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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
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.700.000.000.0011.70

Not much sleep my son Dylan was up most of the night moaning he had a headache etc so not feeling too good!

 

plan was run the route yesterday again.... Paul (hubby) told me at about 10am he was finishing work early and could cycle with me... well this alters the route as he cant do sand dunes etc, I missed some of the route out but it was just abit more direct and more tarmac.

Its a nice day though as we went towards crosby leisure centre there were allot of people along the front due to the centenery of the Royal Navy.

As they were docked in Liverpool port, and the helicoptors... planes and jets etc were doing an airshow.  It was nice to see that, the weather was a clear day sunshine but some head wind again all the way for the 5miles urgghh.

I had fuelled this morning to just a bit more porridge and a light snack at 10am as I run at 1pm.... I did ok  hammy ok and my best mileage week so far and I feel okay :-)

 

  • mile 1 8.10
  • 2 7.57
  • 3 7.56 
  • 4 7.57
  • 5 7.57
  • 6 7.48
  • 7 7.18
  • 8 7.24
  • 9 7.12
  • 10 7.05
  • 11 7.07
  • 12 4.20 0.7 miles   6.20 pace
  • 1 hour 28 mins total.
So the plan was go out easy hold till mile 6 then pick up on the way back and I did ha ha I stopped just before the start of mile 7 to stretch my hammy make sure its ok before picking up the pace and had a small disagreement with Paul ha ha this helped me pick the pace up LOL.

 

 

tired now and need more food again got to be sensible as Im going to try do 15 miles on Sunday fingers crossed.

 

 


Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Miles: 11.70
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Kory on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:00:01 from 134.50.201.6

Great job and way to fuel better. I'm like you there's lots of times I haven't fueled good. I've done experiments trying not to fuel well to see how well I could run once the glycogen is gone. I got used to it and it helps me now when I don't fuel well.

I don't recommend this experiment to anyone it's just something I wanted to try.

I hope your run Sunday goes well. Do you normally run in the middle of the day?

From ChrisM on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:06:42 from 86.162.199.190

Bicycles can't go over sand dunes eh? Any excuse!

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:09:15 from 90.195.99.208

Hiya Kory, yeah I run in the middle of the day in the week and of a weekend I just run when it suits the family life if you know what I mean.

When I am in marathon training I do a non fuel run every other week for my long run so Im pretty used to it but I take water with me.... I didnt yesterday and the combination of both was pretty gruesome and the fact I really was running out of time too. I think my glycogen levels are low anyway as I have cut my calories but only trying to lose 0,5 lbs a week so not to lose muscle...but even so its pretty hard running when your hungry too. I'm only doing this as when in marathon training I dont want to worry about what im eating as I usually stay at the same weight but maybe lose the odd lb.... I never seem to get to race weight for the marathon, the idea is to get to race weight before marathon training starts so I dont need to watch calories to much and worry about it. wow that was long :-)

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:48:18 from 90.195.99.208

Chris ha ha no not his bike not when theyre really big sandunes too !

From allie on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 15:41:15 from 67.177.43.41

great running today and awesome mileage for the week. i also do a 'no fuel' long run sometimes to train the body to be more efficient with fuel. hope dylan is feeling better :)

From Mark on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 22:34:37 from 173.168.88.68

Great run today and that is awesome that you have had good solid mileage with no problems. Good luck for your long run this weekend.

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