port sunlight 5k 2014

Port sunlight 5k.

Well to be honest, I wasn’t feeling this race from the minute I woke up, those who know me we know I had a bit of a rough week so at that moment in time all I wanted to do was turn over and sleep! However I eventually got out of bed and cross a thing of my bucket list… to drive through the tunnel.. Random I know… but Yay all the same…. I might post the full bucket list at some point…

Anyway, the weather was downright awful  with heavy rain and strong winds. The surface was slippery in places with puddles and fallen petals/leaves.  The rain stopped briefly as we set off but ended up soaked despite my lovely ‘waterproof’ running coat.  Which was a mistake to wear as I ended up very very hot… will have to rethink before my next rainy run!

I also didn’t carry any water with me on this one and half way through regretted this decision. According to my nike app I did the first 2k at 5.3min /km pace… which probably knackered me and the rest of the run was at 6.3 – 7.3 pace.. admittently walking in places.. I really need some help with my pacing.. Running club here I come! overall i did this in 34:16, 16 seconds slower than PB but sometime its not all about the time!

Port sunlight it self seems a lovely place, and if it wasn’t for the weather I would have loved to have stayed and explore a little bit, but unfortunately it was a dash home for some dry clothes…  pre event there was lots of publicity about how bad the parking was.. I got their earily by the fact the car park was empty! Although walking back I bumped into every 10k’s who were running to the start as they had had difficulty!

Also bumped into a very nice lady (sorry I didn’t get your name, blue hoodie with pink top) and her mum who were lovely and took pre and post piccys with me and who I ran with for the first 1k or so.. until I found out I was a lot slower than her pace!  Anyway I was nice to meet you guys!

As usual it was all for Childflight so please continue to donate if you can,  every penny goes a long way in supporting this charity and making children’s dreams come true J http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/myscrambledlegs

oh and on a side note, isnt this yarn bombing cool!?, its like my to worlds combined!!

Llandudno 5k Easter Saturday!

Hello everyone…

So you may have noticed that ive been a little bit absent for the last few weeks, the reason? Well its been exam time and ive been busy away with that! all finished now though which is great! 

So whilst I have been gone! Me and my mother has completed the Llandudno 5k run in Animal onesies! My mum did it in a duck due to being called ‘Duck’ as her name being a cub leader! And I did it in a Nemo onesie to represent the orange team!

Over all it was a very nice little race! The sun was out meaning that it was very hot and my onsie got stripped on the way round! Bit slower than for me at 35mins but I did stop to talk to mum at around 3.5 k as she was going the other way! reckon if I hadn’t of done that I would have got pb!  Next run though I must remember sun cream as I badly burnt my face during the day!  

My mum did her 5K [or there abouts] in 45mins and 11sec. she did seem to walk a lot more than run, and the running seem to take place when she could see me…  but even so she did an amazing job and a well earned medal alike!  

This event was very well organised! And friendly marshals ect, a great run along the front [not sure what it would be like with bad weather though] and well worth doing it again next year! One things for sure I don’t want to do a run in a onsie in a hurry!

All of this was for all the amazing Child-flight and all donations would be very much appreciated to support us along the way! mum is going to be running further races later on in the year and I still have several races to go on my 14 in 1 challenge!  We are 40% at the target so far and a massive thankyou to those who have already supported me in this.  

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Race for life, 2013

just realized i missed out my second race of 2013! so here is the race review if any one is interested! 

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My second ever run was the race for life twilight on Liverpool waterfront. Another 5 k race from the ferry terminal along the front towards Otterspool and then back along the same route.  I finished this run in 38mins [ish] it was very very wet and very very cold. For those who don’t know Liverpool well the route is lined with cobbles and then paving slabs which became very slippery!  To the extent that the stewards were advising people not to sprint due to the slipping hazard. I had also broken my toe a few weeks before this race so wasn’t able to run to the same pace as usual.

This Race is aimed at raising money for cancer research, however I chose not to obtain any sponsor ship for this as I think there is a limit as to how many times you can ask people for money for charity etc. [I did make a donation out of my own pocket as I normally do when the race is organised ror a specific cause.]  however felt like they were constantly pushing for more donations rather than saying thank-you for what they had raised so far [£55000 the warm up guy said] and over all I didn’t like the way it was organised and didn’t enjoy the race as much because of this.   Would I do a race for life again? Maybe just to see if it is the same as this one, after all the twilight run was a first time event so perhaps a few teething problems were had. I’ll see if one fits into my shift pattern during this year and if I can I’ll do it but properly not. 

Top facts:-

Date:- 18^th October 2013.

Time:- 38mins

Surface:-  pavement/road

Distance:- 5k

1st run 2014 - linda McCartney

1^st run  of the 2014 challenge.

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My first run of this challenge was a little 5k around Liverpool docs, starting at the Nike store towards the marina and back again. To summarize the run in two words… windy & ouch!  The run was being held to raise funds for the Linda McCartney center as part of another person’s fundraising efforts to raise £8000 pound by organizing 8 events: - link to their page  is HERE

So according to my Nike plus app I ran the run in 40:40, with a distance measuring of 5.10k. this time includes the brief time outside with speeches before setting off so maybe take a few minutes off the over all time. The App record that I achieved my goal of the fastest time of 39:19 minutes, fastest mile at 12:08 mins and fastest 1k at 7:18mins.  So a few good achievements had, according to the run graph I ran at a pace between 6.05 and 8.3mins/k, which is very good for me, good fast course helped but the running into a stong wind with lashing of rain certainly didn't! 

On the down side, I thought it was a good idea to wear a new pair of trainers, and I’m suffering now, but they were pink and orange and I thought it would be fitting!  But I got bad shin splits around 2k and now have a sore ankle, lesson to break trainers in in the future truly noted!  however cup cakes at finihs line is well worth the pain! 

Also at the run was the lovely Katie Brough a brilliant cross country runner and GB champ! 

race facts.

distance:- 5.1k.

time:- 40mins [39.19 for 5k]

race number:- 28.

surface type:- pavement. 

weather:- wet, cold and windy [very windy]

overall a very good day was had and hopefully raised a lot of money for this great cause! 

Santa Dash 2013

My 3^rd race of 2013 was the Liverpool Santa dash! Completed in an orange Santa suit seen as I’m in the orange team as part of child flight, finished the course in mins but hard to run with the mass of people around, amazing time and an amazing atmosphere though.  

The medal is very good and I would say it is the best one I received so far, very good quality; it was also amazing to run on the streets of Liverpool where normally you would never be able to although wasn't expecting it to be quite so hilly! 

Lesson learnt for next time to wear something thinner as I was very very hot and think this also slowed my time down a lot.  Least the weather was nice and dry … and I stood out from the crowd.   It was talking to people after this run which has made me sign up for this challenge. Hoping to make this run a yearly occurrence! 

1st ever run 2013

My first ever run was the Liverpool big fun run [5k], on august 17^th last year, ran it in 34 mins and raised over 400 pounds for child-flight.  

This was an amazing experience from the warm up all the way to the end being cheered on by everyone, to be honest though I did spend half it walking and needed to develop setting my pace rather than the walk/run method. However whist walking around met some fantastic people and shared stories n why we were all running. 

 

this was also the first medal i have ever won in my life so felt very good and i'm very proud of my first little achievement. if this run is on again i'm going to try and do it this year as well! 

top facts:- 

run number:- 2518

time:-34 mins

goody bag:- water, snackbar, iron suppliment 

medal:- YAY as above picture. 

lenght:- 5k.