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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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Fri, Apr 06, 2012

Race: Stanford Invitational 2012 (3.1 Miles) 00:16:45, Place overall: 68, Place in age division: 15

Total Distance

9.50

This evening about an hour before my race I started my warmup. I went out on the trail we ran yesterday for our premeet. I did 3 miles and then I checked in for my race. I did a few strides and drills and they felt really good. I was confident that I was going to have a great race and maybe get a PR. Finally when it was time for me to get to the bull pen to get my hip numbers, I grabbed my spikes and headed over to sit down and change them. When they walked us out onto the track I did more strides and was feeling confident through all of them. At the start I was on the second waterfall line since I had hip 29. Going out I had plenty of room and was still running a pretty easy feeling pace like I had in my strides. Coming out of the first curve I ended up at the front of the pack and going into the second curve I was in lane two with two girls to the left of me, and the announcer announced me as the leader. I had not expected this so I think this put me into panic mode because I had hoped to be able to just follow a pack and let them help me go for PR pace. The first lap was right at 80 I think, and here I moved to the inside. This was a mistake, I concluded after the race when I was thinking about it. From here, the next several laps were a series of getting boxed in and then having to work back to the outside and get back up to the front. At one point I got back up to the front with a BYU and a SUU girl. The first mile split was around a 5:24 I think, so a bit slower than I had hoped. At one point there was a girl stepping on my heels quite a bit so to defend my ground I threw my elbows a bit wider (never actually making contact though) and then she fell! And took out the rest of the pack behind me as I could tell when there was a sudden silence after the incident (not really, they just fell back and someone stepped on her is what Amanda and Andrea told me). Here I started to fall back and was struggling to keep up to where I needed to be with the group. I came through 3k at 10:01 and knew that I could still PR if I could keep the pace up the last few laps. The last few laps ended up just trying to not let the girls in front of me gap me too much and to fight back when someone was trying to pass me. The last 600 I told myself to start kicking, and I did a little bit, and then a little more at 500 (those 500s Tuesday helped) and then what I had left at 300. I caught probably 1 or 2 girls, and I finished just .2 behind my PR. I have to admit I was disappointed after my race even though I knew I had tied my PR. I guess I didn't strategize enough to consider that I might end up leading. Also I haven't been in a race this big. Now I know to not go to the inside of lane 1, big mistake! And because the heats will be different every time I won't ever really know where to expect to be in the pack. I have to just tell myself it was a good race and a great learning experience, and prepare myself for a better race at Mt. SAC in 2 weeks. After I was done talking to my cousin (she debates at Stanford) I changed shoes and grabbed my iPod for a little less than 3 mile cooldown (compensating for the extra mileage from the strides).

Comments

From Jake K on Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 14:42:27 from 67.177.21.60

Hey Susannah - we watched your race on Flotrack last night. I was definitely surprised to see you in the front off the start, but honestly what else could you have done? There were so many girls in that race... it seems like it was tough to have any room to run and getting boxed in could happen at any time.

In any case, it was exciting to see you mixing it up in the front. I think you ran great. 16:45 is a great first outdoor 5K (although I know you would have loved 0.3 seconds faster!).

You are running great, and I think you'll tear it up at Mt Sac!

From Andrea on Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 14:48:30 from 67.177.21.60

It was so fun to watch you run last night! I can't believe how many girls they cram into a heat. You ran great - gotta be happy with your consistency the last couple months. Go for that PR in a couple weeks!!

From Susannah on Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 16:40:35 from 12.201.7.2

It was definitely a lot of new experiences all in one race, but provided a lot of learning that will hopefully help me race better next time.

Thanks for watching and thank you for all of your comments and support :)

From Sarah! on Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 21:25:56 from 75.169.5.160

You are amazing!!!! To even get close to PRing is amazing!!! You are awesome!!! Go for it at Mt. SAC!!!

From allie on Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 15:16:19 from 161.38.218.168

way to go, susannah.

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