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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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Race: University of Washington Invitational (1.864 Miles) 00:09:38, Place in age division: 5
Total Distance
8.50

1 mile shakeout run in the morning on the treadmill.

After watching Steph race in the invite 400, Bekah and I started our warmup, and Andrea did her cooldown with us :)  We went on the trails by campus for 15 minutes and then went inside to stretch for a minute before going back out to do our strides and drills.  When we got back in I had Heather tape my ankle since my Nike spikes have about zero support, better safe than sorry.  We did a few more strides on the track and then lined up.  I was hoping to run in the 9:30s.  Kep said if we did abot 60 second laps we could both be below 9:50.  When the race started I ended up at the back, but I knew it would be ok and the pack would come back.  They did.  The first 400 was 77, not bad.  I decided to make moves coming around to the straightway where we had started, then to tuck back in to go around the curve.  I think it was probably lap 3 where I realized I would have to pick it up because there were a lot of people in front of me... All those speed changes in high school came into play today!  The first mile was around 5:10.  At some point when I did a surge I passed Bekah, which afterwards she said helped her to refocus and pick it up - she passed me right back.  If it were anyone else in the race I wouldn't have let that happen, but it is different when it is your teammate.  I made it my goal to pass the same people she was passing.  During one of the laps I was thinking there were 3 laps left so I would have to get ready to go soon, but then I realized there were just 2!  So I got going.  It is confusing trying to start to pick it up for your kick with 500 to go when it is close to 2 laps... Same with 400 being more than one lap, but I picked it up and passed some girls.  Going into the final lap someone was trying to pass me on the inside of the curve, I elbowed her like "umm who does that" and she didn't try to come around the other way either.  If that were me, I would have gotten mad and found the energy to go around me for elbowing me and beat me (flashback to how I qualified for Footlocker Nationals).  But that girl wasn't me, so she didn't pass me, and I kept going.  I finished right behind Bekah, and we both got new PRs in the 9:30s!  Maybe in a few weeks if we feel like doubling we'll break the school record.  For cooldown we did 3.5 miles.

^Their Mates Miles: 6.50
Comments
From allie on Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 01:50:04 from 65.130.189.75

way to go, susannah!

From Susannah on Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 17:34:58 from 155.99.217.175

Thanks :)

From Glory in the long run on Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 03:59:33 from 174.23.179.128

Susannah the strong, that's your motto. Chant that to yourself, you will be awesome this year.

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