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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
65.00
Total Distance
10.00

This morning my sister and I went to Liberty with the group.  We did the warmup lap with them, but then we were on our own when they did firemen because we raced Saturday and aren't racing tomorrow.  We went for 10 miles.  I did another lap, this time on the perimeter of the park, and then decided I would go out on 500e to 3300s, up to 7th e and back to the park.  I did that and then needed just under a mile and a half, so I did that on the sidewalk in the park.  I was walking back to the drinking fountain when I finished and then decided I'd be productive and do some drills.  I was really sore, some of them hurt.  When I got back to the car I stretched for several minutes while I waited for Abigail to finish.  Then we went to the store and bought 2 gatorades for $3!  When we got home I did my PT and then foam rolled.

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11.00

This morning my sister and I enjoyed getting to sleep in for a day since we weren't doing Des and there wasn't practice.  Except then it started raining for a bit and since we camped out in the yard it was time to go inside.  I put on running clothes and grabbed my iPod and Garmin.  I started out on 1500e to 2100s, then up to 1900e and over to Sunnyside.  Then I ran down to the track and did eight 200s with equal recovery.  I didn't time them, but I'd like to think there were some good ones in there.  They probably were actually around 40 though, something I can work on.  But I just wanted to get some turnover in but not a real workout.  Afterwards I stretched for a few minutes before continuing on my run.  I ran down to 1300e and then over to 500s.  I saw some of the marathoners going down the hill as I went up.  I turned at Guardsman and then went over to 900s.  From there I went up to 2100e and then to 1700s down to 1400e and home.  The rain clouds went away during the middle of my run so the last half got very hot.  I had to go buy myself some more 2 for $3 gatorades.

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Total Distance
11.00

This morning I went with my sister to Sugarhouse.  We ran a warmup lap around the perimeter of the park and then made a stretching circle.  After that we did a a few drills and core exercises.  Then we stopped back at the cars for water before going for a run.  We went up to 2100e, over to 2700s, down to Alden Street, to Parkway Avenue and back to the park.  I then added 2 laps around the outside of the park to get to 11 for the day.  When I got home I did my PT and foam rolled.

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Total Distance
10.50

This morning I ran on my own since I had to be back in time for PT.  I ran to Sugarhouse, did part of an outer loop up to 1700e, then ran backwards the last bit of the cemetery loop.  When I got to 3300s, I decided to be spontaneous and keep going on the road that goes about the cemetery.  It is called Honeycut Road.  I took that over to 3900s where it ended, and then I turned down.  I ran to 900e and then turned back north.  I decided I'd go to 1700s and then back up to 1400e and home.  It was 10.5 miles, I had hoped for 12 but I needed to get ready for PT.  I got a few new exercises to add to my daily routine and I am probably going to go back to lifting next week.  

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Total Distance
12.00

This morning we left early to spend the day in Lava Hot Springs!  :)  When we got there around 8 Bill drew a map in the dirt of the 6 mile loop we'd be doing.  He said it would be flat, but the first part had rolly hills.  Still it wasn't bad.  We went down Main Street and then just stayed on it as it curved, making one turn but still onto a road that was easy to follow.  At one point this little dog started running with Ethan, and when I caught up to him it stayed with both of us.  After the first lap I ran into Tomy because he had gone up to get water from the cars, and I decided to stay with him.  We named the dog Taylor RJ OuiBell because it would hang back and play and then sprint up ahead of us.  We could tell it was getting tired but it still came with us.  We hoped it would go home when we passed its' house...  and it did.  I was glad to be running with Tomy on the second lap, and Chris and Ethan when they were with us, because it made it a lot easier!  And Ben even decided to drop back in with us and finish.  Once we were finished we went and rented some tubes to enjoy the river :)  We went down a few times, stopping a couple times at the hot pots right by the river.  It made I think the best birthday ever!!! :)  After returning home mid afternoon, Ben got me out of the house so Abigail could sneakily invite a ton of people over to roast s'mores and starbursts :)  And then to wrap it all up, I got to watch a rerun of the London Olympic opening ceremony :)

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Total Distance
10.50

This morning I got up and went for an easy run that felt great.  I ran to Sugarhouse, did a clockwise lap, then went up to 1900e over to Sunnyside for a lap there.  Then I ran up Sunnyside Avenue to Wasatch Drive and then ran that over to 1300s and down back to home.  I'm glad I decided to just hit 65 this week instead of 75, my legs hurt really bad yesterday... maybe next week I'll go back up to 70, we'll see.  I did PT afterwards.  I was too sore to do them yesterday :P  

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Total Distance
65.00
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