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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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Rough flight home yesterday.  There was a lot of turbulence, and I might have thrown up... twice...  I am so sorry for everyone that had to sit by me.

I felt fine this morning but when I got to school I was feeling dizzy, so I skipped practice.  I went home, stopping by the store on the way to buy gatorade and soup, and then rested for a bit.  I decided to hit the treadmill to see how running felt, and so that I could stop if I needed.  5 was going to be my max.  I made it to 3.5 feeling great, then felt a little dizzy again, so I went to 4 and called it.  Hopefully with the chance to refuel some more I will be able to feel better for tomorrow's workout.

And Their Sole Mates Miles: 4.00
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10.00

I felt so much better today!  Went to lifting in the morning with Hilary.  In the afternoon we had a threshold workout at Liberty.  We warmed up there from the 900e Trax station, then did our strides and drills in the usual spot.  The workout was three 1.5 mile repeats (so basically just over a lap) with 2 minutes recovery. On the first one I got to start behind the other groups and progressively work my up to them and past them in the first one.  That one felt the easiest and my time was 8:56.  The next two were hard since I was doing the work myself, but having Amanda biking alongside me calling my splits and giving me words of encouragement was extremely helpful.  My time were 9:05 and then 8:59.  After everyone had finished we did four 25 second strides.  Then Nikki and Becky joined me on my long cooldown the long way around the park and then back up to the 900e Trax station.

Mismatched Mizunos... Again :) Miles: 10.00
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12.00

My new shoes finally came today!!! :)  In the afternoon I ran the Albertson's loop with Becky (started with Hilary and Kenzie and Sydney) and then went to the track for strides and drills.  Finished with 7 then.

After dinner (only 50 minutes later, I have a strong stomach) I went for another 5 miles.  Ran over to 500s then up to Guardsman, then along 1500e to 1300s, up to 1900e and over to 1700s then home.

Halloween Colors! Miles: 12.00
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9.00

Today we had our first workout of the season at Sugarhouse!  We were all sorta dreading it, but when we got there and got started it wasn't so bad.  We warmed up with a plap around the perimeter of the park.  We passed by Highland just as they got out, which was a nightmare... but one outgoing student ran with us and yelled for everyone to move because "WE'RE RUNNING!!! GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!" It was awesome. :)  After our strides and drills, Kep explained the course he had made.  It took me a while to understand it, which was a problem since I was pretty much on my own (Bekah ran earlier).  The workout was 500, 800, 1200, 500, 800, 1200, 500, 500.  The loop was 1400 meters, so the 800 and the 500 were done in the first loop, then the 1200 on another loop.  Recovery was 90% time.  I started with AuraLea, Andrea, and Becky for the first few but just ran a little bit ahead of them.  The first 500 was 1:53.  Not quite where it should have been, but for not knowing the course it was decent.  For the 800 I hit 2:54.  On the 1200, I forgot it was a 1200... so I was feeling pretty good about splitting 1:@4 for the 400 and ending the 500 in 1:46.  Then the three girls behind me asked me what I was doing, and I realized I had forgotten that it was a 1200!  Silly me, having already done a full lap I was thinking we were starting our next set... Lapse of focus, oops.  That one I recovered to a 4:17.  The next set I hit 1:46, 2:48, 4:18.  The last 5s were 1:48 and 1:45.  For cooldown we did another lap around the perimeter of the park, I finished to 9 total.  Back at school I did my rehab.  And I didn't run with tape today, and my knee didn't hurt!  New shoes are amazing!  

Halloween Colors! Miles: 4.00
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10.00

Ran 2 miles on the treadmill this morning.  I was hoping to do at least 4 or 5 so that I would only have to run 7 or 8 later...  I intended to run 10 miles later at practice, but only hit 8.  

Halloween Colors! Miles: 10.00
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Long run up at Jeremy Ranch this morning.  When Kep told us where, he said it was going to be 32 and sunny... I think the 32 was supposed to be the high, because it definitely felt colder than that when we got there!  I still wasn't feeling too great from yesterday, so just did 10 instead of 13 like I had planned all week... But I'm amazed I even was able to get 10 in!  After I turned around, Becky wasn't too far behind me so she turned and ran more with me, then she added on when we were back at the cars.  

Halloween Colors! Miles: 10.00
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