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Murray Fun Days 5k

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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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Wed, Jul 04, 2012

Race: Murray Fun Days 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:18:19, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

9.00

This morning after Abigail, my dad, and I picked up our bibs, I went for a 2 mile warmup with Abigail. We ran around the Indian head and then along the pavement by the river like the Murray Invite cross country course. We thought about how that part of the park had been flooded last year, and now how crazy it is that this year there are fires everywhere! No happy medium there. After finishing 2 miles, we took our Gus and changed shoes and headed over to the start line. We did some strides and a few drills, and then stood by for several minutes while they waited to start the race. It was hot standing in the pack of runners, and I'm sure if we had to stand that close after the race it would have been really smelly. Finally the race started and we had to wait for the people in front of us to move before we could get out. Right at the start I was able to catch up to Stefanie who had taken the lead. I was with her for a few strides but gradually broke away. Rather than settle and fight it out later, I decided I'd have to go with some of the guys in the race if I wanted to try and pull away. That is one thing I really love about road races is having guys to work off of and to compete with when the lead is taken. I felt like I was pushing pretty evenly and running well. I definitely didn't start out too fast like I have in previous years at this race. I didn't wear my watch so I have no clue what my splits were, I thought there'd be people calling them out at each mile mark. Guess not but I didn't really mind. This was a good mental toughness race. Coming to the turnaround I was surprised to see that Stefanie was still pretty close and so were a few other women. Abigail was in 6th so I was happy for her :) The rest of the race I was running in fear that the women behind me would close the gap. I was also focused on trying to get up to the guys in front of me, but they weren't getting any closer. But I also wasn't getting any farther away so that was okay too. Going around the corner onto Vine Street I tried to sneak a glance behind me but there were too many people there for the parade that would be coming so I couldn't see anything. I focused on keeping my form good and running tall. Coming to the final turn into the park I knew I should be picking it up. I did a little bit, but I know I definitely have a lot more kick in me than I used... I'll have to work on that in workouts coming up. After I finished I walked back from the finish to watch for my dad to come in. Then I went back to the flagpole where I had stashed my shoes and changed back to my trainers while eating a strawberry popsicle. I have learned the hard way at this race that if you don't get to the popsicles fast, you won't get the good kind. Then I grabbed my iPod and went for a cooldown. Abigail came with me for the first bit but didn't stay with me long since she wasn't going as far. I was running around the baseball diamonds when I heard clapping and then I turned and then Jamal was there on his cooldown too! So I took out my iPod and ran the rest of my cooldown with Jamal. We ran backwards the course along the parade route, so we caught some of the parade as it came by. We turned down one of the streets along the route after a while and then headed back towards the park. I finished with 3.75 cooldown to get to 9 for the day. Did my PT when I got home.

Comments

From Jake K on Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 09:16:56 from 155.100.226.54

Congrats on the win!

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