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My Mum's better than your Mum. Fact.

kirsty — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

And I thought triathlon gave us manly figures.....Watching the female shotputters at the European Athletics Champs and all I'm saying is, those are some women (ahem...) you would not want to get in a fight with! My new hero is the 10k silver medallist Chris Thompson. It was so inspirational to hear about an athlete who has had a turbulent career, fell in and out of love with the sport, been riddled with injury but in the end perserverance paid off and there he was winning silver. [...]

Big scary changes...

kirsty — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:00:00 +0100

So I promised you a big announcement. Here it goes…

I have taken the decision to split from my coach Chris and will no longer be based at the High Performance Centre in Stirling. I will be going on a trial period in Loughborough for the next couple of months with the view to moving there permanently in September and becoming a full time athlete if it works out.

The Rock should really have given up a long long time ago….I’m sitting here on my third flight out of four today and it is physically hurting me to try watch ‘The Toothfairy’. I’d even go as far as saying I would prefer some WWF right now to get rid of this. Glee. Big Brother. Even Jeremy Kyle. Just anything is better than this surely.

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Goodies!

kirsty — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100

It's official. I heart Abercrombie and Fitch. Lots. One dress and one skirt, $120. Ooops. Nevertheless I'm heading back tomorrow (Friday) for round two! Just finished a Skype with my Mum and she asked for some Abercrombie and Finch stuff. Aaaaw : )

Another little treat for me yesterday was the delivery of a goodie bag from the race organisers to my hotel room yesterday. I could get used to this! Some of the items inside included: a photo album, sunglasses, various r [...]

If only you could smell this...

kirsty — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100

I'd be surprised if you lot in the UK weren't able to smell me right now. I have just arrived back from a very sweaty hard bike this afternoon, ate a lot of sushi and now found out the hotel has switched off the water. Mmmmmmm....

A far more serious blog for you's today compared with yesterday I'm afraid, it's all been quite sane over here now and my brain is back to functioning properly!

Prep has all being going according to plan and I am (ooh wai [...]

Confessions

kirsty — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Hey y'all.....

Firstly, if this blog doesn't make a word of sense apologies. My laptop has died a little and split into 8 mini screens so I can't actually see what I'm typing...Something to do with the ‘motherboard' apparently, which to me sounds like something out of Star Trek but that's beside the point....I'm in America!!!!!!!

Yes I have arrived safe and well in Des Moines and already I am loving the place. Apart from the 85% [...]

"Well at least you swam well..."

kirsty — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Well last time I left you all I was about to embark on my first run back since breaking my big toe...Skip forward 3 weeks, many many painful runs, countless acupuncture sessions, a hell of a lot of worrying and you get to the current day: Me, burnt to a crisp, tired and upset a few days after my first Olympic distance race back in two years. I will never ever forget Sunday. I wish I could.

It's fair to say I have been nervous about this event. Very nervo [...]

Me and my big toe...

kirsty — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Hey all,

So since I'm currently reappearing on the scene it's probably best my blog on this website does too! Apologies for the lack of blogging recently, I guess I just wanted to keep my head down and have as little attention on me as possible while I got on with the mammoth task of making up for the past couple of years.

Not wanting to make myself sound like a complete disaster zone (who am I kidding....) I have another injury to report. This tim [...]

The 'gammy hammy' lives another day...

kirsty — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0100

The ‘gammy hammy’ has healed! Finally my tear has repaired itself and I’ve been given the all clear to begin where I left off……carefully! A secondary tear ain’t that high up on my wish list right now to be honest! Whilst looking back with my coach though, this injury could (if you look really really hard) have been a good thing. Without it we might not have identified some serious issues going on. We might not have put me on such an intense core and rehab programme (10 hours a week [...]

Rehab rehab rehab.....

kirsty — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Nothing like a little hamstring tear to knock you off your tracks eh? Rather frustratingly, last week whilst out on the track, my right hamstring decided it didn't want to play....Thankfully its just a small tear but enough to stop me running and of course form competing at Hyde Park and the Worlds. Not a happy bunny. Not a happy bunny at all. In fact when I haven't been stretching, rehabing or at the physio I am generally sulking!! As I have mentioned before I don't really do patience so thi [...]

Forget Spice Girls, Take That or even Blur...this is the comback you have all been waiting for.

kirsty — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Okay so a lot has happened since I last posted….I am officially a Bridge of Allan resident. After 8 months of nothing I have finally begun training again. My status as a complete geek has been confirmed thanks to Uni grades and apparently Michael Schumacher is The Stig. I’m not convinced…

One thing which I am tres excited about right now is my training resuming after possibly the most frustrating 8 months of my life. For those of you who don’t know, I had a bit of a medical problem [...]

I promise I won't look at Facebook instead of revising

kaneo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100

What exactly is the point of exams??? I have thought about this rather a lot the past couple of weeks as I have sat in my room revising glomeruli, immunoglobulins and poikilotherms. Exciting stuff I know. Unfortunately it is exam period at Stirling Uni and most of my days have been reduced to attempting to motivate myself to study. And generally failing.

I find cramming is the best way I can learn things for an exam, and even though every time the exam period comes around I always [...]

Mallorca, cars and security guards...

kaneo — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Hey guys,

Firstly if you are reading this: thanks for visiting the site....I really quite like it! I'm going to update this blog at least once a month and keep you guys up to date with what's happening my end.

I'll try my best to keep it interesting however I am currently typing this up in my Uni's laundry so not the most inspiring of places! Can I also thank Silver Hatch for developing this site and to Iain MacIntosh for providing the photos. Very muc [...]

WORLD CHAMPS 2008

kaneo — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Greetings from Canada!

Right I'll get the cheesy Oscar style thank you's over and done with quickly! To everyone who has either emailed, posted on the forum or my facebook etc- THANK YOU SO MUCH! Not going to lie I love getting all your messages of support and they really are appreciated. Big brownie points to the people who were actually in Vancouver itself watching ( Jo etc) Huge surprise and the t-shirts were amazing!

To all those who hasn't heard about [...]

EUROPEAN CHAMPS 2008

kaneo — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Hi guys,

Firstly a huge thank you to everyone who had posted stuff or texted John to say good luck and well done. Much appreciated.

So, 2nd in Europe. And I'm sure you lot who properly know me will not be surprised when I say I am disappointed!! "What? 2nd in Europe and disappointed!" I here you say- well yes but I have have high standards and I honestly believe in different circumstances the race would have been mine but I'll go onto that later.

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