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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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Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 48.00
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8.00

Today I ran on Foothill with Kate and Alyssa while everyone else ran Trax.  We did the zoo loop and ran on Wasatch.  They turned around on Wasatch but I kept going to Thunderbird and then ran back on Foothill.  It was 4.5 when I turned around, but the total when I got back was 8 and I didn't feel like adding on a mile so stopped.  I rolled out in the training room for a while afterwards.  Tomorrow I will start some rehab exercises for my knee.

Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 8.00
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9.00

This afternoon we had a workout at Liberty.  We warmed up there from the 900e Trax station, and then Alyssa and Charlotte joined me for the longer warmup around the perimeter of the park since Hilary is taking her break right now.  I rejoined the group for strides and drills, and then we got going on the workout.  Kep wasn't there because his grandma passed away last week so he was home after conference.  The workout was four 1 mile repeats, we couldn't remember what rest was supposed to be so we said 90 seconds.  After that we were supposed to do five 30 second strides with 2 minutes recovery.  On the miles Andrea and I fell behind Giselle, and probably eased up too much because our first on was a 6:23.  The next 2 I hit in 6:14, and then on the last one I was back at 6:22 and fell back from both of them.  After everyone was finished we did strides back to the car.  I only ended up doing 4 because my knee hurt really bad.  For cooldown I was on my own, I did the rest of a counterclockwise perimeter of the park and then ran to the 900e station to get to 9 miles for the day.  Also I started my rehab today, I have 4 exercises that I do before running each day.

Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 9.00
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Total Distance
6.00

I went to practice plenty early today to get my rehab done and leave a lot of time for the team to choose costumes and get pictures before our run :)  Everyone dressed up even though not everyone was running.  On the run there were 8 of us and we all ran on Foothill so we could show off our costumes :)  Charlotte, Kate, Giselle, and Alyssa turned around early but Lauren, Andrea, Hilary, and I ran the Albertson's loop.  

 

Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 6.00
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7.00

This morning in weights I actually hit my numbers for hang cleans for the first time this season!  The workout in the afternoon was at the track but we didn't find out what it was until we got there.  I did my knee rehab before, and had the same tape from yesterday since Hanah said to leave it on.  It was fine until the warmup, then it started to hurt.  We did our usual out and back route to the track, then stretched for a while before doing our strides and drills because the sprinters were having a 4x4 relay with 3 teams they had thrown together, so we watched that and cheered them on.  When we got going on the strides and drills my knee hurt even more and was catching during some of the drills.  After we finished those I told Hanah and she gave me some advil and wrapped it with what she had.  It was the weirdest wrap ever but it seemed to help.  My knee wasn't popping on the way down to the bailiff where we were doing our 300s.  But it was making the rest of my leg go numb, so when we got down there I tried breaking it but that didn't work either.  Then Hanah came down there with some scissors and read my mind because she came right over and cut a slit in the bottom so it wasn't so tight.  Then I was able to do the 300s with the team.  The first part is slightly downhill, the rest was pretty flat.  I wasn't up with the group the whole time but at least I was running and my knee wasn't hurting like on the warmup.  My times were 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, and 56.  We jogged back to the start each time for recovery.  Originally I hadn't wanted to time them but I am glad I did because seeing my time drop each time was motivating.  After those we ran back up to the track and did some 200s.  It was sort of like a relay because we would go when someone else was finishing their 200.  Each of us did 6, my times were 39, 36, 36, 36, 36, 35.  Afterwards I ran out to North Campus Drive and back with Lauren, then added 2 backwards laps at the track and then back to the lockerroom to get to 7 for the day.  In the training room I did stem and ice for 15 minutes.

Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 7.00
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8.00

Today I went running with Kate and Charlotte.  We ran on Foothill and then through the golf course to get up to Wasatch.  They turned at about 20 minutes, but I kept going to 4 miles  This put me up on the paved Shoreline trail past the drinking fountain.  I ran back the same way.  My knee hurt on the way back because of the downhill.  I've just gotta suck it up for one more week at least... (still hoping for nationals with the team!)

Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 8.00
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10.00

This morning we went running in Park City!  It was so cold up there and there was frost everywhere!  So we didn't stand around long but just got out of the cars and started running.  About 2.5 miles in we started the 4 mile Kenyan run we were supposed to do.  I didn't time it but pushed the second mile like we were supposed to.  I fell behind Kate and Andrea when we got to the paved part again where it starts to go uphill.  They turned before I did but I went to 5 miles before turning.  My knee hurt on the downhill again but I guess that's to be expected.  

Wave Rider 15 PINK :) Miles: 10.00
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