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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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March Mizunos 2016 Miles: 16.75
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30 minutes of pool running at the student life center.  I did 5 minutes warmup, then 10 sets of 1 minute hard 1 minute easy, then 5 minutes cooldown.

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Pregnant mama with a stroller run today on JRP trail.  Out 2 and back.  Felt better after taking a day off of my feet yesterday, but apparently no matter how slow I start my runs, I will still finish even slower.  

March Mizunos 2016 Miles: 4.00
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My back and hips were feeling great this morning, and the weather was perfect, but because there is a workout tomorrow I decided to cross train today to hope for a good workout tomorrow.  I did my rehab and then biked 40 minutes (10.3 miles) and finished with a very modified lift.

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7.00

Workout at the track today.  We did the usual warmup (well sort of, I stayed on Wasatch Drive to run flat) and then strides and drills.  The workout was a 600, 200, 700, 300, 800, 400 with 40, 2:20, 50, 2:50, 40, and 2:20 rest (or something like that.  Just trying to go off of split times on my Garmin but they aren't really making sense).  This is the first workout I wasn't able to keep up anymore with the younger girls so after the first rep, I was on my own.  But not really since when you're pregnant you're never alone :)  My times were 2:22, :45, 2:43, 1:11, 3:06, and 1:32 on the build up, and then 2:39, 1:09, 2:21, amd :47 on the way back down.  I was so happy to have done the whole volume!  Cooled down on the track until I was at 7 total.  Running my last home meet on Friday!! (And maybe my last track meet as a Ute) 

March Mizunos 2016 Miles: 7.00
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Cross trained today so I can plan on running for premeet tomorrow. 40 minutes on the bike. Easy lift afterwards.

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3.25

Premeet with the team today.  We did the first mile on the track and then were allowed to run wherever.  We ran towards Foothill.  At Foothill, I turned around with Dakota before we crossed the street so we wouldn't have to cross and turn right back around.  We decided we would add on in ballif before going up to the track, if we needed extra distance.  In the parking lot at upper Huntsman we almost got hit by a car because the driver was texting.  Clearly not watching where she was driving, and us pedestrians had an even more clear view that her phone was out.  I yelled at her.  I hate people who text and drive.  No text is that important, and if it is either pull over or be on a call.  Anyway, after that I rolled my ankle on a stupid rock that was on the sidewalk, probably came from the landscape for the life center.  It hurt pretty bad, but I think because we do ankle stability drills every day with our cooldown drills that it saved me.  We finished with strides and drills on the track.  Excited for the home meet tomorrow!

March Mizunos 2016 Miles: 3.25
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Race: Utah Spring Classic (1.864 Miles) 00:11:25, Place overall: 14
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4.50

Last home meet ever!!!  I started the warmup with the team but turned around at South Campus so I could stay flat.  Ran a few laps at the track while waiting for the rest of the girls to get back.  We did our strides and drills and then spiked up.  The 3k was mostly our team, with a few girls from the other schools.  When I saw that there were some Westminster girls signed up, I was happy because I knew I wasn't going to get last (but I will always remember Bill saying to respect all competition, so I knew it really depended on the race).  I was towards the inside for starting position, so I was able to get to the rail, and then everyone just filled in around and ahead of me.  I just focused on keeping my pace.  I was in the back, but that didn't matter.  I just ran even and the distance between packs slowly formed.  On the second or third lap I passed one of the Westminster girls, and a few laps later I caught the other.  Based on the announcer, I could hear that Hannah was pretty close to lapping me (I think she had 300 meters on me) so it became my goal not to get lapped.  This also helped me have a kick. On the last lap I could see that I was closing on Jade, so I kept my eyes on her and got her with about 100 to go, knowing that if she dug deep and had a sprint that she would get me.  But I guess she wasn't feeling it, so I finished just ahead of her.  After watching the 800s (I had to make sure that Andrea won at her last home meet!) I took Ellie with in the stroller for my cooldown.  I ran about 5 minutes and then that wasn't happening anymore, so I just walked instead.  I walked all the way from South Campus to North Campus, and then back to the track for senior recognition.  Kep said I did a good job keeping my emotions under control.  Um thanks.  But that is Kep for you!  Anyway, it was a great way to end my final track season as a Ute, and I'm glad that Jesse and Ellie and my parents were all able to be there :)

March Mizunos 2016 Miles: 2.50
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65 minutes of biking today. My legs hurt after racing yesterday! Ice bathed for 10 minutes afterwards.

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With the workout tomorrow in mind, I cross trained today. I biked 40 minutes. I had a hard time deciding between Netflix and reading articles about fluoride toxicity for class, but decided to go with the articles. I could have biked a lot longer! Very modified lift afterwards.

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Had some lower back pain and irritated nerves so I did intervals in the pool today instead of running the workout. I warmed up 5 minutes and then did a ladder 1 minute on, 1 off, 2 on, 1 off, 3 on, 2 off, 4 on, 2 off, and the same back down. The nerve pain was worse afterwards, or maybe it just felt like it hurt more after getting out of the pool. Finished with rehab in the training room and then a chat with Kep about goals these last few weeks of semester.

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Mostly I just walk now, but sometimes I bike.  Today I took Ellie for a walk in the stroller on the Jordan River Trail.  Maybe when school is over and I am on my first semester off in 5 years, I'll jog this summer.  But I've also got to remember the importance of listening to my body.  Which means that if running is giving me back pain, walking is fine because it is lower impact and still a great form of exercise!  :) 

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18.75
March Mizunos 2016 Miles: 16.75
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