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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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woohoo 1 mile ha ha I walked on the sweat mill 4.5% incline at 3.6mph wowsers anyways

I was using a powerlung which athletes use whilst not doing exercise but I have had this ages and forgot about it till 3 days ago.... I have used for 5 mins each day as additional training but today I walked a mile

4 mins using the powerlung 1 min recovery 1 min on did this for a total of 10 mins of use of the powerlung whilst walking uphill!  with a total of 16 mins LOL

16min mile ha ha anyway it was hard work on my lungs which is greeeaaaat

 and all in my FAT FLOPS :O

Happy Dayz  

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7 miles pushed my luck my calf is sore again ! :(

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Not a happy Bear (no bunny feel like a bear lol)   I cant run my calf is too sore 

who o why Im all the names under the sun and I just spent loads of money on useless things on the internet but it hasnt made me feel better :(((

 

Half term for the kids, so no gym ! unless I get up at 6am Im thinking of doing that actually and just swim give my body a rest .. 

 

 

Dealing With the Emotional Impact When you're recovering from a running injury, you become very aware of how running is a huge part of your life. Follow these tips to help you cope with the psychological strain of not being able to run.    

Nah humbug I feel like eating cake lots of cake 


 

World’s Biggest Cookie

In 2003, Immaculate Baking Co. created a 40,000-pound chocolate-chip cookie measuring over 100 feet in diameter to capture the record for World’s Biggest Cookie. Ingredients used were 6,000 pounds of chocolate chips, 12,200 pounds of unbleached flour, 6,525 pounds of unsalted butter, 5,000 pounds of granulated sugar, 3,370 pounds of dark brown sugar, 184 pounds of salt, 79 pounds of baking soda, 30,000 whole eggs and 10 gallons of pure vanilla. Engineered in Hendersonville, North Carolina, the cookie was baked in a structureless 7,850-foot oven—specially designed for the big cookie—in convective heat, for five to six hours. Following the event, the cookie was cut and sold, and 100% of the proceeds were donated to the Folk Artist's Foundation. Photo courtesy of Immaculate Baking Company via ImmaculateBaking.com.


World’s Largest Slab of Fudge 

The world's largest slab of fudge was created by Chantelle Gorham, the owner of Northwest Fudge Factory, a fudge wholesale company located in Ontario, Canada. The photo above is of her third record-breaking slab (beating out her other two records), which weighed 5,050 pounds and was made of marbled white and dark chocolate fudge. It was displayed at the New Sudbury Shopping Center, also in Ontario, in May 2007 to promote her now-booming fudge-making business. Photo courtesy of Chantelle Gorham via NorthwestFudgeFactory.com.



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20 bike miles. averaged 16mph off road tracks and gravel tracks etc nice sunny day bit of a breeze 

1hr 13 mins Mountain bike ! 

Enjoyed it but pushed hard all the way round my quads were burning baby just burning

 

 

I failed to add details yesterday as my internet is playing up again apparently my service provider claims somebody is hijacking my wifi so is it the old dear across the road, or the 90 yr old next door or it could be Irene the curtain twitcher next door who is in fact 86yrs old I wonder ! 

 

the bike ride..... It was pretty uneventful except for dog walkers I was trying to keep pace and shouting coming through but they just stand around letting there dogs get mown down by a crazy runner who cant run lol

Bunny Rabbits 4

nearly dead dogs 23

idiot groups of men  23

white van men 2

 

I cycled home on the last bit which was road..... I cycled up behind someone I knew and my bike is quite noisy chain needs sorting gears need lining up so why this person didnt hear my brakes screech next to them I dont know I shouted boo.... I got chinned :O 

 

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Cycled to a spot were I know its a nice soft sandy and very soft bouncy grass trail in the woods !  hid the bike lol 

 

then ran 1 mile out and turned round to run 1 mile back its a good hilly trail so a bit testing on the ole calf...... but hey it was sound really good nice one La!

To add to my day well I cycled to the local village to take my son and his friend to the swimming pool.... I left them there and went on my way to have a bike ride and the short run...... now when the sun is out and its hot everyone seems to have left work and driven to Formby beach..... the road I cycle on to get to the woods which is not near the most public bit of woods I might add cos I hate crowds.... is the road that is most used ha ha

Some idiot men hung out of a car and tried to grab my ass ! yes indeedy !   thank god they missed but the police van that was behind well I think they must have thought it was funny too as I heard them laughing with their window open now thats blooming good policing to me although I did find it slightly funny as they missed .......

 

So  

 

Happy Bunny yes I saw some bunnies they looked a bit hot and tired tho !

Idiot cars full of scousers 2 

bunnies very tired ones 6

mad nearly run over dogs 0

People walking in the way on the path (I mean how dare they) 50 zillion  

ha ha I tried to cycle around some nettles so I didnt get stung and my front wheel hit a piece of wood I didnt see sticking out the ground I nearly fell off my bike banged my knee LOL  

Total run 2 miles

Total cycle 6 miles

 weather hot hot hot 

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humid and hot and I was the mad english woman I ran at 1.00pm,,,,,, in the heat of the day :)

 

 Sumo Rabbit at all the chocolate

 ha ha ha what is with that ! lol 

 

oh and the chin is ok no mark thank goodness :) 

 

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My calf seemed good, stretched and no soreness, calf raises to test nothing IM happy!

 

Okay I was hoping for un-eventful but me is that possible ha ha..... I did a 4.3 mile route that I can run which is soft under foot but not too soft, and my son can cycle some of..... it was early evening and still lots of people around the beach etc, so to avoid these was hard.

 

but I had a good run and even picked the pace up on the 2nd to last mile then jogged in.

 

Happy dayz very hot dayz :)

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This is my rest day usually so I had it as a rest day! my calf a bit tight so a called for rest day too.

 

I tried to get together a team of 3 people for a relay marathon trail for next Saturday the deadline for entry was today..... I got a good team me Chris M and my friend whom isnt an frb'er Sally well on trying to enter I realised its now an online entry omg so I rang the organizers and they wouldnt accept over the phone or fax it had to be received in the post today so that wasnt possible unless I drove over 3 hours to post it hmmmmm me not thinkso! 

 

So the relay was off bummer :((((

 

I am now trying to find a suitable not too short not too long off road race but I am struggling :((

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