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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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Oh dear another not so good night sleep, two nights in a row, either something is really bothering me or something is really bothering me !

 

Paul actually woke me up as I was making weird noises another nightmare eh!

 

I wasnt sure how my legs really felt today the felt sore to touch but not to walk, so I thought I would suck it and see !  maybe a couple of miles easy or a reasonable long run.

 

The weather is pretty bad in the uk at the moment most of the northwest is covered with weather warnings gladly we havent had it worse than usual, just wet windy and damp cold urghhh.

 

I waited till the afternoon to run as I needed to fuel and had a few scoops of vino last night LOL.

 

13.4 miles in total in 1hr 31 mins average overall is 7.20 min miles

1. 7.36

2. 7.21

3. 7.25

4. 7.35

5. 7.31

6. 7.45 windy 

7. 7.16  I think I picked the pace up too much due to battling the wind

8 6.48  1 mile at tempo pace with a cross wind.

9 7.05

10 7.24

11/11.5 3.15 half mile a short rest to stretch and do a tempo mile

11.5-12.5. 6.35 tempo pace 

13.4 7.11

 

A good run considering my tiredness and tight legs :-)

 

Not much to report I was pretty zoned all the way through this run I listened to a pop top 10 song which I played over and over to keep a good rythme !

Allie No wooly bikini but shorts tshirt and lovely wooly long socks ! LOL

 

Yes very tired, drained but happy I did this run and no big repercussions so far :-) 

 

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okay I didnt sleep much again Ouch..... and early morning got builders in today to start work on our house urghhhh..... reason for no sleep well it wasnt me for once it was my son he had growing pains poor thing but I NEED MY SLEEP :)

 

finished work late, so not much time I was seeing my physio early so only had about an hour if that to do a workout!

the gym was busy, Formby High school arrived with my old pe teacher Mrs Williams See see everyone Im not that old well she must be really old now LOL a bus load of school girls, all giggley and not wanting to move a hair outta place oh dear I hope nobody gets on the sweatmill next to me it would be shock horror omg sweaty betty ha ha

 

It was that warm I resorted to summer clothing on a hot day yes shorts and crop.

My coach is annoyed with me, Its race week so xcountry this Saturday and I should have waited and done my tempo run tomorrow although it wasnt much of a tempo run 2 miles eh! but I was told to do this session this week and my legs felt okay I wanted to do it today so I did as I spit me dummy out LOL !

So easy day Tuesday, strides Wed and good length run,   Thursday short and easy then rest Friday and race Sat xcountry 5miles.

 

Now It may sound a bit drastic tapering for a xcountry that is only 5 miles long but omg xcountry in this country is hard Sat afternoon I will want to just curl up into a ball and die, its not hard like acheing like a marathon its hard like you have run your guts out proper and your legs ache but you just get so tired within hours honest its not nice well it has been 2 years since I ran xcountry so maybe im being a bit of drama queen he he :) 

I warmed up xtrainer so that used time up ahhhh

2mile warm up on the sweatmill and it was a sweatmill today no air con no nothing??? why I dont know but it was hot

2 mile threshold 6.20 pace

jogged for 5 mins

1 mile 6 min pace

then jogged for 1 mile

6 miles thats all I had time for and a 5 min xtrainer warm down and off to see the physio ouch OUCH OUCH physio hurt me lots OUCH.

 

No pain no Gain

Happy bunny me ol legs are holding out still but only just :-)    = Happy bunny :-) 

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Got some better sleep last night but still not great, my cat was run over yesterday and the vet rang late he wouldnt settle and they couldnt find anything too bad wrong with him just superficial and a bruised hip, so I collected him and settled him at home but I just couldnt sleep properly I kept having to check on him, but he seems allot better today  :(

xtrainer 15 mins level 6 just enough to warm up  

6.5 mile easy run route hoggs hill run to squirrel and then main roads back to the gym!   very muddy today cold dull and windy weather is miserable, horrid not nice and depressing, urghhh!    47mins approx lol.

Got some proper funny looks today but I know it was due to the mud infested legs I had ha ha it was fun to run through the mud and I thought oh well I will have allot more on Saturday.  I felt good running and had to hold my self back I had the good run feeling and thought oh please stay with me till Saturday oh please cos     "I gotta feeling, oooh oh "  oh and I listened to this song today lots and lots on my run "get shaky" ha ha its a good song to run to its funny ;-)

 

xtrainer 15 mins I did some short 1 min intervals to break it up as I was a touch fed up with the xtrainer.

Foam roller and stretching.  My phsyio seems to have found my trigger point for my hip tightness so I foam roller'd it and stretched out seemed to have helped lots.

  

 

Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Miles: 6.50
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Wooohooo 9 hours sleep last night yay :-)

 

We are still waiting on Hospital appointments for a specialist neuro hosp in Liverpool for Paul and it really was bothering me the last 5 nights anyway I got to speak to someone today and he still has to have more scans and stuff but the worry I did have about it has gone... they have assured me it isnt what I thought it was without going into details.

