Patrick's Blog

Usual half mile warm up, 3 800s with 400 recovery then a mile and a half cooldown. Nothing special about this run. Early and went by really fast.

This afternoon I met up with Larry at Highlands track. I did a mile warm up, I mile of speed changes sprinting the curves and jogging the straight a ways, then a mile of J's, then a mile of regular speed changes then I did a 400 in 76 and called it a day cause my legs were way sore........ 

This morning I went to XC practice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So we met at Liberty park at 7 in the morning. I started with a lap warm up. Then we stretched and got water then heard what the workout is. It was a time trial of a mile and a half mile. We jogged down to the mile start and did 10 strides but I actually think we did 12 but oh well. Then we started with the mile. I did pretty good, I was trying to be conservative on this one. I did 6:04, then we jogged back over to the start and did the 800. On the 800 I just stayed consistent and did a 2:50. Then we jogged back to the drinking fountain and did a lap cooldown and was done. A pretty good, pretty easy workout overall.

Today at workout we did a warm up of going to the gully, doing two laps in the gully warm up then running back to the track. Then we did planks, core, wall sits, and arms. Then we went over and did 12 strides on the grass and three laps cooldown.

Today was the time trial. We did a mile and a half warm up then I went over and stretched for a while and did drills.We lined up and went out. I went out with Tomy and Chris and stuck with them for about a mile then I fell back and Caden passed me. I was with Caden going up the hill when he passed me on the downhill. Then Dakota passed me when we started to go around the pond. Then I was about 10 meters behind them for the next .75 of a mile. Then with about a half mile to go Andy passed me. Going up the final hill I was gaining on Andy but then he kicked like a mother and beat me by like 2 seconds.

This was the first XC meet of the season for me..... But again, I was not allowed to run. I wish I can race!!!! So I ran over to Sugarhouse park and over to the drinking fountain which was about 2.5 miles. Then we jogged a bit around the park cheering on the team racing. Then the "JV" people went over and we did 4 hills over by the highway then we went and did another 4 hills later. Then I cooled down a little over a mile and was done because I needed to cheer people on. I will try to go three more miles tonight after dinner or something.

I just went 3.4 miles from my house to even out my mileage so I only have seven to do tomorrow at pipeline. 

This morning I met Bill, Dakota, Caden, Andy, Chris, and Faysal at Shopko and we carpooled up to pipeline. Since I had to leave at 10:15 I couldn't do the whole run but I got four miles in before I had to go. Nice easy run on a trail. Later tonight I will finish out my mileage.

I just ran two miles around the usual loop to finish out the mileage for the week.