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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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15 mins xtrainer warm up but on level 6 so not too easy.

calf raises and stretches.

5.5 mile easy run, average 8 min miles, ok this did pick up at times, not much though. calf is ok, hammy bit sore, so eased down towards end and stretched.

 My kitten died last night, Tigger, he had liver failure vet said, not a happy bunny, my son was really upset, but still I was slightly harsh and sent him to school, I think thats what he needed though! We still have the other kitten.... I took Dylan for a snack after school to cheer him up, I think it worked sort of. 

All in all ok day did my run, xtrainer, didnt clear my head, so later on early evening I went out on the bike to clear my head! so feeling touch better, but still not feeling great today, but at least I have run after a big break for me, and so I shall try to start my build up.....

 



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xtrainer 15 mins 

stretch and calf raises.

5.5 miles again very easy, approx 8 min mile pace. Well running slower isnt something I enjoy, and when silly men try to stop and talk to you in a car and I know I cant run faster, I just have to say I cant hear you (got my headphones on) and smile politely, what else can I do, gave up on shouting at weirdo's?

 10 mins xtrainer.

 Not much sleep last night, my mind is somewhat cloudy!  too many things going round and round in my head, funny I thought training would make me more tired.....

 

Night didnt run, just did a walk in woods, 2miles.

My legs are acheing allot. Going to stretch out and massage them. 

Well the other kitten is quite happy getting all the attention, Breeder has been great.


 


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3 miles really easy, as tomorrow, I have extra hours to myself in the afternoon so I am gonna try and put in a really long session, combination of xtrainer, run xtrainer and step ups! fingers crossed it goes well.

 What a Weird Run this morning, (Look, Burt I got up early and ran).

Hey Burt it must be the time of year for cyclist's aiming for FRB's frightening, I was running slow real slow and cyclist still came at me, just missed me, could have been a nasty crash and lots of injuries arrgghhh, I had to jump to the side, madness.

 

Then when I was running on the road, I ran past a parked car, and I didnt see anyone in the car, and out jumps some weird man from the passenger side, shouting at me, had my music on loud, So I didnt know what he was saying, I kept running, frightenend the life out of me.... so a day for weirdo's in my world anyways! LOL ;-) 

 

 

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Pre-Run blog, not sure I am going to do any session today, rain is bucketing it down, uuurrgghhh, not being a wimp, just absolutely knackered (yes knackered U know what it means by now) about 4 hours of broken sleep, not good, feeling rough this morning, not even the works stiff coffee will work..... Stresses of life just not good at the moment work is really stressful. 

 

Hoping I may feel better and do a run later so lets see! 

 

Okay I went the gym to be a wimp, as not even gonna try to run in this rain, as last time I ran when it rained so hard I ended up with calves like tennis balls! 

So 15 mins xtrainer level 7 so quite decent

straight on to the treadmill, started out at 13.kmh, which works out as 7.25 min mile, so not bad,  did  10k at this pace, then upped the anti, I just basically pushed the plus button every minute, so it went up in 0.1kmh, ended up marathon  pace approx or slighlty faster for approx 1.5 miles, then hit it for last 6 mins, fastest the treadmill will go is 16km, so thats 6min mile pace, threshold pace.  so 8.4 miles in total, well made up, felt my hip on last bit of effort, but not bad, I stretched out.  this took me just under 1hour to do, 55 mins, so then I jogged out for the last 5 mins.

 

xtrainer level 6 for 15 mins.

 

Step ups hard for 10 mins, then stretch again, walk out and thats my session

1hr 40 mins training, and I feel yes you got it knackered, but a very happy bunny today! so my saying for today is marathon training "Bring it on" hahahaha  ;-)  and hey guys I had to wear me compression socks on the treadmill in the gym RUNNER GEEK its official I am now a runner geek..

 

Also I had a discusion with a friend in the gym, shouting at yourself in the last 1k of a 5k road race, is it really that bad to do????? and does anyone else do this????

 


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pre-run blog, hoping to do 6 easy miles, fingers crossed, then its to my nasty physio for sports massage this afternoon! weather looking good, so might even fit in a small motorbike journey! 

Work has calmed down not too stressful now, and slept like a log so it must have been all that training making me tired, just hope I sleep again tonight...........  and I am counting the days .... days to what you may ask well September 20th is the Marathon in Berlin, so 

144 days to my next Marathon.... do i sound worried, well I am already!  

and counting the days do June 22nd again, this is when I should be in full swing of training and I go down to 3 day week working, so that should be less stressful

7 weeks and 3 days till I have 2 days off work a week, cant wait, I can then train more on these days and harder, with a nice nap in the middle of it all......

Happy days. 

 

Okay did 15 mins xtrainer, stretch

then 4 miles in the end on the treadmill, got fed up, hammy feels tight, i thought maybe not push it, so did warm down of 10 mins on xtrainer stretch and staight to my Physio app.  She hammered me, wow I am now officially KNACKERED, hahah.

 

Spoke to my coach been told off, what a surprise hes always telling me off, but I need it....  okay I went too fast on the treadmill yesterday too soon, so got to ease down, build up slowly, arrghh frustrating, but on the bright side, he said I must be still pretty fit to do 8.5 miles in 55 mins, so thats good news and it felt good when I did it.

 

The plan for the weekend is 6 miles sat and 6 miles Sunday, easy I say, well lets see!

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okay 2 miles walk, didnt run today was going to but busy day!

 

again broken sleep so I am tired today only got 6 hours. 

Started with taking my motorbike to Blackpool, for its 1st service, and the only way I know to get their is motorway well, it was busy and I felt really vulnerable with all the cars about but I was okay I held my own.... so just over an hour to get their wasnt bad as it can take 1hr20 mins.   but I can nip through traffic and stuff, the bike is so physical when your doing 70mph on the motorway its really tireing.

 We dropped the bike off and going to pick it up next week as we dont have time to wait for 2 hours whilst they do the service!

Got home and the usual chores and the day just went, I was tired my legs felt tired so did a walk.  Then off to a bbq, friends have like 4 acres of garden, and 2 huge bouncy castles, one was a 30ft slide, which I now have burns on my arms from hahahah funny last night but not today OUUUCHHH!!

 

 

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