As school has begun to settle back into my weekly routine and school sports trainings and games after-school re-starting for the 2024 season I am organising my time to work around all the changes that are happening.
I’m in my final year of high school and am the head girl, I’m aiming to get into uni and the course I’ve been hoping to take. My summer sport I play is volleyball and that has begun to be consistent and training 2 times a week after-school and games on the weekend.
Having all the added factors and just being more mobile and active due to higher amounts of stuff happening I am having to adapt and learn with my body to refuel it and keep it going to keep up with my change in routine over the summer. Especially with the injuries set backs I’m not wanting to re aggravate them and cause me to fall back to square one.
Having time management and not allowing myself to overthink and stress has been important to keep me going. My training is something I love to do as it gives me structure to my days and weeks. It gives me something to focus on and work towards consistently and is a way of just letting go and having time to myself.
When I’m running and cycling I tend to just have myself with my thoughts where I can reflect, think and plan what’s been going on around me and in my life.
It’s also something I can control without other peoples input and just my results reflecting my effort.
Through the trainings I’ve been doing I’m having positive thoughts of future trainings and racing, with a hope to keep myself pushing to my best and produce my best.
Having everything starting back up I am trying to make sure it’s not compromising my training and health. Time management is definitely important so trying to train first thing in the morning is what I try to do as I have full energy and recovery from the nights rest. There is nothing through the day that is on my mind, no one is around to disturb me and I can’t overthink it beforehand then leaving me with the rest of the day to complete everything else and not have to try fit it in between other commitments.
– Jessica Bray