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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
15.500.500.501.0017.50

gym 

xtrainer 20 mins level 6

10 mins of step ups, 5 on left leg lead then 5 mins with alternating legs

9miles easy average 7.50 pace. windy and very very humid sticky nice for wind although it was a bit strong :)

10 mins xtrainer cool down level 6

Okay didnt have much time to blog earlier! I need to get an ice bath and so I did, brrrrrr!

 

I ordered by trainers in the end off the internet, two pairs of Nike Vomeros same colour so might have to marker pen them 1 & 2 for mileage logging hahahah

I am off work today but still not enough time for a nap as I did lots of house work as I wanted my legs to wake up so running around the house was good for that, then I ran then I was ice bathing, and picking my son from school and now, I am home ready to put the bbq on for tea, before my evening run and BREATHE

got 3 texts from work about a large parcel

Sister sharon " large parcel must be ur trainers in work "

Kevin " V LARGE parcel in office sharon said its bloomers "

Iain " parcel in office more trainers by the look of it and not 1 pair maybe 2"

 

they think theyre so funny and I agreed LOL Happy Dayz for a Happy trainer bunny :-) 

POWER NAP _- Apparently if you nap for 30 mins or less its called a power nap so their ya go I had a power nap for 30 mins fell as sleep on the lawn in the garden it was sunny :) 

 Went out to do 9 miles and did 8.5 miles, Paul and Dylan cycled with me and I had to change my usual 9 miler as it would have been too much soft sand, they did well on the trails we did as it was sandy and hilly.

It was pretty warm and humid too, averaging 8/8.30 min miles through the trails and hills, some small sand dunes.  7.45 min averaging on the road which was the last 4 miles,

7th mile was a 6.05 min mile I  picked it up we were on the by-pass and I saw another runner miles ahead, I picked the pace up to see if I can close the gap and I realised I was so really picked the pace up caught the other runer a man and flew past him into the next mile doing a 6.30 as I slowed down for the last half mile to a cool down. 



Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Miles: 9.00
Night Sleep Time: 8.50Nap Time: 0.30Total Sleep Time: 8.80Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Mark on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:47:20 from 24.129.132.74

Wow! very impressive miles already.

Also, noticed that you have managed to add the Networked Blogs widget on your blog, I was wondering how you did that?

From Mark on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 09:58:37 from 24.129.132.74

I figured it out, once I knew that it could be done it wasn't too hard, thanks for the inspiration.

From sam Dean-Howard on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:44:33 from 81.174.136.174

Mark thanks and glad you Sussed out blog thingy! Yeah a big wk for me might be high 80s or even 90 for the week but I do have a recovery wk nxt wk :-) happy dayz

From Barry on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:18:10 from 67.61.234.251

Nice run today. So do you ice bath every day? I usually ice bath once a week and rarely more than that, if ever.

From ChrisM on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 13:20:07 from 217.42.248.247

What happens if you click on the networked blogs thingy then?

LOL @ bloomers!

From sam Dean-Howard on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 17:42:55 from 90.195.99.213

Yes very funny Chris, bloomers LOL Kevin works for me but I have a laugh with him and all the other employees, gotta have a laugh... I think networked blogs means I have this blog on my facebook

Barry I dont ice bath everyday, I Ice when I need to if I am achey etc, and usually straight after a long run or session, I iced today as it was a warm humid day I was a bit achey but want to be right for my 1 mile reps on friday!

From allie on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 20:12:49 from 208.110.151.113

great mileage, great work, great everything! wow. keep it up!

From seeaprilrun on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 20:58:50 from 68.102.144.140

You are a machine!

From montelepsy on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:40:58 from 64.203.113.50

My cat, like you, also sleeps outside in the garden. You're an animal. Literally!

From sam Dean-Howard on Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 03:49:53 from 82.132.139.16

Thanks Allie, April and mike I'm pretty tired but nearly finnished this big week :-)

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