Patrick's Blog

Today, since it was after Christmas and the last day my cousins are in town, I am very depressed. Since it is the last day my cousins are in town, we went out to my grandmas too see them because I wont see them till around may so I did not go to Track Practice. When I got home I did a 3 mile shake out run at a 7:42 pace, just from my house, over to Sugarhouse park and doing a lap in the park, and coming home. When I got home I stretched and waited for Ben, Sam, and Nadia to come over ;)

Today I got new shoes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I went over to Sugarhouse Park and did a workout with Levi after I got new chargers for my Laptop so now i'm on my laptop! I did a mile warm up, stretched and started on the J's. I was supposed to do 6 laps but on the last one, I had about 150 meters left and they pulled me out because my knee was hurting. Other than that, my new shoes are great. 

I am still trying to figure out the problem that I am having with my Gamin Link. I need help with it!!!!!!!!!!

First off, when do we have practice!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! I went to the oval and I think I saw Tomy leaving so I called him and that did not work because I guess he didn't pay his bill because nothing happened. So me and my parents went inside and called Susannah. She said that she was their but we didn't see her so I decided to go for my own run. I did about 3 laps before she came and then she walked in the door and jumped in. With her, I did 4 more laps of warm up with her. Then it got really hot so I took my hoodie off and we did the speed changes. I did 2 laps of speed changes with her so I was one lap off of 2.5 but since the oval is a bigger track I just said that I did 2.5. The new shoes that I got yesterday fit great though and do not hurt at all. My knee was also feeling great! Later tonight I will go for another run to get my miles in. Hopefully Friday Susannah is going to the oval because I will do her workout with her to get my miles in because I don't want to do another 2 a day. But overall fun weird workout

PM:

For workout tonight, I met up with Larry at Sugarhouse Park. I started with 2 100 meter strides for a warm up then we went over to the track. Larry told me that I am to do 2 laps of speed changes but on the recovery part to go as slow as I want as long as don't loose my form. So of course I try to go pretty fast on the recovery and to really go fast on the straightaways. I find out when I am done that it was timed. Larry would not tell me my times until the end. So on the next one, I go faster because I want to be better than before. Then on the last one I go all out. My times go as followed; 3:49, 3:45, and 3:39 so not knowing my times did help a bit to get faster times overall. Then I did a lap around the park for cooldown. Then waiting for my mom to pick me up I stretched out my legs, did 3 sets of arm swings, and stretched out my arms.

First off, I started once again with Christmas Shopping! I bought my moms Christmas present today. Otherwise for running, I met Larry at Sugarhouse Park for a light speed workout. So I started with 2 laps warm up around the Highland High School track, then I jogged over to the far side to do strides. We started with 4 strides with our arm down, then we vigorously use our arms. Then we did 2 regular strides, then we did 2 strides with hard arms, then we finished with 2 strides of fast legs. The strides with the fast legs are the hardest because they use the most muscles and those really wiped me out. Our strides are 150 meters instead of 100 meters. Then quickly we did a  400. I was supposed to hit a 90 second 400 but I hit 85 seconds. That sort of tired me out, meaning that after that I was breathing hard but I think I could have gone faster. Then my cooldown was a fourth of a mile jogging up the hill at Sugarhouse Park to my car. Overall highly effective short workout.

So, when Bill says we have practice at the oval every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday; he just means last Monday and Wednesday. Otherwise, I went out to the oval today with my mom to do a speed workout. I started with 4 laps warm up and 4 laps speed changes. Then I changed into my new shoes and did the workout. My workout was 400, 800, and 400 with equal recovery. My times went 87, 3:03, and 85. On the 800 I went around the 400 at like 100 seconds and I wanted to get all of my times under a 6 minute mile again, so on the last 400 I really picked up the pace, then going around the final turn I started feeling really sick so I of course slowed down and that is what made my time slip. Otherwise I did a good 800. For the last 400 I was feeling sick the entire time, but I just pushed it hard then with like 20 meters left I felt like I was going to puke so I slowed down a few seconds, otherwise that was a good one also. I was not that tired after these I was just feeling sick. I have not done speed like this in a while. Then I did 4 laps cooldown. Finally I stretched while my mom was talking to me about the run. Overall a fun ALONE speed workout.

PM: Tonight, I went on a slow recovery 2 mile run. Overall it was a hard and painful out and back run. I did not like it at all. 

Today for practice, I met up with Larry at Sugarhouse park for another Speed workout this week. So I did a mile warm up then stretched while Larry finished out his lap. The workout was supposed to be 4-8 200s, it depends on how well I do. My times were supposed to be 36 seconds. So I did the first 4 200s with a ton of pain and exhaustion, I could definately feel yesterday. My times went like this 38, 40, 39, and 39 I think was  the fourth one. Then Larry said I could use some more recovery than I was getting because the recovery was just jogging across the field to the next one. Then I did 2 200 meter strides picking up the pace at when he said to pick up the pace. Then Larry changed the workout a bit, so instead of doing 4 more 200s I did 2 more 200s and a 400. The workout actually went 200, 400, 200. My times went like this 36, 78, 36. For these I hit my times exactly and on the 400 I hit the time faster than I expected. On the 400 I was just supposed to be under 80 seconds, I was exhausted going into it so I was not expecting to hit it faster, my time was 78 seconds. Then after I caught my breath I did my last 200 and a cooldown. The cooldown was 3 laps to finish me off at 3 for the day. I still need one more mile but at the moment my legs hurt way too much to go any more.