Category: Monday’s with Jessica

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.

This week feels like a milestone week that I have been waiting for. I finally got to incorporate more running into my training and the pain I was receiving from my foot has lingered out to near nothing & hoping it will continue to ease away over the next training blocks.

I’ve done a few bike rides now since trying to focus more on my fuelling and in my 2 hour zone 2 training rides this has definitely shown and made me feel the most improvements. I have been doing most my rides indoors so having the fuel on hand is much more accessible so when I move outdoors I will need to keep up the fuelling intake to the same level.

When it comes to training for me at first I thought of it as always just wanting to be the best and keep getting better quickly, now not saying I still wouldn’t want that but over the time I have trained I have grown a larger perspective of why I train for what I do.

Fuelling has been something that I have recently been trying to focus on. Trying to make sure I am getting the right amount of energy to fuel the exercise I am putting my body through as well as day to day activities and then refuelling post workout and throughout the day.

This week has been a week jammed full of biking and it’s been very strange, from only doing long rides with multiple runs to nothing at all, and now just cycling 6 days of this week. Being off training has made it easier as I just feel the need to do some form of exercise and sweat out some energy and biking when I got back was perfect to what I needed.

Over the past 2 weeks I have been away from home, after my race I stayed and had a holiday leading up to Christmas today, Merry Christmas . Over the time I was gone after my race I haven’t been running once, this is due to my injury in my foot and not wanting to prolong the injury for the further future so resting it has been the key.