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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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Nike Zoom Pegasus Lifetime Miles: 450.31
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Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Lifetime Miles: 396.57
Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Lifetime Miles: 513.06
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
53.402.506.000.0061.90
Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Miles: 10.50Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Miles: 40.90Nike Zoom Pegasus Miles: 10.50
Night Sleep Time: 46.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 46.50Weight: 6.00Calories: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.002.500.000.0010.50

1st is I only have 6lbs to go yay ! 

2nd I weighed yesterday on my rest day pleased to have lost another 1lb.

3rd Sore tummy most of the night didnt sleep well......stomach bug me thinks

4th I still tried to do my run obviously running on empty hey ho mind strengthener

5th I only did 10.5 miles and struggled all the way round with 3 toilet stops Paul wasnt impressed at all

6th last 2.5 miles I really pushed it to get home and get it over with cutting the run short and not doing the planned upto 15 miles     last 2.5 miles in 6.30/6.45 pace so faster than marathon pace really.

7th Nap time yawn :-) 

Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Miles: 10.50
Night Sleep Time: 8.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 8.00Weight: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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9.700.000.000.009.70

 

New techno drinks belt lol http://www.baronbob.com/beerbeltguy.jpg  

9.7 miles 1hr10 mins 30 secs  easy pace went out 8 min pace and didnt really bother too much with the garmin ran how I felt ! 

 My usual route I go across some fields but mostly road and some trail.  Well I could have dodged bullets today lol......long story !

Weather bit of a breeze overcast but dry

warmed up on the xtrainer 10 mins level 6 and warmed down on the xtrainer 10mins level 4.....

Core work medicine ball......side plank with a twist. plank with one leg raised x each leg x 2.

Plank straight forward 2mins 3 secs errrm better than the other day.....mind strength that one ha ha.

stretched foam rollered..  I do get some funny looks foam rollering in the gym well it hurts lol

Went to my local spa for an invigorating back massage...lovely..

 

 

 

Funny Running

Quotes 

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"Are you ok, 
are you coming down with something, 
you look
 so pale? " 
someone always says this to me before the start of a race and i'm thinking oh my god whats wrong with me,am i going to make it through this race ! 
Alien Lizard 

"RELAX !" someone always shouts this to me in the last mile of a race, i think to myself RELAX if i relax i will be horizontal ! 
by Alien Lizard 

"Only 200 m to go!" some old guy always shouts this to me near the end of a new race ! i start sprinting only to find that round the next corner there is a sign saying 800m to go ! blooming eck, i am now in chronic oxygen debt with 10 runners on my shoulder! 
by Alien Lizard 

Are you ok, do you need medical attention ? someone always says that to me at the end of the race and i'm thinking oh my god do i really look that bad ! 

 

by Alien Lizard 

Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Miles: 9.70
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
10.500.003.000.0013.50

What a day its really gone cold over here and damp cold too not nice.....  work was busy not so good for the people coming in and I arranged a friends mums funeral hes a runner too and owns a running shop in Southport..... hes alright but very upset and this drains you sometimes I hate my job!  

 

13.5 miles today

I didnt do the treadmill as I thought maybe doing the faster work on the treadmill when my hammy is still a bit crampy isnt great so I thought Ill go do a route I used to do for tempo runs.  (I like straight roads with no junctions but I hate the by-pass so I head out to a coast road which is pretty straight one or two roundabouts to cross but its a good route)

 

ok so 2.5 miles jog through fishermans path to the coast road this is like an undulating gravel track through a woods nice run kept my pace to 8.30 pace as I knew it would be hard to do a tempo run outside for the 1st time.

got to the coastroad and the wind was in my favour but I knew the roads is a long bend that by the end of my run it will be a cross wind at best !

off I went a little too excited to blow cobwebs away after work

mile 1 6.24 mins   

mile 2 6.31 mins

mile 3 6.39 mins ( cross head wind I struggled on this mile allot had to stop to cross a roundabout but I did hit the stop button not sure if thats the right thing to do or not it was only 5 secs before I crossed but of course their is the decrease and increase of speed to show !

so I ran 3miles out and then I went into the sanddunes path which runs along side the coastroad. which is sandy.grassy undulating to say the least and back home to make 12.5 miles well the run back was slow and it was my legs that felt it this time as on the tempo run it was my breathing and arms felt so heavy..

So an ok run I thought Id easily do 3 miles and maybe lengthen it to 3.5 or even 4 miles but there was no way I was going to do more than 3 miles.  

 

home shower stretched out... My hip is sore and hammy and tonight I had stretch out and massage it tennis ball at the ready ouchie !

 

 

Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Miles: 13.50
Night Sleep Time: 6.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 6.00Weight: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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Help I need cheering up then Chris M cheered me up and my neros coffee cheered me up 

 

QUESTION ;   what should the average room temp be for an office ?????? 

 Okay I did a 6 miler tonight whilst my son was at football/soccer training.... Paul has to come with me on the bike as hes put weight on and wishes to lose it !

although he does help me when he cycles with me.

I am supposed to have an easy run today but as my tempo didnt go so great yesterday I thought go out see how I feel and see if I can hold a pace for 3 miles.

3 miles 7.30 pace..... good warm up

4th mile 6.21  too fast

5th mile 6.40 dieing

6th mile 6.41 died sat down and was pretty annoyed as I really should have had a recovery run and ran hard tomorrow.... but hey it must all help for me to get back to fitness.

