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2013 Drake Relays

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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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Today I went to Park City with Giselle and Hilary for our run.  Hilary and I ran the first bit of the trail together and then Giselle joined us once we got off the pavement and onto the dirt.  I've sure missed running in PC.  My calves felt fine at first, but as I got closer to the 4 mile mark I could feel the tightness.  I stopped at 4 to stretch, and then did ten sets of 1 minute on 1 minute off on the way back.  I didn't notice my calves then, though because now I was going slightly downhill that might have been the difference.  Finished with 8 and then had a nice stretch while I waited for Giselle and Hilary.  I had Heather scrape out my calves when I got back.

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 8.00
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8.00

This afternoon I ran to the track to visit my sister :)  She wasn't ready to run yet, so I went up to Sunnyside and did 2 laps there.  Then I ran back down to the track.  I joined my sister for stretching and then drills.  Then I ran 3 laps on the track with her followed by 3 laps of speedchanges.  Then she was doing hills, so I went home.  Took a 12 minute ice bath when I got home.

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 8.00
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Giselle and I did our workout today.  I think we lucked out since we were both still recovering from races, and we are both racing the DMR on Saturday at Drake!  She is doing the 1200, I am doing the 1600 :)  We warmed up around the bailiff and then did our strides and drills at the track.  Our workout was three 500s, three 300s, and three 200s.  We had jogging recovery, and then extra time between reps.  The goal for the 500s was to be faster than 75 for 400 split.  My times were 1:32, 1:33, 1:34 (4oo splits 73, 74, 75).  On the 300s I hit 53, 53, 54.  The 200s were 35, 33, 35.  Afterwards I cooled down a bit on bailiff with Giselle and then ran some in the avenues to bring my cooldown to 3 and my total for the day to 8.  Back at the training room Tim worked on my calves, shins, hamstrings, and hips.  When I got home I did a 12 minute ice bath.  Tomorrow we depart campus at 5 AM for Drake!  Super excited! :)

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 5.00
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Total Distance
7.00

Today after arriving in Iowa we went to the track and ran from there.  I started with Andrea and Amanda, we ran on Kingman Boulevard because Kep said that was a safe area.  Apparently we are in the 'hood if we run in any other direction from campus...  I did 7 miles total, then had a nice long stretch.  I was sore from yesterday's workout, but felt much better after stretching.

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 7.00
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Total Distance
4.50

This morning Giselle and I went running on the trail by the river near our hotel.  Giselle did 3 miles with me, then I did another mile before going back and joining her for strides and drills.  Excited for the DMR tomorrow!

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 4.50
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Race: 2013 Drake Relays (2.5 Miles) 00:11:47, Place overall: 10
Total Distance
9.50

An hour before the race I warmed up with Andrea and Giselle.  We did a loop near campus, then I did a second smaller loop.  Did drills in the indoor arena before heading over to the bullpen for final check in.  We had time for strides while waiting for the event before ours to be over, then I had time as I waited while my teammates raced.  Giselle did the first leg, the pack ended up forming 2 packs and she was leading the chase pack.  Lauryn was able to keep us in our spot and move ahead a bit before giving the baton to Andrea.  When I got the baton we were at 6:45, and there was a girl that received the baton right after me who came with me.  The next girl was further ahead so it would take time to close that gap, I decided, and I'm pretty sure the other girl was thinking it too, that catching the other girl would be a lot easier if we worked together.  The first lap was a 70, but I just stuck with this other girl.  By the 600 mark I could tell she was slowing down, so I tried to move and go after the other girl on my own, but then she picked it up and took off.  Now I was by myself, watching the other girl close the gap on the next one.  I knew I just needed to hold on for 1000 meters and I could do it.  Races like this feel so short after racing 5 and 10ks!  It is too easy to lose focus and then realize the race is over.  I think my second lap was a 75, I didn't look at the clock starting my final lap, but looked at my finishing time.  My split was 5:02.  I'm pretty sure that was my split the first time I did the DMR, more than a year ago during indoor track.  After changing shoes, I did about a 12 minute cooldown with Giselle and Andrea, then watched an exciting heat of the 100 meter hurdles :)  They called it the London rematch heat, it was exciting listening to the announcers introduce everyone!  The first 4 in the heat ended up setting the top 4 world leading times at the moment!  It was amazing!  

When I got back to the hotel I ran 4 miles on the trail by the river. 

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 8.00
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Total Distance
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And Their Sole Mates Miles: 40.50
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