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2011 NCAA Mountain Region Cross Country Championships

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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, Nov 12, 2011
Race: 2011 NCAA Mountain Region Cross Country Championships (3.75 Miles) 00:23:17, Place overall: 80, Place in age division: 5
Total Distance
8.00

This morning at the course we started our warmup with 55 minutes before our race because it was cold but also we had to be in this fenced off area where they would announce our teams before sending us out to the line.  We just ran around the course and then did our strides and drills by the start line.  Then we still had at least a half hour before our race so I went and ran a little more.  Eventually I changed shoes and then went over to the fenced off area with the team and then we ran to the start line together.  We did strides and then with a few minutes left took off our sweats and got ready to go.  The race started and I got out good, elbowing a girl from the team that was next to us so I could get in front of her.  But then for some strange reason the race was called back, we're not exactly sure why.  The officials made it a point to yell really loud not to have toes on the line, so I think that might have been it.  The second start went about the same for me.  I was about with Alyssa and Bekah was a little ahead of us.  Making the first turn on the A loop I don't know why but I couldn't make myself pick up the pace like I knew I should.  I knew I should be breathing harder but I couldn't make myself do it.  I was slipping in and out of focus a bit too.  I would pass some girls but then get passed back and left in the dust.  The B loop was the same.  And the C.  I did pass girls going into the wind though and I don't think they drafted off of me because when they passed me back it wasn't until later.  Hilary caught up to me at the end of the C loop and from then I just worked to follow her, I didn't think I would catch up to her but she had never beaten me in a race this season.  I just tried to pass the same girls that she was passing and that kind of worked.  Down the final stretch I could hear Bill tell me to try and catch a girl in yellow but I didn't catch up to anyone.  I was just trying to not get caught.  Close to the finish a girl caught up to me but then I was able to pull out a real kick and beat her.  It was not a good race.  I was not happy when I saw on my card that my average pace had been 6:14.  I know other races at lower altitude would have faster times, but even at the race at Utah State at the beginning of the season I was able to pull off 5:50 pace.  Maybe if we actually went anaerobic at workouts and not just always threshold then I'd be in as good shape as I was before.  Afterwards I changed shoes and did a mile cooldown.  

Comments
From Jake K on Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 15:24:09 from 67.177.21.60

Nice job Susannah. I know you didn't have the race you wanted today, but you've had a very good season overall... now use these past few months as a solid building block into track season.

From Bec on Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 20:01:58 from 68.206.133.141

Sweet race! Great time and nice showing. You rock.

From Susannah on Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 20:14:47 from 67.2.251.24

Thanks. We'll see how winter training goes.

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