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Taylorsville Invitational 2011

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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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Sat, Apr 16, 2011

Race: Taylorsville Invitational 2011 (1 Miles) 00:05:10, Place overall: 2, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

9.50

Today at the meet after playing iPod idol with Abigail, we went and warmed up with Natalie for the mile. We did 3 laps around the school and field to the south of it, that was 2 miles. Then we went to the bull pen where I struggled with the new rules, I had to take my hair ribbon out (actually Natalie and Abigail had to do it for me, I can't do my own hair at the moment) and they were telling us we had to put the stickers high up but I wouldn't because of the team logo (the logos are there for a reason!). We got a good laugh from Abigail, she raised her t-shirt to put her sticker on and her uniform was on inside out! After leaving the bull pen we went over by the start to stretch, change shoes, and do strides. Abigail had an amazing race, getting a 6 second PR, so I had her tie my spikes for good luck :) Bill talked me into taking off the splint for the race so I did that right before we got on the line. My hand is bruised all the way through! When the race started I went out fast and right into the lead. My first lap was a 70 and I could hear a girl close behind me, I guessed it was Natalie from Skyline and I was right. She stuck with me the whole time. At the 800 I was at 2:30. With 500 to go I think she started to make a move but I surged and she didn't get me then. But then with a little under 300 to go she moved again and I tried to stay with her then but I couldn't hold on. So I finished second. Nat was 5th (I think) and almost qualified for state but barely missed it again, this time by .13! Afterwards I changed shoes and did 3 more laps like the warmup with my iPod.

My other event was the medley, I did the 800 leg. A while before that race I did another 3 laps for my warmup. Then we got our sticker from the bull pen and a while later headed over to the start. Bill had told Victoria, Janie, and Madeline that if they got me the baton in under 2 minutes that I would run a 2:25 or better, which would qualify us for state. At the first exchange Janie was able to secure the lead for Madeline, who kept it and held off a girl from I think West Jordan, and then it was my turn. For about the first 200 meters I could hear the girl behind me, Tolbert told me she was about 5 meters back. I kept pushing and eventually she fell off, but I really wanted to keep pushing for the team to qualify us for state. I don't know my full split, but my last lap was a 1:14. The team time was 4:23.91 so we qualified for state! And our girls team took home the second place trophy, which was fantastic since we don't have that many girls but all of us contribute a lot to the team scoring :)

Afterwards I changed shoes back and then ran 2 miles cooldown with Bill. When I got home I took an ice bath for 15 minutes.

Pink Spikes!!! Miles: 1.50

Comments

From Palmer on Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 01:33:26 from 63.248.155.78

WAY TO GO!! YOU KICKED POCKETS!! :D

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