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Race of Remembrance

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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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Mon, May 30, 2011

Race: Race of Remembrance (6.2 Miles) 00:37:14, Place overall: 1, Place in age division: 1

Total Distance

10.00

This morning after registering for the 10k I started my warmup. I did a mile, out and back from the park, and then I ran into Natalie. I went to the car to get gloves and then I went and ran some more for warmup and I ran into Nat doing her warmup so we ran back to the park together. Then we changed shoes and stretched and did a few strides on the sidewalk. Then Bill found us and knew where some bathrooms were that didn't have lines so we ran to there and then once we were back at the park they were running behind schedule on getting the races started. We did a few laps around the building and parking lot, calling it a mile, and then stretched for a few minutes. Finally they were ready to begin the race so we got lined up. For the first part of the race the people doing the 5k and the people doing the 10k go on the same route so you don't know who is doing what race. I was the first girl and there were a lot of guys ahead of me. After the course split there weren't very many guys ahead of me in the 10k, I just followed a guy in yellow the whole time. At the first mile I was at a 5:47, my goal was to try and stay at sub 6 minute pace. The first half of the course kept steadily climbing uphill so I knew if my next few mile splits weren't as fast that would be why. At some point I could hear someone behind me and it sounded like a girl, but I didn't want to look even as I was turning a corner so I just let myself think that it was so that I would run faster. The whole time I kept trying to close on the guy in the yellow but never could. At mile 2 my time was about 11:48 and I was at 18:38 I think at mile 3. During mile 3 there is a part where you come up a hill and you can see a playground that had a bright orange slide! I was tempted to run up and go down it haha but not enough to leave the race course. Coming up one hill and around a turn I could see that the guy in yellow had stopped to walk but he began running again once I got to the top of the hill, I was determined to catch him even more after that point but he was able to get back as much of a lead as he had had before. Going through mile 4 I was at 24 something, I accidentally stopped my watch for a few seconds when I was pushing my sleeve up to look at it but fortunately caught my mistake right then and got it going again. I made myself push on the downhills and thought carefully about leaning forward so that I wouldn't be overstriding. Going through the cemetery I started to be passing some of the 5k runners so I was able to push as I ran past them. Coming down back onto Main Street I pushed hard because I knew the finish line was really close, it was around a corner in a driveway where it isn't visible from turning onto Main Street but I had seen it before so I knew where it was. Afterwards I changed shoes and put my sweats back on and did a mile cooldown with Bill and Nat.

Flats Miles: 7.00

Comments

From allie on Mon, May 30, 2011 at 21:15:43 from 174.23.237.228

nice job, susannah. that's a great time on a tough course. it was nice to see there you today. i was eating your dust and i was in the 5k :)

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