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Highland Tri-Meet

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Location:

Salt Lake City,Ut,US

Member Since:

Jun 16, 2010

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Age Division Winner

Short-Term Running Goals:

Training for the SLC marathon. 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Stay healthy and keep running with my puppy.

Personal:

Runner and Dinosaur Lover

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Orange Mizuno Wave Nexus 5 Lifetime Miles: 430.55
Black Nike Free Run+ 2 Racing Flats Lifetime Miles: 655.22
Barefoot Lifetime Miles: 122.00
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Neon Green Nike Zoom Structure+ 15 Lifetime Miles: 497.75
Blue Saucony Trainers Lifetime Miles: 177.90
Red Saucony Kinvara 2 Lifetime Miles: 135.00
Saucony Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles: 558.10
Orange Brooks Lifetime Miles: 231.45
Red Saucony Kinvara 3 Lifetime Miles: 275.51
NEON Green Nike Flywire Lifetime Miles: 142.50
Blue Saucony Kinvara 4 Lifetime Miles: 70.26
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Saucony Kinvara 6 Lifetime Miles: 36.25
Yellow Brooks Lifetime Miles: 16.00
Kinvara 7 Lifetime Miles: 232.80
Orange Kinvara 7 Lifetime Miles: 223.30
Kinvara 11 Lifetime Miles: 457.90
Race: Highland Tri-Meet (0.25 Miles) 00:58:00, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
2.00

3 Days of running in a row! Today I got to race for the first time in about two and a half weeks! So I decided to do the 400 and see how that feels then I will see where I am after that. So I warmed up with Dakota, Sam, and Gavin for the 400 and we did about a half mile warm up, then we stretched and did strides before our races. I was in heat 2 because I was assuming I was going to be slower than I actually was. So they called my heat up and I was in lane 5 and Gavin was in heat 2. They lined us up and shot the LOUD gun and were off. I got out pretty fast because I didn't know how fast to go out in a 400 but after the 100 I immediately took the lead! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So going through the 200 me legs were getting tired but I told myself  "Patrick, you are winning the race, do not give up now!" So I kept going and with 100 meters to go my legs felt like lead but I was still in the lead. Then I heard some one coming up in lane 4, it was some Highland kid that ran the mile with Caden. I held him off until the last 5 meters of the race! I have to admit, winning that race for the 395 meters that I did was freaking amazing! Then I did 2 laps cooldown. I decided not to do the 800 because my knee was hurting when I finished the 400. Oh, by the way, my 400 time was 58 seconds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I decided to do the 4x400 team with Neff starting us, then me, then Chris, the Sam Hafen. Neff got us out pretty good, we were in second place behind the Other East team. Caden was their second runner as was I to my team so I was not going to let Caden beat me again. So I went out fast just as I did in the 400 but they were about 40 meters ahead of my team. Along the far end of the track, I could see Caden coming closer but I knew my race was coming to an end so I kicked really hard and I got about 10 meters from him then I couldn't pass him. I don't know if physically I could have gone those few strides faster to pass him or mentally I didn't want to die and loose it for my team, but I didn't pass Caden. I did make up 30 yards on him in about 200 meters! My 400 time for that was 62 or 63ish, my mom didn't know when to start the stop watch. But then I did a lap cooldown and called it a day because my knee was hurting, this is the 3rd time I have run this week, and regions is in 2 weeks and I can not afford to re-injure myself this close to regions! I came home and iced my knee a bit then went to bed.

Neon Green Nike Zoom Structure+ 15 Miles: 2.00
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