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Olympic Oval Indoor Invite

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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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Sat, Feb 05, 2011

Race: Olympic Oval Indoor Invite (2 Miles) 00:11:01, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

10.00

This morning I went for an easy 2 mile run with my iPod, from my house to Sunnyside and back.

At the meet we went for the same 2 mile loop as last night for warmup. Then we went inside of the ice oval and did laps there, then some drills, then a few more laps until Natalie and I had to get to the bull pen. We counted that as a mile and a half. After going to the bull pen we were supposed to wait a few minutes until the first heat started until we could go out on the track for strides. Natalie and I snuck out for a POTTY break and did strides then. Then as we were waiting by the line as the first heat was going we did strides. For this race I was second seed. When the race started I got right out into the lead and stayed there the whole time. The first few laps I could hear people behind me, which was helpful as a reminder to keep pushing. Bill wasn't calling out splits, but I think it was better that way because then I can just go by feel. At the mile my time was 5:30. Whoever was in second at that point ran a 5:35. I knew I had to keep going, so throughout the race I kept surging to make sure I wouldn't slow down. On my last lap I really picked it up, and Bill said if I could run the last lap in a 1:18 I could break 11 (the last lap was a 1:18). He told me that Jamie was coming up and that I had about 30 meters on her. I kept picking up speed as I got closer to the 300 to go, and on that stretch Demetrio told me I had 40 meters on her. They probably each judge the distance differently, but still it was helpful to be reminded. Also Bill would do arm swings which was helpful too so that I would remember to keep my arms going to help me keep going. Going down the final stretch I was able to pull out a better kick than last night and last week, and I finished 4 seconds ahead of Jamie. I also broke the indoor state record for the 3200!!!!! I was so excited when I crossed the line, I looked up at the clock and was a few seconds under the old record, 11:08, and I threw my arms up in celebration for having reached my goal! :) And Natalie got a huge PR too which was awesome :)

Afterwards when I got home I took my iPod and did a 2 and a half mile cooldown, from my house up to 1500e, over to 900s, up to 1900e, and down 1300s. Then I took a 10 minute ice bath.

Pink Spikes!!! Miles: 2.00

Comments

From Lily on Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 22:58:50 from 67.199.181.73

How fun and congrats on breaking the indoor 3200 record. Impressive!

From Kam on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 16:37:40 from 174.23.243.66

Great job! That's screaming fast. You'll end up with your pick of colleges. Have you already decided?

From Susannah on Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 18:09:21 from 97.117.22.52

Yeah, I'm going to the U next year and I am going to room with some other Utah girls who are going to the U :)

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