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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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Total Distance
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This morning after I gave my sister a ride to practice, I decided to stick around and get my workout done too ;)  We warmed up to Sunnyside for a lap and then back to the track.  Then some stretching before a mile of speedchanges.  Then I braced myself for what I expected to be a very challenging workout, even contemplating going back to my instructed threshold...  But I was at the track and ready.  Also the 400s on Monday gave me confidence I could get some decent work in.  We started with two 1000s.  We were supposed to hit 75 pace, thinking about Monday I was not sure how well that would go, so I just held on as long as I could.  I amazed myself with how long I was able to go, and got myself through the workout.  I hit 3:15, then 3:11.  We took about 5 minutes standing recovery between each.  Then we did four 500s and were supposed to hit 88.  The ones where we started on the curve were hardest for me since there wasn't much room left to swing wide on the final curve, but I made the best of it.  I hit 1:37, caught up on the second with 1:30, fell back on the third with a 1:36, then even led part of the last one with a 1:28 :)  At that point my legs were just dead and I was so happy to finish!  Until we were told two more 1000s :'(  Again I just did my best to hold on.  I hit 3:25 for the first one (crazy how that was my fastest one when I did 1000s last week and today it was my slowest!), but then was able to bring it down to 3:18 for the final one.  I was so glad to be really done, as were the others.  I changed out of my spikes and then cooled down 7 backwards laps to get to 8.

This evening after getting my nutrition screening assignment done (finally!) I went for a relaxing run.  The TA who did the nutrition lab with me definitely could tell I was an athlete when my pulse came up as 40!  And BP 94/55.  For my run I started along 1400e over to Blaine, to 15th and to 2100s.  From there I went up to 2100e and ran all the way over to Foothill and then ran down as it turned to 500s.  I hit 1300e and then ran home.  My legs felt great considering how hard I ran this morning.  I made sure to stretch out really well afterwards. 

Comments
From Andrea on Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 14:52:49 from 72.37.244.100

Those 1000s were fast!! Nice workout.

From Burt on Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 14:54:33 from 72.223.80.161

Nice workout. Those 1000s were fast!!!

From Susannah on Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 16:50:21 from 98.202.87.3

Thanks, I'm surprised I had that in me after not going that fast for so long and then after one quick workout on Monday! After the first one I was doing the math and realized that is 16:15 pace for 5k, I hope to be able to hit that one day...

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