Jessica Bray is a secondary school triathlete building her skills, fitness and experience. This is her story.
This week I competed at the Waikato cross country championships as a senior girl. Going into this race I knew there was a big number of amazing runners, all the girls from my age group last year and the age group above had combined and they even said this was a the strongest group of runners they have had in years.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 21] – Waikato Secondary School Cross Country Champs
My journey with my fitness and goals has come along way in the past year, this time last year I was just coming out of a fully competitive swimming season trying to qualify for the Division 2 National Championships.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 20] – Other Sports
This week I had both my Thames valley Cross Country and Waikato Swimming Schools Championships.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 19] – Change In Focus
Today I competed in my Thames Valley Cross Country which is the next level from my school event. I went into the race with the mind set of knowing I was capable of doing well but still have competitors with a high ability of doing well as well. This course has one large hill and this year I had to complete this hill two times, the course was muddy slippery and wet, so I knew that it wasn’t going to be a fast timed race.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 18] – Thames Valley CHAMPION
This week I had my school cross country, this is my first year as a senior so running slightly further, for my school event we still run the same as everyone else due to a lack of space to run the extra distance. I go to a pretty small school so the age groups aren’t massive but I knew I still had others who where capable of pulling something out of the bag so couldn’t just take it easy.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 17] – School Cross Country
This week my school winter sports started, this year I am playing hockey and football. Both of these require high intensity sprints over a short distance and use different muscles and movements that my body is used to doing, because of this after both of these games my muscles all over my body ached in places I don’t usually feel.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 16] – Other Sports
This week I didn’t have to much happen it was just a pretty standard week, but after having almost a week of less training last week I was quite shocked to see how much my appetite could change.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 15] – Appetite For Training
This week I was down in the South Island and due to not having time and an area to complete any runs I did not get any done. But I still stayed active with doing lots of walking, hiking, biking and doing active activities.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 14]: A Rest Is As Good As Holiday, Both Is Better
This week didn’t have too much excitement in it as it had in the last few. But something that did catch my mind was my fitness. During my swimming this week we did some longer and stronger sets like 400m repeats.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 13]: Improved Fitness and Improved Confidence
This week I competed in the New Zealand Secondary Schools Triathlon Championships in Wanaka. This is a long travel as this is the South Island and I’m from the North Island, we left on the Tuesday and flew from Auckland airport to Queenstown as there are no direct flights to Wanaka.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 12]: New Zealand Secondary Schools Triathlon Championships