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Stanford Invitational 2014

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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

Fri, Apr 04, 2014

Race: Stanford Invitational 2014 (6.214 Miles) 00:33:55, Place overall: 26, Place in age division: 5

Total Distance

12.50

About an hour before my race I started my warmup. I did a little over 2 and a half miles, then some strides and drills. My race was actually a little bit off schedule since they had only planned 24 minutes for the guys race before mine. This was probably good though since I felt like I was going to puke. I took my time doing more drills and strides, just keeping my heart rate up before going out onto the track. There were 41 girls in my heat. I was on the first waterfall line, but there wasn't room for all of us on the line so I just tucked in behind the girls in the first few lanes. Going out I got to the inside, the pace felt really easy. Just past 200, a girl fell and made this most dramatic scream, and another girl tripped over her. Glad I missed that one, I just kept gong. I don't remember the first lap split. I really wanted to break 34 minutes, which was doable if I could run 81-82s. Kep told me that if the pack was going 83-84s though, to just go with it. Sorry Kep, but I wanted the PR more. The first few laps I would move up on the curves, and they were about 83-84, we came through the mile at I think 5:32. Then I went up front and picked it up just a bit. Now I had some 81s. Kep was telling me to let someone else lead, but as long as I was on pace up front I wasn't going to move back. I think somewhere around lap 8 is when 2 girls came up and took over the leading. This was just fine with me. After a few more laps, one of them fell back, but I just stuck to the shoulder of the other one. I think my 2 mile split was just over 11 minutes, and the 3 mile in the 16:30s. The 5k mark was about 17:10 (Kep said 17:12. I was rounding in my mind to make the math easier). I knew I would need a negative split, and was just waiting for the race to get down to the single digits of laps remaining to start picking it up. With about 8 laps to go I think we separated from the group, another girl came up and ran with the girl in front of me. With 4 laps to go they took off. I tried to hang on to them, which I did for a bit, but couldn't quite pick it up that much. Coming around the curve just past the 200 mark now with 1000 to go, another girl had passed me and was moving up. I was moving around some girls I was about to lap, and one of them swung wide! Frustrated at this move, I yelled at them to move to the outside and then flew past them in pursuit of the other girls. Kep told me to just go around (I would have had the one girl not swung wide!) but once I passed them I got a surge and closed on the other girls a little bit. With 800 to go I calculated that I would need about a 2:40 to break 34. I was running the splits, but I knew that any lapse of focus and I would miss it. I kept pushing. With 600 to go, Kep told me I needed a 1:58 to be able to do it. I knew if I could pick it up and have a kick, I would be there. With 500 to go, I caught back up to the girl who had passed me before, but I felt like I really needed to puke so I held back from the kick just a little bit longer. The last lap I finally kicked, especially as I got 100 meters closer. I finished in 33:55.98, PR by about 51 seconds and meeting my goal! :) Also I did not puke, though if I had been a few seconds closer to 34 I might have dug deeper and gone into puke mode. For cooldown I did another 3 miles around campus.

Shoes That Match Miles: 6.25

Comments

From Tara on Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 23:45:15 from 50.186.87.12

Wow! Great report and congrats!

From Glory in the long run on Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 02:21:30 from 65.130.183.26

Nice job. Way to keep focused and meet your goal. You've made steady improvement though I know it's been up and down. But breakthroughs always come, just not when we always want them to. Always a pleasure to read your race reports. Love the names of your shoes too.

From Susannah on Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 22:44:37 from 67.186.242.243

Thanks :) I always try and write my race reports as soon as I can after the race so that I can include as much detail as possible before I forget.

From Jake K on Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 09:57:19 from 199.190.170.30

Fantastic, Susannah. What a negative split! The 10K is your race!!! :-)

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