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USU indoor track meet

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Member Since:

Jan 25, 2014

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

XC PR's

  • 5k: 19:49 (state 2013)
  • 3 Mile: 18:43 (extremely fast course, region 2013)

TRACK PR's

  • 3200: 12:35 (2014, unsure of meet.. pretty sure indoor)
  • 1600: 5:35 (2014 Grizzly Invite)
  • 800: 2:25. (2015 BYU Invite)

HIGHLIGHTS

My dad forced my freshman self who hated running to do Cross Country. I HATED it. I specifically remember coach saying on one of my first days of practice "I don't care if you don't become the fastest, I just want you to love running. If you don't love this sport by the time you're done, I haven't done my job." I totally laughed at him, but look where I am now.. it became my life more or less.

Freshman year started out strong with a solid 30 ish minute 5k time at the old Sugar House Invite. It was fetching hot and I puked like 800 m from the finish. Definitely still hated running. As the season went on I LOVED my teammates and LOVED the sport.. looking back I was definitely one of those JV kids who talks too much about XC with nothing to show for it. Hahaha. I think I cut my time down to around a 23 ish by region. Which was also fetching hot.

Track came around and I was on the legendary all freshman SV 3200 varsity 2k12!!!! Jk. Us four freshmen were the only 32 runners on our team, pretty much. I could do a sold 13ish minutes by the end of the season ( I think.) I also ran the mile a bit but wasn't on varsity.

Sophomore Year is when I really started to love all this madness. I had a goal to make it onto Varsity, and I did it!! Not with a little motivation from the 7th varisty girl who told me she was never gonna get bumped off. Lol really? Srry. I ran on the state team, too! It was awesome. I loved all my senior guy friends that year. They were the best. By the end of the season I was running around 21 minutes ish. (too lazy to look up the actual times ahaha)

Track I still ran the 3200 but also the mile a lot more... I can't really think of anything all that exciting for that year of track. Except for this time in my life was around the time I actually started to associate with boys lol. The distance boys hated us bc we were in love with Conner. And not the others.

Junior year: MY BEST XC SEASON EVER! Over the summer my dad wrote in my mirror a "plan" for me to become #1 varsity.

 

***gonna finish typing this later lol***


 

Short-Term Running Goals:

  •  Keep running!! Even though I'm done running for a team I don't want to get out of the habit.
  • Run a half marathon this summer

 

Long-Term Running Goals:

Keep running for my whole life- Me & the other Senior girls just formed a pact that no matter where life takes us we will ALWAYS be in shape to run 5 miles under a 10 min/mile pace. Even if we're pregnant!!! The one excuse will be my mission. I have come to love running so so much. It's a part of who I am and I never want to not be a runner.

 

Personal:

I run for Sky View & love my team more than life. Class of 2015!

I've been to a dance with THEE Conner Mantz. nbd.

Known for puking during workouts and not proud of it (why did I just tpye that..) Also "the look". Thanks Coach Storrs.

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*not actually sure how much I ran or what I did but I know this week equaled 40 miles so I'm just guessing I went about 8*

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Ran w/ Carson

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Up green and back.. way slow because of the snow

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Race: USU indoor track meet (1 Miles) 00:05:59, Place overall: 22
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3.00

Did the typical warm ups, etc. Wasn't feeling too good but was determined to stick it out because I wasn't feeling too good last year either and went home. Not this time man.

There was a freaken huge buttload of girls running the mile, I think Davis might have brought every female in their school. From my school there was Claire, Amber, me, Emma, and Abby. We all made sure to get in the same heat. Some other familiar faces in our heat were Vicki Krull from Logan (love her) and this nice girl from Box Elder I'm usually near.. blanking on her name though. We were in the second fastest heat, although parts of me wish I'd gone for the first.. I would've been dead last haha but it definitely would've pushed me hard.

The race felt AMAZING. It was hard at parts of course; I started to get into my head like I did during XC, but I got out of there right away before I screwed myself over. I got really frustrated though because I kept getting cut off by these two girls (pretty sure it was on purpose, losers). I finished really strong and out sprinted this girl at the end, so that's a bonus. I ended up 7th in my heat, behind Claire and Amber. I was a little dissapointed with my time (5:59) because it felt a lot better than that. I know I could've stuck with Claire and she got my goal time! I just gotta actually stick with her, not say I will and then not.

I do feel like I could have pushed myself harder, I was tired at the end but not like, to the core. There was a little bit of self doubt going on in my head before my race, it being the first one. I kept thinking, I want to run 5:40! And then I'd think, holy cow that's way too fast for me at this point (which it's not!). So I need to not do that next time. Other than that though I feel like I pushed pretty hard. Mostly this race got me WAY WAY excited for more!! It honestly felt pretty easy and I'm just looking forward to racing again and seeing just how fast I really can go. I love pushing myself.

After the race we did a quick cool down, we had to hurry back so we didn't miss the boys mile. I was gonna go for a few more miles later that day but it didn't really happen.. :/

Things I need to work on:

-SLEEEPPP

-confidence

Brittany's been such a great coach holy cow. She helps a ton and I'm so grateful for her!! The next meet I'm going to is in two weeks at BYU and I'm way pumped!

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The weather was nasty so we did 2 indoor, 4 outdoor, and 2 more indoor. It was pretty miserable. And my knee has been hurting pretty bad. I'm not sure what's wrong with it, it just started hurting a week or so ago. Anyway I just kinda pushed through this one until we were done.

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6.50

1 mile warmup, then 3 miles tempo, 1 mile cool down, and another mile or so later on.

The tempo went great!! It wasn't completely on pace, but I felt like I pushed myself really well and it was my first 3 miles in a row of tempo since last track season! My splits were 6:53, 6:28, 6:53. So it was 20:14 minutes total and an average of 6:44. I'm way happy with that! Seeing your own improvement is the best feeling in the world.

My knee was killing me for almost the whole run so after a mile of cooldown I went and talked to our school trainer and he told me my IT band was probably swollen and I just have to ice it and stretch it and stuff. I did another mile or so after just to get in some more miles. It was a good day!

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Only had time for 5 outside in the morning so I did 4 more at midnight on the treadmill because I was gone all day haha. I watched The Hunger Games while on the treadmill so that was fun. But really I hate treadmills.

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7.00

pretty freaken slow but it was a nice run and BEAUTIFUL weather.

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We were trying for 5 miles at 7:00 pace, but my knee hurt so so bad. It was more like 8:00ish min/mi average for me. We did 4.5ish on the roads (including a warm up) and then another mile at around 7:30 on the track. I felt great the first 2 laps, on the third lap my knee just freaked out and I had to stop. I took a quick stretching break and did the final lap super slow. Afterwards, we did a half mile cool down. Blehh. The weather felt like it was April though!! My knee just hurt like heck.

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4.24

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Race: BYU indoor (1 Miles) 00:05:59
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