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Location:

LIVERPOOL,UK

Member Since:

Sep 27, 2008

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

Olympic Trials Qualifier

Running Accomplishments:

Triathlons are my New sport and I LOVE IT  

 

Recent last few years  as I havent done much since I was 16/17yrs, on and off injuries, going out with Friends started. Operations on injuries- compartment syndrome front of the shin had small operation to release the pressure on the fascia.

Oct 2007.  Did the great north run.  ( I was in the elite ladies race, against Kara Goucher and Paula Radcliffe, Im sure u Americans will recall that race).

 I was just in on my previous times from the Bath Half Marathon. I ran it as best as I could off my training & circumstances...

 

Decided to do my 1st Marathon with London looming in the following April I was in the ladies Elite race again.  So the training was on.  I realise now I didnt give my body enough time to recover as it did break down in the last 5 weeks of my training. Injury bound, with calf and hamstring problems I raced! 

London Marathon, April 08 (Injury calf issues) 1st marathon  3hrs.12mins .30 secs

Dublin Marathon  Oct 08  3hrs.01mins.13  undulating and 1 toilet stuck/stop (LOL)

Bath Half 2007    1.26.35 hrs

Wilmslow half marathon english champs    1.25.39

18th lady  (With piriformis injury ).

Liverpool 10k 2008 Oct 37.42mins midst marathon training 

Wirral 5k 2009 17.41mins off the back off marathon week 

Track 3000ms 10.45mins  hmmm I ran this to get points for my club so I just did tactical and ran on 1st lady shoulder and sprinted at the end !

 

 

As a youngster

County Champion for Xcountry and

High Jump

and 1500ms track.

pbs aged 13 yrs old

800ms 2mins 16secs

1500ms 4mins 48 secs

high jump 1metre 53  (cant do this now) and I never trained for it as a kid, just competed alot for points for my club, usually spend 2 hours highjumping, and skip off to do an 800 or 1500ms race then go back to high jump, Wish I took the running more seriously!

 

Run on more than several occasions for my County against Ireland county of Dublin.

Top 50 finnisher at 14yrs of age in english nationals Xcountry.


Short-Term Running Goals:

Complete my 1st Triathlon    1st lady   Brinscall  ok this was a triathlon with no timed transition i treated it as a training race to see if I like triathlons and I love them.

Complete off road triathlon  2nd lady.. 12 secs behind my age group world champion.  Tameside triathlon

Complete outdoor water race 1 mile   Salford Great north swim . 29 mins yay

Complete Olympic distance triathlon

Races for 2010  Future races.

Winter Duathlon Series Race 1 - December 12th 2010  Won  overall time 1hr 8 mins 43 secs

winter duathlon series race 2

2011  1st Lady overall time  1hr 09mins 04 secs.

Windy very windy

3rd race Duathlon winter series Feb 20th 2011

 Races for 2011

ITU Duathlon 2011 qualifier                                                               Dambuster Duathlon, East Midlands – 19th March 2011  

Qualifiers ITU Sprint Triathlon 2011 & ETU Sprint Triathlon 2012       Speedy Beaver, East midlands – 29th May 2011

Itu Standard triathlon 2011 qualifier                      Shropshire Triathlon   West Midlands 5th June 2011

ITU Standard Triathlon 2011 & ETU Standard Triathlon 2012             Dambuster Triathlon, East Midlands – 18th June 2011

London Triathlon Hyde Park ITU World Championship series race       6th AUGUST 2011  (practice format hopefully for Beijing)

 

Need to Qualify for GB Team  Beijing World Championships which is on

September 10/11th 2011



 

new pb for 5k 17.41 minsnext running goal for 5k is sub 17.30 mins Summer Track season and road 10k's & 5k's  

Lots of goals, lots of hard work and no play! ;-)

Long-Term Running Goals:


   

training pbs



swim

3750 1hr6mins 

2500 41.37 mins 29th May 2011 

1600ms 27.45

1500ms 24.00  8th April 2011 NEW PB 

500ms 7mins 38 

Cycle

42 miles 2hr 15

25 miles 1hr 15min 00s 

25miles 1hr 9mins 5secs with a decent wind! 11.6.12 

26.25 miles 1hr 12mins boooom :) 

20miles 59.30 mins 

12miles 36 mins 

10 miles 27:44mins new pb after a pb swim 8/4/11

10 miles straight out 26mins 35secs new pb 27/9/11

10 miles on turbo 25mins 35secs 

 Run 9 mile route h/town 1hr 2mins 43secs

5.23 mile route home fishermans coast bypass 

37.04 mins.

