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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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non run day and the weather is great tooo huh!

 

Well I made two blogs a mag cover thanks Paul you made me smile

and Chris m's blog again thanks Chris, that incident you had today this morning on the mill well it made me laugh ROFL Laugh allot thanks for the laugh and I hope you butt is okay as having a sore butt is not good and I am sorry I laughed so much but then I am not ROFL.

 

Then I had a busy day at work, racing around delivering things that were a bit last minute but that's work for you..... I am not sure I am going to do much today may go out on the bike get my adrenaline kick.....

Also I should get my blood results later today one way I am hoping it shows something and another I hope it isnt anything I cant fix ??

Again a not so good day, I dont like being a moaning ol' bag either..... but I had to cancel the hotel and sort out the registration to defer my number for next years marathon which made me feel horrid worst time ever, this seems to be worse for me than ever :( 

 

UPDATE 

Morning Core work 15 mins with powerplate urghhh shakey shakey ha ha 

 

afternoon 

30 mins pilates woohooo

 core work again but on swiss ball

stretch

off the the gym for an hour tops ; 

30 mins medium-hard work on the xtrainer upto and around levle 7

30mins of intervals xtrainer

1 min hard level 10 fast   h/r  165 bpm

1min med level 6 medium effort h/r 130bpm

COUNTING Calories upto now 936 cals used

 

Dylan was at golf well driving range whilst i was at the gym, hes so grown up now, and I know the owner which is good, they keep an eye on him etc....  

Then Paul surprised me by ringing me up and suggesting I go out on my Motorbike whilst he does some tractor work with Dylan woohoooo..... After picking Dylan up I was in a pretty bad mood as some people just don't add up !     so the bike was the best thing for me.

 

I researched the calories used whilst riding a motorbike hard...well I prob burnt about 600 calories at least (thats me being conservative) as I was out for over 2 hours and rode it pretty hard, cheesy grin, I didnt realize I was on the bike for so long I really didnt, I was enjoying myself and the relief it provided mentally was great, although my arms are paying now for the physical effort of climbing all over a 600cc superbike is pretty demanding but hey I am tired but a bit more happy. :-)

so at least 1400 calories just for exercise and I left out the power plate they reckon you can burn 100 calories in 10 mins I dont count power plate calories, although 10 mins gets you a bit sweaty :-O its harder work than you realize

:-)

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Comments
From RICKS RUNNING on Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 12:54:13 from 79.78.128.166

Traits of Successful Runners

Certain truths for runners of all abilities

By Greg McMillan, M.S.

As featured in the April 2010 issue of Running Times Magazine

Don't Dwell

Every long-time runner has experienced this phenomenon: week after week of great runs suddenly interrupted by one of the worst workouts in years, I've found that the most successful athletes don't dwell on the bad days; instead, they're eager to move on to the next day's training or upcoming race. Successful runners know that bad days don't last and aren't a true indication of their fitness. Bad days are just a freak occurrence that must be tolerated on the path to your goals. Running is hard but fun, and that short statement should tell us that there will be good days and there will be bad days. Live through both. Neither lasts forever.

Rick says; I've been through good times and bad, long term illness and more, try and keep positive, sooner or later things will turn right, enjoy the route the best you can, fight on and enjoy the good days when they come, life is not easy and the same is true of running full of highs and lows!

The better you deal with the lows the better runner your be when you get that good time break:]

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 14:50:06 from 90.195.99.16

Hey Rick I hear you, I am trying to be more positive but this is the 3rd time round in 12 months !

I know the answer but I dont like it..... and then there is always just giving up and running for fitness and leaving competitions! its not just a bad day..its not an off training day I can cope with them even a bad race thats fine but not being able to just train gets me more than anything... I have been running since I was 9yrs old, I use it to be able to cope with stuff... so when I cant run I dont cope great with stuff... its the way I am wired..... wow there thats pretty revealing so I shall :-) for the moment.

From jtshad on Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 15:13:33 from 204.134.132.225

Hope you can get some results you can use to lick this thing. Hang in there, I will be praying for you.

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