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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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Total Distance
10.00

This morning I went to campus to get my workout done at the same time as Amanda and Andrea.  Due to a miscommunication, I missed them on the warmup but ended up doing it on the track while they were doing their drills and strides.  Once I finished my warmup Kep told me my workout.  I did a fartlek, and decided not to change shoes, so after he finished explaining the workout I ran to the lockerroom to drop off my spikes and then ran up Legacy Bridge to the road in front of the dorms to start my workout.  It was three sets of 2 minutes on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 4 on, 2 off  (but really 3 off because that was the in between of the sets).  What I ended up doing was making a loop over to Wakara and I'd get there just as I was finishing the 3 minutes on, then I'd head back on the opposite side of the street as before and finished just before the HC, then took the 3 minutes recovery back towards where I started each set on the road in front of Chapel Glen.  When I finished the third set I cooled down a mile so that I hit 10 for the day.

Comments
From Andrea on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 13:09:53 from 72.37.244.100

Does it bother you at all to not know your workout until 5 minutes before it starts?

From Susannah on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 13:22:11 from 98.202.87.3

Haha sometimes, in high school it was worse because the workouts were a lot harder or Bill would change them partway through... We usually have a workout schedule posted in our locker room, but Kep hasn't posted anything on it since April so we've gotten used to them being mystery workouts. Some days I think it is kind of nice though since when we know them some people dread them.

From Andrea on Wed, May 16, 2012 at 13:37:56 from 72.37.244.100

I guess you got semi-used to it with Bill as your high school coach! I'm pretty sure that I would hate that method though - I need to mentally prepare myself for workouts!

From Susannah on Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:09:25 from 98.202.87.3

Haha yeah it killed us to not know some days! I do like knowing so that I can mentally prepare myself, but sometimes it makes it hard when teammates think its going to be a hard workout...

Since you run for Saucony do they give you a workout schedule that you are supposed to stick to? Or do you come up with your own training plan?

From Andrea on Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:41:57 from 72.37.171.52

No, Saucony just gives us free stuff! JakeK is my "coach" - he is very knowledgeable in the sport and we have both had a lot of success with his method :)

From Susannah on Fri, May 18, 2012 at 23:25:36 from 98.202.87.3

That's pretty cool :) I bet that works really well too since different workouts work better for some people than they do others. Both of you are inspiring :)

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