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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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Miles:	This week:	0.00	Month:	0.00	Year:	0.00
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Pink Spikes!!! Lifetime Miles:						78.75
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July 25 Lifetime Miles:						333.30
Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Lifetime Miles:						409.00
Time For Something New Lifetime Miles:						420.25
Mint On The Left And Watermelon On The Right Lifetime Miles:						416.75
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Lavender Watermelon Lifetime Miles:						472.00
Mismatched Mizunos... Again :) Lifetime Miles:						469.00
Halloween Colors! Lifetime Miles:						400.50
^Their Mates Lifetime Miles:						444.70
Shoes That Match Lifetime Miles:						433.25
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Wave Rider 17! Lifetime Miles:						295.00
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Green&pinklaces Lifetime Miles:						474.00
Cool Blue Lifetime Miles:						446.75
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January'16 Lifetime Miles:						326.00
March Mizunos 2016 Lifetime Miles:						200.15
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Tue, Jun 24, 2008

Total Distance

10.25

Today we had a team workout at Sugarhouse Park. We started with a warmup lap around the perimeter of the park. Then we stretched and did some drills. The drills were new to us, and I think that they could be useful. We started with 20 seconds where we jump down, out, in, and up. After that we sprint for 100 meters and did 20 seconds of jumping jacks, and then another 100 meters, and then 20 seconds of crouches, and then 100 meters, and then mountain climbers, and then 100 meters. I did ok through most of it, but doing the 100 meters after the mountain climbers made me tired. We did this drill twice, and then we went and did a cooldown lap around the perimeter. This workout was 5 miles.

This evening I went to a speedworkout with Wasatch Athletics. We were having an East team meeting, so we started late, and then for the warmup, Amanda, Bill, Braden, and I started running around the perimeter backwards. Then we decided to play a joke on the other people on the team by when we ran into them, telling them that the coach said we were doing fartleks and that we needed to go the other way, so they should join us. Eventually we had all of the other people on the team going to wrong way. It was funny, but then so as not to make them go around again (they were almost done with their warmup lap) we cut through the center of the park and then everyone was confused. Then to return to the track we came from the opposite direction we usually come in at. For the actual workout part, we started with a mile of speedchanges on the track. Since we had already done 5 miles in the morning and some drills, we only had to do three 800s. It had been a while since I'd done them, so I didn't expect to get too fast of times, but I did ok I think. My time on the first was 3:12, the second was 3:16, and the third was 3:00. Between each we had a lap cooldown. We were very tired so for our cooldown we ran along the stream to the pond, around the pond, and back along the stream. During this workout my hips were hurting a bit. They had been hurting a few months ago because one of my legs was growing and the other one wasn't. I think it was hurting for the same reason. This time I think I might go see a chiropractor about it, last time I didn't want to because it was during the track season. After the workout we went to Baskin Robins and got Oreo Sundaes, and those were good... a nice reminder to ice my hips where they hurt.

Comments

From Zach on Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 00:33:21

you did a good job on your essay on todays running. i give you a B because it is too short. normal blogs are about 7 pages longer and include charts and graphs and vides of demonstrations. So that is why you only get a B

From Amanda on Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:29:48

hmmm,I disagree, I would give it an A for sure, it's about 10 times as long as anything I've written ;) but you are super speedy, you are going to be a star during this season

From Susannah on Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:20:21

Dang, I guess I'll have to try harder to keep my grades up or I won't be able to run this season.

From Taylor on Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 16:30:48

Zach, your too kind, a C+ at most ... Just Kidding, your waaaaaaaaaay better runner than me. And a better author.

From Spruce on Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 23:16:59

I think I'm failing

From Susannah on Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:47:08

Maybe we should get the coaches to give us the grades.

From Amanda Bischoff on Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:49:09

Um, I think I don't even want to think about grades during summer. Susannah knows I haven't been doing so well on tests lately...

From Susannah on Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:08:03

Failed twice already... tsk tsk. haha, jk

I'm going to have to... I haven't started on any of the summer assignments. Hey, I suppose that if I needed an essay on something I did this summer I could use something from my blog...

From Spruce on Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 22:22:02

Any teacher who makes the students do assignments about their summer break (mostly English teachers) is going to answer to satan. It is summer break. Time to relax. Not to prepare for a one-page 14-size font double-spaced essay about things you do for fun because the teachers aren't making you. And people wonder why I don't read for fun anymore...

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