 


 

Personal:

 

 


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9 miles all off road all through trails and trails of sandy and sand dunes, woodlands 

1hr 12 mins 

 

now to the real word of the day chocolate why am I craving it so badly huh ?????

must have something to do with the local craze of peopls images on their blogs of such nice goodies 

 

 

 

So enjoy my pictures of the day thanks for reading Im off to stuff my face with chocolate again and again and again.......ooooooooooh no I cant gotta keep thinking of that marathon time I want and the finish line then I will resist the chocolate think woman think ahhhhhhhhh chocolate noooo no no no sub 3 sub 3 ha ha I am a looney bin today honestly all BURTS and Chris Ms Fault  oh and no bunny rabbits round here Burt its too cold for the bunnies to come out :-(

 

 

but happy days for happy nutz :-)

 

ooops. p.s I forgot I did 10 mins xtrainer warm up and warm down, like I did yesterday too but forgot to blog.  and Most days I do

plank for 45 secs then 5 press ups straight in to it, 10 secs rest and repeat  3 times also do side plank with one leg in the air, each side, x 3 the twisty plank I call and the medicine ball crunches like legs up in the air straight and crunches with med ball, then go into twists same thing but twist side to side. stretch and roll out I always forget to blog these things but I do do them all the time, like the vibro gym at home I use this mostly for massage terrrahhhhhh :)  

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Comments
From Lyman on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 18:41:13 from 170.135.241.45

Well that didn't help my attempt to stay away from sugar! Now I will be going office to office looking for some CHOCOLATE!!!!!

From Benny's on Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 22:10:20 from 24.174.249.108

Keep at it woman! You are doing good... KEEP THE FAITH! :)

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 06:18:37 from 78.32.130.9

Lyman Sorry but LOL I have to find a photo of the local choc fudge cake at our Nero caffe its to die for

Benny's I have still not lapsed and no choc yet anyway the coffee is being enough to take the cravings yes I am keeping the faith every lb adds to my marathon time :-)

From vinh on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:11:23 from 75.77.22.187

Good recovery run Sam! I like the core workout! I'm not a big fan of chocolate or sweets, am I normal?

From ChrisM on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 07:25:24 from 130.88.16.210

Looking at chocolate is fine, it iw tht eating it that is the problem!

I have a new idea, I will start running 100 miles a week, and as I burn somthing like 120 cals per mile I get to eat 10 penguin bars per day, mmmmmmmmm! LOL

From Scott Wesemann on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:34:23 from 66.239.250.209

Very nice workout. I saw the Galaxy bars and had to comment. They are my favorite. Cookie Crumble is probably the best chocolate bar on the planet, and Now I am really craving one. One of my friends in the UK sends them to me from time to time. :)

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 17:12:33 from 90.201.147.80

Vinh- Your not normal ha ha lol

Chris- I didnt eat the choc me a good girl he he yeah maybe if I run a 100 miles a week I can have more galaxy choc and mars bars, and ooooooh eccles cakes omg I forgot eccles cakes, if my mum ever buys me a treat its eccles cakes the cake with the flys in it LOL

Scott..... I will send you some galaxy over mail me your address honest I will send it, havent a clue what the cookie crumble is LOL ????

From Scott Wesemann on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 18:37:16 from 66.239.250.209

Aww Sam, you're too nice! Thank you for the offer, but I would feel bad about you having to do that unless I could send you something in return. I send my UK friend beef jerky because she can't get that... oh and Excedrin pain reliever. :)

You need to try Cookie Crumble. It is Galaxy's best bar.

From missy on Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 21:51:24 from 67.40.115.3

Gaaaahhh! Going to have to whip out the Sugarfree Calorie Free Walden Farms Chocolate syrup. :P I do have that, My daughter and her teenage friends like to tease me about my weird food...Did buy some Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans today, not sugarfree...I have to have those every so often, they are my true love.

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