Triathlons My New LOVE

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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

Tue, May 19, 2009

Easy Miles	Marathon Pace Miles	Threshold Miles	VO2 Max Miles	Total Distance
13.73	0.00	0.00	0.00	13.73

\Slept like a log again, but I do need more hours, 6.5 just aint enough but cant complain as its better than 2-3 hours.

couldnt get outta bed so didnt do vibrogym, Bumma eh!

15 mins xtrainer level 6.

calf raises

11.73 miles, average 7.30 pace, not an even run, as the terrain is very varied, longest I have run so far since my time out, weather atrocious heavy lake district style rain, fine but heavy. Its pretty warm too so humid, I wore my sons football jacket as its light weight etc, but half way through the run the rain stopped and it went really warm, so I got hot then. Never mind felt pretty good, last few miles were a bit hard.

Had to go straight to school, as I help run a kids run club, so did

2 miles with the kids running around a field and playing games.

Then had to take my son to his football training over in tranmere, Not running but did a good 2 mile walk, not sure if thats counted as mileage so didnt count it.

Real tired tonight, so hoping to sleep like a log again fingers crossed.

calories are from exercise only

Yes you got it Happy bunny Again. :)

Night Sleep Time: 6.50	Nap Time: 0.00	Total Sleep Time: 6.50	Weight: 0.00	Calories: 1735.00

Comments

From Burt on Tue, May 19, 2009 at 17:22:08 from 68.76.197.194

I like the new pic. You look like you're daring someone to give you an excuse. LOL. Oh, last night was the worst night of sleep ever for me, for obvious reasons.

From ChrisM on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:03:17 from 130.88.123.4

Cool new pic :)

It's a pain when you wear too many clothes, all year round I wear a long sleeve top and jacket on the long runs, during the summer it's the nearest I get to warm weather training...

Despite trying to get extra sleep I seemed to wake up naturally at 0430 rather than 0530 this morning, oh dear!

From sam on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 06:47:35 from 78.32.130.9

hahaha Burt you like that piccy, I put it on for a laugh Idont like it, mind you I dont like piccys of meself anyways, hence the motorbike one you couldnt really make my face out or anything LOL. I am sure your tired, a run might lift your spirits, take care..

Chris, thanks well c above for piccy.:)

Sleep wise that would happen to me, I was awake at 4am this morning, Why I Dont have the foggiest and wish to stay asleep....

So you suffer from the cold, I am cold all the time except when I am running, then I seem to be too hot, so Im useless at controlling my body temp!

From jtshad on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 14:50:40 from 204.134.132.225

Good run! Sounds like you are on your way back.

Cool about the kids running club...I am looking at starting one up this fall at my kids school. The principal is for it and I am working out a proposal and concept to finalize with them. Let me know if you have any suggestions to keep it fun, educational and motivational for the kids!

From sam on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 16:02:46 from 90.195.99.44

Jt - Yeah few cool games you can play,

favourite with the kids is shark and fishes, you cone out a decent sized square dependent on the amount of kids too! choose 4 sharks, and the rest are fishes, they have to run from one side to the other, if they get tagged theyre a sea enemy, have to stand still but put their arms out and they can tag fishes as running past, kids love it.

dependent on their age you can do Paarlauf training, I find the older kids can do this, basically you have two kids, one runs around half a field, and tags the other one, as their running round they jog across to the other half way to tag and then the other kid jogs across the field...

circle relays, make a circle large enough to run around, five teams of 5/6 kids they all start off different poinst around the circle, as their team is in a line in the circle, relay! can start off with them doing different things like lieing on their front etc.

cones, they sprint for 5 secs were they finnish on 5 secs they put the cone down, next time they have to try beat it over the 5 secs, kids love this one, and they do it in pairs taking turns running and counting.

got loads more! thats off the top of my head. We always do running the field to start the session, drills and running around the field quite a few times and then stretches. Always drills to start and stretches at the end. Happy Days :)

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