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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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This morning I went to workout with the East team for the last time.  We did a warmup of the state course and then ran over to the hill across the road from the duck pond, the one we run down during the state course, and we did 10 continuous hills there.  My shoes were annoying because when they got wet and then I ran on the hills, the soles would slip and get crunched to a side and it felt really weird and it was a bother to fix because I didn't want to stop during the workout and just had to wait for small breaks in the workout.  Then we did 2 sets of the Flannagan circuits, this time the mountain climbers felt easier for me than they usually do and I think its a result of all the core I've been doing!  :)  Then we ran the state course backwards for cooldown, and then some up along the river and back and then on the road a bit and back to the drinking fountain to bring it to 10.  On the way home Abigail and I stopped at the grocery store for some chocolate milk mix!  And then at home I did 1 set of secondary strength and abs because I was in kind of a hurry.  Tomorrow I workout with the U team and we depart for cross country camp!

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This morning I ran my first workout with the U!  After the compliance meeting we all went for a run.  We ran along Foothill for a bit over to 1300s and then down to 2100e and over to 900s and down to Bonneville glen.  As a group we did a lap there and then some of the girls were going to go back but Hillary wanted to do more so I joined her for the rest of the run.  We did another lap in the glen and then went out the 900s entrance and ran down to Guardsman.  Then we ran to Sunnyside Park and did a lap there before continuing on Guardsman back to campus.  We ran up to the track and did 8 strides in our socks, the turf was too hot for our bare feet and even a bit too hot for just our socks.  After each stride we jogged half way back and then walked half way back.  Then we went to the training room and I used a foam roller on my hamstrings and then the hamstring weight machine I learned how to use back in June and then I went home  to finish packing for camp.

This evening after arriving at camp in Midway and a while after dinner we went for a short evening run.  We went to the gold course and ran along a little gravel trail until it reconnected with the golf course and then we ran along the paved golf cart trails.  It was a little over 2.5 back to the parking lot where we had started. 

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This morning for workout we went to the park.  We started with a warmup of about 2 miles along the paved trail around the park which we would be doing our tempo on but we went out along the road to get a bit more warmup.  Then we did drills and strides which got us up to 2.25 before changing shoes.  I wore my red flats.  We split into groups, I was in the group doing 1200s and we had to split into two groups of five so that we wouldn't be too crowded on the trail.  The 1200 is just short of a full lap so we did that and walked back to the start which wasn't very far.  Coach Kepler told us not  to go faster than 90 for the first 400 and I held on pretty easily.  For the first 400 split for a lot of them we were around 95, though there is a bit of uphill portion during the first part.  My times were 4:34, 4:38, 4:37, 4:35, 4:33.  Then I changed my shoes back and we ran on the trail again by the road for cooldown, a mile out and back to get 8 for the morning.

This afternoon I went with a few of the girls to do a second, shorter run.  The full loop was 3 miles but I just went out a mile and back with both Nikkis.  Then we drove to a park to meet the rest of the girls for a core workout.  We got creative and did drills on different parts of the playground.  We were in groups of two, I was with Hillary.  We did each drill for a minute before rotating.  Hillary and I started with tricep dips and then we did planks, squats, double knee lifts, hanging leg lifts, box jumps, pull ups, donkey kicks and fire hydrants, and pushups.  Then we did a second set but on this one we were only doing every other drill and we only had to do 30 seconds of each.  Then we did 2 drills with hula hoops and were done for the day. 

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This morning we drove out to a dirt trail that was slightly uphill for some hillwork today.  We started with a warmup out on the road and back and then down to the foot of the hill because we just parked by the road.  The warmup was 2 miles and then we went into a residential street for our drills and strides.  Back at the foot of the hill we split into three groups for the hills.  The first two groups had 4 people each but the last group which I was in had six.  I was with Hilary, Kate, Andrea, Lex, and Amanda (Theo).  We ran the hill 6 times, jogging recovery back down.  Then we were at 4.6 so we ran back towards the cars and then out a half mile and back on the road to bring the total mileage to 6.

This afternoon we drove to the Rail Trail close to Coalville for an easy run.  I ran out 2 miles and back with Lex, Andrea, Nikki R., and Lauren.  Towards the end Amanda and Alyssa caught up with us.  Our average pace was 7:44. 

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This morning we went running at a trail by Deer Creek Reservoir.  We ran in a group for about the first mile and then it turned into groups as people went different paces or people turned.  I was with Bekah, AuraLea, and Theo.  At 2.5 miles we turned around and there was another small group right behind us so we were joined by Hilary and Lauren.  I ran the rest of the way back with Lauren.  My left leg was hurting a bit on the run all over, I think it may be because I'm used to hitting all of my miles in one run a day instead of 2 -a-days so that could take a while to adjust to.

In the evening I took my iPod and went for a 5 mile loop up along 1500e to 2100s then over to 900s and back down to 1500e and home.  When I got home I hopped in the ice bath for 10 minutes. 

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This morning for workout we went up to Pipeline Trail for a long run.  I ran out with Hilary and Theo.  We went all the way to the overlook and stopped for a minute before heading back.  Most of the way back I was just ahead of Andrea.  When I got off the trail I ran up the road and boardwalk and back down to get to 10 miles total.

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