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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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Halloween Colors! Miles: 37.75
Total Distance
2.50

The end/extension of my fall break:  Sunday I woke up with a temperature of 102.  Went to the doctor.  No going to school Monday.  Today I went to all of my classes and was feeling pretty good, so I decided to go for a run as long as I was able to eat something more than gatorade or fruit.  Just getting to the top of the street was hard.  I made it to Sugarhouse, then decided to do an inner loop instead of an outer one like I had originally hoped.  About half way through that I had to start walking.  I left the park and ran half of the way home, then walked the rest.  Despite feeling like a snail run, my garmin said my pace was still decent.  I think more fuel before running again will help a lot.  Maybe I'll try tomorrow.

Halloween Colors! Miles: 3.00
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Total Distance
7.00

Today I ran up 1300s to Wasatch Drive, then over to the drinking fountain on Foothill and a little bit on the paved bike trail to get to 3.5.  I felt great on the way out and like I was keeping a great pace.  On the way back when I was at able mile 5, I got a really bad side stitch.  I stopped for a minute and then tried to keep going, but it came back.  This happened a few more times until I was back at the light on 1300s and Foothill.  From there I was able to run home ok.  I think I need to hydrate a little more and then the side stitches won't be a problem.  

Halloween Colors! Miles: 7.00
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Total Distance
9.00

I did part of the workout today!  I was fer behind everyone on the warmup and strides, but at least I was running.  The first part of the workout was three 1000s at threshold pace with 40 seconds rest.  I was just fine on these, my times were 3:45, 3:48, 3:49.  Next we had some fast 200s... I set my goal to do two.  We practiced these two starting on the straight as if it were a race start and moving to the inside before the curve.  On these I hit 34 and 35.  Then I was done.  I cooled down to the fire station on 11th Avenue and back for 9 total.  I need to find my inhaler, my asthma always comes back when I get sick with anything :P    

Halloween Colors! Miles: 6.25
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Total Distance
10.00

After class I took my iPod and went for a run up through the dorms and over to the post office on Sunnyside and then up Emigration Canyon.  I ran to 5 miles and then ran back the same way.  

Halloween Colors! Miles: 10.00
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Total Distance
11.50

This morning I was a half hour early for our long run... nobody told me practice was moved to a half hour later!  We drove up to Park City and ran on the usual trail up there.  I ran out to 5.75 so that I could finish this week off at 40.  I did a Kenyan run on the way back, the first mile was 7:14, then 7:00, then 7:03, and I ended it there.  I had a side stitch on my right side, so I had to slow it down.  After finishing, I told Kep I thought it might be appendicitis until I had a stitch on the left side too, then I knew I was ok.  He didn't think it was funny...  I'm healthy now though and that is what matters :)

Halloween Colors! Miles: 11.50
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Total Distance
40.00
Halloween Colors! Miles: 37.75
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