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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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55.00
Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Miles: 51.00Time For Something New Miles: 4.00
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10.00

Today I went for a run with the team.  It feels so weird being back in the snow!  We ran the zoo loop, out on Foothill to Sunnyside and then up to Wasatch.  My calves hurt pretty bad going up the hill, so I stopped to stretch once we reached Wasatch.  They hurt even more going down, you don't notice these slight hills until you are sore.  When it flattened out again I was with Amanda until she decided to turn, then I turned with her so I wouldn't have to continue onto Wasatch alone and still be short of miles :P  The way back to 1300s was downhill too.  Ouch.  We caught up to the group on Foothill and then ran back to the lockerrooms.  Hilary and I kept going, we did a large loop around campus going above the track to North Campus drive and then through campus all the way over to the institute.  We finished at 10.  Then to make sure I didn't chicken out of telling Hanah, Hilary informed Hanah for me that my calves were really tight and sore.  So I got a massage with Tim.  It hurt really bad.  And I get to be worked on on Wednesday and Friday too :P  

Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Miles: 10.00
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Total Distance
9.00

This afternoon we had a workout at the oval. Since we are not racing this weekend, today was our threshold instead of Thursday. For warmup we did 7 laps and then our strides and drills. My hamstrings are super sore from lifting but other than that I felt great. Even my calves were doing alright! I decided to stay in my trainers though because it was a threshold, I will save my flats for Thursday. The workout was 3 or 4 2000s. Andrea and I worked together because we were both trying to hit between 86-88 splits for the 400s. I've missed workouts with her! But it was so nice to be able to have each other to work with on this one because it was so many laps :P On the first one we hit 7:24, then the second one in 7:27, and 7:30 for the third. The splits were consistent in the sets so that was good. During the third one was when my calves started to burn so I was done after that. Then I did 9 laps cooldown, some with Giselle and Charlotte, to end at 9 for the day.

Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Miles: 9.00
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7.00

Today I went running with Amanda.  At her pace.  I was dying.  Amanda kept telling my to keep it up though, so I did.  Average pace ended up being 6:57.   We did the Albertson's loop and back to campus on 1900e.  My calves are really tight.  I am getting them worked out again today.  The end.

Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Miles: 7.00
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9.50

Today we had a workout at the oval.  I started with 7 laps warmup with Megan and Alex, then the strides and drills with the team.  I took my sweet time and made sure to stretch really well!  My calves are still in pain from yesterday, so I decided to stick with my trainers for this workout.  It was three sets of four 400s, 90 seconds rest between then with 1 lap recovery between the sets.  My goal as to hit around 1:15-1:16s.  For the first set I hit 1:16, 1:15, 1:15, 1:15.  There were 3 Westminster guys there doing laps and cheering me on, that was nice of them.  And they smelled nice. :)  For the next set I hit 1:15, 1:15, 1:16, 1:17, then I decided to raise the recovery to 1:50 for the last set and hit 1:17, 1:17, 1:17, 1:17.  Pretty amazing workout for having sore calves, running in my trainers, and running by myself.  Twelve 400s within 2 seconds timing on all of them!  For cooldown I went outside with Hilary for 3.25 to finish at 9.5.  We ran around the neighborhood a little bit, and followed one of the roads out of the oval parking lot, just exploring.  Stretched really well afterwards, then took a 12 minute ice bath when we got back to campus.  

Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Miles: 9.50
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Total Distance
11.00

This morning I woke up quite a bit before my alarm so decided to run before class.  I was planning on getting up and running before class anyway, but I had extra time so I wasn't able to change my mind and pretend I would have been late.  I ran out 2 miles on 1300e, made it to just past Westminster, and then back to my apartment.

 This afternoon I went running with Andrea and Alyssa.  We did the Albertson's loop again.  Then Giselle, Alyssa, and I made a date of going to get our iron tested again :P  We evaded it for 2 and a half months though, I guess we did good.

Time For Something New Miles: 4.00Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Miles: 7.00
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Total Distance
8.50

I stayed at home last night since I needed to borrow a car for some late night plans, so I did my run from home this morning.  It was 45 degrees when I started, such a nice day!  I did the cemetery loop (minus the part in the cemetery, I just ran along 3300s) and then on the way back I stayed on 1700e and followed it up to 1900e, then ran down Harrison to get home and finish at 8.5.  7:10 average pace.  

Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Miles: 8.50
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Total Distance
55.00
Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Miles: 51.00Time For Something New Miles: 4.00
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