A very wet Wednesday evening = sorting out my VLM fundraising page.

It's absolutely chucking it down out there and even though I'm successfully into week two of Lizzie marathon woman Carter's VLM training plan it's just toooooooo wet and windy and cold outside this evening so I've had to put a cross through "LRR training" under today's date :(

However, I haven't just been sprawled in my arm chair watching TV all evening. I've been jolly productive and sorted out my everyclick fundraising page for No Limits, the charity I work for and who I'd like any donations to go to.


Here it it, and cheers in advance xx

http://www.everyclick.com/marathonliz

Packers in the NFC Championship game. Perfect end to week 1 of LVM training.

Wow.

I'm exhausted. Not from my first weeks training but from the most exciting divisional round playoff game ever!!  Packers beat the Cowboys 26-21. What a game. I'm so utterly and totally full of pure happiness and currently two of my three bars of celebratory chocolate :)

So, how has my training week one of sixteen been?

Monday - 30mins run before work  plus tri club swimming Monday eve. Approx 1.3km of swimming in 37.21

Tuesday - first runcamp level 2 session. Loved it.

Wednesday - no LRR training as worked till just after 7pm.

Thursday - finally got to check out tri clubs run session up at the track. Omg,  really enjoyed it. Huw did a 5000m TT which is 12.5 laps of the track which I did in 34.15.98

Friday - REST.

Plus met the girls at the junction for the pub quiz. Didn't win but we were certainly in the mix till the very end.

Saturday - tri club swimming. Did an hilarious 10m of fly during one of the sets. I reckon I must have looked as if I was dry humping for 10m and then did an odd fly kick with one armed crawl stroke dealio for the other 15m of the length. Approx 1.5k of swimming in 50mins. Then tudor house for cream tea with Suzanne with two pots of tea each. Swimming is thristy work.

Then up to Ashtead.

Sunday - ran to the Burford Bridge Hotel to collect D&M's car.
5.73 miles in 1:13.15

And now?

Enjoying the NFL and revelling in a very successful first week of my Virgin London Marathon training.

And so it begins...

Yep, ran this morning, 30mins. Hoorah. I'm on plan :)
Commuter cycling = 15km
Tri club swimming, main set = 1.3km in 37.21mins.

So all in all I think it's been a pretty successful day one of lizzie marathon woman carter's training plan. 1st Runcamp level 2 class starts tomorrow 7:30pm on the common and I'm rather looking forward to it.

The key though is to sustain all of this...

I will keep you all posted.

Oh and attached is page 2 of my marathon training plan. This is what I'm aiming to do this month.

1st January 2015. A new year, a new season :)

I think I may have located my training mojo!!
Rather like a tortoise it's just been hibernating (and eating chocolate) but it looks like it's nearly ready to show itself. It's popped out now for a run on Saturday and Tuesday plus parkrun this morning. I think it's getting stronger every day so am now feeling extremely confident for a successful day one of lizzie 'marathon woman' carter's London marathon training plan. Wahoooooooo :)

So gentle blog readers of mine, just what is lizzie lou's season looking like so far???

January - Run Camp level 2 twelve week course starts plus I'll be back at LRR Wednesday eve training and checking out tri club's running session at the track on Thursday evenings. Oh and on my 46th bday I hope to do the Evans 112k cycle, but I may veere off at 70k if too knackered.

Febuary - nothing booked as yet so tri club swimming and running, Run Camp plus gym, cycling etc...

March - my season proper starts!
15/3 - 1st Portsmouth duathlon 5/15/5
22/3 - Winchester standard duathlon of 10/47/5 (eeeeeeeeeeep)

April 2015
12/4 - 2nd Portsmouth duathlon, I think it's 7/20/5
26/4 - The Virgin London Marathon!!!!!!!!
(I'm so excited)

May 2015
4/5 - Winchester Mayday sprint tri 400/24/5
Then me, Katherine and Suzanne are off to the Netherlands for a long weekend of cycling. The girls are even saying this maybe the weekend I bust my 100miles in a day cycling cherry.

No other plans for May so far...

June 2015
14/6 - Polsdon Lacey 10k

July 2015
Mum and Dad's Golden Wedding Anniversary party (fun)
25-26/7 - Thunder Run. Can't wait for this, should be a hoot. 5 in a team and Run Camp have two teams, and then each team from noon Saturday to noon Sunday try and run as many 10k loops that they can. I must get a head torch for  running in the early hours of Sunday morning. So excited.

