50 Facts about Me

I always get loads of questions about my background, so I thought I would dedicated a whole post to getting to know me........

1. Name - Sophie Hitchon (I have no middle name) 

2. DOB - 11/07/1991

3. Born/raised - Burnley 

4. Currently live - Loughborough 

5. Siblings - 1 sister Emma (Pictured) 

6. Hight - 5"7 170cm

7. Weight - Currently 73kg - Liable to Change - I will be doing a post about my weight next week 

8. Shoe - UK 7

9. Started hammer - 2006 - 8 years (wow thats gone fast!)

10. I have to dedicate how I started to my family, both parents did athletics and Grandad was a field official, I did shot putt and sprints and just  had a go at hammer! how things work out!

11. PB hammer - 72.97cm 2013 (Picture 4)

12. UK record holder 

13. If you want to see all competitions and results see HERE 

14. I did dance for the first 10 years of my life mainly ballet, tap, modern

15. favourite colour - pink/purple

16. I was part of the netball GD/GK and hockey GK teams at high school

17. I did trampolining for a while when I was younger          (pictured 3) 

18. I am a full time (professional) hammer thrower 

19. I have no buisness sponsors   

20. MY PROTEIN affiliate 

21. I get kit from Nike - I have no contract 

22. Part of Concept Sports Management 

23. Coach - Tore Gustafsson 

24. I am a perfectionist 

25. Pessimist - Glass half empty kind of person 

26. Beauty enthusiast  

27. Love all food 

28. I Have to paint my nails for competition  

29. I didn't go to University

30. Love animals

31. Squats are my favourite 

32. No, I don't get dizzy when I throw

33. I throw in every training session 

34. Normally 9 training sessions per week 

35. I have Wednesday and Sunday as rest 

36. I have brown eyes 

37. My grip strength is awful

38. How do you know when to let go?.... Practise it becomes automatic 

39. No we don't have an indoor season.... duh!

40. I did Sports Hall athletics

41. I am an Olympian! (picture 5)

42. I have a tattoo on my ribs of the Olympic rings

43. I have my ears and belly pierced

44. Proud Blackburn Harrier

45. I hate being late 

46. I am very competative 

47. 2 x British Champion (Picture 6)

48. I like to bake but don't get much chance to

49. Im a shy person 

50. I believe everything I did when I was younger has helped me get to where I am

Thanks for reading!

Sophie

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New Blog

I have thought about starting a blog for a while and have always put it off due to lack of confidence and waiting for the "perfect" time to start but as it came to the end of my 2014 season and just started my winter training for 2015, I don't think there isn't a much better time to do it. I posted on my Twitter and Facebook about starting a blog and the responses seemed to be positive and there were lots of comments on what people wanted to read so here we go.....

I want to write about a number of things, my training, day to day life of being a full time athlete seem the most obvious choices but I also want to talk about things that are more personal as well, the stresses and struggles of being a full time athlete can be immense and even though relatively I haven't been in the sport that long I hopefully can share some of my experiences not only to maybe help others but to also help me gain confidence by doing things out of my comfort zone, along side nutrition, lifestyle, hammer specifics ect as I said before people have already given many things that they want to here about but if you have anything you would like me to blog about let me know in the comments.

So I have been in the California for just under 4 weeks to start my winter training and now its time to get on the long flight home and continue in Loughborough for the next block of training, I will hopefully be back in the US before Christmas for another training camp, these first weeks have been difficult after having 6 weeks off from training it was hard to get back into training and it was a shock to my body but it has been really positive and I'm looking forward to the 2015 season!  

Sophie 

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