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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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It's my birthday!! I don't know about you, but I'm feelin' 22! I did my run from my parent's house so they could babysit. I started along 1300e and ran up to 11th Avenue. Up there it was windy and I got a lot of dirt in my eyes. I was glad then that I didn't have the stroller. I ran down 11th and into City Creek, and up to the drinking fountain. I then turned and ran down Memory Grove. From there I took State Street to South Temple, back up to 1400e through campus for another drinking fountain, then back along 1300e. My hip had a really weird pain towards the end that I had to stop for, not sure where that came from.

Cool Blue Miles: 11.00
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I helped with high school cross country camp this afternoon. Because my car is in the shop, I ran there for some mileage. I got about 6 in before I was supposed to meet them (not realizing it would be 45 minutes before we actually took them running) and then did another 2 miles of a loop going up onto Shoreline Trail and then back down and across Legacy Bridge over to the track. Then I got to watch and critique on form as we had them do strides.

Cool Blue Miles: 8.00
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9.00

9 miles in the morning around the neighborhood. I did my usual route because I'm boring. 7:18 average pace.

Cool Blue Miles: 9.00
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11.50

This morning I took Ellie in the stroller up City Creek. I went up 4 miles and then turned around. With about 200 meters before the turnaround point I saw a snake! It was smaller than the one I saw several weeks ago, but still a decent size. My guess was a king snake or a gopher snake.

In the afternoon I helped with high school camp again. Jessica and I helped lead the group through a warmup and then ran with them so they could get a feel for threshold effort. Short cooldown and stretching afterwards.

Cool Blue Miles: 11.50
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6.00

This morning I took Ellie for a run on the Jordan River trail. I was short on time so I was just going to do 7, but when I hit construction just past the 3 mile mark I went ahead and turned around to cut it shorter. 7:31 average pace.

Cool Blue Miles: 6.00
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9.50

This morning I did a threshold workout at Liberty Park. I started with a warmup lap around the perimeter and up to the northeast corner of the park, where I did strides and drills. I was sort of dreading the 20 minute threshold as I was doing the warmup, but once I got going it wasn't so bad. My splits were consistent for each leg of the park (cement .5 to cement .5). The times I passed the cement markings were 3:04, 6:13, 9:18, 12:23, 15:30, and 18:34. Total distance was 3.18 miles. Afterwards I ran to the drinking fountain for a drink before doing four 35 second strides. Cooled down to finish with 9.5 total. I'm glad this workout is behind me now!

Cool Blue Miles: 9.50
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