| 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 secswinter 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! ;-)
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 60.00 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 5.00 | 68.00 |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 16.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 16.00 |
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16 miles in the rain urghhhh! typical British weather hey :-} 1hr 53 15 miles okay so I was really tired after my higher mileage week for a long long time..... I wasnt sure how this run would play, I got up late as I was so tired, and even bumped my car on Friday night due to over-tiredness and low sugar not a good combination for sure :( Yeah I hadnt eaten Friday Night, and ordered a take out, but we had to pick it up, so I went out for it, very tired and low sugar with huge hunger pangs, it was really misty, and damp dark weather, our neighbours across the road keep parking the car opposite our drive which has been causing a few problems due to having a large vehicle and trying to back out of the drive causes quite few point turns.... anyway my rear window was fogged up too, Iknow its my fault so stupid but I backed straight into their car, and crushed it quite bad ooops, my car is quite large and heavy so it was only scratched and a lense broke but their car is quite badly damaged.... they have been okay about it and our insurance covers it so thats good but still more hassle of sorting it all out. :( Okay I fuelled for my run today, I ate a good meal last night and some supper, then ate a decent breakfast this morning but in hope that the rain would go away I held off the run till later on in the in the afternoon 3pm I set off. I was bad horrid rain ! I went of at a surprisingly good pace and didnt actually feel too bad :-) 9miles 1hr 8mins 51 secs Okay at mile 15.5 I stopped and puked yellow bile oh what joy! I had not taken on any gu gel or water so this run would have been on fat burning over the last 30 mins which is good and I kept the pace up, also I am thinking I am getting used to the conversion when it happens :) 24/01/2010 18:28
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.00 |
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I am tired, I am sore, but I still managed 8 junk miles and they were mostly off road, to help my legs recover but the sand on the beach was really soft, so it was a very slow recovery run. Oh and as it was a recovery run I had some fun, by making words with the gps garmin, I will try this again another day 1st time wasnt bad LOL 8 miles 1hr 8 mins very slow but hey its recovery so I have to go as slow as the legs want me to :-)  better this way up eh!
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 8.20 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.20 |
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Dang that .2 is doing me ed in oooooohhhhhhhh..... but hey I am knackered so gonna leave it on there :-O Okay spoke to Coach and its another recovery day, although I didnt feel too bad, but this is not the time to take chances, I did the same route as yesterday now, I did run Burts name in the sand on the beach so I think his larger letters and extra letter did the .2 but I am not going to blame Burt, as his little girl is in ER, and I wished I had known cos I would have ran EMILY instead but hey I did Burt cos he wrote about bunnies and cats and such like in his blog for me :-) Oh and Get Missy's new picture, it has a knob in it....anyway she looks good in the picture, and made me think hey why dont I actually take a picture of me rather than just use pictures I have already mainly of me and my son, etc.......(oldish pictures) anyways...... 5 mins xtrainer warm up, 5 mins xtrainer warm down and stretches. I was a bit fed up today and the roads were dry so I hit the motorbike for some adrenaline and hey ho it was fun with a capital F he he :-D dang that was fun today:-D can I grin anymore did I say it was FUN on the motorbike yeah I think I did, and you know what I didnt realised how much I missed it over the last month of dreadful wweather. I shall upload the picture of the run for Burt anyways later Happy Bunny.... waiting for the session tomorrow I believe its gonna be hard :-P 
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 10.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 14.50 |
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Current: Rain
Wind: W at 35 km/h
Humidity: 93% Okay the idea was, half marathon pace mile, then a 10k pace mile, then repeat, with 3 mins recovery inbetween........ It was really windy, I thought if I run my mile reps along the tempo route I do which is basically down a by-pass for ease of flat cycle path with not too many junctions.... You would think the by-pass would be straight but it isnt and it was a combination of cross head winds and head winds of 35kmh! The mile reps hurts, I did try to fuel for this, but for some reason I had an upset tummy today so I am sure whatever I put in did not stay in the muscles if you get my meaning urghhhh! I wasnt ill my temp wasnt up and my h/r wasnt up just my typical stomach strikes once again on the wrong day :( Anyway the tummy had settled down for the run at least. 5 mins xtrainer level 5 the weather looked gloomy, dark fine rain and the wind:( so I head off for a 2.5 mile warm up 8 min pace, this was a cross wind, I thought it was in front of me, but when I turned round to go the other way to start the miles reps I realised now way the wind was strong. . 