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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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Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Lifetime Miles:						416.75
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January'16 Lifetime Miles:						326.00
March Mizunos 2016 Lifetime Miles:						200.15
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Fri, Mar 29, 2013

Race: Stanford Invitational (3.1 Miles) 00:16:34, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

10.00

Happy race day!!! About an hour before my race I started my warmup on the trail near the track. I did three miles and then went and did strides before grabbing my numbers and putting on my spikes. On the track I did a few more strides until they lined us up. I was second on the waterfall in the outer lanes. I was right next to an Oregon girl who I know I have been ahead of during indoor, so I thought going out it might be good to make sure I was in front of her. Just like last week, I wanted to get into the pack and work with everyone and then kick at the end and see what I could do. I also really wanted to get a PR. I did not want to have a repeat of last year's race (flashback: I ended up in the lead the first lap and panicked because I didn't want to lead, and the result was getting passed by everyone and struggling to get a good position for the rest of the race). Going out I relaxed and just went at a pace I felt was comfortable. Coming out of the first curve, none of the girls from the inside alley were there to fill in, and I found myself at the front again. No one was next to me or near me. Fine then, I would just stay at the front and run by myself. For 12 and a half laps. Cool. The first lap split was 75, but I felt awesome. The next split was 78, that would be a good pace to hold for a nice PR. I don't remember all of them after that, but my mile was 5:13. I would watch the race on the screen when I was passing it, and could see that there were 2 girls that were following me that had broken away from the pack. At one point in the race they were right behind me because I could hear them breathing, but I never saw them or their shadows even. Kep and Amanda and Andrea kept reminding me to drop my arms, which really helped me to refocus and work on keeping good form. I dropped the two girls that had come up, and when the race was back on the big screen I was able to see that I had opened up on them again. And the cheering for them was becoming more distant, so I just focused on opening my lead. I think my 2 mile split was around 10:34. The last mile I kept pushing and was determined to not let my splits get slower. I picked it up with 600 to go and then each 100 less I would pick it up more and more, and I even lapped a girl as I was in the final 100 stretch. 9 second PR!!! And according to my sources, I had 50 meters on the next girl. She got a PR too, she was happy to have gone ahead of the pack as well. For cooldown I ran 3.5 miles with Natalie and Andrea. We enjoyed Stanford's campus, I always love coming here!!!

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 6.75

Comments

From Jake K on Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 20:11:04 from 67.177.11.154

Awesome! Congrats - big jump for you! I had a feeling it was coming after that 1500m last week.

From MichelleL on Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 18:03:45 from 42.3.85.107

Amazing time, especially having to lead the whole way. I had my PR there of 17:11. Are you going to Mt. SAC?

From Susannah on Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 23:09:34 from 99.148.123.129

Thanks! Being able to race well at the 1500 and then 5k is getting me hopeful for the 10k! I am racing at Mt. SAC, I will probably try my first 10k there... still not for sure but there is a good chance!

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