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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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I've been having a really hard time breathing because I'm so congested. He headache is mostly better, but I didn't feel up to running this morning. I ellipticaled and biked 50 minutes and then lifted. The cardio was ok but lifting made my head pound. Again this is a day I would have preferred to only go to class. At least in class I was able to just sit in one place and relax that way.

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Today was so beautiful outside! I still wasn't feeling 100%, but decided to run outside anyway since Andrea needed warmup buddies for her workout and I figured by staying close to the locker room I could stop if I needed. We did the track warmup with her and then went out on Foothill to Sunnyside and back. My knee and foot didn't hurt at all, and I could breathe so much better after running! Minus the coughing up a lot of mucous that followed. But I'm glad that I went running.

January'16 Miles: 5.00
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This afternoon I was just a few minutes behind the group that meant to start at 1 (they really got going around 1:15) and I had to check with the trainers first to see if I could skip rehab first so that I could run with the team, and they said yes, so I took off from the training room and hoped to guess correctly which route the team had gone.  Just as I got to the east side of the Huntsman center, there they were!  Since we are supposed to be doing the first mile on the track again, they had been there and were just now heading out :) perfect timing.  We ran out on Foothill towards the golf course, and then through up to Wasatch.  I turned around with Nikki and went back along 1300s and Foothill.  Finished with strides.  Then lifting, then rehab.

January'16 Miles: 5.25
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Andrea and Sarah had workouts today so we ran their warmup with them before going on our run.  By the time we left campus via Foothill we didn't have very much left, so we turned down Sunnyside and ran to the park, and those who needed more could do as many laps as they needed before heading back.  I did part of a lap and then went back to campus with Sadie, Dana, and Hannah to finish with 5. 

January'16 Miles: 5.00
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Today was a workout/long run at Liberty Park.  We were doing a Kenyan, so we warmed up from Trax to Liberty and then did another 2 miles for our warmup before checking in with the coaches really quickly before starting the Kenyan.  They organized us into groups and we got going.  I was with Sadie and Jade.  Our warmup pace had been 7:20, so the next 4 miles were supposed to be 7:00, 6:40, 6:20, 6:00.  Our first one was 6:59, then 6:32 (too much, which made the rest of the workout off), then 6:27 and 6:19 to finish.  After the second mile we got spread out because I guess each of us tried to compensate in a different way.  I cooled down to finish with 9 total.  

January'16 Miles: 9.00
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Running with Jesse and Ellie on the Jordan River Trail today :)  Jesse ran the first mile and a half with me and Ellie, then it was me and Ellie the rest of the way.  I really need to air up the tires on the bob...  Also going out into the wind with the stroller is a challenge!

January'16 Miles: 5.00
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