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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: Running of the Leopards 5k (3.1 Miles) 00:16:44, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
10.00

This morning after arriving at the starting line for the 5k I started a warmup with Abigail and Ben from Weber.  We went up along Wasatch Drive behind the zoo and turned around when we hit a mile.  Then Ben and I kept running in the parking lot to get up to 3 miles for the warmup.  Then I went and changed shoes with Natalie and we did strides by the line.  Then we did our cross country cheer with Abigail and Sarah :)  When the race started I went out hard because I knew from experience at the circuit races that not starting out fast is a mistake because it is hard to catch up to the lead women later in the race.  There was one lady in front of me so I caught up to her, but then she passed me back and 2 other ladies passed me.  After we got out onto Sunnyside and were going down to the post office I decided that I was going to try and move past them all at that moment and see if I could hold onto a lead.  So I surged and passed all three of them and never saw any of them for the rest of the race.  My first mile was a 5:26, I wonder what I would have done on a flat course.  Coming down to where the course goes onto Foothill there were people that were cheering "First woman" at me, and after I had passed I heard them cheer on the second woman as well so I threw in another surge in case one of the other women was close.  My second mile was a 10:52, so I stayed even which was kinda cool.  The last mile I really pushed down to the stadium because at team workouts when we are running down Sunnyside I tend to fall behind the group at this part so knew it might be a weak spot for me.  When I got to the track I started to kick since it was only 300, and I wanted to finish strong.  I finished in 16:44, my first time breaking 18 minute but also breaking 17!  Haha too bad its downhill so it doesn't really count though :P  But now I have a goal to break on a flat course.  Afterwards I did a 4 mile cooldown with Amanda, Ben, and Greg.  We just went along 1500s to 2100s and back and finished with a partial lap on the track to get us to 4.  Since this was the first circuit race and I took first, for now I have the most points!  But I'm guessing that might not last very long, but I'll enjoy it while it lasts!

Comments
From Walter on Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 02:08:38 from 24.10.169.110

Wow Susannah, talk about a home field advantage! You totally rocked it! Nice job.

From Patrick Tree Dweller on Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:25:01 from 174.23.236.242

Of course it matters Susannah, its still a 5K

From Patrick Tree Dweller on Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:25:14 from 174.23.236.242

Counts not matters haha

From allie on Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 14:20:13 from 174.23.241.50

way to go! i'm very impressed with your time. i was still coming down wakara when you turned onto foothill and it was awesome to see you totally take control of the race. congrats on a very solid win -- nice way to start off the circuit this year!

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