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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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Mon, Jul 25, 2011

Total Distance

13.50

This morning I got up at 2:45 to get ready to go to the marathon. Bill came and picked me up and Kim took us to the stadium to catch the shuttle up to the starting line. I relaxed for the ride up and then when we got to the start we got off the bus for a few minutes and figured out what to do for Devra's chip for her shoe which she had forgotten and then we decided to get back on the bus to stay warm. Then the bus had to leave so we got off and waited outside. A little after 5 I took my Gu and then I ran down the road a little bit with Bill and Devra and ran back to get warmed up enough to take off my jacket and long pants and put them in the drop bag truck. Then we did a few strides before getting on the line. When the race went out I stuck with Bill and Devra but I was a few meters behind them but I wasn't too worried about falling back but I was trying to stick with Bill since that was why I went. The first mile was a 5:30 and at mile 2 I was at 11:19. Then Bill and Devra were further ahead of me but finally since it wasn't as steep I was able to work up to them and run with them. Devra went a little ahead when we got to the uphills but I stayed with Bill for those. The end of the second hill was at about mile 8 and when it started to go down again Bill took off on the downhill and I didn't ever catch back up but he was able to work with Devra for some of the rest of the race. I saw them both coming back from the turnaround and then I didn't see them again until the finish line. The last few miles I was not feeling so great but I wasn't going to let myself stop until I was halfway. I was the second girl until right before I stopped, a girl in black passed me around then. After I stopped I walked down the road a little bit and there my dad was waiting at the water station so I took off my bib number and walked to the car and we drove down to the park so I could turn in my chip and then I waited around to cheer on the marathoners as they finished. I was really sore afterwards but I made sure to eat some good protein when I got home. I admire everyone who was able to finish, I really struggled just getting to the halfway point! But it will be probably several years before I finish my first marathon so I will have better training when that time comes.

Comments

From Barry on Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 20:34:43 from 184.155.133.79

Sorry to hear that you had such a rough first marathon. It took my friend a few years of running marathon to learn how to run them. And he had won three of them now. What was your time at the half way point?

From Susannah on Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 00:54:08 from 67.2.241.219

1:28 so same as my half PR from when I raced one last year, though on an aided course this time

From Susannah on Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 00:54:59 from 67.2.241.219

But going into this one I did not intend to finish because I know I'm not ready for a full marathon yet

From allie on Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 01:07:07 from 24.10.191.18

that's cool that you were able to get a good training run in on this course -- great prep for a very promising future in marathoning for you. nice job.

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