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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.

 


 

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3 miles really easy, as tomorrow, I have extra hours to myself in the afternoon so I am gonna try and put in a really long session, combination of xtrainer, run xtrainer and step ups! fingers crossed it goes well.

 What a Weird Run this morning, (Look, Burt I got up early and ran).

Hey Burt it must be the time of year for cyclist's aiming for FRB's frightening, I was running slow real slow and cyclist still came at me, just missed me, could have been a nasty crash and lots of injuries arrgghhh, I had to jump to the side, madness.

 

Then when I was running on the road, I ran past a parked car, and I didnt see anyone in the car, and out jumps some weird man from the passenger side, shouting at me, had my music on loud, So I didnt know what he was saying, I kept running, frightenend the life out of me.... so a day for weirdo's in my world anyways! LOL ;-) 

 

 

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Comments
From ChrisM on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:36:24 from 130.88.123.4

Glad you managed to avoid the cyclist! Could have been nasty, ditto with the weird man! Luckily you're fast enough to outrun him.

Just seen you are doing Berlin, hope you get the number plate (and the sub three of course!)

You'd be able to get into London guaranteed with your half time?

From Burt on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:34:10 from 68.76.197.194

Good gravy Sam! Do you run with mace or anything? Next time just yell, "I'm friends with Burt McCumber!" They'll leave you alone.

From sam on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 13:45:43 from 90.208.239.179

Hahhaaaa, thats so funny Burt, no I dont have mace, I know self defence and I do always have my mobile on me, I used to run with my dog, but he went to skinny and then when we got another dog, they didnt like to b seperated, I couldnt control two dogs on my runs, and the other one is such a tubby fella hes just not a dog to run with hes toooooo big! like huge!

Anyways, I dont usually run in the morning I usually run in the afternoon much safer! but you get lots of silly work men in trucks yell at you, but I cant usually hear them totally because of my headphones Its why I started wearing them, as I wasnt impressed with some of the comments LOL.

Chris the number plate would be for my motorbike, not sure what I want on it, was thinking of trying to get run S3 (run sub3) but its something like £10,000 so thats well and truly outta the question.

;-)

From Jon on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 14:25:07 from 138.64.2.76

At least you would survive a bike collision. Cars... not so friendly. Unless they also swerve away when you yell that you are friends with Burt. :)

From Burt on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 14:33:43 from 68.76.197.194

Oh yeah, of course. Try running down the middle of the 91 sometime in rush hour traffic screaming, "I'm friends with Burt! I'm friends with Burt!!" You might be pleasantly surprised Jon.

From jtshad on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:13:57 from 204.134.132.225

Wow, and I thought my morning run was bad! Maybe the lewd comments from construction workers aren't so bad afterall (relatively speaking).

From Burt on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 15:38:25 from 68.76.197.194

Jeff, are you saying construction workers make lewd comments to you? That sucks.

From sam on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 17:54:05 from 90.208.239.179

thats so funny, I will try it next time, I am friends With Burt!

Okay the lewd comments do Suck! rather run into a cyclist LOL

From jtshad on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 17:56:19 from 204.134.132.225

Burt, only the pretty girl ones! LOL

From kungfublonde on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 02:09:00 from 64.203.113.50

Wow- keeps the heart rate up! And those little bursts of adrenaline are good for the run :)

Next time, run by a house with a large, unchained dog and make sure you time yourself!

From sam on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:18:04 from 78.32.130.9

Kungfu, thats funny, when I was about 12yrs of age, I won a xcountry race, I was battling it out with another girl, and a doberman came out of nowhere and ran after us both barking and growling, OMG I ran like a scared rabbit, and WON, it was a tough race too.

I love dogs but not when I am running, as I think they think your fair game! ;-)

From sam on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 04:33:18 from 78.32.130.9

Hey Chris, I am doing Berlin yes, didnt want to do London so soon after doing Dublin last year, I would have had to go straight back into marathon training, so thats why I thought I'd miss it, and do another Autumn Marathon, and get my times down on shorter races! ;-)

From Sasha Pachev on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 18:34:47 from 64.81.245.109

One reason for a runner to live in Provo, Utah. Never have to worry about traffic or hecklers.

From Burt on Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 19:05:47 from 68.76.197.194

Oh come on now Sasha. Never? Are you telling me no one has ever thrown a soda or a grapefruit at you from a moving vehicle?

From sam on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 05:26:21 from 78.32.130.9

Yeah you must have had something happen to you??

never had soda or grapefruit thrown thankfully....

On holiday once I was greatful for a person watering their front lawn to spray me with their hose, that was funny, It was steaming hot, I even said thankyou! LOL

From Sasha Pachev on Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:44:08 from 192.168.1.1

The biggest event that I can recall is being chased by a dog a couple of times.

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