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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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(:  Happy Easter Guys and Gals :)

 

No run, but I did 2 pull ups lol  core work and yesterday I did lots of stuff toooo.

 

Went out last night last minute thing, didnt realy feel like it but hey ho !

 

My legs are not sore from the 16.5 mile bike ride yesterday or the extreme Russian yoga I did either.

 

Ate choc for breakfast lol Lunch lol and snacked on choc too LOL

 

Went out on the motorbike in hope this would burn the choc calories was fun 1.5hrs, so thats at least 400 cals at least.  had fun too Nissan skyline to play with and some other seriously cool cars, I didnt push it today just went out and enjoyed it.

 

My thoughts are

track days motorbike and just stay fit for this.... and not running  

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Comments
From CookieLegs on Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 22:04:58 from 71.36.82.238

Samantha,

I've followed your blog a bit this last couple months. You are one very fast lady!! I'm sorry about your recent injury, and I hope you continue to heal. It must be pretty hard on you - wanting to run, but not being able to. And you trained so hard for Liverpool - all the sweat runs on the treadmill, and all the runs in the rain and wind. Anyhow, just want to say that I hope you are better soon! Also, I never really understood the joke(?) about seeing bunnies when you run, but thought since you like bunnies (& chocolate) you might like the picture rattletrap put on his blog today. http://rattletrap.fastrunningblog.com/blog-04-04-2010.html

Hope it cheers you up!! Happy Easter :)

From vinh on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 07:04:18 from 75.77.22.187

2 pulls ups! whoa, Burt watch out! Hope you and your family had a nice Easter!

From missy on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 13:13:46 from 65.100.213.241

Russian Yoga sounds cool! I want some of that, then the chocolate as well. I put some cocoa powder in my greek yogurt. Was heavenly! YUM!

I don't know if I could do even 1 pullup. I weigh too much to lift my whole body..haha.

From Burt on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 13:45:14 from 206.19.214.144

Vinh - I can do three pull-ups thank you very much!

Cookie - the bunny comes from sometimes she calls herself a happy bunny. Now it's evolved into actual bunnies as one day I saw over a dozen bunnies on my run home and named them after her. So every time we see bunnies we have to think of Sam :)

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 14:29:54 from 90.195.99.202

ha ha I see lots of bunnies on my run tooo Burt, and now I am challenging you to pull ups, I will doe 3 pull ups maybe 4 just to beat Burt LOL..... Im not competitive at all honest :)

Missy Russian yoga hurts LOL, Im sure you can do pulls up's your so not big at all.

Vinh thanks ;-)

Cookie- thanks so much, I will probably persevere with the running, as racing motorbikes on a track days is kinda costly so I have found out and the hubby isnt having any of it, LOL wants all sorts of demands ha ha ha.......and the bunnies cheered me up thank you :-)

From missy on Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 23:57:07 from 65.100.213.241

I will see if I can do one pullup in a private location. Don't want people at the gym laughing and pointing..O.o

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 06:55:56 from 78.32.130.9

Oh yeah mine was in private at home LOL ha ha ha chin up bar :-O I will give it a few days before I attempt again my neck and shoulders are killing me from the excessive motorbike riding ha ha :)

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