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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.

 


 

Personal:

 

 


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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Zoom Pegasus Lifetime Miles: 450.31
Nike Vomeros 3 Pink Swoosh Lifetime Miles: 411.30
Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Lifetime Miles: 396.57
Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Lifetime Miles: 513.06
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Not a good sleep last night, I just kept waking up ahhhh! so its day off work today and I dropped my son off at school came home and went to bed for an hour! 

 

Session day;   gym

xtrainer level 6 10mins, wanted to be fresh although both my hammies are wacked I really can feel them, they feel like I have weight trained, not sure why they feel like this so lots of stretching.

warm up easy 8 min miling

2.7 miles

1 mile reps, with 4.30 mins rest ( thought; this is a quality session and speed is more important and I am real tired this week.)

mile 1 5.42 mins windy head on

jog  recovery

mile2 5.32 mins

jog recovery

mile 3 5.49 mins

jog recovery  

mile 4 5.42 mins OMG this last one killed me real gut wrenching mile, although I think with the windy 1st mile, I found that hard from approx 2 thirds of the way and then each one I found harder sooner, but it was 100% session all out miles I'm pleased as these are allot faster than last week although I PUKED after the 3rd one LOL loving it! 

 6 miles easy mileage at 8 mins 8.30min pace My hammies were screaming by this time so I did go slow and stop every 2 miles to stretch them ouchie ouchie!

with the jogs etc

13 miles in total  

oh my I am so tired today but legs not too bad eh eh eh :) 

 oh dear 77.6 thats it Im jogging for 2.4 miles later or tomorrow OCD

Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Miles: 13.00
Night Sleep Time: 6.50Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 7.50Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From rockness18 on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 13:36:00 from 69.183.233.238

Nice workout...TM or track? If TM, do you use incline? Keep up the good work...you've got the speed to shatter your marathon pr.

From jtshad on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 14:31:33 from 204.134.132.225

Wow, some smokin' splits...a 5:32? That is impressive!! Keep it up. You are supposed to be tired and a bit sore after a workout like that.

From ChrisM on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 14:56:54 from 217.42.248.247

Good work! :)

LOL @ throwing up

I think Steve Jones was always doing that after reps!

From RivertonPaul on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 15:09:30 from 67.42.27.114

Puke master. Wishing your hammies well.

From seeaprilrun on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 16:52:25 from 68.102.144.140

Wow you are fast and that's a hardcore workout. If I could squeeze one mile under 6 minutes I would be happy. When is your next race? Is it the Berlin marathon in September?

From allie on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 20:34:40 from 208.110.151.113

really great job on those mile reps. so fast! great week overall. and congrats on the puking :)

From Steve Piccolo on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 23:42:23 from 66.60.123.63

Nice job!

From sam Dean-Howard on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 05:48:34 from 82.132.139.15

Thanks everyone happy bunny for that workout

Jeff i'm a rep master I can do fast reps originally a track runner for 800& 1500 so speed is summit I got hope my pr is shattered though :-)

puking again summit I'm used to lol

yes Berlin sept 20th sorry short reply 2 everyone but doing this off my phone :-)

From ChrisM on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 06:03:29 from 217.42.248.247

Next time can you blog the session on your phone while you are doing the session please? I want instant updates! :~)

From Jon on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 07:39:32 from 205.149.142.66

Hey, I puked after a run this week, too! Although you make it sound like you do it all the time, while it was my first running-related puke in almost 10 years. Yummy.

From sam Dean-Howard on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 09:09:54 from 82.132.139.5

Chris I can always try lol

Jon not all the time but I puke on some reps some long runs and puked after a race on the track too but hey only when I push my self too hard lol (often) hehe oh and session was on the road it was a bit of a breeze too

coach is real happy :)

From Adam RW on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:27:59 from 155.101.152.103

I agree with Jeff, spectacular second mile.

From sam Dean-Howard on Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 12:37:29 from 90.201.147.237

Ta Adam, it felt like I was flying on the 2nd mile really felt good, didnt realised I was going so fast :)

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