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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: Mountain States Games (1.9 Miles) 00:10:07, Place overall: 3, Place in age division: 1
Total Distance
6.50

Today I decided that I was going to race the 3000, not the mile.  Kep said this was fine since I had run a fast mile last night.  AuraLea made it into the invitational so she was able to warm up with me :)  We stayed pretty flat, we went out on a flat street north of the arena and just followed it until AuraLea wanted to turn, then I just went back with her.  Then I did a lap around the building of the arena to get a few more minutes warmup in.  My lower back was hurting pretty bad during the warmup, I think because of the wooden track, so when I went inside I got some advil from Hanah.  Then I took my Gu and grabbed my shoes and water bottle before heading down to do strides and drills with AuraLea.  We still had about a half hour before our race so I just stretched for a bit between strides and then as the race got closer I threw in more strides.  I tried to keep them down to more of the pace I would be running in the actual race, especially I haven't really practiced the pace this week.  Also I cheered for Ben in his race which was right before mine because he had made it into the invitational as well.  I got to start up on the higher part of the track and cut in after the first 50 meters.  When the race started, I stuck with the girl who had the first seed because she only was listed at 3 seconds faster than my time last week.  It was a bit fast starting, coming through the first 200 in 36 and then 400 in 76, but I was determined to hang onto her as long as I could.  The second 400 was in 79, but I still was hanging onto the lead girl.  Then Laken from Weber (she beat me in the mile last week) caught up to us and then I lost contact with the first girl and was just trying to stick with Laken, though eventually she broke away.  with 1200 to go I told myself I was going to close the gap, and I could see that I was gaining on her.  Through the last 1000 I still worked to close on her but wasn't gaining very much.  I ended up finishing 3rd in 10:07 but it wasn't a bad race.  Afterwards I went for a cooldown with AuraLea.  We just stayed around the block so that I could be close if my back flared up again.  After a lap she went back in so she could say goodbye to her parents, and then I just did another partial loop like I had done yesterday.  When I got back inside I made 2 ice bags and had Hanah wrap them to my back and I kept them on for 20 minutes.

Unfortunately, after arriving home from the race my stomach was hurting really bad and I ended up in the ER.  I went through 3 IV bags; I must have been really dehydrated and not really realized it.  The doctor thinks that maybe after my race, the blood flow did not return to some of my organs as it should have.  Not sure what is going on but I've really got to work on drinking more water throughout the day!

Comments
From Jake K on Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 11:25:34 from 155.100.226.54

Nice races this weekend. Scary on the ER visit, though - Hope that doesn't happen again!

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