Posted in Uncategorized on January 6, 2014 by mostepanovafan
I’ve had a seriously lazy last fortnight over Christmas and new year, so this weekly training report is just sad – but hope to get back on track with half marathon training this week in preparation for Surrey Half in March.
Wednesday: 8.7 miles on the exercise bike in 34 minutes. 14K to see in 2014!
Saturday: Greatlines Parkrun 5K (29:20). Pouring hard and blowing a gale for this weeks parkrun, but still my second fastest parkrun, and third fastest 5K ever.
Sunday: 6.2 miles on the exercise bike again.
Total mileage = 18 miles exactly.
Hoping for better this week, I have run club on Tuesday, Parkrun on Saturday and runs planned for Thurs + Sunday. Also planning on a new Yoga for Runners video I found on youtube this week to help with my tight right hip.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 2, 2014 by mostepanovafan
I’m not a fan of New Year’s resolutions, and prefer to set goals for the year instead. So here are 2014s goals.
Racing Goals
Run sub-27 5K
Run sub-1 hour 10K
Run sub 2 hour Half-Marathon
Run 10 races for the year
Try a new distance (should be Canterbury 10 mile race this month!)
Fitness Goals
Run 750 miles for the year
Do a yoga session at least once a week
Work on my swimming until I can swim 1 mile without a break
Go to running club regularly
Other Goals
Start saving for a racing bike
Start trying to get more fruit and veg into my diet
Finish my bookkeeping course
Trying to get January off to a good start – I have my first running club training session on Tuesday night, first race on January 26th and have ordered a smoothie maker!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2011 by mostepanovafan
British Gymnastics just updated there facebook to say Glasgow has been awarded the 2015 World Championships – the final worlds competition before the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Yesterday Antwerp in Belgium was announced as the host city for the 2013 Worlds, the 2014 Worlds host city is being decided today but hasn’t been announced yet – I will post as soon as I here.
The British Olympic Association has announced that British rhythmic gymnasts will be able to compete at the 2012 Olympic Games in front of their home crowd.
As the host nation, Great Britain automatically earns one individual place, and one group place at the Olympic Games, if they do not manage to qualify through World or Test Event competitions. Rhythmic Gymnastics was one of 5 sports to sell out during the first phase of ticket sales for the Games – an impressive feat considering the minority of the sport in Britain, where it is usually only shown on TV during the Olympics and Commonwealth Games.
Britain’s current top gymnast is Francesca Jones, who won a Commonwealth silver medal representing Wales at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
The last British Rhythmic gymnast to compete at the Olympics was Hannah McKibbin, who placed 21st in qualifying at the 2004 games in Athens, which is the highest ever placing for a British Rhythmic gymnast.
The British Group squad will also earn an automatic berth to the Olympics, making them the first British team to compete at the Olympic Games since Rhythmic Groups made its debut in 1996. The British Group placed last of the 29 teams at the 2010 World Championships, scoring 33.600, compared to the winning Italian teams score of 55.525.
Chinese nationals have just concluded in Kunshan City. Although the official Chinese Gymnastics Federation lists this as a National Championships and World Team Trials competition – realistically we are a long way from forming a world championship team.
Vault
Li Yiting took the vault title with a double twisting tsukahara and dynamic (if slightly scruffy) layout rudi:
Veteran Cheng Fei in her first competition since the 2009 Chinese National Games took the silver medal. While Cheng is not back to full difficulty performing a double twisting Yurchenko and layout Podkopayeva, but her great form and height is still there, and her goal of competing at her third Olympics looks to be on track.
17 year old Jiang Tong took the bronze medal with a 1.5 twisting yurchenko and layout podkopayeva. No sign of her vaults from EF on YouTube yet but here are her qualification vaults:
Bars
Perennial bars champion He Kexin took the bars title fairly easily with her usual routine (didn’t attempt her new double twisting front giant that she had struggled with in podium training). Although parts of the routine were a little laboured (notably the dismount) she is looking good for early in the season:
First-year senior Yao Jinnan took the silver medal with a 14.800. Yao is one of the set of younger Chinese gymnasts now performing Shaposhnikova style elements rather than the often criticised stalder and toe-shoot transitions.
Junior Huang Huidan who won’t be eligible to compete as a senior until next year took the bronze medal with a Russian-style set featuring stalder Shaposh-half, piked stalder work and a full-in dismount. Her form needs some work but she looks to be a good prospect for the future.
Beam
Sui Lu took the beam title with probably the best beam set I have ever seen her perform; she got all her connections, stuck her double pike beautifully and put the Grigoras back into her routine. Consistency has always been her problem with the beam, so it remains to be seen if she can produce this sort of routine consistently, if she can she will be of immense help to team China this year, and in 2012.
Junior Zeng Siqi (who like Huang Huidan) will not be eligible for worlds this year took the silver medal with a packed but solid set. Zeng, who also medalled in the all-around, looks to be a great addition to the Chinese team with good form and dynamic skills, as well as great audience appeal.
Second-year Senior Zhang Yilinzi, who many people were hoping would make more of an impact last year, took the bronze medal. Zhang performed an immensely difficult set, featuring two flics to a full twisting layout, and a Grigoras-Korbut combination, lets herself down with her lack of artistry and some problems with the harder dance skills. If she can improve these elements of her routines she could be a potential contender for a team place at the major events.
Floor
Sui Lu added to her medal collection with the gold on floor. She performed her trademark clean tumbling, but had some problems with her spins – under-rotating the first, and over-rotating the second.
Zeng Siqi again took the silver medal, with my favourite floor routine of the competition, performed to a remix of Carmen. She has excellent presentation to go with her clean tumbling, and like Sui Lu works wearing socks to make spins easier. Zeng is coached by 1999 World beam champion Ling Jie.
Yao Jinnan won the bronze medal, with a routine to West Side Story. Yao’s tumbling is clean and well-performed, but she lacks the presentation skills of Sui and Zeng.
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