Patterson not slowing down
Williamsville senior Jordan Patterson wasn’t unhappy with his third-place finish in the boys 3,200-meter run in the IPTT Class A Indoor Classic on Friday.
Given the fact it was only his second 3,200 race of the spring, not to mention his busy workload away from school, Patterson couldn’t complain.
“We just decided to go for it and see what happened,” said Patterson, who stayed with eventual winner Brian Peterson of Minonk Fieldcrest the first few laps before eventually finishing third with an indoor personal-best time of 10 minutes 07.03 seconds.
Peterson won it Friday in 9:41.11.
“It worked out OK. I’d raced (Peterson) up at Sterling two weeks ago, and I ran at 10:33 there. So it was a good (time) drop. This’ll give me a good pace going into the outdoor season.”
Patterson, who’s already signed to run at Eastern Illinois University, has set a hectic pace for himself in other endeavors. He’s worked in the emergency room at Memorial Medical Center for two years, and he’s going to earn his emergency medical technician certification later this spring.
And if that’s not enough, he’s also joined the Sherman Volunteer Fire Department.
“It’s a full load, but it’s fun,” Patterson said. “I love doing firefighter stuff, but it’s not easy. You have to haul around 250 pounds of dead weight with a training dummy.”
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Track Has Officially Begun!
We only do 2 indoor meets each year. It usually gives me one 1600 and one 3200 under my belt before the outdoor season begins. This year I was scrambling to qualify for the 3200 at IPTT because Charleston removed the 3200 w/o informing the coaches! Ran a slow time up in Sterling IL to qualify for IPTT and finished 3rd in the 3200 tonight in 10:07.03. I ran an aggressive first mile in 4:44 while chasing Brian Peterson and then fell off pace and finished 3rd. I feel good about it as it is only my second 3200 for the spring. Now off to Outdoor season!!
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