This week was a week full of training, and a step up in pace along all the boards of my runs. Usually I just have one run a week where I focus on intervals, pushing and holding the pace, but leading into my half marathon in less than two weeks Ray has added in pace into all three of my runs, making me focus on hitting the correct paces, but also holding and repeating them throughout what is on schedule.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 70]: Fast Shoes for a Fast Race
There is three weeks to go until my goal race arrives. It’s slightly unreal to think that it’s so close. It feels like I just decided to start my journey into longer endurance racing. The change has been more than I could have imagined and I’m so happy that I took the leap of faith and threw myself into something so different and so new to what I normally keep myself confined too.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 69]: Three Weeks and Counting
This week looked slightly different to the usual. It was my first week of my final school holidays leading into the short time I have left. This week I stuck to all of my training as planned and was very happy with my interval run I completed Tuesday morning, where I felt strong and capable in my running abilities.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 68]: Tramping Mount Pirongia
This week was a pretty standard week in terms of everything, as usual I completed all my trainings and had my first interval session of this transition phase which felt good and I’m excited to continue to ramp them up and build some speed and paced endurance leading into my half marathon in just over a months time.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 67]: Shave For A Cure
This week was a big learning curve for me and how much mental tiredness can impact as such as physical. This week I have my mock derived exams and I was off school studying getting prepared for them all week before each one. Having to be so focused and engaged for long periods of time and covering every subject that could possibly be brung up is quite exhausting.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 66]: Combining Study and Sport
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.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 65]: Grazed Knee![Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 64]: Long Run Home](https://www.coachray.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Mondays-with-Jessica-600-×-455px-12.png)
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.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 64]: Long Run Home
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.
View More Friday Fartlek Run: Jess’ VO2 Progression B
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.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 63]: Football Tournament
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.
View More Monday’s with Jessica [Ep 62]: Weekly, Long Run