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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.

 


 

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early run, as the weather has gone unusually warm for this time of year..... Indian Summer eh! very nice.....

a small cool breeze very sunny and v warm.

 

10 miles a longer run for me.   My legs feel stiff today even though I havent run for 2 days, my achilles on both legs are sore.  I had to warm my legs up on the vibrogym which works well.

 

I went out v slow and easy. off road some rolling hills on a woodland path. dylan and Paul Cycled.  I ran on empty as it was a longer run for me but not real long and I wanted to get back to getting my body used to running on empty every other week on the longer runs.

 

8min mile pace average.... 1hr 19 mins. I felt good at times but if I had to stop to cross a road my legs stiffened up really quick....

stretched then ice bath.   Glad I can run though :-)

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Wow my legs were sore last night. not my hammy as much but my calves were real sore.... I woke up about 5 times with them acheing.....????  does this happen to anyone else as I have only had this before when Ive weight trained or done a huge session.

 

Its cooler today more like autumn weather but still.... Im going to xtrain and do a short easy run.  then its to see my physio.  I had a real good weekend, although this morning I feel absolutely knackered, with the broken sleep and last week took it out of me. as I have gone back to work for the 5 days again, but I havent slowed down on the training time I am still training for the same amount of time really as I was for the marathon albeit not running.  

I have stopped the early morning's to try cope better although I am still tired yawn!

Oh and yeah I did end up telling the hubby about my motorbike antics and discussed how I accidently full wheelied down the road... we talked through how it happened etc, and I understand it better now, he was glad I didnt panic and yank on the break or summit as apparently the bike would have flipped ouch that would have been bad. so basically I have to be softer with the throttle and hold my weight over the handle bars and not pull back oh and dont dump the clutch.... he he it was funny though.   Ive been reading in fast bike magazine about the possibility of a 4 level course which is 4 seperate days on a track teaching you pretty much everything..... hmmm got to wait for my Birthday for that though. :-) 

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oh dear... I have a problematic wisdom tooth, off work and gonna see the dentist I can hardly talk... 

Ive booked for Alton towers which is  theme park in England for My sons birthday hes 11 which is in two weeks. thing is we are staying the night and Ive booked the huge water park too.... so lots of fun and fast rides both on land and in the water... hes taking a friend too and is so excited but so am I.... I cant wait.

if my tooth is better I might try a run later... but its pretty bad so not sure. 

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6 miles all woodlands sand dunes etc, hard going but really enjoyable.

100 swim laps just took my time.   My tooth is much better, dentist gave me anti-biotics injection and tablets, started to work by the afternoon. with the painkillers so I still feel tired but I am okay, then pain is very dull now so thats good, hopefully get some sleep tonight.  

 

My club rang today beggin me to do a road relay race, I said if you want me to be healthy and fit for the xcountry well I better not, they said oh yes thats great. Nice to be asked to run for them again. Anyway during the conversation I was told my running friend was pregnant. well I Face b her, and said congrats did actually make me broody yes me omg ! dont think I have been broody for a few years LOL no worries though...... it lasted a whole 30 secs.  

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Cross trainer level 8 for 10 mins this was pretty hard, get the blood going, stretched those calves!

10 mins of boxer skipping what joy, good calf builder ha ha I did stop several times as I caught the rope lol

10 mins xtrainer level 8 again ready for the sweatmill now, tried out a tempo run.

 

 

I did time not distance for the tempo run. so 8 mins jogging warm up at gradient 1%

7.5 mph which is 8 min pace.  then ramped it up to 14.8 kmh/ 9.25mh which is 6.30 pace.  now I did this to 30 mins so 22 mins then jogged for however long it took me to 10k which seemed like forever....58 mins I was gonna do  a longer tempo but my hammy  started tightening and my calves... got to keep it safe hey.  But alls good 1st proper tempo run.

So off I went as I had 20 mins to stretch, I rolled out my hammies and itb, butt and calves, then stretched then rolled out foam roller then stretched....... feels much better but was painful ouchie

Off to the local pool as the gym pool is 20 metres long, and its like too short and you turn so many times, they have too much chlorine in too urgghhh, now the local pool is 25 metres, and I was planning a 200 lap session.  I was up for it....... my son was doing footy after school then cycling to the pool but I would be out before he even left so !

oh no got to my 69th lap and Dylan was at the side of the pool, something gone on at schoool, so that was it I got out and went to school to sort out why Dylan was told he wasnt allowed to do footy...... (soccer to the americans) anyway big mis-understanding kids I tell ya.  Anyway alls well now, even though he didnt do the trials today hes in the team .... goodnes me his school can be hard work sometimes.   Ok I am glad now it was cut short because i am so tired and my tooth is throbbing now too so maybe I had done too much anyway... so rest rest rest tonight and longish run tomorrow with my friend Shell again, really looking forward to seeing her shes so crazy shes cool :-) 

 

p.s just 6 lbs to go now wooohey  

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wowser. 12 miles we covered, all off road, all sand dunes sand paths, sand sand and more bl***Y sand, woodland paths, and woodland paths and it was a nice route dont get me wrong but I usually do my longer runs half off road half on, not allllll off road, no it was good though.

 

crazy shell was great we talked most of the way round, I think I pushed her this time, I was feeling real good.

 

now I walked my dogs for 4 miles but i havent inc this..... then took my bike out for a few safe miles, although silly me the traffic was heavy everywere frid afternoon rush traffic.... I enjoyed it though.

Happy days..... although I seemed to be vulnerable for hollering today... I was hollered at running, hollered at on my motorbike at the lights by silly workmen in a van havnt a clue what they said just saw them shouting and waving and hanging out the window helmet was great in sounding them out ha ha ha..... oh and beeped at when walking the dogs, did I forget to put clothes on this morning or maybe its my hair has turned green or something lol  

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 went for walk, with the dogs, Paul and DYlan, 4.5 miles walking, did jog here and there to get the legs going, bit sore today, so put down 2 miles v easy.  We walked a route I run sand dunes, woodland paths, beach and a small section of road.    Paul and Dylan were tired after this LOL 

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