This weekend I completed my first longer distance race where I ran at a racing and competitive speed. I went into the race knowing how I wanted to structure it and with rough race paces set to my watch, I didn’t know what to expect with the other competitors and just went out with just a personal achievement as the goal.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 37] – Auckland 11km
I’ve got one more week until my next race, my training up to this point has been going well and my confidence in my running has improved immensely.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 36] – Feeling Energised
This week I attended a school camp on an island as a leader for the younger year groups, this camp already had some high physical activities and lots of movement but I knew that I needed to try get my scheduled runs in if I wanted to stay consistent with my training and being my best for my race in the next 2 weeks.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 35] – Camp Leader
Over the past 2 weeks I have been training the majority of days leading up to a assessment and first aid course to become a fully qualified pool lifeguard, this training required both in and out of water training consisting different rescue techniques and tows, pool and facility maintenance and lots of reading on safety and procedures.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 34] – When Magpies Attack
I’m now in the month of my next race, and I am already feeling like a stronger and faster running from the increase in pace and power I have been using in the past 2 weeks. The pace at first felt less sustainable for a long period of time as I was so used to the old pace, but with the consistent use of the pace it has allowed my body to adapt and feel more efficient at the new pace.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 33] – Train the Gains
This week was the start of my new training block. Back from my foot recovery, new training zones and new shoes.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 32] – New Shoes and New Training Zones
This week has been different to usual as I wasn’t running as I had gained a foot injury the day after my recent 5km time trial. I made sure to look after it as I knew if I keep pushing through I wouldn’t heal as fast making it worse in the long run.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 31] – Qwik Recovery
This week I had just come off a solid week of training and continuing into another. I had a 5km time trial to complete, going into the run I didn’t know what to expect as I haven’t really done a specific time trial for the 5km distance, and didn’t know where I thought my levels were at from them dropping sightly in previous weeks.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 30] – Fast then Blast
This week I got my restricted driving license, this is going to give me much more freedom with my training as I will be able to travel to different areas to train and be able to go when the time suits me.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 29] – Driven
Moving into training that is focused on running and using biking and swimming as cross training, I am now working towards 2 events one at the end of October and one at the start of December.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 28] – Race Plans