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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
70.00
^Their Mates Miles: 11.50Shoes That Match Miles: 53.50
Total Distance
11.50

Today I started my run with Nikki and Alyssa out on 11th Avenue.  I ran with down down City Creek until they turned down Memory Grove, then I decided to take the trails from City Creek back to Dry Creek :)  That was fun.  Lots of hills at first but it felt better than running on asphalt!  I got off the trail just past the JCC and then took the road above the track and finished back by the locker room with 11.5. When I got to the rock pile that is an East tradition for the trail, I was horrified to see that most of the rocks were gone! :( I died a little bit on the inside. We had a decent sized pile going, but it was reduced to one largish rock and about 4 the size that we always carried up. Might have to run that trail more to rebuild that pile.  Other than my calves burning on the hills, my legs feel great!  Stretched for a while afterwards.

^Their Mates Miles: 11.50
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Total Distance
10.00

Workout today at the track in the beautiful sunshine!  Too bad they are building just south of the track, we are losing our view of the mountains.  We did the usual warmup and then strides and drills at the track.  The workout for the long distance girls was three 800s at 10k pace with 90 seconds rest, then five 500s at 5k pace with 75 seconds rest, and then four 300s with 3 minute rest.  We got a lap recovery between the sets.  On the 800s I hit 2:40, 2:39, 2:40.  On the 500s the wind really started to pick up and they got really difficult towards the end, but I hit 1:37, 1:38, 1:38, 1:38, 1:40.  After surviving those I got my 300s done in 50, 51, 53, 52.  Did 2.5 mile cooldown afterwards to finish with 10 for the day.  

Shoes That Match Miles: 5.00
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12.00

Today a group of us started out run in the rain!  From the distance group it was me, Nikki, Becky, and Dana, and we were joined by Rose, Alli, and Ali from sprints :)  That was fun.  But they were only with us to the light at Sunnyside and Foothill, where they turned since their runs are shorter for obvious reasons. Nikki, Becky, and I kept going up Sunnyside, we did zoo loop and ran on Wasatch for a bit.  After Becky turned I was on my own for the rest of the way.  I ran on the paved trail above the freeway, and then turned around and ran on Foothill and turned down 2100s, kind of the same loop I did last week.  I ran down to 1300e and back to campus.  Saw Tim for a massage afterwards.

Shoes That Match Miles: 12.00
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Total Distance
12.50

3.5 miles on the treadmill this morning before weights.

In the afternoon Jessica, Lauren, Bekah, AuraLea, Alyssa, and I caught Trax down to Liberty to do our threshold workout.  We ran to the park for our warmup, and were in the middle of our strides and drills routine when the hail and lightning started.  It was sunny when we started our warmup!  But we know the rules.  The other girls had to go grab their shoes, so I went back to the Trolley Trax station with Lauren and Jessica.  The hail stung as it hit our faces.  We caught the train with 2 minutes to spare, then felt really bad for the other girls when we didn't see them running towards the station when the train was pulling up.  Back at campus, it was no longer snowing.  We ran back to the locker room and then headed back out to go down to the fieldhouse to get a run in.  Then we saw the other girls, Kep had gone to the park and picked them up.  Hanah had been calling him to make sure!  The protocol is that the athletic trainers cannot allow us to return to practice or play until it has been 30 minutes since lightning was last seen.  Down at the fieldhouse I did anther 5.25 miles to finish with 9 for the afternoon.  Our new inside joke is that we are survivors of the SLC 2014 hail storm!

Shoes That Match Miles: 12.50
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12.00

Today I went to Liberty to do the workout that we didn't do yesterday. I warmed up a lap and a half around the perimeter of the park, then I did my strides and drills down the sidewalk in the middle. I did the 25 minute threshold on the pavement, getting just over 4 miles total, average pace 6:06. Then I did four 35 second strides, then a 4 mile cooldown to finish with 12 total.

Shoes That Match Miles: 12.00
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12.00

This morning those of us that were in town met for a long run from campus.  Bekah, AuraLea, Lauren, Becky, Jessica, Alyssa, Dana, and Kenzie were all there.  We started our run down Foothill and then along 2300e to 2100s.  We ran down to 700e and over to Liberty Park where we did as many laps as we needed before catching Trax back up.  Right before getting to 2100s, Bekah and I picked up the pace and didn't see the others except for a brief moment at the park when they turned to go to the train station.  As we got to the Trolley trax station we could see that the train was close, so I did my last half mile on campus to finish with 12 total, 70 for the week.  Average pace 6:53.

Shoes That Match Miles: 12.00
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Total Distance
70.00
^Their Mates Miles: 11.50Shoes That Match Miles: 53.50
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