 

I rang my coach today and he was pretty cool about it all and thinks its just the trials and tribulations of recovering from injury..... my hammy was actually okay as I spent about 45 mins this afternoon at the gym foam rollering it and stretching it out after a small jog warm up.  I am not going to do a race this weekend as I had planned to do coach Reg said "no way, you gotta get fitter and youve only just started sessions 1 week ago so give it 2 more weeks maybe 3 then maybe race if all is well"  and I knew he was right I have to be patient urgghhh :-(

 

So the day started out bad got better then went bad again but thats life isnt it ! 

I was in Queen Creek Yesterday or was it the day before anyhow I caught Burt on camera

Okay I had to facebook the pictures as I cant get them to load on this silly blog now I am a computer learner for the 1st time in my life I cant get the stupid thing to work lol at myself!

 

try try try again

 

Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Miles: 6.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.50Weight: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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Okay I was tired this morning I did sleep sort of okay but not great.

 

10 mins xtrainer level 6.

 

I wanted to do an 11 mile route so I went out..... windy all the way out, path down the side of a barracks then round to hightown sanddunes crosby sanddunes then crosby front along the seaside but tarmac from here on.  all the way upto th leisure centre full on wind for over 5miles.  

Okay I started to head back but from the start I wasnt feeling great again and now was feeling worse, I dont usually take fluids with me for this sort of length run but felt very thirsty...and hungry I didnt eat much for breakfast and hadnt eaten since and last night was a light snack so I start realising im boinging (bonking/hitting the wall) it was pretty hard going average time 8/8.15 pace some faster some slower!  I hit the 10.5 mile mark and realised its no way a 11 mile route more of a 12/12.5 and I was running late due to the fact I was running slower than 1st thought  so I knew I was gonna run late literally for my phsyio appointment.  and I hit the by-pass and felt dizzy I wanted to be sick but as I hadnt eaten there was nothing there urgghhhh I had hit the wall I ran for 3 miles through it and seemed to hit it again I felt like I wanted to just sit down and go to the sleep ha ha ha so I rang Paul he was local thankfully and wasnt too bothered about picking me up actually seemed very happy to pick me up and drop me off at the gym....  so 10.5 miles Im happy with and I must have burnt some fat there LOL 

 

 

When Paul dropped me at the gym as this was my starting point it was funny all 3 male gym trainers were at the door how embarassing... they were like omg you ok you had an accident I must have looked awful, I replied "no just not eaten enough and ran outta puff"

they replied oh dear so you just flagged a van down then

Me " ha ha ha no thats my husband as if ! "   and I went to see Jane My physio and she was like oh god sam whats wrong I was like nothing im ok just need something to boost my sugar I think... and off she went I only wanted a lucozade as I think I would have thrown anything else up like food stuff. ha ha.

 

Ok my hammy was bubbly and needed sorting it was also a bit bunched up but thats the tempo run I think and my hip was bad  to say the least ouchie ouchie it really hurt but she sorted it out with me making silly noises ahhhh ahhhh ahhh LOL

 Mileage Board WHOS the DADDY Chris M...now dont go running 2 miles or anything ha ha ha 

 

 

Nike Zoom Pegasus Miles: 10.50
Night Sleep Time: 7.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 7.00Weight: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
11.700.000.000.0011.70

Not much sleep my son Dylan was up most of the night moaning he had a headache etc so not feeling too good!

 

plan was run the route yesterday again.... Paul (hubby) told me at about 10am he was finishing work early and could cycle with me... well this alters the route as he cant do sand dunes etc, I missed some of the route out but it was just abit more direct and more tarmac.

Its a nice day though as we went towards crosby leisure centre there were allot of people along the front due to the centenery of the Royal Navy.

As they were docked in Liverpool port, and the helicoptors... planes and jets etc were doing an airshow.  It was nice to see that, the weather was a clear day sunshine but some head wind again all the way for the 5miles urgghh.

I had fuelled this morning to just a bit more porridge and a light snack at 10am as I run at 1pm.... I did ok  hammy ok and my best mileage week so far and I feel okay :-)

 

  • mile 1 8.10
  • 2 7.57
  • 3 7.56 
  • 4 7.57
  • 5 7.57
  • 6 7.48
  • 7 7.18
  • 8 7.24
  • 9 7.12
  • 10 7.05
  • 11 7.07
  • 12 4.20 0.7 miles   6.20 pace
  • 1 hour 28 mins total.
So the plan was go out easy hold till mile 6 then pick up on the way back and I did ha ha I stopped just before the start of mile 7 to stretch my hammy make sure its ok before picking up the pace and had a small disagreement with Paul ha ha this helped me pick the pace up LOL.

 

 

tired now and need more food again got to be sensible as Im going to try do 15 miles on Sunday fingers crossed.

 

 


Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Miles: 11.70
Night Sleep Time: 5.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
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Rest day for me.... off to watch soccer in the rain lovely...... 

 

I am very happy I am off work for 1 week although I am sure I will have lots to go back to after a week off unlike some people at work !

 

Ha ha my cat as just returned after a night out what a dirty stop out, hes all wet and hungry disgusting I say ha ha ha lol.

I have a headache this morning I decided as Im now off work (dylans also off school for half term too) im going to have 2 glasses of wine. Big mistake urghhh :-) 

 

 

Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Weight: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
53.402.506.000.0061.90
Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Miles: 10.50Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Miles: 40.90Nike Zoom Pegasus Miles: 10.50
Night Sleep Time: 46.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 46.50Weight: 6.00Calories: 0.00
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