other kid got out way fast and took the lead immediately. Tim was breaking away and same with the kid in second place. When we were going around the turn we didn't know where to go so we stopped and waited for the officials to tell us where to go so the fourth place person caught up to us. We were running as a group of three for pretty much the rest of the race.  We went through the big river at Wheeler Farm twice during the race but I went through it three times because we got way lost. Then I caught the third place person and I was running in third for a while. Then when I had about a mile to go I started to feel the orange juice coming up so I slowed the pace to try to keep it down and I did until about the last 200 meters where I had to stop and puke and when I did, I got passed and ended up fourth overall. I would have broken 19 minutes if I didn't have to stop and if I didn't get lost and ran an extra .1 of a mile. It sucks because the top 3 overall got kindles for awards and I didn't get one because I puked:( when I changed my shirt, Tim and I went out and did a two mile cooldown, we would have gone three but they were doing awards and the prize drawings.