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NCAA West Preliminary Round

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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

Thu, May 29, 2014

Race: NCAA West Preliminary Round (6.214 Miles) 00:35:52, Place overall: 33

Total Distance

12.00

This evening after watching the 800s, I started my warmup. I just stayed near the track and ran around the parking lot area. After about 20 minutes, I went up to the field for athlete warmup and did some strides and drills. After those, I got my spikes and walked over to the final checkin with Kep. The race plan was to settle in and not be moving around and up on the outsides and getting shuffled back, like what was going on last year. Bekah and I got our hip numbers and then the officials walked us out onto the track. We did a few strides on our way over to the line. Bekah and I both got to start on the main waterfall line. When the race went out I just went for an inside lane and ended up at the line between 1 and 2. There was a lot of shoving going on, so I just had to be careful not to fall. Our first lap was around an 87-88. The next few laps still included a lot of shoving. Someone was stepping on me and I almost fell, but fortunately I caught myself. An Oregon girl elbowed me while cutting me off, so I elbowed her back and got back in front of her. The next lap she cut in front of me and I was close enough to step on her ankles, so I might have punched her in the back. We came through the mile in about 5:42 (I could be wrong, I wasn't really paying attention to time anyway). There were a lot of splits around 83. This was faster than what we had thought it would be, but we just went with it. Between 2 and 3 miles into the race, some separation had started in the pack. I was pretty far back, so I had to make a few moves on the straight parts to move up and work on being up to the lead group. It was while doing this that I sorta realized I had let myself be too far back in the pack for too long. Still, I just did my best to keep moving up one spot at a time. I could hear the announcer naming Bekah in third for several laps, so I was really happy to hear that she was doing well at least. During the next few laps, Kep was telling me not to press, and saying "cooldown" to me, meaning that I just needed to fade until the finish so I wouldn't wear myself out too much more and that I'd still be allowed to compete in the 5k on Saturday. I really wanted to quit, so part of me was hoping that I could throw up so that I could drop out and have that as an excuse and still be elligible to compete Saturday. But I also knew I wasn't racing hard enough to puke, so I just kept running. With about 4 laps to go, I knew the leaders were behind me and about to lap me. I was hoping to see Bekah, so I could encourage her on, but she never came. With 2 laps to go I picked it up a little bit (not like crazy, there wasn't really anything to gain or lose) just for the practice of picking up pace. I caught a few girls, and then going into the final lap I passed one more girl and then eased up, at least until the final 100 when I thought I could hear somebody coming. Going down the final 100 I realized Bekah was just 2 places in front of me, I was sad to see that she had crashed and fallen back so much. This was hard for both of us as we had been hoping to do so well. I shouldn't have assumed it'd be just like last year. This race was an honest race, and I didn't come ready to compete in one. I let myself think it would be easier than it really was, and was careless going out and was not assertive with getting into a good position at all. We are really glad we didn't scratch out of the 5k now, that is for sure! We cooled down in the parking lots, I did 2.75 to finish at 12 total.

They Match Again Miles: 5.50

Comments

From Patrick Cunningham on Fri, May 30, 2014 at 12:54:17 from 128.110.70.160

Great Job Susannah!

From Susannah on Fri, May 30, 2014 at 21:41:20 from 12.160.113.34

Thanks Patrick :)

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