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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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long run day today. 

did 5.5 miles with my brother and his friend, Fr Rob, they are kinda slow, so was good for me to start out slow, did sand dunes and woodland tracks, took 50 mins.?  so v slow.

went out on last 10 miles, with husband Paul and son dylan on their bikes.  

ok pace, kept it down to 8min pace which is ok for long run, did faster mile for last 1.5 miles then jogged in on .05 miles.  

Was okay run as weather was extremley windy and cold, hail stones and frosty wind.

 

sleep ok, had a late night, went to a local pub with some friends didnt drink as I knew had long run but still didnt get home till 12pm, so late night.  I was made up for my sons football team today, they have made it to a cup final, under 10s, which will be held in a small football stadium so should be nice for the team ;)

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easy 10 miles..

1hr 18 mins, very very windy, and cold.

10 min warm up on xtrainer.

15 mins on vibro gym.

 feeling tired today, very sore throat, feeling groggy.

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Session day today....

3.2 mile warm up through sand dunes and woodland tracks.

1 mile reps on the road, with 3 mins recovery, going for 5 this week so dropping the pace slightly.

1. 5.45 min

2. 5.42 mins into a good wind.

3. 5.34 too quick, but didnt feel too hard, cross wind.

4. 5.42 mins half wind half not,  

 5 5.45 mins this one should have been allot faster, I think for the effort I put in low 5.30s,

the course I took was to go over a railway crossing, barriers came down, so I took a detour of allot of turns, then over a good hill found this hard.

6. (supposed to do 5 only, but after the last one, I though Id squeeze a 6th and just take whatever I can do).

6.00mins, this was a tuff one, felt hard from the start I felt empty legs heavy!

2.3mile warm down.

 

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Didnt sleep well, just kept waking up, things going round and round sometimes wish my brain would just shut down!  arrgghhh! ;) 

 

went on easy run, and ended up doing last 3 miles at marathon pace, felt good really good.

15 mins warm up on xtrainer

15 mins step ups hard 

8 miles 55 mins.

 5mins warm down on xtrainer.

 

great day, nice and cool with hardly any breeze, sun shining.

 

   

 

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Slept like a log, thankful for that really am.  

10 mins on vibro gym 1st thing this morning.

 

doing 17 miles easy today, weather is sunny cool and slight breeze, so should be a nice outing.

 

Warmed up on the xtrainer only 10 mins, and 10 mins of step ups. 

 Well, weather was good, a bit of a breeze nothing too bad.

went too far out so ended up doing 18.5, meant to do 16 maybe 17 miles.

went through 16 miles in 2hrs 5 mins, fastest ever done in a training run, at 17 miles I was getting the usual runners tummy, which for me ends up with me being sick, but I was ok in the end, finnished on 18.5 miles in 2hrs 25 mins. 

 

Really tired now,  had tea and its feet up time.

 

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recovery day, and saw my physio, for a very sore massage, sure it will do me wonders, didnt know I had a huge knot in my quad, so that was a sore sorting out, but all done and tired now early night I thinks.

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3 loosener miles, really easy ready for the race tomorrow. 5k.

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