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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
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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
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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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January'16 Lifetime Miles:						326.00
March Mizunos 2016 Lifetime Miles:						200.15
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Thu, Aug 16, 2012

Total Distance

13.00

This morning we slept in for a little bit before leaving at 9 to drive to Snow Basin to run. Heading out on the trail a biker told us there was a black bear sighted there yesterday so we were alert of that. I went out right behind Amanda and Kep, and couldn't keep up with them very long before I was by myself. We went on the trail that goes towards green pond first, and then turned at about 2 miles where it goes steep down and then steep up so we could run on the trail that goes the other way. It is actually a loop, but after Amanda and I were both startled by the sudden appearance of a lot of cattle on the trail (we both panicked that they were bears at first!) we were glad we were able to just turn around there and head back to the cars. Then I needed another mile and a quarter to get to 6 so I ran up the road to a gate and then back. Afterwards we enjoyed a nice swim in the lake over by Huntsville :)

We did a hill workout this afternoon. We warmed up on the road at the North Fork campsites and then turned and ran on a trail. It was pretty flat for a bit, and then went down and connected with one of the loops we had run on Tuesday. We took the road back to the cars and then did modified drills with our strides. The workout was sets of hills, first a 100 with walk back, then a 100 and back with a 200, and so on building up to a set ending with a 400. My hips feel sore from the PT stuff I do only on hills, so I lagged behind the group most of the time. Towards the end we sort of split up and Kep changed some of ours. For the last set on mine he didn't want me to do the 400 after I finished the 200 of that set so we compromised and I did a 300 followed by a 100. It felt so great to be done! For cooldown we did backwards what we did for warmup, then Hilary, Amanda, and I decided we'd run down and meet the others at the gate so we wouldn't have to run back uphill for our cooldown. It was only a half mile and we still needed another mile and a half, so we decided we would just run it all down the road and hope that they would have enough sense to drive down and find us after a while. We finished, and then we waited, and waited, and waited. Finally we started walking back up to see if we might see them coming. They did, and it turns out they thought we'd have enough sense to finish at the gate like we said. I guess we were all senseless today, but at least they were relieved to have finally found us and to finally be on the way back for dinner.

July 25 Miles: 13.00

Comments

From allie on Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 14:00:06 from 161.38.218.168

sounds like a fun run! scary about the bear though...

From ABS on Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 14:08:33 from 98.202.87.3

That wasn't a bear, it was just me in my batman costume.

From emruns on Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 15:58:16 from 76.27.114.171

Haha! I've actually done that too. My dad took me running up a dirt road where they had seen bears. I saw big black shapes up around the corner, so I screamed and jumped into our van. It was just a herd of cows.

From Susannah on Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 16:49:44 from 98.202.87.3

Cows aren't fun to run by. There were some at the midnight half that freaked me out a bit, as well as getting cut off by cows at Jeremy Ranch that decide to run with me and then run to the other side of the road :P

From Sarah! on Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 17:11:36 from 75.169.0.113

Haha try running at trek where there are cows literally everywhere you look and then freaking out when it looks like they're stampeding towards you...:)

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