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Stanford Invitational 2012

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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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Sat, Sep 29, 2012

Race: Stanford Invitational 2012 (3.75 Miles) 00:21:14, Place overall: 10, Place in age division: 2

Total Distance

8.50

This morning we arrived at the race course to find very overcast conditions which brought the temperature down. When we started our warmup an hour later, it was starting to get hot. We did the usual strides and drills and then I ran a little more warmup since I still had time before changing my shoes. After all of us had laced up our spikes with the chip and tied them tightly, we went over to the starting line to do our strides. I forgot how narrow of a start this was; only two up front. I felt honored to be the one getting to be next to Amanda up on the front! Because they assign the boxes alphabetically, we were on the very end which turned out to be a great box! We had plenty of room going out, and I was glad that the curse words and impacting the ground sounds weren't from my team. The plan was for me, Andrea, and Giselle to go out together and try to stick together through the 2k, and then I was planning to go hard the last 4 and see how many people I could pass. This definitely helped me relax the first k and not try to go out fast. At some point in that first small loop I noticed that we were right behind a pack of 4 Stanford girls so I was determined that all three of us had to beat them. Our first k was 3:20, which was fast because of the downhill. The second k I think I got anxious because I didn't really see Giselle much. The split at 2k was 6:54 but I figured that was because of the hill. Finally when I knew I was past the 2k mark I was able to go and easily go past packs of girls and keep moving on. I had several strong surges from conserving at the start and this really helped me to move past packs and have confidence that no one was trying to follow me and that I could do the same to the next pack. At around k 3 or 4 I passed a pack and then found myself in no man's land as the next group was quite a way up ahead. In the group right in front of me I counted 7 girls, but that didn't tell me anything about my position since I didn't know how many were in front of them. On the last big loop I counted and was pretty sure I was 11th, then I heard Hanah tell me I was 10th. Mentally I think I relaxed a little when I heard this but then I caught myself and had to think that I was in 11th so I would push with intent to move up a place. I felt really strong the last k and I think I was even closing on the other girls during the last 400 meters, and I finished with a new PR by 7 seconds!!! And it turns out I was 10th overall afterall :) 9th collegiate :) Amanda was 3rd and Giselle was 18th :) I was really happy because I didn't picture myself finishing up this far in the race! I thought top 30 would have been nice, looks like I could have set the bar higher! But this will give me hope and confidence for the remaining races this season :) Our team took 4th overall again like last year, just shy of our top 3 goal but still good enough to defend. Afterwards I did a 2 mile cooldown with Hilary to get to 8.5 for the day. Then I enjoyed a tour of Stanford's campus with my cousin :) Followed by a wonderful evening in San Fran with the team :) It has been a wonderful day :)

Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 4.50

Comments

From Andrea on Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 21:06:08 from 67.177.11.154

Nice race!!! Congrats on the new PR and great placing.

From Jake K on Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 09:56:40 from 155.100.226.191

FANTASTIC race Susannah! Top 10 and a PR, that is awesome!

From Susannah on Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 20:54:51 from 98.202.87.3

Thanks!

From allie on Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 19:30:53 from 97.117.88.228

way to go, susannah!

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