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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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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Nike Zoom Pegasus Lifetime Miles: 450.31
Nike Vomeros 3 Pink Swoosh Lifetime Miles: 411.30
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
4.800.003.100.007.90

Yay Sleeep I got some sleep last night apparently I was talking again lol not sure what I was saying but I was talking in my sleep yawn.

 

10 mins xtrainer level 6 

stretch and foam roller my hammy

2.8 miles warm up then hit the speed button on the sweatmill........ and it was warm today or is it me not sure but it was crop and shorts time thank god the gym was like dead quiet so I could get away with this attire ha ha ha

3.1 miles (the tm is in km so i did 5km)  I did start to feel my hammy at 4.5 km but lasted the 5km..... yes yes I had to keep it at 6.25 pace and was under strict instructions to only do 3 miles so I had to do 0.1 extra naughty girl.....

2 miles jog warm down ease off.........  

 

Core work... Ok I was shattered but still did some core work I wanted to go into the weights room but there were lots of men doing their own thing circuit style training... so I went off to the I call it hanging leg raises thingy thing.... did lots of  leg raises 3 sets of 15 then leg curl ups 3 sets of 15 and 2 sets of 10 for leg curls but to the side.

Ha ha the men seem to abscond from the area I wanted to do my medicine ball core work.... they left the medicine ball out that I use its quite a big one cant remember the size anyways did my v sit up and then stay in the v sit up and move the medicine ball to either side..... I have my music blasting whilst doing this core work as I find it hard work... unknown to me theyre now waiting for the blooming ball I was using oh dear!   so I tried the plank havent done this for some time and I have just blasted my abs Allie will be pleased that I aint got anywere near her 3mins 40 odd secs omg I did 1min 30 secs and dropped ha ha then its stretch stretch stretch foam roller foam roller  

 

the story behind the story well its great doing core work with a medicine ball that some big lug of men  use it make me feel all feminine NOT....and dont try doing the plank the same amount of time as ALLIE because she has abs of steal wehay !

 

Nike Vomeros 4 White Blue Miles: 7.90
Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Weight: 6.50Calories: 0.00
Comments
From ChrisM on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:42:00 from 130.88.123.4

Nice work there.

I have been out blogged today!!

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 06:38:00 from 78.32.130.9

ha ha only thing this is yesterdays training lol

From allie on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 13:11:24 from 67.177.43.41

lol. i do not have abs of steel. and it has taken me 1.5 years of planks to get to 3:45. really, i am a wimp. that's why i keep doing the planks, to fight off the wimpiness. :)

nice speedy running!

From Burt on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 13:11:28 from 68.76.197.194

allie is a freak of nature. Or a force of nature. Or Mother Nature. One of those.

From Burt on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 13:12:42 from 68.76.197.194

Oh crud! She commented 4 seconds before I did. That means she'll get an email notification of what I just said about her. Run Burt run!

From ChrisM on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 13:14:49 from 86.136.113.157

Look at Burt run! LOL

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 13:20:30 from 90.201.147.131

omg Ive only just read this Allie you do have abs of steal and you are a force to be wreckoned with lol

yes run Burt run omg hes gone how speedy was that LOL

From allie on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 13:22:15 from 67.177.43.41

i am a calamity of nature. i do have an "in" with mother nature though. she is going to send 120 F to arizona for the next 4 weeks. and i hired a few freaks of nature to come and destroy your AC in the night. do you have night terrors about little freaks? well this one is real.

From Burt on Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 13:38:15 from 68.76.197.194

I'll be waiting on my roof for them in my BVD's.

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 14:49:41 from 90.195.99.249

ha ha ha Only just read this Allie thats so funny lol

Burt Wot I googled bvd omg answers;

1.Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD)

2. mens underwear we call these y front ha ha ha

From Burt on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 14:57:38 from 68.76.197.194

It's the underwear. Because it's so hot thanks to allie's curse. And don't give her any ideas of cursing me with cow diarrhea.

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 15:22:45 from 90.195.99.249

so I take it you looked up the bvd cow thingy lol ha ha ha

From allie on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 15:47:13 from 67.177.43.41

LOL! i had to look up BVD's as well. then i figured out what they were and i pictured burt on his roof in red BVD's with a shotgun and shoelace-less boots. bovine viral diarrhea sounds much more interesting though.

From Burt on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 16:07:48 from 68.76.197.194

Red?

From allie on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 16:19:42 from 67.177.43.41

plaid?

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 17:37:06 from 90.195.99.249

ha ha ha got the giggles now. I have a very active imagination or over active to say the least

Plaid ?? (yes I know what it is but why??)

glad you didnt know what they were either Allie...

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