hannah miley - swimmer

DOB:	8th August 1989
BORN:	Swindon

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Hannah was part of Scotland’s Commonwealth Games squad, finishing fourth in the 400m I.M. in Melbourne. In addition to this, she also won a silver medal at the European Junior Championships in 2005.

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At the beginning of March I was in Inverness at the North District Age Group Championships from the 2–3 March. At that meet I broke 2 Scottish senior records – 200m Individual Medley 2:12.85, and the 200m Butterfly 2:13.64.

Through the meet I set eight new personal best times. It was also a very successful meet for my team Garioch who came third overall.

The month of March was spent with my head in the books with upcoming prelims and also preparation for the British Championships.

Once the prelims (mock exams) were finished I headed down to Manchester on 25th March. The competition ran from the 26th March to the 1st April.

On the first day I swam the 400I.M, knocking over four seconds off my previous British record. I was actually quite stunned by it. It was a really interesting meet to compete in as the heats were held in the evenings and the finals were held the following morning.

The opportunity to try out this new schedule in preparation for Beijing was greatly taken. It showed that in the mornings you have to really get up and swim fast (well obviously, but it was harder than you think). I also took the Scottish senior record for the 200I.M in 2:15.92 and swam several personal bests. Overall it was a very successful meet!

january 2007 blog

I started this year by eating kangaroo! Funny as this may sound but I had been invited onto a female British Butterfly camp in Brisbane, Australia from the 27th of December to the 21st of January.

On this camp there were three other girls Jess Dickons, Ellen Gandy and Jemma Lowe. It was an opportunity to train with Jessica Schipper - the best 100m fly swimmer in the world.

Her coach, Ken Wood, gave us one to one technical sessions where he gave us some tips. It was an awesome camp although we had to be independent and organised, as we had to cook and clean for ourselves. So shopping (for food) became a regular routine where we decide what meals we wanted to make for dinner and lunch.

It was a great start to the year and funny to know that back home it was snowing and like only 2 degrees where here there was sun and a sweltering 31degrees.

I had also had a great lead up to this camp in November (2006) in Eindhoven, Holland I broke the British record for 400m Individual Medley previously held by Rebecca Cooke. This was obviously a P.B as well as my 200m Freestyle, 400m Freestyle and 200m Backstroke. So it was a really awesome meet for me. Just before I flew out to Australia I competed in Swansea, Wales at the Welsh Open meet. There I broke three Scottish records.

Coming up to February I have a couple of meets lined up and also my prelim exams. On the 17th –18th February I will be competing in North Ayrshire.