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Deseret News Marathon/10k

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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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Thu, Jul 24, 2008

Race: Deseret News Marathon/10k (6.2 Miles) 00:00:00, Place in age division: 2

Total Distance

13.20

Today was my second 10k that was the correct length. I messed up with my timing though. I started with a mile warmup, and then I went to try for a good spot at the line. While waiting, the race started about 5 minutes late, so I lost some of my warmup. Right before the race began everyone was really tight up at the front and there was little room. It took almost a minute to get up to the line so that I could actually start. I started timing when I got to the line, so I would know what my chip shoe time would be. It was a slow start, and I kept passing a lot of people up until after mile 4. At mile 1 I was at 6:29, and mile 4 I was at 26:13 so I had a pretty even pace. Sadly I missed the first water stop because the volunteers weren't holding it out to the passing runners. Some runners were picking it up from the table, but I was too far on the right and missed the water stop. I did horribly after that until the next water stop. My back hurt a lot and I had a hard time keeping going. I was so happy when I reached the other water stop. After getting water I felt a lot better and it was good timing for before the last 5 blocks of uphill to the finish. When I was done I went for a 6 miles cooldown, 4 laps around the park. It felt really nice and afterwards I felt great. My chip time, or my time from crossing the line was 41:29, which is a new PR for me. Because of the differences in chip and gun time, I don't know what place I was overall. I thought I was second in my division, which is what showed up on the results, but after I got a medal they asked me to come back up because they said I really was third. My friend had the 3rd medal, but I think she left and I didn't want the awards people to take it from her to give it to me. I don't even know which medal I was supposed to get, because my dad says that one of the other girls traded a shoe chip with someone. In the end I was getting really confused and decided that I have plenty of other medals and I didn't care if I didn't get one.

Comments

From Lybi on Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 16:18:24

Welcome to the blog! I have three little boys who have had a lot of asthma symptoms, but they have been getting better and better since I started running with them. Now they are all off their controller medicines and I am sooo grateful!

So will you be a senior this next year?

From Susannah on Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 22:10:31

Yeah. There was one night when I got krupe and some of my asthma came back, so I had an inhaler for about a week, but I think it was making me breathe worse so I stopped taking it and it helped. This next year I'm actually going to be a sophomore.

From Burt on Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 23:04:13

I'm glad my high school times are faster than yours, but they aren't by much. If you still have more high school to go they will probably be better than mine! Good luck.

From Ashleigh on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 14:08:55

Wow way to go Susannah!! Stephan and I saw you running multiple laps after the race and were like, "wow, she must feel good." :)

From Susannah on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 17:14:28

Thanks. Yeah, I did 6 miles because I didn't want to run in the evening. But I still need 20 miles this week.

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