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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.

 


 

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No run day I am seeing my physio early this afternoon.

UPDATE:  Well..... I did see the physio, if no improvement by 3 weeks then its an MRI Scan OMG I cant believe this urghhhhH!

 

SO I ran anyway...... did core work 1st.

I ran on a soft playing field whilst my son did Footy training on the field next to me.

I did figure of 8eights on the field and the long straight in the middle was 6 min pace, I just concentrated on  goof dorm ha ha good form, (did that 4 Burt LOL)  oh and it ended up being 1 mile 6 min pace, and the 2.5 miles at 7.30/8min pace woohooo, my leg/hip was alright tooo. lets see the repercussions tomorrow morning eh :)

 

 

 

Dr's bloods were confusing I am waiting for an appointment now this Friday...

 

To enable me to challenge myself whilst recovering from yet my 3rd injury with the same hip in no less than 12 months..... I am going to do these two challenges... I will probably end up looking like a muscle man but hey I seem to put muscle on without doing any strength work ha ha

 

http://twentypullups.com/

 

 Perfect Push Up

http://hundredpushups.com/index.html

http://www.twohundredsitups.com/index.html 

All 3 are  6 weeks programmes I will still keep up with the core work every day and running every other day too.

so the key is to do the challenges on mon/wed/fridays and run on  Mon/Wed/Friday/Sunday   with xtraining on Tuesday/Thursday's

 

I am starting on week -1 on the pull ups this week and then next week I will start both programmes together..... as I have only just completed 3 pull ups yesterday!

 

If anyone wants to join me let me know and the challenge will commence Next Monday      wooohooo :) 

I will post a piccie of before and the end result tooo at the end of course  ha ha that should be fun.

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Comments
From ChrisM on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 10:13:03 from 130.88.123.4

Sounds fun! But I hope this is in addition to butt exercises!

I can do 100 situps on the swiss ball but not the pull ups I'm afraid...

From Nan on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 10:59:16 from 174.51.250.151

OOoo fun! I wanna join! I think the push ups will be the hardest for me. I don't know though, they all look killer at this point.

From Nan on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:02:01 from 174.51.250.151

Chris, you need to find us a butt blaster exercise to add the repretoire.

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:35:33 from 90.195.99.2

Chris I am still doing core work and butt exercises

My extra challenge will be to do squat jumps single leg on a stability ball thingy what lets say in 6 weeks 50 each leg ???? that will challenge ya butt for sure ah ha!

Nan your on come on people I will comment again and start a list of people yeah baby yeah ! me smiley chicken today :-)

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:36:30 from 90.195.99.2

Sammie Smiley Chicken

Nan the really fast one

Chris Monster legs ??

From ChrisM on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:59:02 from 217.42.248.214

Nan Here is a video of the butt burners

http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/exercises.asp?exercise=117

I started with 15 x 2 but now do 20 x2 and not all touching all the way to the floor - say 3 inches above toes as my knee starts clicking funny if I bend down too much

From allie on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 13:02:08 from 67.177.0.102

i can't do pull-ups. will this a problem?

From ChrisM on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 13:07:58 from 217.42.248.214

psst allie: just pretend you did them, I won't tell Sam if you dont

From Burt on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 13:08:18 from 206.19.214.144

allie would beat us all in the plank contest.

From Nan on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 14:50:20 from 174.51.250.151

Maybe with your plank holding ability, you could do the arm hang for 20 minutes instead of doing 20 pull-ups.

From Nan on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 14:53:01 from 174.51.250.151

Burt-You in too? Aaron and I did the first P90X workout this morning after his employee gave us a copy. I only got through about 25 minutes of it before I was completely pumped and had to go to an appointment anyway, so I had a good excuse to quit early. Man if you can do THOSE workouts, you can do this.

From Burt on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 16:22:10 from 206.19.214.144

I'm in. Reluctantly. Gosh, it's just that I'm such a sore winner. I don't want to make you guys feel bad when I destroy you, but that's just what happens. It's who I am.

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 16:46:00 from 90.201.147.206

YAY BURT is in your only in due to me hanging carrots in front of your face LOL

Sammie Smiley Chicken

Nan the really fast one

Chris Monster legs ?? although he is pretending lol

Allie- no excuses cat

Burt Dude the destroyer (apparently) !

Oh Allie, yeah I could only do half a one ROFL last week so if you go to the webpage and do the -2 week you will be able to do 1 by next week :-)

From missy on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 18:44:18 from 65.100.213.241

I'm going to have to start the pullups on week -2. I already know it...lolz

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 18:44:25 from 90.201.147.206

oh btw I have signed hubby up toooo lol but he already does like loads of pull ups and press ups but it will be the sit ups that gets him he he

From vinh on Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:12:08 from 75.77.22.187

Lol Burt!

Sam - I'm in for push ups. Pulls ups I can max out already. Sit ups, probably max out within a week or two. I need to focus on my running =P

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:52:30 from 78.32.130.9

Vinh- wooohoo ha ha

Sammie Smiley Chicken

Nan fff (fast flaming legs)

Chris Monster legs

Allie-cat no excuses

Burt Dude the destroyer (apparently) !

Paul - ha ha ha cant put on here what I call him LOL

Dylan- my son he's only 11 but is giving it a go !

Vinh- diesel maxed out :-P

From KP on Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 09:41:46 from 65.208.22.26

Last night I tried to do the sit-ups and push-ups to see if this was possible for me. It wasn't pretty... at all. I know that the pull-ups aren't possible in any way so I didn't even attempt them.

Hmmmmm... maybe I'll just be the cheerleader; kinda like I am at races. I volunteer a whole lot more than I run these days.

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 13:12:58 from 90.201.147.206

KP.... I can only do 10 push ups at the moment this is a 6 week plan of doing small amounts of each exercise, push ups, sit ups and pull ups..... 3 times a week and building on it each week!

I can only do 3 pull ups lol so I can still put you down for it. and we can all work together

I thought maybe do them on Mon/Wed/Fridays I will put you down then we can all laugh at each other hey !

Everyone needs to do the test I will post that on my blog on and they need to do it Friday happy days :)

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