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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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This morning we had a workout at Liberty since there wasn't school.  We met at the drinking fountain and for warmup we did a lap around the park and then over to the morse code start line (the beginning of the two dots and the lines system, I just started calling it morse code haha).  That was just over 2 miles, and then we got going on a 6 mile tempo run on the sidewalk.  Bill had told me to hit between 7:00 and 7:15 but going out I felt pretty good and ended up finishing with an average of 6:39s.  I didn't check my times at each of the miles, I just occasionally would check my pace and my average pace.  I knew that they would be different at different parts of the park because some were uphill and some were downhill.  After we finished we went over to the woodchips and finished the lap we were on and then did another lap for a 2 mile cooldown and bringing us to 10 for the day.  On the way home Natalie, Abigail, and I practiced our choir songs to a CD in the car haha.  At home I did my crunches, pushups, arm swings, then weighted lunges, squats, and calf raises. 

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This afternoon we had workout at the oval.  The manager wanted to talk to Natalie and me about making sure everyone pays if they aren't on the team pass, that was weird.  We started with 4 laps warmup and then stretching, then another 4 laps followed by 4 laps of speedchanges and a lap recovery.  Then as we changed shoes it took us a few minutes to get a hold of Bill to get our splits.  Finally we got them and then jogged over to the start of the 800s.  We did two, I was supposed to hit between 2:30-2:33 for the first and 2:33-2:36 for the second but I was too slow and hit 2:37 and 2:39.  We had a lap recovery after each, and then we did two sets of five 300s with jogging recovery back to the start and a lap recovery after each set.  My times for those were :55, :55, :55, :54, :54 and then :54, :55, :54, :55, :55.  After the last recovery lap we changed shoes back and then did 5 laps cooldown.  Later after I got home I did my crunches, pushups, arm swings, then weighted lunges, squats, and calf raises. 

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Today we had a longer track team warmup than we usually do. After the regular warmup, stretching, and drills we were separated into 4 groups and went through 3 sets of rotations of drills with the coaches. Those included wall sits, planks, high knees, step ups, stairs, and high knees with bands around our elbows and knees for resistance. Then we all did a lap around the block together to finish it up.  Then distance went for our run.  We ran along 1300e to 2100s, then cut down to 900e and came back north over to 900s where Dakota and Taylor left and went back up to the school.  The rest of us went down to Liberty and then went on the road in the park backwards of the Salt Lake half marathon course.  We exited the park on 500e and 1300s and then went to 1700s, then cut up to 700e and went back over to Liberty.  Then we did a lap on the park's perimeter going counterclockwise and then we took a drink at the fountain before heading back up to the school.  After I got home I did my crunches, then 2 of the abs workouts Emily taught us, pushups, and arm swings, then weighted lunges, squats, and calf raises. 

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Today after the long and ridiculous meeting I went for a run with Natalie and Ben.  We were all pretty angry so we were flying along 1300e!  At South Temple we cut down a block and then went up north a block, and then we cut down again and then up again, and we did that all the way to 11th Avenue.  We ran along 11th part way up City Creek and then cut down through Memory Grove.  Then we just went back up to 1300e on South Temple and then along 1300e back to the school.  I didn't have time to do my core right when I got home but I did it around 10:30 at night.  

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This afternoon I had the privilege of getting to do a workout on the new track at the U (not with their team though, that's against the rules).  We started with a mile warmup, then stretching, then another mile followed by a mile of speedchanges and then a lap recovery.  Then we changed shoes.  The speed was 2 ladders of 800, 600, 400, 300, 200 with varying recoveries and a lap after each set.  My goal was to hit 5:00 mile pace on them, which I did for most of them except for the 800s.  My times were 2:37, 1:55, 1:14, :58, :37 for the first set and 2:38, 1:56, 1:17, :55, and :33.  Bill ran with me on the last 2 so I had to outkick him or stay with him.  It took us a while to figure out the distance, I won't even write down the recovery distances because it was so confusing :P  but all of that totaled almost 5 miles, and then I just had to do 7 1/2 laps cooldown.  Later when I got home, for core I did the drills Emily taught us, my pushups, and arm swings, and then weighted lunges, squats, and calf raises.  When I had finished that I stretched for a bit because my right quad is kinda tight right now.  

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This morning I got up and ran to Sugarhouse, did 2 laps on the outside, and came back.  Then I had to hurry and get ready for my day activity for prom so I wasn't able to get my core in.

After being dropped off in Kaysville after the day activity, I ran 5 miles out on a trail behind the house where I was staying at.  Carissa and Abigail rode their bikes next to me, we just went out 2 and a half and back.  Again I did not have time to get my core in because then I had to get ready for dinner and the dance.  Oh well, it was worth it!

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