Tag: Jessica Bray

Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 65]: Grazed Knee

This week, although I completed all my planned training it was like a puzzle piece of completion, less than half of the training was completed on the days they were set for. There were many reasons for the alterations in training but I knew I didn’t want it to affect my overall training plan. I thought out of the days I was busy and when that would affect my normal timings to train, some meant I had less time and some meant I needed to alter when I trained.

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Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 64]: Long Run Home

Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 64]: Long Run Home

This week I finally got to do my long run on Saturday. Most weeks through the winter I complete my long runs before school on Fridays, as I have football on the Saturday morning, this means I wouldn’t be able to have time to run beforehand as-well as football being very tiring on the body and would be too tired to complete after, or if I completed it before I wouldn’t be able to give my 100% in the game.

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Football Tournament

Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 63]: Football Tournament

With the more I gain fitness I have been able to see an improvement in my everyday life, in both sporting and daily processes. If I think back to before I transitioned into a running focus and even at the start my fitness was lower than it is now, and I was less capable of running longer, faster and more efficient, compared to now, my two hour runs are always doable, in the fact of completing its just how comfortable it may be done.

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Long Run

Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 62]: Weekly, Long Run

My long runs have began to be run consistently before school starts every Friday morning, now that I have increased my time to two hours I am getting myself up by 5am to give myself time to get everything ready to start running by 5:40-45, this leaves me enough time to complete the run by around 7:40am. At first this was hard, especially having to run through the dark, and know I will have to go to school after.

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Jess' VO2 Progression A

Friday Fartlek Run: Jess’ VO2 Progression A

Boosting your VO2 Max will deliver improved race results in short distance events, and can also help to boost your threshold if times appropriately within your build up. This session is great for runner’s of all abilities, and is particularly effective for 5km and 10km runners and triathletes.

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Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 61]: Half Marathon Training

This week was the first offical week into my half marathon training program towards the Auckland half on October 3rd. Giving me three months to train specifically, and to get myself to the best I can in the time provided. I’m certain through my training program with Ray I will achieve this to my optimum.

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Taupo Half Marathon

Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 60]: Taupo Half Marathon Victory

If you were to ask me a few days ago how I thought this run was going to go, I would have probably thought badly. I felt fatigued, tired and sore. With each tapered training run through the week I still felt heavy despite the de load of mileage. Something came over me Friday night as I started my solo road trip down to Taupo, I suddenly felt excited, energised and ready to race.

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Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 59]: PODIUM

This past 2 weeks of racing has by itself shown me what I can achieve through consistency and the love of running. I have raced both my Thames Valley Cross Country Champs going up against all the surrounding schools, before most recently racing at Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cross Country Champs, up against all the larger schools around including private schools like St Paul’s, and St Peter’s. Coming from a school with only 2 going to race each year on average I am definitely not one of the larger schools that attends.

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Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 58]: Club Racing

Over the past week my cross country season has begun, theoretically this is my better field of competition to track and field with it offering slightly more distance and a more complicated terrain. My school cross country was my first race and it went well setting out the front from the start and pulling away over the slightly shorter 3.5km race, finishing 5 minutes ahead of 2nd place giving me confidence in my ability and showing my training paying off.

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Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 57]: Time To Get Going

We are finally one week until my first cross country of the season. Moving out of track and athletics season and into the colder months means I’m entering my last round of cross countries as a high school student. My last chance to produce my best running yet.

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