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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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Afternoon......

Not in a workout mood... didnt want to workout didnt want to do much urghhh!

I forced myself to the gym ( yes me I forced myself, even sat in the car for 10mins contemplating whether to bother or not or to just sit in the car and go to sleep, I was tired very tired and proper issed fed up off urghh)....

 

So I had told Kim (marathon Dreamer) on FB everyone has days like this just go see what you can do sometimes it turns around and is great other times you quit after 30 mins but you got something done :-O    I was thinking this and thought come on you lazy weight watcher get your bumm out and in the gym.....

 

so xtrainer I lasted 15 mins level 6 was bored urghhh

so I did my sit and press ups training

press ups reps then straight into the sit ups no rest then 60 secs rest which was kneeling on the swiss ball for this rest ha rest my rear end rest lol so thats 5 x 1 min kneeling on swiss ball.

press ups  ( I was in a bad mood so I was good at these today give it *ell)

18,18,20,20,25   Oh My Word 25 is the best yet I will ache tomorrow or Fri if its DOMS

101 in total of press ups woohoooo. 

Sit ups

30,30,30,30,40, 40 did an extra excruciating 40 to make upto 200 in total  most yet to date.

Core work.

I did 30mins at least after the sit ups press ups

swiss ball med ball plank 2 x 1 min

swiss ball kneel with medium med ball russian twist Im getting good at this

Swiss ball  med ball plank tried the tuck under were you roll the swiss ball under with your feet while balancing your hands on the med ball this blooming hard did 

2 sets of 5 and collapsed LOL

did the swiss ball side core thingies 2 sets of 25 

bridge swiss ball one legged and two legged numerous amounts although did more on the weaker left leg, and did the pelvis ones so it was repeats rather than just holding.

10 mins boxer skipping but doing 2 hops each leg swop this is great for feet reaction speed and strengthening your ankles etc.... I always do these when training for track!

25 mins on the xtrainer progressive starting at level 5 going upto level 9 sweat rating

(Shower) LOL

 

Im doing doubles so its gym in the afternoon inc cardio

and a run of an evening should be an easy run today but I didnt have much time and wanted to get 6 miles in :-O

my son was at football trials for his own team tonight, I wanted to watch the end of it so it was 40 mins I had to run to see the last 30-40 mins.

6 miles windy conditions or breezy in 42 mins I pushed the paced but not too much I think I did 2 miles around 8 min pace then picked the pace up to 7 mins and through some 6.30 mins in to make it quicker to be back in time.

I was pleased as I was on my own and my pb for 10k is 37mins so not bad eh !

 

 

 The problem with doubles is two showers a day two sets of training clothes, more washing rotating trainers and just the skin problem of washing so much LOL so its oil up now too gotta have not dry flaky skin LOL  

 

Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00Calories: 0.00
Comments
From vinh on Thu, May 06, 2010 at 06:45:52 from 75.77.22.187

Nice training Sam! I hear you about the 2 showers a day. I gotta do laundry all the time! Looking strong Sam!

From Bonnie on Thu, May 06, 2010 at 17:18:16 from 128.196.228.134

Nice day Sam! Good job and good to see you making your comeback!!

"the only thing worse than doing it, is not doing it" ;-)

From ChrisM on Fri, May 07, 2010 at 04:21:09 from 130.88.123.4

That's quite a good workout day for someone who was thinking about not bothering!

I think for women doing doubles must be a nightmare if you have to wash your hair and dry it etc what a lot of bother!

I think doubles can be good but I don't think I could be bothered with all the faffing around etc

From Samantha Dean-Howard on Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:15:23 from 78.32.130.9

Faffing around love it, hair cba scrape it back itll be okay LOL

I know it is somthing and nothing but yeah faffing around is mad......

From missy on Fri, May 07, 2010 at 12:35:03 from 67.42.126.218

Sammie...lol @ "weight watcher get your bumm out and in the gym....." My day was tough yesterday too...I kindof sat in my suburban for a few minutes thinking...how on earth am I going to pull this swim off..haha..It's surprising how bad we can feel and still get workouts done. Do you feel it has a lot to do with Your being coached? I was thinking to myself yesterday, there was no way I would have done the two workouts I did yesterday (I would have made it a rest day) if I hadn't been coached. Or maybe for you, you would have incredible will power anyhow..haha. :D You really did get some good work in today!

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