Valentines ...

What do you see in valentines day?

Just a normal day in a normal calendar, with the added chance of showing someone that you love them in some kind of way. Life just goes on..

However for me, love doesn't just lie with that special someone, I devote valentines day to my sport. A sport that I love no matter how monotonous some may think it is, it's joint 1st in my list of life's loves.

Although not to far behind joint first and the sole reasons I'm sitting here writing this blog is because of two  things and a mathematic equation, friends + shoes = A birthday present that I thought id share with the world a mere 6 weeks after I was given them. Everyone who knows me understand my friends are beyond important to me and the boyfriend and one friend delivered, without my knowledge they conjured up a plan to sort me out with a present inspired two of the many things I love. Shoes.


Hand crafted, made and designed with love and care customised to my love for my sport and the Paralympics. A pair of pure beauties. I'm lucky enough to get the first pair of WTF where's that from.. Custom shoes and I love them.

So here goes, valentines day isn't just showing someone how much you love them. It's about appreciating the people and things you love as well, and that is why iv waited six weeks to show off my beauties.

Happy valentines day world!
xXx

When inspiration hits you in the face

After months of hard work determination and motivation I gave it my all and to some my all wasn't enough. My game is like no other, I spend hours repeating one routine, one process and one thought for one thing.. A prime performance. It is not until the early hours of one morning when insomnia is loving life that you realise inspiration is just slipping through your fingers like quick sand.

I spend hours sieving through various thoughts in my head so I am mentally fit as well as physically fit and somehow forget to stop and rekindle that inspiration I once lived off.

I am a massive believer in positive quotes and thoughts, which may sound pretty odd but that's how iv managed to get through the good the bad and the ugly in my life, like any other I have my match day rituals , the morning of every match I have to listen to the same song thousands of times and usually trawl through twitter reading all the quotes and motivational blah that's up there and don't get me wrong it works a treat when everything else is 110%. However as an athlete nothing is ever 110% on the day unless all the hard work has been done in training.

At the end of the day, as some one once said "I am an athlete, I may not be the best but the best is what I strive to be, in the end i will get there and I will never quit trying"

Watch this space because when inspiration hits you in the face at stupid o clock you never quit trying to be the best and the best is all you will get.

X

Motivaton is like trying to find your house keys in your floordrobe

It's physically hard to believe its almost a year to the day I showed the world what I can do .. In fact I remember it like yesterday, without the stress worry and adrenaline going through my body.
It's also hard to think that the next big one is only a couple months away and once again the training steps up both physically and technically just in time for Europeans, finding the right motivation is like finding your house keys in your floorobe, sometimes it's easy but other times you have to tidy up to search even further for one small thing.

Someone once told me never to stop working towards your dream until you have achieved it, wise words in the life of an athlete. Little things always contribute to the bigger picture, just as if I put together every piece of advice anyone gave me id most likely end up covering each wall in my flat, however only so much can fit in my pea size brain just as it would it would with anyone else's.
Nevertheless all the advice in the world wouldn't be able to fix life's problems, the motivation, the training, the mental thoughts that go through your head at 6 am or the body clock that you adopt when doing all the above, especially if one of your biggest fears in your early 20s is missing your alarm you live on how you are and get through life wishing the next day things will change for the better or you hope so at least.

As Charlie Chaplin once said 'nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles' the world still spins no matter how
Motivated you are to stop it, even to search through your floordrobe to Pursue your dream once more and leave your troubles behind.

I guess the moral of the story for me right now would be to stop babbling on, hold my head up high, leave the troubles on the side and search for that motivation once more, simply to give that dream another try.

I feel like the ultimate bookworm with only Starbucks venti's to get me through

As the months have passed by its seemed like forever since I last posted! Well maybe it has as a few weeks ago I finished university lectures and the dreaded countdown to dissertation hand in started looming .. I feel like the ultimate bookworm with only Starbucks venti's to get me through 

although life's not only been about assignment deadlines and data collection, my training has taken a step up as well as I'm in week 5 of a tiring strength and conditioning programme! Week 5 doesn't actually seem that much but trust me if you where doing cable weighted squats in a gym full of mental rugby players and performance athletes, week 5 is the beginning of the *hell* stage. 

