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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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my 2nd triathlon 

500ms swim 8 mins 30

8.5 miles off road bike horrendous conditions monsoon

5 miles run up a fell to a pike horrendous couldnt see at one point due to he clouds and monsoon conditions.

40.53 mins

 

total time 1.59.53

the time is irrelevant as they told us just subtract approx 30 mins due to the conditions it was that bad honestly horrendous 2nd triathlon 2nd drowning. I finnished wetter than when i got out the pool.

12 seconds behind my age grouper world champion.... I am shell shocked and amazed happy dayz.... now Im gonna rest recovery for 2 weeks then build it back up do some winter strength training and hit the qualifications for the gb team :)) 

 above is the quick write up here goes for the details...... ;

 

i was very prepared as I knew the bike course but not the run course, although I did get lost on the bike course last week ha ha.... in dry conditions it was extreme for me I have never attempted to cycle such paths or off road routes ha ha 

the weather was like a monsoon We got muddy very muddy just racking the bike in transition which was a run from the pool up a muddy bank to a muddy field.

okay I was calm before my swim and set off at a decent pace in my group wave I started second we were timed individually but set off in my lane 1 min after another person in my lane so we were staggered, 1 min after me another person set off, then that was our group wave set off.  I kept my calm swam well didnt quite time my breathing 100% all the time but did so much better than my 1st triathlon.  there were 6 lanes and 6 men started 1 min before me and then the other 5 men starting with me,  no woman... I overtook and lapped the men in my lane, and got out the pool 1st out of everyone :)

out the pool, it was cold outside with the conditions, so I had a long sleeve run top to contend with omg it took me forever to get on as I was wet urghh, then my waterproof jacket with my number on for the bike well the zipper played up but that was it oh and trainers on for the run to the transition.

transition was good, my helmet was ready and it was basically get the bike and go as my energy gel and water were on the bike ready and I was using my trainers as its my old mountain bike  ( I say old, its about 5 yrs old cannondale so its pretty much like new still)

off I went the start is a huge tarmac hill 400ms up it was raining so heavy a stream was coming down the road, it was hard work, i realised then my energy gel had fallen off at some point :(   2hrs with no energy gels is not good.

I actually caught up a marshall cycling up the hill he commented how I must be doing a good time to catch him and he stayed with me to the top that was cool he kept me going cos my thighs were burning. then up another off road hill only small, then through and down through a field, it was so muddy it was slow going then a fast section but it had a cobbled wall that was fallen over to get over omg it's scary stuff, at this point one of the men passed me from the swim he went flying past.   Then a sharp turn and up through a cow field niiiceee, very muddy twice my pedals stopped due to the depth of the muddy water i had to get off and push.

a huge fast tarmac down this I gave hell for leather dangerously and there were sleeping policemen which I timed perfect lifting my front wheel before each, although when I saw another competitor on the road side, I braked and slid quite some way, but I was ok.

back then and some more terrible ups trying to cycle up through a field in thick mud is near impossible, I ran it pushing my bike ha ha .... again another near impossible a bridle path with huge tree roots and rocks going steeply up is near impossible to cycle again I ran it and was catching someone trying to cycle it !!

a few more ups like this then another huge up on the top of the hill, it was a sheer drop and some technical downs, a woman was walking with her bike, no way I was risking to cycle it or get passed her cycling, so I ran it sort of it was steep down, once passed her, a stile to get over with your bike ha ha  already done 2 of them!! then a muddy field down and a rocky steep down for about half a mile, this was horrendous the water and stream produced by the monsoon made it so dangerous, but I risked it and went for it, screaming to myself and yes outloud not cos it was so scary although it was but my arms and shoulders were having hell with the pounding aghhhhhhhhh

 

some more technical bits, through a farm past some more ladies... only one person passed me that was on the first down the man from my swim, I think I passed approx 15 people on the bike, these were all the people that started in the waves before my wave, which we had approx 2 mins ahead after their swim. 

back into transition I racked my bike, I was loving it at this point my legs werent too bad but they felt like they had done allot. I knew I hadnt had an enerby gel, although I had drunk most of my drink, I did stop in transition to drink the rest of it, then I forgot to remove my wet coat it would annoy me running, so I ran back and threw it.

off I went jelly legs from the hills.

back up that tarmac hill and the weather had caused a flooded road now, I couldnt see were i could put my feet and with pot holes in the road I went over on my ankle twice, so half way back up the tarmac hill then it was a sharp turn and on to bridleway tracks if you can call them that, it was like again a stream coming down the tracks you couldnt see your footing and half way up to the pike the clouds were close, so it was horrid I was on my own thinking ?i had gone the wrong way, at this point I had overtook about 15 more people just on the run which feels great:))  until I hit the wall no energy but as Ive done this in training so many times, I know if you just keep the pace going and push push push through it you will eventually die ha ha or break through...

top of the pike, and the downs were excruciating, my thighs were killing me, I saw the man that flew past me on the bike, I had a bulls eye on his back a target I was gunning for him.... he got chicked big time ha ha ha ha he tried to stay with me, I was making noises ha ha urghhhh and ahhhhhhhh and omg and fat girl run came out my mouth ha ha ha lol, I was still running through the wall pain... I felt sick really sick but my mind was a machine its been so long since I felt like this in a race, no way did I have any doubts I just pushed so hard,  it was a hard down run really hard, but I was focused and I chicked about 5 men all who thought they would stay with me, all that shouted encouragement when they let me go! a short up to the finnish oh yeah my legs were saying ya what you doing asking those muscles to work they are knackered and a run round the muddy field  over the chip mat finnish and i dropped to the floor in the mud h ah ha and threw up yes I was done in really done in. but happy, /i gave it everything and if I had had an energy gel well maybe I might have got those 12 seconds who knows but I was really happy with my transitions for a first proper triathlon they went pretty smooth. 

 

photos to come later this week :) 

 

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6 indoor bike miles very easy in the gym

20 mins xtrainer

stretch core work  

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12 outdoor cycle miles average pace 18.9 mph very windy but tried to take it easy

10 mins xtrainer

lots of core work and stretching and the really horrid foam roller urgghhh ouchie ouch ouch ouch

i feel like i ran a down hill marathon Im still sore with DOms 

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physio 8am in the morning omg I hate early morning but to have much pain in the morning too OUchie ouch ouch but feel much better for it 

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