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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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Hi, well, recovered of sorts, still coughing and sore throat, but rested nearly all weekend, except for footy watching on a cold pitch!

 

 Had a lovely sleep at last 9 hours, yay.

 

So I warmed up on the xtrainer 10 good mins.

4miles easy running, just under 8 mins pace, through Sand dunes, along beach and through woodland paths.

4 x 1 mile!  3 mins jogging recovery, straight into the jog no rest.

5.50 mins, (Gr8 wanted to aim about 6 mins really)

5.42,  5.44,  5.39 so great result, with coughing and spluttering, legs felt a bit empty near the end of each one, but that might be from being so tired recently.

1 mile easy jog, really slow, as I was feeling it in my calves. total time running 1hr 25 mins 

good 25 mins on the xtrainer to ease those calves.

10 mins hard step ups with light weights. stretch

ice bucket ouch, cold today.

All in all, a cold crisp day nearly no wind, and great training finally, some hard sessions to come, I start off with 4 reps and build up each week 1 extra, upto 7-8 mile reps at this sort of pace fingers crossed then.

So another 2 hours of exercise! 

 

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Wehay! 13 easy miles.

 

Gym, did 5 mins warm up on xtrainer, so couldnt be bothered staying in the gym any longer.

Only had time for 9 miles this afternoon, and then finnished on the xtrainer 25mins boring.

9 miles, easy run as did session yesterday, approx 7.30-7.45 maybe a few miles at 8 min pace.

 

Gym-hoggs hill-hightown - over bridge- old hightown- wrights fields very boggy- wrights farm very muddy- little crosby- back of jimmy wrights farm- by-pass! 

 1hr 5 mins 

4 miles in the night at 8 min pace feeling very tired!  whilst my son was footy training.

sleep was good last night finally again a good nights sleep, feel so much better, still got sore throat but feeling better. 

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Done loads today, 

1hr 15 mins on xtrainer doing intervals.

10 mins step ups with weights.

1hour swimming, 103 lengths in a 25 metre pool.

 

on my way out for a 7 mile run now  should be an easy one so 1hour at least.

Its raining and horribly dark, but thats running in the night hey!

thats 3 hours of training today, yay!

Sleep fantastic, slept like a log, while I think I did! LOL


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Well, bit sore today my legs. and Tired.

25 mins easy xtrainer to get a good warm up.

13miles easy, route- hoggs hill- barracks-barracks to hightown beach- hightown sand dunes- to crosby sanddunes- (Different today) onto crosby beach run along the beach  

- to crosby baths- up into crosby over bridge- mini by-pass- to thornton- by-pass- gym.

 

So 1hr 31 mins, not great, cold very cold, tried to snow a few times, and windy on the out and up the beach was windy and soft sand, averaged mostly 7.45, but picked the pace up on the way back to 7.30 /7.00, even put a bit of an effort in 6.30 but not over a mile, as this was to be an easy run.

25 mins on xtrainer.

10 mins step up's with weights.

2.5 hours training for today.

see how I am, should be doing a session tomorrow, but I am aching today, not my calves my hips, hamstrings, and just all over, good sleep should sort it out.

 

slept last night not great, looks like my son suffers from nightmares, deffo got that from me! lol. 

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What a nice day here, cool crisp hardly  a breeze and the sun is out.

slept like a log not, well nearly! Ok once I got to sleep.

 

2 miles warm up jogging on soft grass

intervals of 1 mile on road with 3 min recovery of jogging or fast walking.

  •  5.40   3min recovery
  • 5.47   ""
  • 5.43   ""
  • 5.40   ""

and 2 miles warm down.  didnt do much more, as I had an app to see my physio for sports massage straight after!

Nice set of intervals, I am made up with these and not feeling too bad either. 

 

 

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