1st mile - 6.20 mins.... this was supposed to be 6.30 pace and into the cross head wind, I had put too much of an effort in this mile oops 3 min recovery jog 0.25 miles. . 2nd mile 6.34 mins this was supposed to be 6.10 pace huh! head wind of 35kmh I think I put the effort in for sure I was tired, my arms ached. 3 min recovery jog 0.25 miles . 3rd mile 6.17 mins Like I said before this is supposed to be a half marathon pace I was naughty as you can see, with a cross wind it felt so much easier I felt as though I put the same effort as the 1st mile though. 3 min recovery 0.25 miles . 4th mile 6.12 mins this is more like the pace I was after although it was a killer mile not really what I expected I thought my mile reps would be easier, although all in all the effort was there and I am sure it will pay off and strengthen me in the future. 6.6 miles warm down over sandy trails and and woodland paths. after the last mile, I took a few mins recovery just stretching, I found it hard to get going again, I am sure I ran out of fuel around the middle of the 3rd mile, I felt rough but pushed through it and thought I doesnt matter what time I do as long as I get through all four reps. I was going to cut the warm down miles short but I thought I have to persevere even if I walk after each mile, I really boinked bad hit the wall, but I got through it after a couple of miles I was okay and well on my way. I ran towards my sons School and met with him at the other end of the road, he helped me by cycling with me to the gym. Thanks Dylan and he gave me his drink too double thanks :-) I am happy I got through this and with a good total mileage of 14.1 miles 2hrs 5 mins running :-D |
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| | Easy Miles | Marathon Pace Miles | Threshold Miles | VO2 Max Miles | Total Distance | | 5.30 | 3.00 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 9.30 |
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I felt fresh this morning must have been that 2 hour nap I had early evening LOL.... Okay I fuelled today just to get through a 9 mile easy run. Treadmill aka sweatmill level was 8 as I am so sure the air con was off again. I was doing a 9 mile or 15km easy run on the treadmill as I just needed to get it done huh! I get bored on the treadmill and ended up ramping the pace up for 3 miles at 7.03min pace it felt surprisingly comfortable, I then slotted in a 6min pace mile for the 8th mile then dropped the pace for last kilometre to a jog, as the machine is km's. I did 15km/9.37 miles in 1hr 9 mins not bad for an easy run eh all on 1% incline. Now I tried to run FRB in the sand on the mill but it didnt work I kept nearly falling off LOL ...... then When I was running the 8th mile fast I remembered Walter telling me about how he got injured last the mill stopped suddenly on its own.... I kept thinking how Id go right over the front of the mill A of T** LOL Massage hey hey hey I got a good deep painful ouchie massage for a whole hour ouchie !
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I had a good conversation with my coach today, which I will have to have again sometime next week I am meeting him for a coffee! Basically we both feel I am struggling to recover in my legs from the 3 sessions a week..... Now the main race is the Marathon, I have natural speed, as I was an 800m runner originally, hence the struggle of getting my weight down for the marathon too, really I am a middle distance runner as the way I am built I hold muscle :-O Okay, so the basics is a two session week, my long run being a session and mile reps the other oh the joy! I have a love hate relationship with mile reps, I love them when I am fit and hate them when I am not LOL they hurt even when your fit they hurt, but on the run up to the Dublin marathon I did a monster 8 x 1 mile with 2 mins recovery all under 5.50pace now I was really fit then, and should have gone allot ALLOT quicker in my 10k race and Marathon but what will be will be, I had personal issues then and it didnt help one bit. So Its two big sessions a week, Wednesday's and Sundays, this is to stop me getting injured, the aim on the wednesday is the Mile reps getting up to at least 8 and under 6 min pace wooohooo! and the long run on a Sunday getting upto and maybe over 23 miles with a tempo in it somewere but only a marathon pace tempo. Other days easy run days, to recover but also and maybe doing doubles getting over 12 miles a day in...... so it will be higher mileage with 2 big sessions I like the sound of it, but I am hoping I dont get tooo frisky on the easy recovery runs and ruin it for the sessions I have a tendancy to do that :-O Naughty girl ha ha. So its not a session day today its a middle length run 10 miles me thinks then off to get my hair done FINALLY I am getting my hair sorted I havent had it cut and sorted since Nov 09 how bad is that.... I hate having my hair done its like sitting there for 2 hours not doing anything drives me crazy just CRAZY I tell ya :-D)
UPDATE 10 mins xtrainer warm up and 5 mins warm down (cut the warm down short as foam rollering is more important and I was running out of time for my hair Yeeehaaa) 12 miles 8 min average, some fast some slower, the weather was odd today, snow showers, and very windy so the slower miles were the windy ones, and the faster well the not windy ones LOL
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