the journey
"Forget all the reasons why it wont work and believe the one reason why it will"
- My Journey....
Track happend by accident it college. I walked on to Saginaw Valley State's (in Michigan) team and was surprised I made it through camp. I got injured my first year and used a Red-shirt. The next few years...I was running, [at the back of the pack] struggling to make any progress.
- Winter 2010
- That Spring...
And that spring my collegiate career ended in my soon to be new home state....COLORADO..at Division 2 NCAA Outdoor Nationals...in the steeple pit..with a stress fracture..and not able to complete prelims...
College PR's:
XC 5K: 17:50
XC 6K: 20:51
1200 (DMR): 3:38
1600: 5:00
3k: 10:00.02
5k: 17:01 (school Record)
Steeple Chase (3k): 10:51 (School Record)
College PR's:
XC 5K: 17:50
XC 6K: 20:51
1200 (DMR): 3:38
1600: 5:00
3k: 10:00.02
5k: 17:01 (school Record)
Steeple Chase (3k): 10:51 (School Record)
So you wanna run a marathon???
On a whim one day at the gym at SVSU, a friend and I were talking about the Great Lakes Bay Marathon (local Spring 26.2). She had run it the previous year and got a BQ. Longing for a reason to train, and my goal of one day running Boston, I signed up.
It was the WORST winter Michigan had seen (in my lifetime), and of course I was out there in the -15 degree wind chills knocking out long runs at interval workouts with the old team.
Race day goal was just to qualify for Boston which was 3: 25 min. Based on training runs, I was hopign for 7:30 miles (and to finish). I ended up running a 3:07. 56 (~ 7:10 average) and was the first overall female. I also got that Boston Qualifier.
It was the WORST winter Michigan had seen (in my lifetime), and of course I was out there in the -15 degree wind chills knocking out long runs at interval workouts with the old team.
Race day goal was just to qualify for Boston which was 3: 25 min. Based on training runs, I was hopign for 7:30 miles (and to finish). I ended up running a 3:07. 56 (~ 7:10 average) and was the first overall female. I also got that Boston Qualifier.
So you wanna Be a DPT??
2 bachelor degrees: Exercise Science & Psychology......But I wanted more...I wanted to be a Physical Therapist.. after what I call my 'quarter-life ciris' (caught between a PHD offer in Health Apsects of Physical Activity at USC and my life long PT dream) .. I had decided to apply to Physical Threapy school...which led me to Regis University in Denver, Colorado.
- 3 years
- one goal: DPT