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Member Since:

Jun 01, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

NCAA Champ

Running Accomplishments:

My Personal Records are:

High School

1600 meters - 5:34 Freshman, Regions

5:30.44 Sophomore, State

5:13.35 Junior, State

4:54.68 Senior, State Champion!!!

3200 meters - 11:59.9 Freshman, State

11:50.33 Sophomore, State

11:15 Junior, BYU Invite

10:30.88 Senior, Arcadia Invitational (sea level)

10:39.23 Senior, State Champion!!!

College

1500 - 4:31, Trojan Invite 2013

3k - 9:44.01, MPSF 2012

5k - 16:34, Stanford 2013

10k - 34:46.94, Mt. SAC 2013

Half-Marathon - 1:24:30.56 (Handcart Days)

In my freshmen year, I lettered in both track and cross country. I also got the Rookie of the Year Award in cross country, and the Freshmen of the Year Award in track. At regions for XC I was 7th. At state I was 65th. In track at regions I placed 3rd in the mile and 2nd in the 2 mile. At state I was 17th in the mile and 13th in the 2 mile.

Sophomore year I was a cross country captain and I lettered again. I was 3rd at regions and 12th at state. At track regions I was 3rd in the mile and the 2 mile. I also anchored the winning medley relay team.

Junior year I got a stress fracture about a month before the cross country season started, but made a great comeback with a 2nd place finish at regions. At state I placed 6th, and I broke 19 minutes for the second time in my racing history. Team captain again. In track I shattered my old PRs and was doing well until I got a stress reaction. After 3 weeks off I built my strength back up and performed well at state, earning 4th in the 1600 and 5th in the 3200. After that, I was invited to the Great Southwest Track Meet in Albuquerque, where I took 5th.

My senior year in cross country I was a captain again, this time with Amanda and Natalie. This season I was injury free so I got to run competitively at invites. At state I took 3rd. At Footlocker Western Regionals I outkicked a girl on the track to finish 10th, which qualified me for nationals the next weekend. I beat both of the girls who had beat me at state in that race. At nationals I took 22nd and beat 6 of the girls who had beat me at regionals. Going into the outdoor season the first Invitational I attended was the Davis Super Meet where I qualified for state in the 1600 and the 3200, and I broke the meet record for the 3200 in an 11:01.29, the previous record was an 11:17. I had a strong finish to my senior season and finally claimed a state title. I ran the fastest 1600 and 3200 at state for any division, claiming the double crown in those events, and earning the athlete of the year award :)

Now in college, I run for the University of Utah. I lettered my freshman season of cross country, and made it to regionals in the 5k in track.

Sophomore year I improved in cross country. In track I raced the 1500, 5k, 800, 10k, and the mile of the DMR before repeating the 5k at conference and then the 10k at regionals. Placed 28th behind a lot of seniors... so nationals next year!!

Short-Term Running Goals:

~~Run a 5k in under 18 minutes~~

~~Win state in the 1600 and 3200~~

~~Place in the top 5 at state in the 1600~~

~~Make it to Footlocker National Championships~~

Make it to nationals

Run sub 16:30 5k

Run sub 9:30 3k

Break the school record in the 10k

Break the school record in the 5k

Long-Term Running Goals:

Be an All-American

Be a conference champion

Make Olympic trials

Personal:

I am a junior at the University of Utah. My little sister is a freshman at Utah Valley University.

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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
Flats Lifetime Miles:						194.15
Spikes Lifetime Miles:						110.35
Pink Spikes!!! Lifetime Miles:						78.75
Pink Footlocker Flats :) Lifetime Miles:						38.00
July 25 Lifetime Miles:						333.30
Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Lifetime Miles:						409.00
Time For Something New Lifetime Miles:						420.25
Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Lifetime Miles:						416.75
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Lavender Watermelon Lifetime Miles:						472.00
Mismatched Mizunos... Again :) Lifetime Miles:						469.00
Halloween Colors! Lifetime Miles:						400.50
^Their Mates Lifetime Miles:						444.70
Shoes That Match Lifetime Miles:						433.25
They Match Again Lifetime Miles:						373.25
Wave Rider 17! Lifetime Miles:						295.00
Wave Rider November '14 Lifetime Miles:						272.65
Green&pinklaces Lifetime Miles:						474.00
Cool Blue Lifetime Miles:						446.75
My Sister And I Have The Same Shoes! Lifetime Miles:						369.85
October Lifetime Miles:						371.25
January'16 Lifetime Miles:						326.00
March Mizunos 2016 Lifetime Miles:						200.15
My Husband Is The Best Husband!!! Lifetime Miles:						13.40

Wed, May 04, 2011

Total Distance

5.00

Today I arrived at the meet just in time for the 400 which I was signed up for. The meet was at Stansbury and Olympus and Woodscross were there. The coaches put us in somewhat random events so I imagined that it was like JV regions. I put on my spikes and did drills and strides for my warmup. I was in the third heat in lane 4. I didn't use blocks but that probably didn't matter. Stephie was in lane 5 and Natalie was in lane 6. For the first 200 meters I was slightly behind Natalie and I couldn't see the girls on my left. Going into the last 200 meters and nearing 100 left there was a girl that came up but I pushed to stay with her and then in the final 100 I passed Natalie and passed the other girl and won the heat! And it turns out I was second in the 400s overall haha! My time was 1:05.08. Afterwards I changed shoes and went and did a mile cooldown. I barely made it back for the 800. Going out I was up at the front with Josephine and another girl. The lead kept switching between the 3 of us pretty much the entire time. Coming down the last 100 I was able to pull ahead of Josephine before the final straightaway but then she passed me back so I took second in that event too, my time was 2:31.25. Then I went over to the shot put area since I was signed up for that too. I scratched on my first throw, got a 5' 11" on the second, and 5' 04" for the third. I was 10th place out of 10 haha! Then I ran the 3200, I kept my trainers on and Bill told me to try to run it at 7 minute pace and to try and finish with a 13:50. Dakota wanted me to pace him but it was too fast for 2 days before BYU, but Bill told me to run the first lap fast to scare Dakota a little bit haha. Laps 2 through 7 I relaxed but pushed enough to stay at the pace I needed to. Then I was supposed to push the last lap so I did, my final time was 13:23.75. Then I decided to stick around for the 4x400, I ran the first leg. I wasn't very fast, I got us the baton in last but fortunately the other girls were able to catch some of the other teams. After that I did another mile for cooldown.

When I got back to Salt Lake I went to Steiner with my mom where I biked for 20 minutes. Then I did my abs, pushups, lunges, and calf raises out by the ice rinks and did my arm swings and squats in the weight room, using a bar for the squats. Then I went and stretched for a few minutes before going home.

Pink Spikes!!! Miles: 0.75

Comments

From Kam on Fri, May 06, 2011 at 00:56:37 from 174.23.120.174

You are such a hard worker. Way to get your team a ton of points.

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