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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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46.00
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8.00

Today was the first run back with the team :)  We ran up to 11th Ave. and down into City Creek.  They turned down Memory Grove but I kept going until I was at 4 and then turned and went back the same way since I don't like running downtown and didn't bring my Ucard with to take Trax back.  It felt great to be running today :)

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8.00

This morning we returned to lifting and again I continued to do the alternate lifts.  I like these because they are a lot of core so I feel that they help a lot.  Today we also had our first workout out at the oval.  We warmed up outside which really threw me off since I'm used to warming up inside but it was pretty nice out :)  Then we did our drills and strides inside before changing shoes.  The longer distance girls workout was twelve 500s at about 1:45-1:46s with equal timed jogging recovery.  It ended up being me, AuraLea, Macee, and Lauren.  The first two weren't that great, we hit 1:49 and 1:53.  Fortunately we were able to pick it up for the third and hit a 1:44.  Then we hit 1:43, 1:43, 1:43, 1:42, 1:43, 1:42, 1:44, 1:42 and 1:42.  For the last 2 Kep said we could try picking it up so AuraLea and I did.  Afterwards I changed shoes and ran 4 laps cooldown with Macee and Lauren.

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Total Distance
8.50

Today for the run we started out on Foothill with the intention of going towards the Albertson's loop.  I was with Bekah and AuraLea.  Bekah turned around before we got to 2100s but I kept going with AuraLea.  We had thought about doing a lap in Sugarhouse but decided it would go over the mileage we needed for the day so instead we ran down to 1300e to run back to campus because it would add extra and would be less of an uphill back to campus.  Bill saw us before we got to 17th!  We ran back up to Guardsman on 500s and finished going back up to Huntsman.  Then we did 6 strides and some drills.  My hamstrings, quads, and glutes are all sore from going back to weights yesterday so I made sure to do drills that stretched them, it felt very good.  

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Total Distance
9.00

Today we had a mile repeat workout at Liberty.  Since Kep was at the oval with some of the other girls on the team, it was just me, Macee, Lauren, AuraLea, and Bekah.  Liz came on her bike to cheer us on which was nice :)  We got off Trax at 900e and ran to the park plus some in the park for warmup.  We met up with Brooke and did our strides and drills on the sidewalk that goes through the middle of the park.  Then we changed shoes and went to the starting line for our repeats.  We were doing 5 and going by the lines and dots system, which really needs to be repainted!  We were supposed to hit 6:20 pace, and on the first one hit 6:15 and felt really great.  The second one we missed the finish to but figure it was probably around 6:10 after running back to it during our recovery (which was 80 seconds).  On the third one we hit 6:02, on the 4th I hit 6:07, and on the last one we missed the 5 lines for they were faded so much and I'm not even quite sure where to estimate that one at, probably 6:10 though.  Then we did our strides on the way back to where we had started and ran to the Trolley Trax station for cooldown.  I felt great through the first 4 repeats, but the whole time I was sore from the lifting warmup we had to do this morning which is different from our usual.  It made the the inside of my legs hurt on my thighs (so I guess in the hamstring area but not quite) and I don't know how I was able to run the cooldown!  But we finished and felt great with our times :)

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Total Distance
6.00

Today my hamstrings were way tight and sore from lifting yesterday so I decided to only run 6 miles instead of 8.  The other girls were doing 6 too because we have time trials tomorrow.  I was with Hilary and we ran along Foothill to Sunnyside and then through the golf course to get up to Wasatch Drive, where we turned around at 3 miles and went back the same way.

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6.50

This morning we had time trials out at the oval.  It was hectic there with all the stands set up for speed skating time trials and also the general public using the track!  We warmed up outside for about 15 minutes and then did our strides and drills on the track, though we did them in a lap because we needed to go the same direction as everyone else.  Then we changed shoes and went over to the start for our 2000.  Kep moved the start forward a bit for us to make up for the difference we would have to do each lap going around the carts parked on the track coming out of the final turn and the timing equipment set up in lanes 1 and 2 at the finish line.  I went out with AuraLea and as we kept going she pulled away and finished 12 seconds ahead of me; I finished in 7:12.  Next we had planned to do a 1000 but Kep decided to have us just do 300s instead rather than try and run around all the people on the track.  We started at the 400 mark and ran to the 100 mark, and then finished the lap for recovery.  We did 6; on our first one we accidentally stopped at the wrong line, but our times were 56, 59, 57, 56, 57, 55.  Then I ran 7 laps inside for cooldown with Lauren and AuraLea.  

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Total Distance
46.00
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