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Utah State Open

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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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Sat, Sep 01, 2012

Race: Utah State Open (3.05 Miles) 00:17:51, Place overall: 4, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

11.00

This morning when I woke up and heard the pouring rain outside, my first thought was "I love cross country!". I got to wear my rainboots for the ride up to Utah State for the season opener :) When we got there it was chilly and the grass was a bit wet, but at least it had stopped raining. The course looked nicer than last year, but there were only 4 port-a-pottys for bathroom. I wasn't thinking when I took my potty break and when I was done threw the whole roll of TP in the hole... Oops, that was a sign I needed to wake up and get ready for my race. With about 45 minutes before race time we started on our team warmup. The first and second loops were alright, but coming out of the second (which is actually the end of the first loop too, and the 4th) there is a slight uphill, so I knew that might be difficult. The 3rd loop was shorter than I expected it to be, so when I did part of the 4th loop for the last bit of my warmup I was sure the course would be short... and decided to race with my Garmin :) After doing strides and drills with the team, I changed to my flats. After a few more strides on the line, and having to wait a few minutes for the timers to be ready, the race began! Because the start is sloped downhill (opposite of all the other loops) I was able to get out well and not push too hard. I ended up at the front, and going into the first loop Amber and Taylor from Weber were running on each side of me. I just stuck with them and the pace felt pretty relaxed. I hung with them the second loop and I think I was annoying them because I kept stepping on their ankles, but that was because Amber was running into me a little bit and forced me to run half step behind them. I didn't feel bad for stepping on them because of that :P Coming out of the second loop my hips felt really tired from the hill, and then they were able to break away while I was recovering. I really need to rebuild my quad strength! The third loop was different than what I ran in my warmup so it did end up being full distance, but either way I was prepared. During part of the third loop the Weber guys cheered for me which was nice of them, because they know Ben would have if he were there :) Coming out of the 3rd loop and into the 4th, Jamie caught up to me and passed me and I wasn't able to hold on very well. I think she also must have been kicking at this point because there was only about 1000 to go. Coming around the final turn to the slope up to the finish line I was worried that someone else might catch me but I was able to make myself push up the hill and even pull out enough of a kick that I almost had to puke when I finished. Once the rest of the team had finished and changed shoes, we went out on the road for cooldown. Surprisingly my legs didn't feel tired from the race, so I was able to run up with Hilary and Charlotte. We did one big loop that was about 2 and a half miles around the blocks that the park was at, and then Hilary and I did another one so that I could get to 5.5 cooldown and 11 for the day.

July 25 Miles: 8.00

Comments

From Tomy on Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 16:18:35 from 98.202.82.127

Well it's good to know you were able to wake up:)

From Jake K on Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 16:27:00 from 67.177.11.154

Nice season opener!

From Andrea on Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 18:03:04 from 67.177.11.154

Great race Susannah! Nice way to start off the year...your hard work this summer will really pay off.

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