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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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Im on the slippery slope......first time in 10 days since I started my early mornings I couldnt get up, even with the snooze alarm and being told its time to get up,  I just went back to sleep, must have needed the extra 2 hours, and im still shattered this morning.......

 Indian was nice not as good as my usual restaurant though, had a laugh with my social runner friends..  (these are from a social club at my gym, theyre all mad as hatters and I always have a good laugh)  my other runner friends are from my club and are very serious runners in deedy, not as much fun to say the least, but great to talk running with..... 

 So its easy run this afternoon in the heat of the day arrrgghhhh wish Id got up now, suppose to do two runs today of 5 miles, and 6-7 miles very easy, so it'll be afternoon run and evening run Im looking forward to it really, im liking the easy runs at the moment....

 Okay quite warm today very humid close weather so I thought ah stay in the gym as the air con seemed to be on and somewhat slightly cooler than outside..Im thinking my gym is cutting costs cos when you walk into  a shop with air con you literally hit cold air, and this is not so in the gym....

  • 10 mins xtrainer ( I didnt have enough time to do more and run and warm down) Level 6
  • 10k on the treadmill, did 5k at 7.30 pace, then 2k @ 6.55 pace, then 2k @6.30 pace, last 1k at 7.30 pace......   supposed to be an easy short run oops, then fitness is going to my head, and I got bored wanted to get it on so to speak.
  •  5 mins xtrainer warm down level 5.

 

 

Evening------ still a bit warm but not too bad. did a different route to my sons hightown footy match which they won Dylan played really well, except on mistake but he did great.

route was fishermans path to the beach down the beach to Hightown barracks turn off, and run along the path around to hightown over the bridge, into old hightown and down to the end of the track to footy fields.

 

It was a real nice night, sun out cooler and small breeze, I saw another runner on the beach and off I go again, what is wrong with me today, I am so competitive I had to catch him up and overtake him, I was on the softer sand too! No nature, but along the barracks path I cought up with some cyclists as I saw them off I went again looked at my garmin I was on 6.30 pace, were that came from I dont know, anyways they let me past, so I had to keep it up omg I was starting to sweat big time LOL....    7.8 miles, I ran up the road bit longer to get 0.1 in to make it another even day OCDing...

 

Spoke to my coach again today, its a session tomorrow oh dear after two good runs, 9 miles tomorrow with 2 very fast 1 mile reps with as much rest as I need so thatll be nice to do, I love doing reps like that feels like your flying along awesome cant wait :-)

 

Very Happy bunny today  b  

 

 

 

Nike Vomeros 3 Green/Yellow Swoosh Miles: 14.00
Night Sleep Time: 9.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 9.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From Chris M on Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 06:51:24 from 86.136.116.198

I have one of these fancy alarm clocks with a light which I swear by http://www.bodykind.com/productdetails/CatIDx67/ProdIDx1074/sunrise-system-srs-200-sunrise-alarm-clock-1x.htm

I find it really helps if it is bright when the alarm clock goes off, if it is dark I tend to fall back to sleep unless I have to get up for something really important!

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 07:05:50 from 78.32.130.9

Chris gr8 idea but a crane wouldnt have got me outta bed this morning, couldnt get up at 8am never mind 6am, finally got up at 8.20 my son was concerned LOL Im usually up at 7.45am, school run.

upto 35 miles so far, should do 65 this week all being well... so the mileage increase is effecting me sure I'll be ok in a week or so... as long as I start getting decent length sleeps in LOL

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