August 2015
I don't have any plans but Katherine may be doing a 14k open water swim on the same day as Suzanne, the Smiths and a few other tri club buddies are doing the inaugural Dublin half ironman.
Oh and I'll be joining the Peacock's for part of their annual IOW holiday.

September 2015
No firm plans for yours truly yet.
Maybe the Southsea pier to pier 2k sea swim.
Maybe the Ashtead 10k
Maybe cheering on Katherine doing some famous river 10k swim
Definitely following online Suzanne and the rest of tri club who are doing the Mallorca Ironman (that's a 2.4m sea swim, 112mile cycle then a marathon all within the 17 hour cutoff)

October 2015
4/10 the Twin Cities marathon in Minneapolis St.Paul, Minnesota in the good old U.S.of A.

November 2015
15/11 - Denbies duathlon.

Wahoooooooo,  2015 here I come!!!!!

I've also made space for any 2015 medals. I just need to coax my sleepy training mojo back into business, lose a couple of stone, curb my currently out of control chocolate addiction and then it's operation fit and healthy here I come.

Brilliant stuff x

#S4LTM - searching for lizzie's training mojo

Well... It's now boxing day, I'm sat in my  sister's kitchen, brother in law is sorting out luncheon and I'm still not sure where my training mojo is :(

Tomorrow I plan to go for a run. My calf did go pop last Saturday at parkrun so I'm not going to run if it hurts but I'd like to check out Run to Live's new premises in Leatherhead so plan to run /jog there - mabes 2miles

I'm also contemplating reinstating NJJ - although this time it'll be No Junk January.

My January key goals are:
1. Lose some weight.
2. Focus on S&C
3. Get consistent with my training

Although mabes number one should be to actually start my training plan.  Monday 5th January - if I can report a 30mins run before work and tri club swimming in the evening, then gentle blog readers of mine, you will know that lizzie lou "marathon" carter is back on track.

So excited.
Two marathons in 2015.
Wahoooooooo.
It's going to be brilliant fun :)

Oh and pic is me in my kitchen by my 2014 medals.
2015 is gonna be just as fabulous.
I LOVE being a triathlete x

Training plan up to the London Marathon done!

I've finally done my London marathon training plan. Hoorah. Page one of five attached.

It's now 140 days to the London marathon. Before the marathon I've got one 112k bike ride and three duathlons to do too. So the next few weeks up to Monday 5th January are designed to get me back into a training routine but not so scheduled that I feel all tied into a plan for the next 20 weeks.

I reckon training is half physical of course but also a big chunk is mental so I need to feel in control and excited about training and not all resentful and pissed off which I think I would get if started too quickly. I am afterall hoping to do the Twin Cities Marathon 4th October so once I start training I'll be doing something pretty much every day for the next 9 months. Which is bloody ages. Will def have to schedule in some training breaks after London so I don't get bored and over tired.

So excited for my 2015 season

Planned so far:-

25th Jan 112k bike ride

15th March Portsmouth duathlon #1 5k/15k/5k
22nd March Winchester duathlon 10k/47k/5k

12th April Portsmouth duathlon #2 7.5k/18.5k/5k
26th April London Marathon

4th May - Winchester May Day sprint triathlon
7th-11th May Holland Cycling Holiday
31st May tbc - 26mile walk

14th June Polsdon Lacey 10k

25-26th July Thunder Run

4th October Twin Cities Marathon, Minnesota

15th November Denbies duathlon.

Plus anything else that looks fun.
Wahoooooooo. 2015 here I come xx

The spirit of triathlon resides in me!!!!

Southampton tri clubs Xmas meal last night - Sat 29/12/14 and guess who got the Tim Wilks Trophy 🏆???

ME :)

It's given to the club member who has, in the opinion of the committee, embodied the spirit of triathlon the most in the past year. Steve Cooke, last year's winner was introducing this year's recipient... I started to recognise maybe me when steve said they were always smiling ☺,  then said they help the committee - I'm doing the car passes... I was starting to think oooh it could be me.

And then steve started to talk about the recipient's unique nutrition plan and I knew it was me. How absolutely fantastic. The perfect end to a wonderful season.  I am soooooo chuffed x

Was a great eve for tri buddies Tamsyn and James who both got best new triathlete - female and male.
A great evening had by all :)

I haven't quite got my training mojo back but I'm confident it'll be soon. I've got two marathons nextvyesr to train for!