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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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Race: Salt Lake Track Club Winter Series 10K (6.2 Miles) 00:37:34, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
10.00

Today out at Saltair we started with a mile out and back on the road for warmup.  The weather was so much nicer than 2 weeks ago!  Then Natalie and I skipped to the bathroom as fast as we could for POTTY break and then hurried back outside to change shoes and drop off our sweats at the car.  Then we went over to the line for strides.  When the race started Ben and I were up at the front.  I didn't start out too fast either, everyone else was just slow!  In the corner of my eye I could see a guy to my right in neon yellow who was a little ahead of me but still I was shocked to be in the lead for the first part of the race.  Then a bunch of guys started passing me and it felt more like the race should be.  At around mile one the guy I had ran with last week caught up to me and again I just stayed with him.  My mile split was 5:48.  I knew keeping that pace the whole time would be tough, so I threw surges in when I thought of it.  At mile 2 my time was 11:50, and at mile 3 18:04.  By the turnaround the guy I had been running with had gone ahead of me, and I didn't really want to push that hard because I didn't even know how close the next girl was anyway.  But when I turned I saw Bill and Tee again, though this time they weren't as close.  So I was a little disappointed I wouldn't get to relax as much as I wanted to.  Bill caught up to me during the second half, and I let him stay with me for a while but then I really wanted to catch a kid up ahead who I could tell was dropping fast so I picked up the pace and passed him.  Then a while later Bill was up with me again, this time it was at about the 2 miles to go.  He told me I needed to keep picking it up so I said "ok" and surged ahead of him again.  At the water station Patti told me I was about 50 feet ahead of the other girl, so I kept my surge up.  With a mile to go Bill told me I should try to catch the kid in blue who was three people ahead of me.  So for the last mile I worked on catching the guys in red and yellow shirts (the guy in the yellow was who I had been pacing with last time) and then the kid in the blue.  I passed red and yellow, and up to the mile 6 mark I was still gaining on the kid in blue but I think he picked it up by then, and I didn't want to do an all out sprint to the finish but I finished a few seconds behind him.  Right after finishing I went out a mile and back with Bill and Ben for cooldown, and then I went and put on my warm stuff and ate muddy buddies.  My calves are so sore!  When I got home I took a 10 minute ice bath.

Flats Miles: 8.00
Comments
From allie on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 21:20:12 from 174.23.192.205

way to go, susannah. congrats!

From Kam on Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 13:49:34 from 68.66.163.179

That's quite a 10K!

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