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Mt. SAC Relays

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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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Thu, Apr 18, 2013

Race: Mt. SAC Relays (6.25 Miles) 00:34:46, Place overall: 16, Place in age division: 3

Total Distance

12.00

1 mile shakeout in the morning. My race is at 7:10 tonight.

Races were postponed half an hour when I got to the track, so I had some time to just relax and think about what should happen in my race. Before my warmup I was able to watch the first bit of the race before mine. I did about 2 miles warmup, then some strides and drills. I went and changed shoes and got my hip number, then did more strides while we were waiting to go on the track. When the race started I made sure to be towards the front of the pack, and to not press ahead of the others. My goal was to be patient the first 5k, and then start to push with whatever I felt I still had. Some twin girls took the lead, I recognized them from an indoor race. They even did their hair the same :P Before too long, I could tell that one or both of them had icy hot on (a lot of girls did in the bull pen, I wish that stuff was banned!) and I could feel it affecting my lungs! I knew Kep would want me to just sit behind them, but I also knew that if I wanted to breathe I would have to go around them! So I did. And I think I messed up their mental focus, I made it so one of them had to tuck behind. Every time one of them just got slightly in front of me, I could smell the icy hot so just had to press forward. Also their telepathy was broken, they were talking to each other during the race! Eventually another girl came up so I let her lead. No icy hot, so I didn't mind letting her share some of the work. Then another girl came, so I just had to make sure to not let either of them get too far ahead. I couldn't let myself let people go because they didn't smell like icy hot. My 5k split was 17:27, not bad. Now I could pick it up if I felt like it. A few girls did, and now there was a lot of shuffling positions. Didn't see the twins again, and I don't think the other girls had icy hot, but I was mindful not to let anyone go! Each lap less to go I kept moving up, and with 5 laps to go I was at the front of my pack. One girl had gone early and had opened a lot of distance on the pack. I wish I had felt confident enough to go with her! But I decided to focus on at least opening on my pack. I could tell they were getting farther away, though I was not sure by how much. The cheering was so loud everywhere! In the final 4 laps I just kept counting down by the 100 meters to when I would be finished! With just over 400 to go a girl started a crazy kick and took off! I pushed hard the last lap, that split being 73! And clocking a 34:46.96!!! Second best time in school history! And taking third in my heat :) and my time would have been 14th in the elite heat. But it was fun telling people I was in the Olympic development heat :) My feet were very blistered and cut up afterwards, they hurt more than anything during my cooldown! But I was able to do 2.25.

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 5.75

Comments

From Kassi on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:33:57 from 98.202.223.143

Wow! Way to go Susannah! You're a fighter.

From Jake K on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:40:44 from 67.177.11.154

Awesome run!!! #2 in Utah history in your 10K debut :-)

From Snakemoney on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:42:16 from 70.192.64.135

Every time you mentioned icy hot...I cracked up! Great run & more importantly, you dropped the icy hot twins!

From Abs on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:26:45 from 205.127.196.10

Remember when you used to be obsessed with icy hot and you put it on every night and I thought it was nasty but now you hate it and I love it? Yeah...

From Susannah on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 14:57:47 from 134.71.79.172

Thanks! :)

I've had to go to the hospital for not being able to breathe because of icy hot before...

I'm hoping to be able to run well at regionals!

From allie on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 18:13:56 from 97.117.80.97

way to go, susannah. awesome race.

From Glory in the long run on Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 23:50:38 from 174.23.131.19

Phenomenal race, your strength is your strength, both physical and mental. I've always thought that with your mental toughness, the longer distances would be good for you. Great focus and determination, you have many more great things to come.

From MichelleL on Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 02:34:13 from 42.3.85.107

Awesome! Way to race smartly. Love the final lap split. Next year, elite heat! (Do they let collegiates in that heat?).

From Natalie on Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 10:47:03 from 209.203.64.223

You are incredible! Such a great race. Can't wait to see what you run at regionals!!

From Susannah on Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 11:38:58 from 134.71.79.172

Thanks everyone :)

Collegiates are allowed in the elite heats so maybe I will be there next year... my time would have been 14th in that heat this year, so the first two girls in my heat would have done well in that heat too.

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