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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
And Their Sole Mates Lifetime Miles:						499.50
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

Mon, May 09, 2011

Total Distance

7.75

Today it was rainy at the track but none of us wanted to go to the oval so we stayed at the track for our workout. We started with the usual warmup of 2 laps and then we stretched in the shed. There weren't very many of us, probably because it was raining. Then we split into our groups with our coaches. For distance we started with the normal warmup of 2 miles and then a mile of speedchanges. Then we changed shoes. Bill had Natalie and I doing a workout that was a little harder than everyone else because we are already qualified for state and regions is in 2 days. He had us do a 1000 where we had to hit a 48 for the last 300 of it, then a 300, then an 800 where again we had to hit a 48 for the last 300 of it, then a 300, then a 600 where we pushed the last 300 again, and then another 300. We ran them so that the last 300 would always be at the same spot. Natalie and I jogged (and leaped, we haven't practiced our ballet in a while!) over to the 200 mark to start our 1000. We were supposed to hit 3:30 or better, our paces for the whole workout were based off of 5:30s. I hit 3:26 and my last 300 was a 48. Then we got a lap recovery plus an extra 100 meters over to the 300 start. I hit a 48 on that, and then we had another recovery lap before our 800. I hit 2:42 for that and I am pretty sure my 300 was on pace. Then we had a lap plus 100 meters before the second 300, which I hit at 50. Then we had a lap and a half recovery over to the 200 mark for our 600. On this one Bill changed the pace and said that we would have to hit a 75 for the first 400 or we would have to do it again. At the 200 I was at 36, and then I pushed the last 300, finishing in 1:52. Then we had another 500 meters recovery before the last 300. Bill said that Ben did not think that Natalie and I could hit 49s for it but Bill told him that we would be able to go 47s or faster, and he told us that if we did we would get jamba juices (sounded so appealing in the rain :P). I tried to stay on my toes the whole time during this one and I did for most of it, I finished just as Bill said 46, I stopped my watch at 47. Then we didn't really cooldown, we just talked in the shed about regions. When I got home I did my abs, pushups, arm swings, lunges, squats, and calf raises, and then I stretched for a few minutes.

Pink Spikes!!! Miles: 4.25

Comments

From Palmer on Tue, May 10, 2011 at 21:17:50 from 63.248.155.78

YOUR GOING TO DO AMAZING TOMORROW HUN!!! good luck!! =D

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