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Location:

NC,USA

Member Since:

Dec 14, 2013

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

10k - 43:06

6k - 25:00

5k - 19:30

3k - 11:17

1600m - 5:31

1500m - 5:13

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

Maintain base fitness while abroad in the spring

Learn to love running again

Long-Term Running Goals:

Run half & full marathons

Stay fit & healthy

Marry a runner & have fast kids? (kidding but not kidding)

Grow in my enjoyment of running, regardless of pace/times

Personal:

I currently run for Wofford College in South Carolina, where I double major in biology and Spanish. I will be spending 5 months studying abroad in Chile in 2017. I love cookie dough a little too much and spend most of my free time outside or asleep (or both). Living & running to know Christ and to make Him known!

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Nike Structure 18 Lifetime Miles: 795.13
Adizero Avanti 2.0 Spikes Lifetime Miles: 69.05
Saucony Breakthru Lifetime Miles: 466.61
Nike Pegasus 31 Lifetime Miles: 533.93
Nike Vomero 10 Lifetime Miles: 498.70
Adidas Response Boost 2.0 Lifetime Miles: 194.45
Brooks Ghost 8 Lifetime Miles: 97.05
Brooks Glycerin 13 Lifetime Miles: 87.50
Mizuno Wave Rider 19 Lifetime Miles: 36.65
Race: WNC Polar Bear Championships (1 Miles) 00:05:42, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 4
Total Distance
7.30

Set a new mile PR by 3 seconds today at Polk with a 5:42!! This meet was my first "polar bear" meet, but luckily it was absolutely perfect running weather (55ish and cloudy). Honestly I do not even remember much about this race, it all went by very quickly. I've been doing so much more mileage these past few months that a 1600 finally is starting to feel like such an incredibly short race. I did slightly over a mile for warm up and then an easy lap for a cool down before my 3200.

I still haven't figured out how to make two race entries for 1 day, so I'll just write about my 3200 here! I really, really did not want to run this. I'd already qualified for states for it, and my mom had told me in the car we could decide after my mile whether I wanted to or not. Which I really didn't. But my dad sort of ending up making me anyways. I was not mentally "right," if you will, at all for this race because I felt like I was being forced to run it and therefore didn't even care if I did my best, but God totally gave me strength and motivation once the gun went off. He pulled me through to a race and time I ended up pretty satisfied with, actually! I finished 3rd with a 12:23.80. It didn't beat my PR (12:17) from JDL last weekend, but it was still faster than every 3200 I ran last spring, so it is my 2nd-best time. And to be honest, I know I could have done a solid 10 seconds better physically if I was right mentally going into it, which makes me excited tosee what I can do in the 3200 at state next weekend!

Easy 3 mile jog afterwards, about a mile of which was with Lily Anderson (who won the 1 and 2 mile today!).

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