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LIVERPOOL,UK

Member Since:

Sep 27, 2008

Gender:

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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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weights chest and back and abs im feeling much stronger now now weedy sam no more ha ha

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30 mins spin in the gym hard hills and hard fast speed drills my legs were wobbly and straight onto the mill for a run 

 

brick

When you stop biking and start running the legs feel “strange” and heavy (this is why they call these workouts bricks!) and the heart rate goes up, as our body tries to switch the blood from flowing into the muscles used for biking to those used for running. This feeling is more pronounced at the start of the run and usually the legs get better as time passes - although probably never as fresh as those you have when you run without biking before it (I wonder why?! ).

 

ok i hit the mill my trainer was in charge of the buttons on the mill, basically made me feel like hell increasing the incline then after about 6% incline each increment was 1 min at that incline!!

then 2 mins rest then

increments of speed to 16kmph /10mph again at 1 min increments then back down again 1 min increments. 2 mins rest

then 1 min increments of alternating the speed and inlcine till i scream wt? at my trainer and nearly fall off the mill.  it was hard really hard my legs were heavy and horrid especially after the bike its horrible ugly urghhhh!!!!  5.5km done quit with 3 mins to go next week I WILL DO IT THE WHOLE 30 MINS IF IT KILLS ME AND SCREAMING BLUE MURDER HA HA  

 

ok some triathlon jargon explained-

BILATERAL BREATHING – breathing to both sides during front crawl. A skill required especially when the waves are coming from one side to avoid swallowing water.  i can do this so im ok 

BONK – it’s the feeling when an athlete runs out of energy, like hitting the wall in the marathon. Light headed very low blood energy available. In many circumstances very difficult to carry on or a drastic reduction in speed.

we all know this dont we as we are runners we bonk all the time lol

 

BRICK SESSION – This is combing 2 sports together. It is usually a bike to run or swim to bike for Triathlon or a run to bike for duathlon. A multiple Brick session can be a Bike then run followed shortly after by another bike then run. High intensity keeps good form.

BURN – the mark left by a wet suit when it rubs

you all thought running chaffing was bad ouch ouch ouch

and running in cycle shorts its not nice no way its horrid, but then cycling allot and getting a dead area were you are seated NASTY  

DEAD LEG SYNDROME – experienced when you have tried to hard on the bike and try and run after.  yes it hurts

 

DECA IRONMAN – 10 times the ironman distance. The athlete covers 24 miles cycles 1112 miles then cover 262 mile on foot taking 8 hours with 1-2 hours sleep each day   omg not possible 

 

GRANNY RING – also known as the little front ring on a bike.  ha h ah a 

HAMMER – describes hammering the bike or flying along. Just like nailing the bike. Fast and almost effortless.

ICE CREAM HEAD – if you have ever had cold ice cream and it’s made your head cold this is the same that you can experience when your head goes into the water.

M-DOT – The official name for the Ironman logo. Ironman finishers will often have the M Dot tattoo put on their lower leg. i want one of these lol 

 

SPLASH MASH DASH – another description for triathlon.

SPLITS – The different parts of your Triathlon, the Swim, The time it takes to exit the swim get to your bike exit transition, the time it takes to cycle the bike leg, the time it takes to enter transition rack your bike and exit again, the time it takes to complete the run section. Your total race divided into split times.

 

 

whirlies --- my own description of getting out the water really quick to run to the bike you go all faint and funny light headed ha ha ....... like the room is spinning when ya drunk ha hah a  

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rested today thankfully after yesterday!!

 

DAY 2  of no sugar clean diet lots of healthy good food

my tea

very tasty  

 

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a strength workout on my own is very hard.... i hate weights at the best of times at least it was legs were im stronger on. but by the and i was walking rather weird !!

so 10 min warm up xtrainer.... strength workout legs lots of legs legs legs jelly legs.....

finnished with crazy swiss ball exercise...... like the plank one legged foot on the small swiss ball i might add, and rolling the ball in still one legged with the other straight out in the air!!!! nasty exercise makes me swear thankgod nobody was in the room ha ha...  

 

stupid arm machine i think of people i dont like when im on this machine ha ha 1 min warm up. 1 min hard 1 min easy but fast 1 min recovery. repeat for 10mins. i got angry on the 10th minute dont ask why something crossed my mind yeah exactly ........... I went harder for another min up a level on the hard, then faster for another min then recovery for a min 2 mins to go went up to more levels on the hard lasted 1.30 mins recovery 1 min finnished.... on this i struggled to open the gym door to the changing room ha ha the pain ouch 

 

15mins 30 secs 4.5km not bad on the arm machine eh  

a strength workout on my own is very hard.... i hate weights at the best of times at least it was legs were im stronger on. but by the and i was walking rather weird !!

look its gay ha ha  

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brick = is a block of ceramic material used in masonry construction, usually laid using various kinds of mortar.

also known as     Th is a bike-then-run workout. It is named thusly because that's what your legs feel like when you run after you bike. Triathletes love bricks, apparently

 

is is combing 2 sports together. It is usually a bike to run or swim to bike for Triathlon or a run to bike for duathlon. A multiple Brick session can be a Bike then run followed shortly after by another bike then run. High intensity keeps good form. 

Brick

 if you do not like pain dont train triathlon !! simple. 

I had DOMS starting this session from yesterdays legs weight session so it hurt from 2 mins in !!! 

okay i did a triple brick session

10mins bike hard

10 mins run hard

10 mins bike hard

10 mins run hard

10 mins bike all out

10 mins run all out

no recovery or rests solid lactic acid overload for the full 60 mins !!! pain baby pain.

okay on the last run I did 7.30 min pace for 2 mins then 6 min pace for 6 mins 1 mile actually upped it towards the end to get a sub 6 min mile in . 2 mins 8 min pace 

 

oh it hurt it hurt really bad especially 1 min in to the mile rep I just hung on in grunting and sweating on the mill

 15km on the bike

5.5ish k on the mill  

 

SWEAT RATING...... 200/20

I looked like Id exited the sauna ha ha

 

 

 

 

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8.6 miles 8min pace 

5 mile spin on the bike on flat roads took me 11 mins easy going ease those legs

 

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