 

So what a long day I have had today..... started with Electricians arriving at 8am ha ha me no morning person lol then plasterers not turning up! it has taken me all day to sort out inbetween all this

 

1.I had a long meeting at work about the business

2.a short easy run 2 miles just to get the blood going didnt go the gymHe he Still got that great run/race feeling... Im sure if it all goes right I shall race well :-)

3.  A really great motorbike ride even though the weather is proper pants I still enjoyed myself blew some cobwebs away

4. I was the cool mum who picked Dylan up from school on the motorbike.

5. 10th phone conversation with kitchen/building people...... and I was just about to go for coffee on the motorbike with Dylan and 

6. I rode to the kitchen place gave them whatfor. got the sales man and 2 others to meet me at my home ha Im something to be messed with I tell ya!  all sorted so too cold and dark to go get coffee on me bike

7. wow quick change off to get coffee and I get a phone call again My nephew Lee passed his car test wehayyyy so

8. Go get him a card and pressie

9. home bath husband and time for sleep again oh and amongst that I got a nap somewere there cant remember when LOL

 

 

Hey guys Happy Days for the happy Bunnies ;-)

no Chris more like this ;)

easter-bunny-motorcycle.jpg image by gearhead505 

LOL

giant-rabbit.jpg 

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Xtrainer level 6 10 mins warm up 

6.5 miles in total average 7.15 min pace.

 

did 3 x 1 min intervals to sharpen a bit so I am not lethargic for Saturday. approx 5.30 pace.

I felt good  like TIGGER bouncing down the road.  

 

Did a warm down as I did the intervals at 2.5 miles so warm down was the last 2 miles

foam rollered and stretched.

 

Physio for a pre-race massage, and it was really painful.   OUCH !

 

Well thats all, oh we went to the local village for the xmas lights switch on it was really busy and cold. brrrrrrrr      ;-) 

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REST DAY YAY

REST   DAY 

  • work 
  • coffee with a friend after work
  • nap 
  • collect dylan
  • another nap
  • shopping 
  • clean spikes from last race 2 yrs ago urghhh ha ha ha
  • pack bag for tomorrow
  • Ring my coach run through race 
  • practice race in my mind LOL
  • eat 
  • sleep (fingers crossed I sleep maybe I will have one nap then)
  •  

 

Now I didnt get much sleep last night, well I got some but very broken everything woke me up even the milkman delivering next door huh!

 

Its not stopped raining for days so its gonna be a mud bath

 

 

 

 

 

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Race: uk Xcountry Mcain Uk athletics Challenge (4.8 Miles) 00:31:35, Place overall: 63, Place in age division: 7
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UPDATE


7th in the Mid-Lancashire league, I was aiming for top 10 Im happy with that.

63rd in the Uk athletics McCain challenge I didnt have any hope of coming this high up as I have only done 4 weeks of sessions and consistant training

the time is a big improvement on what I thought I had done :-)

 

Also My legs are okay today which is Sunday, not too sore, hip and hammy a bit tight Im having a day off :-O  Happy days  

 

 

 

Crisp sunny wintery day, no rain but its rained that much over the last weeks that the course was a mud bath and boggy all the way around with no let up what so ever!

 

Well I am not sure were I came the results were 45 mins behind schedule and I just wanted to get home and get a shower I was caked in mud. :-)

 

I went off easy well if you can call boggy conditions easy, the instruction from my coach was take it easy wait 3 mins then slowly pick the pace up, I thought I did this

1 mile   6.12

2 mile    6.53 

3 6.54

4 6.53

0.8   6.36 now I forgot to turn off my stop watch so I am not sure what time i came in on.

I am waiting for the results on the internet.

It was a really boggy course, I found it hard at one point half way round the second lap (1st big lap) but then got into a groove on the 2nd big lap, and thought the course was more closer to 5 miles although it was short, and thankful for a friend who told me its llike 200-300 metres to the finish and I should be kicking in now well I wouldnt have cought anyone else but I took a couple so that was great.

I felt like I did well but Im not sure, it was my 1st xcountry in 2 yrs so it was a huge shock to the system and it seemed long but short ha at one point I thought oh dear im not gonna make it round but then when I got into the groove I thought this is good and I could have gone another few miles at least.

 

~The rain stayed off yay~

I warmed up for a mile or so and warmed down for a mile and bit so I figured 2.5 miles which is enough.  I am tired but not as tired as I thought I would be.

 Paul and Dylan came with me to watch me run which was awesome I liked seeing them on the sidelines, as it was laps so I saw them a few times although on one lap Paul sorta pulled a face and was like "come on get going more"  I just shrugged and shouted you do it then huh LOL I did say sorry at the end but I was having a tough time at that one point LOL. ;-)

:-) 

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