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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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Totals
Total Distance
37.37
Mon, Mar 27, 2017
Total Distance
7.19

This morning I ran a new-ish route.  I ran up to 500e, over to 2700s, up to 1700e, and to Sugarhouse park.  Just before Highland, I cut down through the park and did a partial lap on the road before exiting through the tunnel and running through Hidden Hollow.  Then I ran past Fairmont to 900e, took that back to 2700s, and from there 700e and home.  Great run to start the week!

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Tue, Mar 28, 2017
Total Distance
8.13

This evening I went to Sugarhouse Park so I could do a workout on the track at Highland.  I did a partial lap around the perimeter of the park and then on the road for warmup.  I forgot about the newly constructed baseball and softball fields so I had to run up and around to get onto the track. I did some strides and drills when I got there, and then started my workout.  My goal was to do 3 sets of 4 400s with 90 seconds rest between each and 1 lap/3 minutes after each set.  My goal time was 1:25, but having not done them in more than a year I wasn't really sure what to expect.  My first one was a 1:19, so I backed off a little bit and hit 1:22, 1:22, 1:23 for the next 3.  On the next set my times were 1:23, 1:22, 1:21, 1:23.  I was struggling to feel a consistency and get into a rhythm.  I was worried about backing off too much and missing the 85.  But I was glad that I seemed to be pretty consistent around 1:22.  On the final set I got a 1:24 on the first one, and then switched to 200s for the remaining reps with equal 200 jog.  My times on the 2s were 39, 41, 42. Cutting them to 200s was a good call.  For cooldown I ran another lap like I had on the warmup to finish wiith 8.13 total.

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Wed, Mar 29, 2017
Total Distance
5.00

Morning run in the neighborhood.  I ran over to 2700s, up to 900e, over to 3900s, and home.  7:54 average pace.

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Thu, Mar 30, 2017
Total Distance
4.90

Another morning run today.  This time I ran over to 2100s, up to 900e, over to 3300s and home.  7:55 average.  I am feeling Tuesday night's workout more than I felt it yesterday... Planning on mile repeats tomorrow so we'll see how that goes.

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Fri, Mar 31, 2017
Total Distance
0.00

Didn't end up running... Planning on threshold workout next Tuesday instead.

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Sat, Apr 01, 2017
Total Distance
12.15

Met up with Andrea, Kate, and Lauren for a long run this morning.  We were all going different distances, but Lauren arranged it to get as much group running as possible.  She needed 22, Kate needed 18, Andrea needed 15, and I was planning on doing 11.  Lauren started early and 4 miles down the trail, then the rest of us met up with her in South Jordan by 10900 south.  The run just flew by!  I was surprised when we were already close to 5 miles... then 5.5... and I wanted to just keep running with them, but at 6 I knew I had better turn so I would be able to finish running back to my car.  On the way back I didn't recognize the way, then realized I must have gone a different path that connected to the one we had been on.  But I got back onto the Jordan River Trail eventually.  Another missed turn a few miles later, but running into some houses I knew that wasn't right so quickly correct my mistake.  And then once again when I was almost back to my car I didn't cross a bridge that I forgot we had crossed at the beginning.  But I made it back to my car eventually and was only a little over 6.  I am so glad I was able to get out and do another great long run this morning!  Probably a bit longer than I need since Jesse and I signed up for the Salt Lake 5k, but I do want to do a half marathon in the next few months anyway so building mileage is good. :)  7:43 average pace.

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Totals
Total Distance
37.37
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