Many athletes can agree with me on this one as it's the point where everything is to easy for you but the weight increase seems to hard! 

All I can say is time and match results will tell ... 

Aside from dissertation and training malarky I am really struggling to find my way in the big wide world with no Idea on where to turn next, both job wise and finding the money to support the lifestyle that keeps this athlete going, I am currently out on the hunt for sponsorship deals to help out with buying a new weapon and jacket but having no luck.. Which massively sucks! 

Instead life just goes on as always and the dissertation clock is ticking .. Maybe one day ill somehow show the big wide world how Gii does it! Just watch this space ... 

X 

dedication to you

After a busy few Months following london and the start of my third year at university my life has now headed back into full throttle as i hit the home straight in my degree and dreaded "D" word marks the end of an inspirational 4 years at Sheffield Hallam.

The athlete side of me takes over once more in my journey to Rio, as someone once told me, New year , new start I am holding back to follow my dream and become the best in the world. My training intensity has increased as has my studys and i am determined to become that athlete i have always wanted to be.. with a 1st class degree in something i love. even though Rio seems so far away at the moment my preperations are ongoing and i am slowing becoming the athlete i was during the london games as i aspire to compete in the world cup series at a higher level than before, increasing my world ranking from 5th to a hopeful 3rd.
Very hopeful i know but 6 weeks ago i lost my best friend in a tragic hit and run accident, the ultimate brother from another mother. which has made me realise to hold on to every oppurtunity you can get, I am more determined than ever  as i will never forget the day he turned round to me and told me how proud he was of me. Those words will stuck in my head forever and always and this year as one of the worlds best, i will make you prouder than Marc John Parker Williams.
This year is dedicated to you
XxX

Athlete to Caveman

A month into university and its already apparent that the infamous athete lifestyle I lived at the begining of this year has completely faded into a black hole being covered up by a dissertation that could make or break my degree classification, Gone but definitly not forgotten as I soon set out to get into shape ready for the season ahead and juggle the fun my third year throws at me.

In my head i aim to spend the up and coming months motivating young athletes and children about my experiences and sending the message across that someone once sent to me ' Priorotise and the Good things will come' . when i got told this it confused me more than anything and it may do others but when i was younger I knew what i wanted to do.. Get a degree and compete in the paralympics and I liturally spent years figuring how they could both happen, Until this person told me to study first and let the games come to you, and to my surprise it did!

Ever since Iv lived by this statement and everythings turning out right which a few little hiccups but I reckon i could actually do this even a Masters with my little brain,  maybe.  :)

As much as my dissertation might turn me into caveman, Im so up for showing Youngsters How i made my journey from confused kid to who i am today

x

Back to Reality

After having a much needed fortnight off to relax and get back to normal life i have made the 180 mile journey up to sheffield to persue the 3rd yearof my degree, and if im honest it is a huge crah landing. as i actually have to start thinking of a disseration title, something i can research and write ten thousand words on. Probably the hardest thinngi have ever hhad to do and it has managed to confuse me already even if i haven even started lectures yet!

My life the past 6 months has been that crazy and hard that funily enough im actually strugging being out the parlympic bubble and constantly training. although i dont miss the early mornings one bit its really hard to not be around the greatest team 24/7 and have the support we've had. The games has left a mark on my life that i will never forget , from being part of each ceremony, hitting an equal world record and qualifying for the final at my first ever games , being a part of history and most importantly sharing my memories with friends i will never lose. If it was my choice i would rewind life and go back a month or two just to re live the whole thing , Pretty please ? :)

its short , its sweet , it may not make sense but im back with avengance so roll on Rio 2016 and heres to my third year of university HALLAM TILL I DIE 

Peacce x