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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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Wow weather is not nice, cold and very windy urgghhh.... so I went out thought I will do a nice 9 mile route but it was weird I always start this one from home but today it was from the gym so 

 

10 mins xtrainer level 6........ hmmmmm feeling okay... so off out to be a real runner in the elements of the great british weather thoughts not looking forward to it !

 

I averaged at 7.45 pace honestly 1st mile was 8 min s 2nd was like 8.50 due to the wind and sand dunes. then 2-3 miles down the beach  sandy and it wasnt hard sand today huh ! wasnt impressed with that at all...... some guys walking dogs tried talking I just nodded and smiled havnt a clue what they said I had my music blearing Mika fat girls LOL very funny to run to ha ha ha anyways maybe they heard my song blasting out and said summit silly well thats what i like to think...

back to the run eh so I did 6.5 miles off road sand sand more sand and some trails woodlands then good old road......by-pass omg the wind was strong here so I ended up cutting back into town and running through town which added half a mile to my usual 9 this is good yes very good bit extra mileage....... wow I was tired after this the wind really takes it out of you..... so my miles were some fast some mega slow some mediocre but overall good

1hr 13 mins 9.5 miles three quarters sand and off road :-)

 Stretched and foam rollered well that was shocking more strange looks I was saying under my breathe ouchi ouchie ouchie cos I found  a nice knot on my ITB and tried to foam roller it out ha ha ha 

Physio ..... all good a couple of rogue muscles in my left hammy nothing unusual there and an ouchie moment with the achilles both of them the left being worse but all good, Jane my Physio said my legs are looking lean so thats good but what about the rest of me huh so unfair lol 

 

Oh dear gossip My gym had some idiot gangsters in it apparently yesterday from Liverpool..... and some gang warfare how bad is that in Formby (im such a snob) apparently some big guys had a scuffle with some younger guys threats etc going on of breaking legs and things oh dear, gym guy said theyre guns and knives men  glad I wasnt there Id have banged their heads together like school boy playground (only kidding id have run a mile lol ) well anyways the two younger ones ran out climbing over the reception counter and the gym darent ban the other guys cos of who they are ....... dear me my thoughts Grow up ! but hey this happens but not in Formby So Allie Im carrying mace now in to the gym never mind on the dark alleys LOL    ( I am kidding, just the brass knuckles will do ha ha) 

 

 

so gossipy me eh !  

Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Miles: 9.50
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Weight: 7.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From allie on Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 14:06:04 from 67.177.43.41

ooh, nice gym gossip there! you have to be careful in the hood. get out your street weapons!

nice run with all the wind and sand. sounds super hard. great work.

From Burt on Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 18:06:51 from 68.76.197.194

Tough British thugs!

From Nan Kennard on Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 18:15:10 from 174.51.250.151

Maybe you should carry a switch blade in your sports bra. You never know when it may come in handy. Like cutting some gansta's hand off.

Or you could just run. Thats probably what I would do too.

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