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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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Spa day with my Friend Tracy, she isnt sporty in the slightest, and i was warned I am not allowed near the gym even when she had her treatment I actually rested.... it took me ages to get the relax mode going......  I had 15 mins in the sauna sweating it all out my anxiety I just dont rest well. then a tepid shower then another 15 mins sauna sure your supposed to have 10 mins in but you know me always breaking rules, also I kept putting more water on the hot coals ha ha  2 men joined me and another woman they lasted 5 mins ( I was like yeah you wusses) so then I went for a lay down in the relax room, just 45 mins or so gone and her treatment will be over in another 45 mins. i think I may have fallen asleep not sure. anyways I think......  Okay I think I broke the steam room it woulnt work ! 

 And I broke the latch on the ladies shower door. but tracy broke hers too !  

I may have overdone on the sauna but I had drunk loads of water too as well, I was constantly going the toilet well at least i knew I was 100% hydrated eh!

 

Went for our lunch, then it was my massage and a swim we only did gentle swimming not even I was up for anything more I was mellowed...... jacuzzi  I think I broke this, it timed out and I kept pressing the button but it would only work if I kept my finger on it oooops  and I went for an amazon cold shower I did this  a few times Tracy thought I was nuts but I wanted to wake myself up a little.

I think I broke the tap too in the toilets, it wouldnt turn ! then someone came in and it came off in their hand..... I turned around and said to Tracy that wasnt me see it wasnt me LOL what is going on the spa is falling apart !   in the relax room the little lights beside you so you can read a book as its a low light room, well mine wouldnt work so I fiddled and the light came off in my hand OMG ha ha ;-O 

 

My shoulders are still killing me ahhhhh well thats me day pretty much no run no pullups etc wanna just sleep a bit more :)  sorry guys  

 

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Sweat xtrainer !

Its repetition day the equivalent of mile reps on the xtrainer......

4 mins warm up level 5 which is a good warm up h/r 125

6 mins level 8      h/r 165bpm

2 mins 30 secs rest   (last week I took 3 mins, so I cut the recovery but I am not sure I will make it through all 6 reps).  h/r 115 lower than warm up weird!

6 mins level 8 hard h/r 165

2 mins 30 secs rest level 5

7mins level 8 hard h/r 168  oops miscalculated I sort of realised but it felt really bad upto 6 mins, then after 6.20 it felt sort of okay I could tolerate it but it was hard

2 mins rest level 5  h/r 125  ( cut it again by 30secs really wanted to push it now)

6 mins level 8 hard h/r 170

2 mins level 5 recovery 

6 mins level 8 hard  h/r 178

2 mins recovery level 5

7 mins level 9 gave it my all this was so hard I felt sick yeah I felt sick on the xtrainer really pushed myself. my lungs were bursting I was making noises ha ha just like when I do mile reps so this is gooooood yea :-O

Sweat rating well the shower look :O

 

I walked on the mill under the air conditioning blower for 5 mins I was hot !

I did my weight legs sidie things same on both machines (one you push ya legs out and the other you squeeze em together but both of these machines really get my hips great strength), I even do one legged ones for my left leg!

Swiss ball and core work. the bridge one legged bridge, two legged etc

Swiss ball new record 5 mins 35 secs WOOOOOHOOOOOO!

So i did it again 3 mins 23 secs

then I did it again but with a medicine ball and I held my arms out straight then did the twist side to side slowly this was hard omg I did 10 reps twice really hard shakey shakey.

Did the plank on the swiss ball too,

then the one legged plank well I fell off the ball some silly PT trainer made me laugh ha

WEEK TWO WORKOUT S pull ups Push ups, and sit ups 

Sit ups

rest 60 seconds between each SET (longer if required)
  up to 10 sit-ups 11 - 20 sit-ups 21 - 30 sit-ups
set 1 6 14 21
set 2 9 17 21
set 3 6 12 15
set 4 6 12 15
set 5 max (at least 9) max (at least 17) max (at least 22)

Well I am on column 3.... but I did more

25 situps  then rest

20 sit ups with med ball same one as last week !

