PB Machine!!!

Since I last wrote following the South West Inter Counties I have had a great week............my training sessions where going great I was running Pb's in training in my block sessions and everything started to feel like it was all coming together. I was pleased with the way things where going and how my body felt. One day in the week my mum phoned me to ask why I hadn't told her I had been given a lane at the Crystal Palace Diamond league??!!! To which I replied I hadn't that's why!!! My mum had check the Internet and I was down on the start list, me I was a Little confused.com but after sending an email it was confirmed that I was to compete. This was as a result of a lane becoming available and me posting a PB the previous weekend.

I was pleased to again be given the chance to run in such high quality competition and knew that it was going to be a busy weekend as I was also competing on the Sunday in the Bedford International Games this time over both the 100 n 200mtrs!

Well Crystal Palace for me was great and again I managed to produce another PB this time of 11.46 this was my 3rd PB in three races and it's wasn't one of best runs as I kinda fell asleep between 40-60mtrs so imagine how quick I can go with the perfect race!! Following Crystal Palace I was collected by my parents to travel to Bedford. My parents and Mia left Plymouth at 10.30am on the Saturday, they stopped off at a service station to watch my race and then hit the road again and eventually got to me at 6.30pm!!!! It took them 8hours to make the journey, that's support for me! Bless them they follow me everywhere they can and it's always great to have them with me when I'm racing.

The Bedford International Games was again another good competition for me I was second in the 100m with 11.47 just outside my PB set the day before so I showed consistency and have finally broken the 11.5 barrier! Next event for me was the 200m which turned out to be very eventful some of you may not know but I am an Insulin Dependent Diabetic so for me when competing it is important to keep my blood levels at a good reading so I check my bloods every time before the call room this time when I did it I showed I was having a hypo (very low blood sugar) this as a result means that all my glycogen stores are depleted (energy) . Then my name was called over the speaker to come straight to call room, when I got there I had to explain to the officials what has just happened and one of the lovely guys gave me a red bull and his banana to bring my levels back up!! Walking out on the track I told my mum I has just had a hypo and she told me not to run as I'll have nothing left in my legs but for me they had done all that travelling I was going to run so I did!!! On the blocks I thought to myself what the hell are you doing???!!! But it was too late the gun had gone so I reacted I had the best bend of my life and on the home straight I was struggling I had nothing in my legs at all but I kept going I crossed the line in 2nd place and I even managed another PB this time of 23.56. How I did it I'll never know, it was hard work if I hadn't had a hypo I would have gone alot quicker for sure but I'll just have to save it for another day :) I had to be pleased with what I had achieved.

So what's next?!........well tomorrow is when the meeting takes place and the team for the Commonwealth Games is named and I am keeping everything crossed that I have done enough and showed that I am coming into form and I will be named.
So fingers crossed I'll be sharing some good news with you