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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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 Irrelevant to todays run but I finally got time  to upload picture of my muddy xcountry legs, and the mud had dried and most of it had fallen off ha ha 

 

Havent had the best of days, my stomach has been really bad urghhhhh tried drinking as much as possible and wasnt sure if I was up for a run never mind tempo run, as my stomach hasnt been great since last night, so I would be running on empty !

 

 

10 mins xtrainer level 6 

 2 miles out 8 min pace. then a 4 mile tempo run I ran along the by-pass just for the ease of continuous road, and only a few junctions to cross...... I was really lucky too and it just happened that every junction wasnt busy and I got to keep running without stopping yay :-) 

Or not so great, I found it really hard today, my legs were empty and heavy but I pushed through, as I knew it wasnt injury hurt and I felt ok but tired, I pretty much know if Im pushing my luck too much.    I did feel sick when I stopped for a 2 min rest, and I puked LOL no much as there wasnt really anything to puke urghhh, then a 3.5mile warm down back to the gym average 7.45 pace. 

 Running down the by-pass was good, but funny, I came across workmen but they were okay, I just had to run around the barriers and through some mud and ended up jumping over some equipment It felt pretty cool at that speed he he :) I saw one of my husbands friends on his tractor, about 4 times as he was going backwards and forwards with soil to a job my hubby was working at!

10 mins xtrainer level 4 warm down, and stretch.    

Split
Time
Distance
Elevation Gain
Elevation Loss
Avg Speed
Max Speed
Calories
Summary00:25:454.0130627906:2504:38437
100:06:191.0017006:1905:21108
200:06:241.00282706:2406:03109
300:06:271.00463006:2705:41110
400:06:311.0021422206:3104:38110
500:00:020.010005:4906:210

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From vinh on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 22:25:30 from 71.68.254.197

Wow nice workout even though you weren't feeling so great. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day!

From Sandy Dune-Howard on Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 04:25:20 from 78.32.130.9

Tomorrow is today ha ha sorry, silly caffeine high mood :)

that was a task yesterday.... I wasnt well for the rest of the day, and hubby was concerned how silly it was to train hard when with illness like that sort I was extremley dehydrated too and he kept bringing me water saying drink woman drink lol hes such a gent :-)

From Walter on Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 09:36:17 from 68.171.235.112

The best news is we are just starting our day, where you are almost through. Ill trade you right now!

From Burt on Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:01:42 from 12.231.112.98

Oh my gosh Sam. Look at those vericose veins! And I think you need a shave, too. lol!

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 13:06:15 from 90.201.147.153

Yes Burt very funny LOL

Walter my day ended up being a rest day much too much going on so its run tomorrow yay :)

From Mark on Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 13:48:03 from 173.64.192.27

You might want to incorporate some parkour into your training to help get over that equipment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEeqHj3Nj2c)

From Kory on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 13:58:11 from 134.50.89.55

What a nice Tan line! I'm sure it was a hoot when you saw that in the mirror.

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 14:44:05 from 90.201.147.113

Mark I love the free running AMAZING nice or wot!

Kory, yeah the mud had mostly fallen off LOL

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