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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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Total Distance
40.00
Pink Footlocker Flats :) Miles: 4.50
Total Distance
8.00

This morning I ran on my own right after I woke up.  I ran from my house up 1300s to Wasatch Drive, then over to Thunderbird, down to Foothill, all the way to where it curves into 500s.  Then I turned on Guardsman and went back to my house along 1500e.  I was a bit frustrated at the beginning running on the sidewalks up 13th because a lot of them were icy, but the rest of the run was good.

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10.00

This morning we had a speed workout at the oval.  We started with 4 laps warmup, and then some stretching.  Then we did another 4 laps and then 4 laps of speedchanges.  I wore the flats I got at Footlocker, they felt very light and I like them :)  We did six 800s with one lap recovery.  We were supposed to try to hit consistent times and even splits.  My times were 2:48, 2:47, 2:48, 2:40, 2:41, 2:42.  Mostly my splits for each lap were even, only slipping 1 second on 2 of them and 2 seconds on the last one.  I think I ran the last 3 faster because I was frustrated because of some ice skaters that were stretching in lane one and wouldn't move even after we had asked.  At least I never tripped or anything, but I did hear them laughing when I called out "Lane 1" but I guess they are too dumb to know what that means.  After the last recovery lap we changed shoes back to our trainers and did 5 laps cooldown.  The ice skaters moved after we had finished the workout, but it was really annoying.

Pink Footlocker Flats :) Miles: 4.50
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Total Distance
6.00

This morning it was very windy outside so I decided I wanted to run inside.  I went to Steiners and did 6 miles on the treadmill.  Then I did arm swings in the weight room afterwards.

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8.00

This morning we met at Highland's parking lot for practice.  We ran on 1700e then cut up the side street that led us under the freeway on 20th east.  We stayed on 20th until Keller Lane (about 3500s) and then turned up to 2300e, then went a little more south to make it 3.  Then we were supposed to push the way back, Natalie and I were supposed to hit around 21-22 minutes.  Then for cooldown we went out a mile on the same route and back, we were looking for Sarah.  Fortunately she had made it back to the parking lot while we were cooling down. 

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Total Distance
4.00

This morning I did 4 miles on the treadmill at Steiner.  Then I did weighted arm swings afterwards.

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4.00

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  Today I went to RJ's house to meet the group for a run.  We did the VA loop, so we went up to 1700e, over to 900s, up to 1900e, over to Sunnyside, up to Foothill.  Then we ran all the way down the curve.  Amanda, Natalie, RJ, and Taylor went into the cemetery but Abigail and I just went down to 1300e.  Then we ran over to 900s, up, then we tried  to find the shortcut street to 1700e, but we didn't find it so we just ended up making our run longer.  The road took us back out to 900s, then we ran back up to Military Drive and then walked the last little bit back to the house after we had reached 4.  And I showed Abigail how to change the data fields on her Garmin so that she could see her average pace.  And we said "mmm" back and forth to each other.  And some lady walking her dogs asked us if we were twins or just look-alikes. 

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Total Distance
40.00
Pink Footlocker Flats :) Miles: 4.50
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