By ALLI SCHIEBER
Editor-in-Chief
Consistency.
It takes a lot for someone to be consistent but for sophomore, psychology major from Moore, Cadence Long-Torres it is just her way of preparing for a meet.
“I’m very particular about what I do with the night before a meet,” she said. “I’ve always had the same like pre meet ritual.”
Long-Torres starts preparing days before the meet happens by carbo-loading and hydrating. Then the night before the meet she always eats sushi, braids her hair, stretches, takes a warm soak to help with muscle tightness, drinks electrolytes and always sleeps in her uniform the night before a meet.
“I’ve just been doing it for so long, nothing goes wrong if I wear my uniform to bed,” Long-Torres said. “I wake up feeling prepared and ready.”
Long-Torres isn’t just consistent in her routine but also on the track. With the 2025 indoor track season being just three weeks in Long -Torres has consistently broken the school record in both the mile and 3k run in all three meets. Twice while being sick. Two weeks ago, while at Pitt Long-Torres felt as though she was ready to stop running the 3k but after this past week finally being fully healthy that it is not so bad it was just the “Pitt curse.” Last year when she ran at Pitt, she was also sick so she says she is cursed by Pitt.
As a female athlete Long-Torres said she feels like she has been overlooked for her accomplishments.
“I’m finally getting that recognition because it’s being put out, but last year when I broke my records, it was just like, okay, good job,” Long-Torres said.
She said she did not get recognition when she broke her outdoor 1500 continuously but there are male athletes who pr and it is crazy and everyone congratulates him.
Now people are starting to realize she keeps getting better every meet and she is starting to get recognition. Long-Torres has a certain moment in her life that motivates her the most and helps her to remember why she runs.
Her freshman year of high school three of her teammates were hit by a drunk driver while they were doing their 10-minute cool down after a run. The driver hit them at 80 mph while in a school zone and all three of her team mates died. “I felt like I lost myself when that happened,” Long-Torres said “I lost my love for running.” Long-Torres now uses that as motivation and any time she posts on Instagram about her accomplishments she uses the #R4RYK which stands for run for Rachel, Yuridia and Kolby.
“They are my why I continue running,” she said. “They are my driving motivation.”