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Notre Dame Cross Country Invitational

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Location:

Logan,UT,USA

Member Since:

Jan 01, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

NCAA Champ

Running Accomplishments:

2008 XC WAC Champs

1600m STATE CHAMP '08
2006 & 07 XC Region Champ

PRs:

1/2--1:20:21(Bryce'09)

10k--36:53.7(USG'07)

XC 6k--21:38.8(PreNat '10)

XC 5k--17:17.1 (USU '09)

XC 3mi--17:38.0 (MSU'08)

Outdoor Track:

5000m - 17:10.71 (April '09)

3k steeple - 10:43 (April '09)

1500m - 4:48 (April '09)

3200m - 11:15.34 (May '08)
1600m - 5:08.37 (May '08)
800m - 2:22.62 (May '08)
400m - 1:03.13 (May '08)

Indoor Track

3000m - 9:59.48 (Feb. '09) 5000m - 17:36.72 (Feb. '09)

Short-Term Running Goals:

*Stay healthy and positive

*Top 3 Individual in WAC XC

*3k - 9:45, 5k - 16:45, steeple - 10:15

*WAC Champ Steeplechase

*TEAM WAC CHAMPS!

Long-Term Running Goals:

*Qualify for NCAA Nationals (XC and Track)
*Marathons after college - FAST!
*Keep working hard & improving

Personal:

In my fifth semester at Utah State University. A sophomore Cross Country and a junior in Track and Field. Majoring in Math Education, planning to graduate in 2013.

Joy = {roller-blading, running, fancy cheese, friends, ultimate frisbee, Jones Cream Soda, Star Wars and turtles}

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Fri, Oct 03, 2008

Race: Notre Dame Cross Country Invitational (3.1 Miles) 00:18:30, Place overall: 142, Place in age division: 5

Slow miles	Fast miles	Total Distance
2.50	3.10	5.60

The race today kinda sucked. And so has typing up this entry!!! This is my third go at it, I had better not have to do it again. So, the race: I started out too fast and died on the last mile. Not a great one, but oh well. I need to get better at these huge, far away races. Anyway, it was fun to be at Notre Dame and run in such a big, crazy, fun race! The first place girl got 16:something. That's insane! (GT 338.8) (DD spike 80.2)

Comments

From The Howling Commando on Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 06:55:18

I think you had a sweet race :) only what 19 seconds off your PR which you set earlier this year?!?! Not bad!! Not bad at all!

From JohnK on Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 09:05:03

It's great experience for you to get in a big, extremely competitive race like Notre Dame as a freshman. Every bit of experience you get now will play a part in your future development and you can take positives away from something like this. You have lots of time to get up to the level where you want to be and everything points to you getting there! If you keep a positive attitude even when an outcome is less than you'd hoped for that's probably half the battle.

From Ali on Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 14:47:56

Nice time! Stay strong your an amazing runner.

From paul on Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 22:59:11

Welcome to NCAA racing! Meets like this are what it's all about. Great experience as a freshman! I didn't get to run this one as a freshman, but ran it the next three years. Yeah, we always got smoked in the Blue race, but it was so fun to race with that kind of competition!

From Mike Warren on Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 15:30:09

Ruth, thanks for you very nice comments. Paul hit a key word Freshman! You are such a great runner. You are getting some awesome experience right now. Keep working hard, your time to rule is coming!

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