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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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Today I took Trax down to 900e with Bekah, AuraLea, and Andrea and ran to Liberty park for warmup.  We did our drills and strides and changed shoes.  The workout was 1 lap thresholds, and ideally 3 of them if we felt good.  The first one we hit in 9:16, there were times when I was slipping but I was able to make it by pushing to keep with the other girls.  After about 2 minutes rest, we went again.  This time I fell back a bit but ended just a few seconds behind the other girls with a 9:26.  For the third one Kep told us we could break it into two halves if we wanted but when we started I felt really good so I decided I was just going to do the whole lap.  I ended up pushing this one mostly by myself and finished in 9:24, at least it was better than the second one.  Then we did four 35 second strides, and changed shoes back.  For cooldown I ran to the drinking fountain with AuraLea and then back to the 900e Trax station.  I was going to run around the parking lot until I was at 10 for the day but the train was right there so I got on and finished when we got off Trax back at the stadium.

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Today after my final which was 33 multiple choice questions (took less than 15 minutes!) long, I met up with Andrea to go for a run.  AuraLea was going to join us but wasn't feeling too great so just cross trained today.  Andrea and I ran the direction of the Albertson's loop.  Because she went shorter, she turned at 2100e but I kept going down 2100s to Sugarhouse Park.  At 1700e I started a clockwise lap, and made it to the light at the 3-way intersection by the shopping center when I hit 5 and decided to turn and go back the same way.  My knee was hurting this morning, I must have slept weird on it last night or something, but before the run I was hoping it would warm up during.  It hurt more at first, but I could still feel it the whole time.  I ice cupped afterwards and then biked home (all downhill of course :)).  I hope my knee feels better tomorrow.  I also wonder if maybe wearing my flats yesterday for 5 miles had something to do with it?  Or if the anti-pronation features on my shoes are causing the pain?  Lots of factors here, I'll just pay attention to it the next few days.

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This morning I decided to drive up to Pipeline for my run.  Once I got up there and got started, my knee was hurting again.  I had taken ibuprofen before so at that point I was hoping it would kick in at some point.  I'm sure I was probably limping but I kept going, and I told myself that if it was still hurting 2 miles in I would turn around, I wanted to give it the chance to warmup.  It finally did around mile 1 and a half so I was able to do the full 8 miles I had been planning on.  

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Today I did a workout with AuraLea.  We started with the usual warmup up above the track then across North Campus Drive, and back to the track for strides and drills.  The workout was twenty 200s (for AuraLea, Kep said less for me) with a diagonal jog across the field for 55 seconds of recovery.  I was supposed to hit around 40-41s.  The first few were 38, 43, then a bunch of 41s with an occasional 42.  On 12 and 13 after hitting two 42s in a row Kep told me to sit the next one out and then join AuraLea for another 5.  She had 6 left so I just did all of them with her.  For those ones I got 39, 39, 40, 40, 41, 41.  For cooldown we did 6 laps at the track cheering on Bekah during her workout and then went out a mile and back to finish with 8 for the day.

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This morning after lifting I took my iPod for a run :)  I ran down 1500e to Sugarhouse, did a counterclockwise lap until I hit 1700e, and then did the cemetery loop route going down Parkway Avenue to Alden and then that maze of streets.  I hit 4 and a half at about 3000s when I was on Imperial Street, and then I attempted to go back the same way but I think I turned early off one of the streets because I ended up by Carden... But it reminded me of the time I ran it with Bre and Clayton when I was a sophomore and we tried to do it backwards, I think I took the same route we did then.  I went back through Sugarhouse and then along 1500e, but I turned down to 1400e at Blaine because I didn't want the final downhill to bother my knee.  It has been feeling better but I'm still going to be careful and ice it the next few days.

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Today I went to the BYU meet to watch Natalie go for another state record.  She didn't race until golden hour though, so after I watched Abigail and Kiley in the mile I ran over to Provo High with them to see if they would make it in time to race the mile there.  They had just missed it but signed up for the 800.  I ran a lap around the block with them as part of their staying warmed up, and then closer to their race did a few strides with them.  After watching them and everyone else that signed up for the 800, I ran back to BYU with Tomy, Bill, and Natalie.  By then I had 3 and a half miles and was really not wanting to finish the rest of my miles right then.  I just wanted to eat lunch and run later.  But then I thought about my knee and thought that I should just get my run done now while it was still warmed up so that I could ice it afterwards rather than just let it cool off.  I actually was able to straighten my leg all the way this morning when I got up, that's the best luck I've had all week!  I ran out from the stadium and past the indoor track and past Brick Oven to 200e which I took all the way to 300s, then I went up to 900e and went more south until I hit 6.75 (so when I got back I'd be at 10) where it just so happened that there was a sidewalk closed sign to mark the turnaround point for my run!  I ran back the same way, and then after getting ice wrapped around my knee went with Natalie on a quest to find food, which ended up being sitting and waiting for her parents to arrive with her bagel :)  The golden hour mile was amazing, the lead group was made up of 5 girls that had all broken 5 this season :)  and three of them broke the state record!!!  It was an exciting race to watch and I am eager to see them race again at state :)

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