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PAC-12 Conference 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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Sun, May 18, 2014

Race: PAC-12 Conference Championships (3.107 Miles) 00:16:51, Place overall: 12

Total Distance

9.50

An hour before my race I went for my warmup. I did about 2 and a half and then started my strides and drills in the warmup field by the tents. We had to be on the track pretty early so I saved some of my strides and drills for down there. There were originally 55 girls signed up for the 5k, but 22 of them scratched. Prior to the race, Kep had told me that I should wait until at least 5 laps in before trying anything, and that with 5 to go I needed to be going. He thought that maybe some people would go with 2 miles to go, and if they did I should go with that group since I am more of a strength runner than a kicker. I was hip 2, so when the race started I got out well. I sat behind a UW girl, a Colorado girl, and an Oregon State girl. The first lap was 81, we were 2:40 through 800. Nobody was trying to pick it up, so I was happy to be in the place I was and making the other girls do the leading. Nothing happened during lap 3 either. We were I think 5:24 through the mile. Kep told me to be patient until lap 6 at least. I went through another lap, and then on the home stretch I broke out and moved up. Nobody came with me. So I was by myself about 10 meters in front of the pack for the next 3 laps or so. On the back stretch of 4 laps to go, everyone decided to move so I got passed a lot. My split on that one was a 78, I was trying to respond to them coming up, but they were running 75 and I don't have that kind of speed change in me. Something I need to work on, since I know I can run a sub-5 1600. The next few laps were hard, I was trying to compete the girls who had caught up to me but couldn't quite pass me, but I couldn't hold on as long as they could since I tried to respond when the other girls came up. With 1000 to go I was out of focus and just trying to fight through the pain, but that wasn't going so well. With 1 lap to go I was able to pick it up again, and with 200 to go I pulled out a good kick and caught at least 3 girls. My time was the best of any time I've run at conference in my career, which was hopeful. Thankfully, Kep had also told me before the race that whether I scored or not, it wouldn't change our team position. :) He wasn't mad at me for the race. It was a good practice experience for preparing for regionals. I was able to learn a lot from this race. For one, if I'm going to break away, I should actually make sure that I am keeping opening up on the chase pack rather than opening 10 meters and keeping that for a few laps. I am disappointed that nobody else came with me when I broke away, the non-kickers gave this race to the kickers. I am glad I did something about it, even though I needed a better follow through on the move I made. I have to say I think conference is one of my least favorite meets to try and run a good race at since it very easily gets turned into tactical, kickers races for place rather than anyone trying to go for a good time. For cooldown I ran to the horse track and ran a few laps on the grass and ran back to the stadium for 3 total.

Shoes That Match Miles: 5.75

Comments

From Glory in the long run on Mon, May 19, 2014 at 07:48:00 from 174.27.235.126

I understand your frustration. There's racing for time and then racing for tactics and it's rare to do well at both. I would think that the psychological effort it takes to lead for a few laps and have 10 meters on everyone could be well served in staying with the pack and using the energy of your strength when everyone else does, with a mile to go. You know that's what's going to happen, so use that to your advantage. You can still use your strength with 1000 to go, that's when your strength can outlast the kickers. But unless it's a fast race overall, leading in the middle doesn't do you much good, but glad to hear you felt you put yourself out there. You know your strengths, and you're not really a weak kicker, you did past 3 in the last 200, that's not weak.

Great time, and keep ticking away and I look forward to great results at Regionals.

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