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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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32.25
Spikes Miles: 3.00
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This morning I went running with Bill.  We ran along an equestrian trail, and the road that was next to it.  We ended up getting to see some old cars preparing for a show, we stopped before running back to look at them.  The first half of the run had a lot of uphill, that was a nice workout.  It also was great to get in a run in nice weather before going back to Salt Lake.

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Total Distance
5.25

Today we did conditioning and then our run.  We did situps, pushups, squats with the bar, arms with weights, lunges, toes, and heels.  Then for the run we went along 1300e to 2100s then down to 900e and to 900s and then a lap around the block that the school is on because it was only 4.5 without it.  I was surprised at my time of 38:52 because I didn't feel like I was going very fast today.

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Total Distance
5.00

Today I had to drive around quite a bit trying to get to an indoor track I could use for a speedworkout.  I ended up going to the oval, then finding out it was closed for the week.  Finally I made it to Steiner for a dreadmill workout.  I did the best I could to make it a speed workout.  I did a mile warmup, then a mile wher I threw in speedchanges of 10ths of a mile.  Then I set the pace faster and did 2 800s, the first at 6:00 pace (so 3:00) and then the next at 5:52 pace (so about 2:56).  I did half mile recovery after each.  Then I did a mile cooldown.

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Total Distance
4.00

Tonight I went up to a treadmill at Steiner.  I did 4 miles at an average pace of 8mph, so probably 7:30s.

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Total Distance
2.00

Today I went up to a treadmill.  I ran 2 miles, then got bored of that and did 5 minutes of biking but then my hamstrings weren't getting a workout so I did 15 minutes of elliptical.  Then I did 1 set of weigthed arm swings.

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Total Distance
2.00

Today I ran up along 1500e to Sunnyside, then down to 1300e and home.

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Race: USATF National Youth Championships (3.1 Miles) 00:19:11, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
7.00

Therer was about a foot of snow on the course when we arrived.  It was different than Utah snow though, it didn't get in my shoes when I ran on it.  I did about a 3 mile warmup, then I changed to my spikes.  I went to the line and did my strides.  5 minutes to the start I took off my sweats and continued my strides.  When the race started I got out hard because it was an uphill start.  It was the hardest start I've ever had, and I'm glad that I knew beforehand so that I could push the uphill.  During the first mile I worked my way up into the top 5.  Then I pushed past another 2 girls for 3rd.  Then I moved on into 2nd.  I held it for a while, but I didn't realize (until I was told afterwards) that there was a girl about 2 steps behind me.  Her and I switched back and forth battling for second a few times, but eventually I lost the want to keep pushing and she got a lead.  Then with about 400 to go I started pushing again because I didn't want to get passed again.  I had a good kick into the finish, and was only 2 seconds behind the second place girl.  I need to work on holding on longer during a race, since from experience I've learned how waiting to the kick doesn't work for me.  Afterwards I did a mile cooldown.

Spikes Miles: 3.00
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Total Distance
32.25
Spikes Miles: 3.00
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