Charlotte Cox

Arrived in the Azores, no sunshine yet but lots of rain and floods, feels like being at home in England.

We have a few days to get sorted before the competition, so we are off Whale watching!

Training for the competition. Will keep you posted how it goes.

Wish me luck

Charlotte
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This was a home competition for C&C who hosted the Southern Womens league, so it was nice to take part in an event with all my training partners, I was a now scorer but really pleased with my Longjump which was 2.75, my 100 was abit slow at 16.1 but my 200m has improved to 33.9.

Hopefully will get it down further for my next competition which is in the Azores on 15.5.12

Had my first competition this weekend I did the 200m and came third with a time of 34.4 way off my PB of 32.5 but its the start of the season. Well done to my friend and winner of the event Vicki who I went to Athens with.

Not brilliant but its a start.

I was invited by Special Olympics to do a promotion for them which is the London 10K, the orgainsers of the British 10K are making Special Olympics one of there charities and Special Olympics are hoping to get 2012 runners to take part in the event.

At the promotion I met Special Olympic ambassadors Heather Small, Anna Hemmings, Darren Campbell, Chris Kamara and Katherine Merry. Our photograph appeared in OK magazine (issue no 822)

My little sister Harriet came along to the shoot with me and treated me to lunch afterwards!

Hello Everyone,

I am really excited to share with you that I am one of the very lucky 8000 Torch Bearers who will be running the torch relay around the whole of the UK.

I am doing my relay on 27.5.12 in Haverfordwest somewhere I have never been but really excited to see.

http://www.london2012.com/games/olympic-torch-relay/torchbearers/search.php?name=charlotte+cox&search-submit=Go

A big thank you to everyone who nominated me and especially to everyone at Special Olympics GB and Coca Cola I truly recognise how lucky I am to have this honour.

Charlotte
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Hello everyone I know my blog has been quiet recently, but I have been busy and keeping up with my training schedule.

I have an indoor competition at Lee Valley in April its for the Special Olympics and I am looking forward to that as it will show me what I need to work on in preparation for the world championships in the Azores in May.

I will keep you posted.

Charlotte
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Early start to get down to Lee Valley for the Mencap National Squad training day. Small group and training session worked really well.

Whilst we were there a number of athletes from GB Olympics team were there training and filming, so we got to share the track with Marlon Devonish and Dwain Chambers. Here is a picture of me and Marlon who very kindly took time out of training to come and say hello to us

Me and Marlon

I will have a number of indoor national competitons this year but my next International Competition is in May 2012 when I go to the Azores to defend my world records for the 100m, 200m 400m and Longjump.

This evening Mum, Dad and I went to the Living Sport Award Ceremony in St Ives. I have been nominated in two categories the Living Sport Sports Performer of the Year and the Living Sport Disability Sport Performer of the Year. I was shortlisted for the Disability Sports performer which was a great honour as I have won this for the last two years. This year the award was rightly won by Tom Baty who won 4 gold medals in Athens for powerlifting. I was luckly to see Tom do his lifting in Athens and he was great, really proud for him and his family – Well done Tom.

The winner of the Living Sports, Sport performer of year was Louis Smith, good luck for the Olympics Louis, and my fellow C&C club member Ben Kelk was runner up, very deserved Ben.

We had a lovely evening and I was very pleased to be runner up, and also very happy that my athletic club Cambridge and Coleridge won the award for Community Club of the year.

Oh well enough rest now back to training at the weekend I am off to Lee Valley for a squad day.

This weekend I went to Chester where we as a team met up for the final time, the Special Olympics put on a farewell party for all the athletes, coaches and officals who went out to athens.

It was a time to celebrate what we had all achieved look back over photos, have a party and let our hair down for a weekend before training starts in earnest for 2012.

I said bye to the rest of the athletics team but know I will see most of them on the circuit next year, big thanks to Tony Pert-Jones our head coach and to Lesley and Sue.