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Gravity Hill 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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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
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Wave Rider 17! Lifetime Miles:						295.00
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Cool Blue Lifetime Miles:						446.75
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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

Sat, Jul 20, 2013

Race: Gravity Hill 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:18:26, Place overall: 1

Total Distance

8.00

After I finished my workout yesterday my mom told me about this race she found up by the capitol. The website said there were prizes for overall male and female, didn't specify what, and the female winning time for last year was 24 minutes, so we thought we'd go find out... I warmed up out a mile on the course and back, then stretching and a few strides. The race director talked to us on the line for a few minutes, then there was another few minutes for strides, and then the race started. Next to me on the line there was a guy with a Garmin and racing flats, he was one of a few people who I thought would be competitors in this race (My goal was to beat all of the guys in this race too, since last year's winning time was 18:49). Going out I was right, and this guy was at the front of the pack with me. When setting the pace I found I was able to settle into a pace just faster than him, but I could still hear him in the first mile. During the second mile he made a move and passed with me, but I surged and caught back up to him, and passed him again. Then I thought I heard puking... and thought for sure I would have this race! At the turnaround I was surprised that the next guys in the race weren't far behind either, so I surged again and hoped I wouldn't get caught on the downhill. That always happens to me at the cold turkey run... I made it to Memory Grove without getting passed, and then made another surge as I continued down. Then the guy who I had been battling with caught up to me and passed me, and I let him go... Because I hate racing downhill. But then I noticed him glance back, and knew I should not have let him pass me so easily. So the rest of the race I focused on closing the gap on him. Down the final stretch I could tell I was closing, but only a little bit and there was not enough distance left in the race for me to catch him. I think the runnercards were a few seconds behind what the clock was showing, I am pretty sure I was 3 seconds faster than what printed on the card. Afterwards I found out that the guy I had been battling with was Collin, and he is on the blog too. I ran my cooldown with him, back up Memory Grove and then down by the capitol and to the bottom entrance of Memory Grove. The food afterwards was great, plenty of fruit :) and some creamies :) My intention for this race as far as the training goes was to practice the mentality of racing before my half marathon next Wednesday... And I think this race served it's purpose well. When I got home I took a 15 minute ice bath. And if hashtags worked on the blog, I would use one today since a biking store is giving away a Garmin for people using their hashtag on social media sites...

Lavender Watermelon Miles: 8.00

Comments

From CollinAnderson on Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 10:45:35 from 70.208.3.177

Good running with you. My stomach thing apparently had nothing to do with racing, as I got "sick" a few more times later in the day. Weird. That's never happened to me before, so hopefully it won't happen again.

From Susannah on Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 16:59:03 from 98.202.89.137

I hope your stomach thing gets better! I enjoyed reading what you had to say about the race as well, I told friends that if they were reading my race report that that they had to read yours too!

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