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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 met up with Nikki R. and Andrea to go for a run.  We wanted 9 miles so we planned to go down 11th Ave. and Memory Grove and run back up South Temple, but as we were on 11th we could see a cloud of inversion hanging over downtown so decided it would be best not to run in it.  Also we forgot that Andrea's knees don't respond well to downhill, so instead or going down Memory Grove we ran up City Creek until we were at 4 and a half.  The drinking fountain and bathrooms were probably off so we didn't stop there.  We just ran back the same way we came.  We kept the pace easy the whole time and it felt really good.  And there was no wind today which was a plus.

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This morning I went to the Smith and did my lifting workout.  My back was hurting during the warmup so I told Hanah afterwards and she told me to not lift for a few weeks and take a few days off running.  So I went to Steiner and did elliptical for 50 minutes.  When I got home I did some hip stuff Hanah showed me and then some core.

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Today I went to Steiner and did a pool running workout.  I did 5 minutes warmup and then did a ladder of 1 minute on 1 minute off, 2 on 1 off, 3 on 1 off, 4 on 1 off, 4 on 1 off, 3 on 1 off, 2 on 1 off, 1 on 1 off, then a 5 minute cooldown.  Then I put on running clothes and went upstairs to elliptical for half hour.  I did the first 15 minutes going forward  and the last 15 going backwards.

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This morning I was feeling great and was pretty set on running 5 miles, so when I got to the gym I started with 5 miles on the treadmill.  Then I biked for 20 minutes.  It wasn't too bad, I think for now I'm going to really try and focus on getting a variety of cross training in because I only ever cross train when I'm injured and I think if I did it more as part of regular training that would be really great.  After getting home and cleaning up my room a bit, my family and I went to the airport to pick up my brother Clayton who got home from his mission today!!!  After visiting other family members and then going home, Ben helped put together the new bed frame Abigail and I got, since we will again be sharing a room :P 

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This morning I woke up when my sister did to get ready for school because we share a room now.  But my mom and I had planned on going to the gym right after dropping her off so it worked out fine.  I was pool running today and wanted to get my workout done before the water aerobics class came in which my mom thought started at 9.  I got in the water at about 7:45 but it turns out the class is at 8.  My workout was 5 minutes warmup, then 7 sets of 5 minutes hard with 1 minute recovery and a 5 minute cooldown.  During the second set I had to stop my watch so I could get out and move into a lane with a swimmer.  I liked this workout and really want to continue to make these pool workouts a regular part of my training.

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This morning after sleeping in for a bit (I was awake at 1AM feeling like puking, fortunately I did not) I went to Steiner with Abigail.  I did elliptical for an hour, she did too but only for about 20 minutes...  When we got home it was back to cleaning our room :P

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