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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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Race: Jacksons Invitational (1 Miles) 00:05:02, Place overall: 5, Place in age division: 2
Total Distance
7.00

This morning after watching some of the high school events and other stuff going on at the meet, it was time to warmup for the mile.  I went with Lex and Andrea, outside 8 minutes and back the same as yesterday.  The schedule was just a couple of minutes behind so we planned for that, and Andrea and I were in the third heat so we knew we had a little extra time for that too.  Somehow I lost where Lex and Andrea went, so I went onto the track by myself to continue warming up since only the center was being used at the time for the 60 meters.  I ran a few laps to keep my heart rate up, and I did a few drills.  Then I did a few strides before having to move to the infield so that heat one could start.  Then I changed into my spikes to do some quicker strides.  I talked with Kep before and decided I needed to get faster strides in before since I hadn't practiced much of the fast paced stuff for this race.  My point of focus was different than yesterday because I wasn't going to work to keep the pace up the second lap but rather hold back until the third lap because that's when I would need to be able to bring it in strong.  Finally, it was time for Andrea, Nikki D., and I to race.  Since I had been added last minute to the race and ended up with sticker 14, I was on the far right for the start, but I got out well and didn't get blocked in.  I was with Andrea the first bit, but then as a pack everyone came by and I told myself to relax because I needed to wait to really work.  We came in at 37 on the 200, 2 seconds slower than yesterday, but it had to be done.  During the second lap there were 8 girls in front of me and there was a gap, but I just focused on keeping my pace and not panicking or going too early.  I came through the 400 at a 1:14 (if I remember correctly...) and just kept pushing to keep the pace the same.  At the 800 I was at 2:31, so I had stayed pretty even, and when it came down to the final 3 laps, or 600, I knew it was the time to go, so I closed the gap on the first girl and kept going, and then during the last 400 closed up on the next 2 girls and passed them and stayed ahead of them and finished in 5:02, and even split for the last 800!  I was really excited for Andrea too because she ran a 4:52!!!  Her PR before that had been a 5:15 so it was really amazing to get to see her do so well :)  Afterwards when we had changed our shoes and got back into our sweats, I went out for a cooldown with Andrea and Lex.  We just went out and back the same we had for our warmup.  Then they went back inside but I knew I should probably do more cooldown so I went out and back to the same spot again.  I am really pleased with both of my races this weekend, and had fun getting to watch other teammates do well in their events :)

Comments
From Jake K on Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 22:41:38 from 67.177.21.60

Great start to the indoor season this weekend!

From allie on Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 19:45:35 from 97.126.211.101

nice job, susannah. looking strong to to off the season...

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