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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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10 mins xtrainer level 6 

10.5 miles 1hr 22mins 10 secs 7.45 pace, but honestly some miles were 8 min pace and some faster the last mile being 7.15 min mile.... ha ha got some odd looks at this pace which was great!

 The gym staff thought I was joking when I said I was running in the snow, and when I went to leave they said you really arent kidding are you, I laughed and said no its fun LOL. Theyre mouths really were wide open ha ha ha

When I re-learned my running technique 4 years ago, one of the big tests was running on ice, you pull your legs up more than push off, this causes fore foot landing, any way I did lots of drills and stuff, and since then Ive always been able to run over slippery surfaces straight on of course, I was nearly at a walk on corners or crossing the roads as they were slipperier (is that a word LOL) no its slipier !

snowy dune howard is my knew name LOL

2ft deep in the places were I ran, mostly 6-12" deep though.

 I ran my usual 9 mile route, but I was enjoying running in the snow so much I rang Paul and asked if he could pick dylan up as Im loving it, and I carried on for another 1.5 miles.

When I returned to the gym and got on the xtrainer for a mere 20 mins warm down I kept looking out and considered running again :-)

 

My hip 1-10 wasnt too bad about a 4, I stretched allot back at the gym. 

I went home and Dylan and Paul were having a snow fight so I joined in although I have saved some snow balls for Walter, Burt, Chris M, oh Allie and Nan ha ha ha......

Dylan and I built a snowman that was cool, then I decided to have a snow bath and just sat down in my lycra's and ice'd my butt :-)

 

Slippy bridges no problem for MOI ;-) 

 

 

As you can see a cyclist christened the snowy path before me although the snow has filled in most of the trench they made honestly this was over a foot deep but really good fun

:-) 

 

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Current: Partly Cloudy
Wind: N at 9 mph
Humidity: 87%

Wed
Mostly Sunny
1°C | -6°C

 

 

 

 

 

I overslept this morning, after all the non sleep nights I have been getting last night I only woke up twice, which is very good for me recently, not sure why I havent been sleeping but I was glad for some sleep last night.

 

No more snow, but the snow that is still here which is about 2" deep now as most of its been trodden down and iced up over night, so its treacherous to say the least.

 

I opted to run from home today only due to Paul still isnt back at work its too dangerous to climb trees in this weather, so after work I had some lunch with him and then we walked the dogs 3 miles slowly, as it seems to be harder to walk than run on the paths very weird.

 

So I ran from home when Paul went to pick Dylan up from school, and now the school is closed for 2 days as they have run out of grit and due to health and safety they cant let the kids back at school, its madness this country I tell you just utter madness.

 

So off I went allot of smaller routes but just went were I felt like, I ran some icy roads then some pinewoods and then mostly icy roads, for 9 miles 

 

9 miles 1hr 14 mins, so I kept a decent pace most of the way some slower and some faster depending were I could get a good thing going.

 

No disasters lots of very odd looks off people which I thinks quite funny and I sang most of the way too, ra ra   ra ra la la ga ga ga ga and some other songs of course, dont stop me now, cos Im having ...........

and this one  "you got mud on ya face, big disgrace........"

 

Good cardio work singing and running at that pace, and its hard work on your core running on ice an snow, really good workout.   :-)

 

over and out from snowy ice howard

 

 

 

 

 


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-7 this morning but it did warm up to -3 for my run late afternoon. 

 

Apart from it being extremely chilly, and everywere is iced up like a skating rink, it was a clear sky day with sunny intervals, I was looking forward to my run. After work, Paul Dylan and I went for a bite to eat at Neros mmmmmmm nice coffee :-)   then off to do some essential shopping for our new kitten, and other stuff. Then home and some chores to do, busy day today.

 

Then I finally got out on my run it was early evening my hip not too bad yay:)

2 miles into my easy run which was going to be 10 or so miles, I ran past a walker and there dog, it was off the lead but paid no interest in me, then 2 mins later bang I was on the floor, the dog jumped me from behind, but I sort of slid around tried hard to keep upright and then landed on my butt LOL well not really its pretty sore, I got up straight away probably out of embarrassment I jogged off on the ice, round the corner and sat down got my bearings and  got a bit of ice to my butt, stretched and off I went but by 7 miles I had had enough and headed home to make it 7.5 miles in 1hr 1 min, yes I had took pretty easy really 8 min pace 'ish.   It just had to be my sore hip that took the brunt of the fall too, so I iced again and stretched then a warm bath and ice again.

Im pretty annoyed I didnt got back and say something to the dog owner but what do you say what do they do ???

the dog wasnt attacking me just probably playing too rough.

 

Not a good day for snowy Ice Howard but I am alive and kicking and can still sort of run so hey ho ;-)

 

 

 

 

 

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NONE ZILCH Gonna take it easy huff, urghhhhh not happy 

 

sore butt, did I tell you that, yeah I fell yesterday Im sure I told you all that too, huh! stupid dog *HDKJHKJ*

 

 

oh well, its my birthday today all the 3's hoping I will be better for my long run this Sunday

:-) 

 

 

Oh I couldnt resist update as of 3pm, I tried out the spikes idea Chris M gave it to me, and they just so happened to fall out the cupboard when I was looking for my swim suit to go swimming, I went on a run thought maybe half a mile out and back, 

 

10 Miles later 1hr 28 mins very slow miles, all off road but very icy sand dunes and paths very very icy, it was hard going, and my spikes I wore are really track spikes so hey ho I got a run in on my Birthday so thats why I couldnt resist. hoping its not made it all worse.  Going to bend Pauls arm for a massage. :-)

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