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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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ran 6 miles, off road, beach sand dunes woodlands, with a back pack on, it was med size and a bit heavy! ran the longest way to the gym.

1 full hour on the xtrainer, level 6 and 7 near the end.

3.4 miles with backpack home shorter route this time.

 

 

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swimming today, 50 lengths  last one under water after a 5 min break, then all out for two more lengths finnish.

 Decided day off, spring clean, well I did spring clean in after xmas then in spring, so third spring clean this year, soon I wont have anything left in my house, another load to the recycle and tip :) 

run later on.  Still feeling a bit tired, not sure if  its just laziness (me lazy cant believe it myself but I think it is just laziness).

Need to get back motivated.

 

 

 

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Well didnt make it the gym this morning, alarm went off, I knocked it and there you go nothing more to say LOL

 

Gym 20 mins xtrainer level 6

3miles running turned into 5.5 miles running and it was a case of omgoodness I had to hold back, I was flying along so big grins I may have my Mojo back :)

cool down xtrainer level 3 (such a good girl I normally hit it out at level 6 he he)

Okay and its TRACK tonight, 1st time I will be doing a proper track session with the club in over oooooooohhhh many years toooooo many, last time I did track with others was when I was 15 yrs old. and last time I raced on the track was when I was pregnant in Aug 2007! so this is going to be fun fun fun, no stress no worries Im just gonna av some fun :)

0.5 mile warm up

8 x 400ms splits 76,74,73,74,74,75,78,74secs each rep with 2.30 mins recovery.

0.5 mile warm down

felt great till last rep as i stopped my hamstring ache, no screamed at me. so its off for a deep ice bath!

 


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zilch miles, oh dear, I have done something and wont be running for a few days, no physio as shes on holiday for another 10 days!  ahhhhh 

Ive booked in to a sports specialist physio but they cant fit me in till wednesday, ahhhh again.. so in my utter not thinking and being side tracked in everything I am doing,  I dropped a plate it smashed and landed on my hand I sliced my finger bad, well its steri stiched up right hand an all, so thats the swimming out the window for fitness ahhhhh 

 

oh so not having a good day today! 3 ice baths and heat, vibration plate for massage and lots of stretching has made me tired at least I might sleep.... prescribed painkillers for the finger and I should be able to sleep.  Well this has taken me a while to type LOL gotta laugh at summit cos If I dont smile I might become a moody person :-)

 

I think its something to do with my previous injury piriformis the pain in the butt syndrome, but lets see what the physio says? 

Now alls I need is swine flu or summit dont they say it comes in 3s!   So no race, the club arent too happy either apparently loads of people have pulled out too!

 

Well for one thing my son went to Liverpool football club goal keeper training at their academy, its a paid for course, on a first come first booked in basis, but he did great and got a prize for best in his group like an award sort of thing, the coaches said they thought he was good :-) hes done so well with his fitness recently cycling with me and stuff so I was made up he's been rewarded in a way to prove that fitness does pay.

 

I may not be running but I will keep update of how I do, I am considering pulling out of Berlin as it is only 7 weeks away.... 

 

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okay I may not have run those 4 miles but I walked it, yay I can walk without a limp :)

so two more ice baths, heat and vibrogym massage, I feel a little better today but the hip is still stiff, and I feel it along my hammy too.

 

a non productive day, I am hoping Its much better again tomorrow but I shall see, both ice baths a good 20 mins which is hard mentally I think anyway its not too bad when you know your running but when your not I feel Kinda peeved with it all. I agree with Chris Ms comments yesterday.

 

I feel as though I didnt warm up enough for such short intervals, also not running much mileage hasnt helped as my legs do feel tighter, and the added thing of running round bends on a track as I feel as though it hurts when I push off and twist slightly to the left, which is the same action you would do around the bend of a track so hey If I hit the track ever again for short fast stuff, Iknow I need to build up to this and warm up stretch allot more like 100 times more :)

 

Went the gym did 60 mins xtrainer level 6. :) 

 


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