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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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Oh dear, I have a sore throat, so kept in the gym today rather than provoking it in the cold air, as it's gone cold over here.

 sleep still not enough, broken and apparently I was talking again, My son woke me this time, he thought I was on my mobile at 4am ! Nope I just talk in my sleep, I run in my sleep as well, never forget the time My mum and dad moved my bed away from the wall because I kept kicking the wall, and when we went away in the caravan, they used to go mad when I used to kick the wall.  

Did 1 hr on xtrainer with some intervals thrown in as I was bored!

 

went on treadmill, bad idea I thinks, its in kmper hour, not mph, so I struggle with it sometimes, forget how fast I am going and get carried away.

 

went out to do 10k, but worked up to a few fast 1km's I always do this on the treadmill!

 

so I stuck in three fast 1kms at fastest the damn thing would go, 16kmh, so thats 10mph, working out at 1 gradient 6 min mile pace! I took rests of 0.5 km at 11 kmh, which was good. Not really a hard work out, but it broke up the monotonous work on the treadmill.

1hr on treadmill. 

 

did 11.5 k which is approx 7 miles

Step ups, worked at this with light weights in each hand, 10 mins.  

5 mins easy on xtrainer for warm down,  

 so 2hrs 15 mins of workout, with abs etc, 2hrs 30 mins. Now I know why I love the outdoors, even in the cold. 

 

I will be doing my mile repeats outside, no way I could do this on the treadmill I just get to fed up! and they dont have air con on, i know its cold outside but it aint cold in our gym, they have the heating on, and with no air movement on the treadmill you easily overheat!

wouldnt mind they have air con, but they just dont have it on, why cost cutting, so the PT's say!

 

 

Nike Zoom Pegasus Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 5.50Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 5.50Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From jtshad on Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 15:33:09

Hope the sore throat gets better soon.

So, do you run fast in your sleep? Maybe you could find a sleepwalkers race and kick some butt! Or is the sleep running on the walls your attempt to pull a Lionel Ritchie to "Dance on the ceiling"?

Nice tempo splits as well.

From sam DEAN-HOWARD on Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 14:54:43

hi jt, no still got sore throat, and really really tired, so much so that I didnt run today, v unusual for me to miss training but I feel like crap!

so no mile reps today, maybe tomorrow if I feel any better, even tried to nap this afternoon no such luck! just cant sleep! how frustrating....

running on the walls thats funny, I dont know I am doing it, obviously! I suffer with nightmares and loss of sleep, I thinks I have an overactive mind! LOL

From Burt on Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 15:48:15

What does your husband do? Is he used to it by now? Most husbands now how to drone things out (i.e. crying babies), but if he's getting kicked...

From sam DEAN-HOWARD on Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 16:18:52

Cheeky question! lol. I am not sure on that one at the moment!

But he used to wake me up tho! then purchased a very large bed.

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