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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