Patrick's Blog

This afternoon I went for my own run. I was trying just to stay at an 8 minute pace but coming back I kept speeding up without noticing it. This run was really hot to me. When I was outside studying it was not hot at all but when I started running I was dyeing of heat. I was going to do a lap around Clayton middle school but when I got around to the back of it the gate was locked so I couldn't go in so I went back and kept going up 1900 east. Then I turned around at two miles and came back the same way. When I got home I did my core outside then I went in and did my hamstring weights, squats, holding my knee up for a minute thingy and then weighted arm swings. Here is my Garmin Connect:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/111895463 

So today since I slept over at my cousins house last night I couldn't go for a long run. I woke up early and went for a short run around tooele. It was a good run but it was hard because I have never noticed how hilly overlake, tooele is. Then we went over to the resovoir or however you spell it and I went pool running for the first time in my life. Then we went for a long walk and that was surprisingly hard:( I'll try to go for another run later tonight. When I got home from my Grandmas house and my cousins house I went for a little run. I went and did the 2 mile loop around my house because my Garmin was dead:(

AM: Today for cross country practice we started at the track. We did 2 grass laps for a warm up then we did a mile of speedchanges. Then we did a speed workout. We were in groups of 4. My group was me, kevin, sam, and Nate. So the workout was 2 of us did a 400 and then the other 2 went over to the 200 mark and when the 2 doing the 400 got to like 15 meters after the 200 mark the 2 doing the 200 would chase the 2 doing the 400. So I ran the first 400 with Sam. Kevin and Nate was chasing us. My first 400 time was 72. We did 4 400s and 4 200s. My times for the 400s were 72, 75, 75, 83. My times for the 200s 32, 30, 34, 31. Then after the speed we did 2 grass loops as a cooldown. Here is my Morning Garmin Link:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/112499385 

PM: Since we have a "Race" tomorrow it was supposed to be an easy workout. So the Varsity workout was instead of just running up to the this is the place, we had to do the running of the leopards 5k course backwards. By the time we got to this is the place we were at 2.7. So since we had to redo the course we just stayed on the gravel but everywhere we went the trail ended so we had to turnaround. It was a lot of worthless running. By the time we got the course sort of picked out we had to rerun the course to measure it again and make sure it was sort of the right length. I actually don't know how far we ended running the course but we did 7 miles. After running not even half of the course we just ran back to the track. Here is my afternoon Garmin Link: 

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/112499394 

Today was a dual meet we had at This is the Place monument against Bountiful. So when we got to the monument we did some of the course as a warm up, it was like 1.5 or so miles. But we had like 40 minutes until the boys raced. My, Gio, Voung, and Kevin were going to go all together in this race. When it got closer to race time we did another half mile warmup by jogging to the start line and doing strides. I did 4 strides before the team got to the start then Caden and I did 2 more. Then we all lined up and the gun went off. So Me, Kevin, Gio and Voung were all together for about the first mile. Then Voung and I broke away. When we finally got off of the gravel and onto the grass Caden and Sam were just behind us. Voung and I were not pushing at all today because we were just using this as a tempo run, not even as a race. So even if JV people passed us we let them because we were trying to stay consistent. But when Caden passed us Voung went with him. I stayed consistent and because of it Sam passed me. I didn't care because I am saving my legs for BYU on Saturday. After doing the 2.5 laps on the grass we went back on the gravel and to the finish line. By this time Sam, Voung and Caden were about 100 meters in front of me so I picked up the pace to try to catch them so when we finished they were about 10-15 meters ahead of me. But it was a hard course but I went slow so it was not that bad. Then when I got home I did a mile cooldown. Here is my Garmin  Connect:

Warm Up:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/112689173

"Race":

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/112689178 

AM: this morning for cross country practice we met at the track. Ran down to the gully and varsity did 3 laps. After the laps we went back to the track and did 10 100 meter strides. Pm: in the afternoon since we had a morning workout it was a way short workout. Varsity did a 2 mile loop of going up to guardsman, over to the U stadium and down to the cemetery. Varsity did a lap in the cemetery then ran back down to 1300 east and back to east. Then we did 2 progressive 300s. Overall easy peezy lemon squezy stuff before race. Im going to try to go for a little longer run later tonight. Here is my Garmin Connect:
AM:\

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/113364706

PM:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/113364715 

Today for cross country, since we have the BYU invitational tomorrow we had a really easy workout. So it was jog up to sunnyside park, a lap in the park then meet at the track. I did the lap with the guys. Then we did 8 barefoot strides. Then we jogged back barefoot. GO BAREFOOT CRUSADE!!!!!!!!!

Here is my Garmin Connect:
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/113364721 

Today was the BYU Invitational over at the BYU Track. So when we got there I was wearing my snap up pants so I got to rip them off for the first time.... It was EPIC!!!!!!!!!! So then it was about 40 minutes until my race. So I go on a 1.5 mile warm up with Nelson. We just went .75 out and back the same way. Then when we got back we ran over to the stuff and got our spikes on. Then we headed over to the starting line. But then the officials were a bit behind so we were at the starting line for like 20-25 minutes. So in that time I did 6 strides and I stretched a ton with dynamic stretching. So finally they tell us to line up so Tomy, Me, and Dylan were on the front  line. The gun goes off and Emily said to go out fast and that is what all three of us did. We all were in the top 20 for the first half mile. Then Dylan and I start to slow down. So we go around the track at 6:01. When we get around the track its the one mile mark. So my first mile was 6:01. My goal for the day was to break 19 minutes by the 3 mile mark So I do another lap around the grass and come onto the track, I look at the clock and it said 12:47 so I was roughly 7 seconds behind what I needed to be to break my goal, so on the hill coming off of the track I pushed it until I got to the baseball field. By the time I got there I was dead. I used the baseball as a recovery thing still passing people and working my way up the pack. So when I get out of the baseball field I start picking up the pace. When we have about a 400 meter to go I start progressively picking up the pace. When I hit the track Bill and Emily both are yelling at me to do a fast 300 but I couldn't get my legs going that fast that soon on the track so as soon as I have about 250 meters to go I really pick up the pace. When I hit the 3 mile mark I was at 19:12 exactly so I was 12 seconds behind what I wanted but I did PR today. I slowed down a little coming around the final curve because I was starting to feel sick and all I could remember was last year the last 100 meters puking everywhere. But when I had about 75 meters to go I just gave it all and kicked with everything I had left. I finished the race with a time of 19:45.8. I was exactly .8 of a second behind Voung so if I hadn't slowed down out of fear I would have beaten him:( So my finish for my race was really disappointing but the rest of the race I was happy about. I just need to really work on pushing through when I feel sick. Then after the race I got a ton of gatorade and cooled down 3 miles while Cheering for the JV Girls, Varsity Girls and Varsity Boys races. Here is my Garmin Connect:

Warm Up:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/113364727

Race:

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/113364732