25 sit ups

30 s ups

20 med ball

40 sit ups.... ouch but this was the max for sure

100 push ups WORK OUT

Week 2

 

Day 1
rest 60 seconds between each SET (longer if required)
  up to 5 push ups 6 - 10 push ups 11 - 20 push ups
set 1 4 9 14
set 2 6 11 14
set 3 4 8 10
set 4 4 8 10
set 5 max (at least 6) max (at least 11) max (at least 15)

Again I did column 3 but more wooohooo

set 1 15 push ups

15 push ups

15 push ups

12 push ups

18 maxed out on 18, and I really struggled from 16.... that much that half way back upon the 19th push up I swore omg not good but hey I was giving it my all I nearly collapsed my arms were shaking! gotta give it your all on that last set to get stronger..... muscle woman here I am becoming LOL....

PULL UPS

All in All I did an hour of cardio.... then a good hour of core and weights get me eh!

 


Day 1

Rest 120 seconds between each set (longer if required)

  3-5 pull-ups 6-9 pull-ups 10+ pull-ups
Set 1 3 5 8
Set 2 2 4 7
Set 3 3 3 6
Set 4 2 4 7
Set 5 3 5 8

Okay I did column 1 this is my weakest and most un-enjoyable exercise and I used to love pull ups ! :(  so I tried Burts trick the least amount worn doing pull ups lets see if it helped :-O

set 1 .... 3   wooohoo I did 3 yay

set 2 .....2 omg I did it so far so good arms are pumping

set 3......3 omg omg omg I did it ha ha

set 4.......2  wooohoo Burts trick works ha ha well lets see on the last set eh!

set 5.......2 oh well nearly did it ha ha

 

Ta for the tip Burt  ;-)

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No miles 30 mins xtrainer level 6, middle bit of 10 mins at level 7 oh dear I checked my h/r at the end it was only at 120 ha ha not really a work out then!

 weights for quads and hammies

core work.  

swiss ball 7mins 30 secs  wooooohooo new record  all balancing is with arms crossed across my chest :)

so I did another 2.30mins on it

then another 3mins on it

then I decided to hold a medicine ball out in front both hands and twist from side to side slowly on the swiss ball!   did 3 sets of 10 

then I did my bicep curls light dumbbells on the swiss ball 3 sets of 15

again dumbbell delt/lateral raise (mind I dont really need to do this my delts are showing already ha ha )

bridge plank one legged swiss ball...

stretches stretches

bike ride with the husband in the evening he needs to get fitter I find cycling extremely boring and more so as Im not being big headed but its boring cycling slow but Im trying to help him get fitter so :-O  and it will help me too I suppose I just get bored and I can talk to him but he's a bit outta puff so I dont bother.......

Motorbike ride hey hey hey.... I was a good samaritan today not as good as Kim MD I didnt push a wheelchair whilst running but I did push a car out of the by-pass it was broke down in the middle of the by-pass and everyone just watched as the car just sat there the man looked pretty oldish and tried to push it on his own but needed someone to stear, I just jumped off the bike omg got me keys though and ran over and then some other people came over after me to help and we pushed the car on to the grass verge..... I couldnt have gone turned to the road I wanted to anyway he was right in my way and bike was starting to get hot so I had to turn it off anyways..... but I did stare at a truck that seemed to edge very close to my bike ha ha the evil eye and they stopped  :-O  

 

 

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Ate too much chocolate last night so my punishment is this

6-9 miles slow if my hip copes 9 miles 1hr 9 mins 58 secs 

30 mins xtrainer at least..... 25 mins total for warm up and down 

Swiss ball punishment   oh the joy punishment it was, i did numerous                                                                       balancing acts inc the med ball twist 

push, pull, sit up challenge training omg  

so far did the push ups but it was 10,15,15,10,18

Sit ups 20, 15 with med ball, 20, 10 with med ball and died my abs were already still sore so I didnt want to push my luck!  

core work  oh yeah you know the run through plank,bridge one legged, etc etc swiss ball 

2hrs 45 mins training solid omg IM tired did I burn those chocolates off ???? 

PUll ups later in my own home with shorts and crop on not naked like BURT ! 

 before all this well I heard Burt..   has a  Thing ;-O for cacti now that is weird but Im glad he was fully clothed in this picture :-O

 

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