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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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Woooo HOOOO I slept for 8 hrs last night now thats more like it, apparently I was snoring and talking   ha ha Is it possible to do both at the same time LOL  

 

Paul Cycled with me today Dylan was bmxing ! 

1. 7.49

2. 7.39  this is through a hilly route of the woods, on the way out towards the coastal road.

3. 7.35 again still slightly undulating but nice scenery!

4. 7.32   Along the by-pass past Woodvale an airplane  landed right over ourselves this was good!

5. 7.40

6. 7.24

7. 7.36

8. 7.41

9. 7.32     

10. 7.36

11. 7.30

12. 7.34

13. 7.30

14. 7.26

15. 7.28

16. 7.23

17 7.21 its hurting here, and Paul kept cycling slightly ahead of me, now my brain goes into auto race when he does this argghhhhh!  I ended up shouting at him, I dont think he was impressed, he replied with something but I had my music, up so I just shouted is hard for you or me! please please just stay beside me not ahead :-O   

18 7.23  on this mile I started to feel tight for shouting at Paul.....ooops, really I was just taking my frustration of the run hurting me I think out on him ooops

19 7.07   ooh just wanted to finnish and Paul went slightly ahead again urghhh race mode :-O

20. 7.33 back on a decent pace!

2 hrs 30 and 28 secs   average 7.31 miles per minute.

Weather well what can I say, the snow had melted, but paths were wet ....... So rain, sleet, hail stone, flutter of snow, a bit windy and some more rain, all in all crappy weather but hey I felt okay.

 

I was fuelled from a very fullfilling meal last night, a light carb high breakfast, an extra strong 3 shot Nero Coffee LOL....... no fuel or water during the run woooohooooo

Ice bath after a short stretch, re-fuel for recovery then a hot bath and a stretch again...... now I am tired, as my garmin usb stick is broke and I had to manually put the splits up etc tiresome stuff you know...... Happy bunny  this is the fastest 20 miler I have done in training and I feel okay, no stopping no stretching and no fuel or water during the run is like unheard of for me on such a long run.   mwwwwwahhhhhhhhhhhhh ;-D     secret now is not to let it go to my head and train too hard or too much and get injured eh! just swell

 

;-)  hope you all had a good Sunday run too ;-) 

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From ChrisM on Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 16:11:33 from 86.151.220.223

Good work, that is quite a training run!

Bummer on the garmin USB stick :(

From allie on Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 16:43:39 from 98.202.24.36

excellent run with very consistent pacing. that is one SOLID 20-miler!

From missy on Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 22:52:09 from 70.56.98.26

Awesome Wicked Sick Run! :)Sounds like you know yourself well..I don't think you will go crazy and overtrain. That ice bath sounds BRUTAL btw. EEK!

From Burt on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 15:39:16 from 206.19.214.144

Way to keep all those miles in the 7 minute range! Excellent. Sorry you had to manually enter your splits. Hope you didn't get a cramp.

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 17:07:40 from 90.201.147.80

Thanks Chris and Allie.... hey Missy the ice bath is brutal but worth it LOL

Burt yes I got cramp fidling with the darn watch LOL ha ha thanks folks :)

From missy on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:25:27 from 67.40.115.3

Hmmmmm could you give a percentage? Like....Ice baths help my recovery __%....if it is less than 25%..NO way! :)

From Marathon Dreamer on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:35:51 from 200.52.168.2

WOW!!!

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