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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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Ive not run since last monday!! when my calf went...:(  but Ive done a decent week of xtraining and stretching then I rested for two days over the weekend and ate well for once!

 

I had a great weekend in the end my kitten baby gremlins are putting chubbiness on adequately.  I have been having to get up through the night for the last 6 nights and I have been dreadfully dead to the world. It has been very rewarding although heartache over the two small kittens that died.

 

I feel quite recovered and energised from my two day rest, I have been researching triathlons and oh my there is allot to learn even just about the tranistion and bike and technology, too many different items of clothing.

 

I recorded the Lanzarote Iron man, quite truthfully one of the hardest iron man's around so they said!! it looked hard to me but the elite racers seem to make it look easy... and the winning lady to clock a 3 hour 4 mins marathon after swimming  for over an hour and cycling over 100 miles omg I gotta do this one day lol

 

 

 

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gym calves feel okay but not gonna run for a few more days got to make sure this time as its only 4 weeks to the swiss trail marathon!!

 

puke session on the xtrainer

so its 3 mins recovery 6 mins hard level 9

did 6 x 6mins and oh my goodness on the 5th one I felt like puking but on the 6th I thought I was gonna pass out lol.

175hr was the top on the last rep!

10mins of hard step ups gotta get these legs ready for hills :O

core work for hips.

lunges on bosu

swiss ball med ball plank and curls

arms on bicep curls with a twist whilst balancing on the swiss ball !

russian twist balancing on the swiss ball with med ball.

more hip exercises

stretch and foam rollerereeeeeed!

happy dayz..... 

the kittens still putting weight on fat boy has been caught up by Diesal (hes cute like Vin diesal lol)  even the tiny one tiny timpah I called him as he is tiny but got heart as he has fought for milk.  

 

Oh dear this morning I was in happy cheer... then had a mad monday summit in work.... its hard my job really is sometimes and sometimes its easy to take it personally ! anyways one of my colleagues bought me a cream cake mmmmmm rubs belly, I dont actually like cream or cream cakes but hey it was bought for me I cannot refuse lol so me happy bunny today although Im hoping my effort at the gym worked it off ;)

 

p.s he did buy everyone cream cakes as he won some football thing betting he got £30 now if I win the sweep in work for the world cup I might win £25 ha ha hope so...maybe thats what I will do with the money buy cakes :))  but chocolate ones ha ha 

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I wont go in to detail as to why I am sore but lets just say i had another accident on Tuesday my luck must come back soon its just not good that Im having such bad luck!!! :((

So Im pretty sore I tried a bike ride cycling and I was sore but I managed 11 miles got a puncture but  I managing to sort that myself too !  I am not sure if I wll be able to run this marathon now at all. We are still going over to the swiss alps as I could down grade to the half marathon Im sure I will cope jogging round some trails for that..... Im just gonna wait and see how quickly I get over this ! so as my coach says "suck and it and see" lol

 

:-/ 

 

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Cycled 9 miles

30 mins xtrainer level 6/7 

gym core work 

press ups 20,20,20,20.... quit what yes I quit hmmmmm not like me Id even try 1-2 but it was a cba mood by the time I got to the press ups never mind!!

 

 

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Cycled with my son for 6 miles easy pace

then swam with my son Dylan.

I did lengths of 2 hard then 2 easy and Dylan swam the easy lengths pool length 25metres.

fast lengths for there and back 2 were average 42/44 secs

easy lengths for there and back 2 were average 55/58 secs

did 16 hard 16 easy 32 lengths.

then swam easy for another 10 lengths.  Didnt want to push it and the pool was closing soon I couldnt fit in so many lengths as I wanted to do some pool running my feet touching the bottom and also wanted to see if I could still do a length under water.

 

5 mins recovery

1 full 25 metre length under water

pull running across the middle of the pool approx 15 metres did this for 10 mins legs okay calf not too bad!! in the water it felt fine :))

rest and one last blast in the pool 2 lengths hard 42 secs :)) 

cycled home for another 1.5 miles. Dylan did great he did just over half length under water :)) and did a total of 25 lengths, he hasnt been swimming for quite some time.

 

 

 

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