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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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Well I slept, using herbal sleep aids though, not my choice but it was turning into a nightmare for my training, so I just have to do it, felt so much better.

 

NO golf today, but did go for a small motorbike ride Not, it was an hour and half long, and really didnt know were the time went.

Plan was 12 miles maybe 13, ended up doing 16.5 miles, OOOPs, but clearer head for it, I sometimes do this when Im stressed just go out and run run run!,

ONly thing is I didnt plan to run this long, so no carb loading last night, and no preparation food wise, just carried water in my back pack as it was a hot one today...

I think on mile 14 I was into the fat burning mode, glycogen depletion as I didnt have any gels on me either, I was hurting oh I wasnt planning on this so I wasnt prepared mentally but I got through it... so My 1st long run test eh!


Thanks for the replies on my question yesterday about carbo loading and running on empty to hit the wall, its great to hear your ideas and thoughts so any one else wanting to comment on the running long runs on no carbs etc, and just water would be great... I did it today and survived the wall..

 

Time 2hrs 4 mins. splits, well did 14 miles at an average speed of 7.45mins, then it was wall time so the last 2.5 miles average 8.28 mins  OUCH....

Happy Days :) 

 

 

Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 1.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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slept really well last night, wehay !!!!

still a little sore pain in the butt from my long run yesterday and tired probably from running on empty...

 

6 v easy miles through soft trails and some sand dunes etc, but real easy the surface was good on my hips and joints, feeling better after this...

 

it was warm today and no wind, nice sunshine for once.

 

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NOT a morning person Moi! 6am went to the gym, well got up to go the gym...

15 mins xtrainer  level 6

calf raises stretch

9miles my usual route hoggs hill, hightown old, tracks over farmers fields, inc one actual field no track, wrights farm, little crosby, to wrights other farm, ince woods, by-pass, Gym.

 

Warmish, v windy, head wind all the way back.   1hr 10 mins 

 

30 mins xtrainer level 6, used the leg one this time for a change, so it was just my legs doing the work.

stretch...... and all before work Im amazed at myself just amazed....   :-)  Happy Summer Dayz 


Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 1345.00
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Oh dear not much sleep again, had to get up early 6.30am, but I just couldnt get to sleep.

 

Very tired this morning, and the weather is horrible, drizzle drain. If you yawn on an exercise machine is this bad???  LOL

15 mins warm up xtrainer level 6

calf raises

8.5 miles 1hr 3 mins average

5 m @ 8 min miling

1.5 m @ 7.30 min miling

3 miles at 6.45/6.55 pace

 

not a bad run, head wind all the way out so really it was more effort than 8min miling.

15 mins xtrainer warm down, very very very Yawn tired..... 

 

Tired Bunny, wanting some creature comforts...... 

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6 am me, yes again, cant believe I am doing this, but did it again.

 

Xtrainer 20 mins level 5  

 stretches 

Good training in the gym this morning if I was gonna race in Arizona or something; a gym that does not put on air con in the morning but seems like its heated arrrhhh.....

9.36 miles treadmill, 1% incline.

2.8 miles easy pace 8 min miles (7.5mph)

3.56 miles threshold pace 6.28 min pace (9.25mph)

0.5 mile VO2 max pace 6.00 min pace (10mph)

0.5 miles easy pace    8 min mile (7.5 mph)

 0.62 miles (1km) @ 6.00 min pace  (10mph)

 1.38 miles jogging warm down  8min mile pace 

 

Okay funny miles but the treadmill is in KM and KMH, so I have to convert to Miles. 

 

xtrainer for 10 mins.....

Oh this was hard for me today, last time I did this was 1.5 weeks ago and it was in the afternoon with air con, still I stuck it out, and got through it.

Again only 6.5 hrs sleep tried to go to bed early just didnt work, as everyone in the house was shouting and cheering a footy match on, so I went and watched it, then couldnt sleep anyway till about 11.30pm..

 

I am looking forward to going back to my routine next week of strength training in the morning and runs in the afternoon.... and more sleep..

 Rest of the day....walked for 3-4 miles around a 9 hole golf course, with my son, I won again not really, we drew exactly the same score and I actually played much better too...then we went on a 

6.5 mile bike ride through trails and some road, nice afternoon sun out and hardly a breeze. 

Anyways a very knackered but happy bunny today.   

 

 

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Wow early morning this morning again and what a beautiful morning it was, 5.5miles easy.

 

30 mins xtrainer level 6

5.5 miles sluggish slow 8.30 pace, this was hard, I was going to go longer but kept it short my legs were heavy must have been the tempo session.

 I saw a fox and a bunny rabbit this morning, and I listened to U2 beautiful day, I was singing along to it all the way round, cos it's such a beautiful morning, maybe thats why I was so sluggish LOL.

Rabbit I call it burt DUDE.

 

20 mins xtrainer level 5.

work then Golf again on a 9 hole course with my son and his friend,  I won by 1 point, so hes getting better and so was I too, its a 3 par course so 27 points, I got mine down to 35, I was made up with that as I have never had a lesson, well my dad told me a few pointers twice and he used to be pro! But I cant do more than 9 holes as its so slow I get bored....

 

A couple of miles slow walking....

Happy Bunny on a beautiful day :-)


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5 measley hours sleep, my own fault though too much alcohol Hicup! Rest day today thankfully as I couldnt do much anyways, real tired and eaten lots of hangover food, oops, then a bbq later so more food, but no alcohol as Ive got my long run tomorrow... Im gonna eat carbs and lots of water because its not going to be a depletion run I want to pick the pace up in last few miles, keeping to 14 max.

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