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Location:

LIVERPOOL,UK

Member Since:

Sep 27, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Triathlons are my New sport and I LOVE IT  

 

Recent last few years  as I havent done much since I was 16/17yrs, on and off injuries, going out with Friends started. Operations on injuries- compartment syndrome front of the shin had small operation to release the pressure on the fascia.

Oct 2007.  Did the great north run.  ( I was in the elite ladies race, against Kara Goucher and Paula Radcliffe, Im sure u Americans will recall that race).

 I was just in on my previous times from the Bath Half Marathon. I ran it as best as I could off my training & circumstances...

 

Decided to do my 1st Marathon with London looming in the following April I was in the ladies Elite race again.  So the training was on.  I realise now I didnt give my body enough time to recover as it did break down in the last 5 weeks of my training. Injury bound, with calf and hamstring problems I raced! 

London Marathon, April 08 (Injury calf issues) 1st marathon  3hrs.12mins .30 secs

Dublin Marathon  Oct 08  3hrs.01mins.13  undulating and 1 toilet stuck/stop (LOL)

Bath Half 2007    1.26.35 hrs

Wilmslow half marathon english champs    1.25.39

18th lady  (With piriformis injury ).

Liverpool 10k 2008 Oct 37.42mins midst marathon training 

Wirral 5k 2009 17.41mins off the back off marathon week 

Track 3000ms 10.45mins  hmmm I ran this to get points for my club so I just did tactical and ran on 1st lady shoulder and sprinted at the end !

 

 

As a youngster

County Champion for Xcountry and

High Jump

and 1500ms track.

pbs aged 13 yrs old

800ms 2mins 16secs

1500ms 4mins 48 secs

high jump 1metre 53  (cant do this now) and I never trained for it as a kid, just competed alot for points for my club, usually spend 2 hours highjumping, and skip off to do an 800 or 1500ms race then go back to high jump, Wish I took the running more seriously!

 

Run on more than several occasions for my County against Ireland county of Dublin.

Top 50 finnisher at 14yrs of age in english nationals Xcountry.


Short-Term Running Goals:

Complete my 1st Triathlon    1st lady   Brinscall  ok this was a triathlon with no timed transition i treated it as a training race to see if I like triathlons and I love them.

Complete off road triathlon  2nd lady.. 12 secs behind my age group world champion.  Tameside triathlon

Complete outdoor water race 1 mile   Salford Great north swim . 29 mins yay

Complete Olympic distance triathlon

Races for 2010  Future races.

Winter Duathlon Series Race 1 - December 12th 2010  Won  overall time 1hr 8 mins 43 secs

winter duathlon series race 2

2011  1st Lady overall time  1hr 09mins 04 secs.

Windy very windy

3rd race Duathlon winter series Feb 20th 2011

 Races for 2011

ITU Duathlon 2011 qualifier                                                               Dambuster Duathlon, East Midlands – 19th March 2011  

Qualifiers ITU Sprint Triathlon 2011 & ETU Sprint Triathlon 2012       Speedy Beaver, East midlands – 29th May 2011

Itu Standard triathlon 2011 qualifier                      Shropshire Triathlon   West Midlands 5th June 2011

ITU Standard Triathlon 2011 & ETU Standard Triathlon 2012             Dambuster Triathlon, East Midlands – 18th June 2011

London Triathlon Hyde Park ITU World Championship series race       6th AUGUST 2011  (practice format hopefully for Beijing)

 

Need to Qualify for GB Team  Beijing World Championships which is on

September 10/11th 2011



 

new pb for 5k 17.41 minsnext running goal for 5k is sub 17.30 mins Summer Track season and road 10k's & 5k's  

Lots of goals, lots of hard work and no play! ;-)

Long-Term Running Goals:


   

training pbs



swim

3750 1hr6mins 

2500 41.37 mins 29th May 2011 

1600ms 27.45

1500ms 24.00  8th April 2011 NEW PB 

500ms 7mins 38 

Cycle

42 miles 2hr 15

25 miles 1hr 15min 00s 

25miles 1hr 9mins 5secs with a decent wind! 11.6.12 

26.25 miles 1hr 12mins boooom :) 

20miles 59.30 mins 

12miles 36 mins 

10 miles 27:44mins new pb after a pb swim 8/4/11

10 miles straight out 26mins 35secs new pb 27/9/11

10 miles on turbo 25mins 35secs 

 Run 9 mile route h/town 1hr 2mins 43secs

5.23 mile route home fishermans coast bypass 

37.04 mins.

 


 

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6.30am gym, Yawn.  Its really getting to me now I am on a xtrainer and others are on the treadmill ahhhhh!  

My competitive streak is still there though, People come and go on the xtrainer next to me, Why ? I dont know theres like 10 xtrainers and they get on the one next to me  and try so hard to keep up with me :) he he but I just keep going.  

I am a women of consistency,  I like my days well planned organised, but 

 How weird is this

Casper rides the 10.55am service in Plymouth, southwest England, for its entire 17km journey before returning home about an hour later.

The 12-year-old pet has become such a fixture of daily travel that all the bus drivers on the route have been told to make sure it does not miss its stop.

Casper's owner Susan Finden said she was stunned when she first learned about the cat's daily jaunt.

"Casper has always disappeared for hours at a time but I never understood where he was going," she told Britain's Telegraph newspaper.

"I called him Casper because he had a habit of vanishing like a ghost — but then some of the drivers told me he had been catching the bus."

Casper likes to sit on the back seat, she said.

Ms Finden, 65, said the cat probably got the idea by watching other passengers at a bus stop outside her home. 

 x trainer first 30 mins did reps, but I really felt it from the big session I did yesterday, did 3 x 5 mins reps real hard upto level 10.

then did a reasonably hard 30mins at level 7 last 15mins at level 6 and 5

1hour 15 mins.  I was pretty tired. 

 

Thinking of doing a big swimming session today, my leg seems so much better but I still feel it a bit, and its really hard to stretch out, so I am just stretching little bits but lots of times.

 Swim Session

1 hour, 103 laps I did mostly just one pace laps, then last 10, 2 laps hard 2 laps easy.

5mins break then 1 fully 25 metres under water turn and hard back. I do like swimming but hate using it as my main fitness :(  just one more day to find out what I have done to my leg :) 

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From ChrisM on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 05:55:58 from 81.155.64.46

Good work! The good thing about the cross trainer is it doesn't have the impact of the treadmill so you can do interval training all the time to keep your heart rate up

From sam Dean-Howard on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 06:04:02 from 78.32.130.9

Chris, yeah I would love to do intervals all the time, but just couldnt manage much more this morning, I was planning on 1hr 30 mins, but quit with 15 mins left, although I am not a morning person.

Yeah My heart rate is low on the xtrainer, and the inervals certainly get it going, but not like running, my legs give in before my heart and lungs do :)

From Burt on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 14:37:16 from 68.76.197.194

Funny story. Hope you keep those sweat levels up.

From sam Dean-Howard on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 17:27:24 from 90.195.99.189

Hey Burt, funny you cant tell when your swimming if your sweating, but deffo on the xtrainer sweaty betty LOL

From ChrisM on Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:16:24 from 86.150.51.93

I think we need a sweat chart for the xtrainer...

THe bike and treadmill are covered but there is a gap!

From sam Dean-Howard on Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 15:39:00 from 90.208.239.135

LOL chris, yep the xtrainer in the gym with no air con is pretty bad too about as bad as the treadmill, but hey I am a die hard athlete whom loves to train hard :)

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