JRFitness Personal Training

South Cave 10k last week! Met Izzy spontaneously and tried to help pace her to a new PB! Hills just stopped her in the end but a fab effort and was lovely to run and pace and help another runner for the morning! 💪🏼🏃‍♀️

Some visuals from the weekend 📸💪🏼🏃‍♀️🏋️

Amazing day doing the Rob Burrow Leeds marathon today!

No full marathon for me today but happy to do a small section helping my clients in Team JR get a very respectable combined time of 3 hours 25 mins!

Special well done to for a 5k PB (almost) and to for carrying on his section as he knew he was on for a 10k PB , a sub 50 min 10k across a very hilly course is awesome!
Also well done to for smashing his 5k PB too! Over a minute under expected prediction! 23 and a half minutes!!

All clients got sub 5 min per km splits! Well done Immy, Steve Crouch, Steve Caulfield, Immy , Owen and Terry!

Here’s to more client races, was a lot of fun! 💨🤝🏃‍♀️

I did this last year after Brighton but here’s just a little overview and a few take homes I’ve realised in the last 16 weeks of my marathon training, combined with last year’s marathon training of course!

I am by no means an expert in the slightest having only ran 2 marathons so far, but these are a few things that have helped me.
I hope anybody reading these whether you are a beginner runner working towards your first park run, or a seasoned ultra runner can take something from these little nuggets of information/ advice!

Good luck for anybody in marathon season currently! We’ve had a few so far but still the big London one to go, alongside Leeds, Edinburgh etc!

Comment below which one you can relate to the most or which marathon you are doing / have or are working towards for next year?⬇️👇

Thank you for reading and have a lovely rest of your week! 💪🏼🙌🏼🏃‍♀️💨

Wow! What a day!
A 3 hour 36 min marathon!! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

Came here with a time target in mind….sub 4 after being 8 mins over last year at Brighton!

I tried not to put too much pressure on myself. I didn’t check my watch at any point in the first twenty miles!

The plan was to make as much ground up in the first 30k as I could and then just run/walk the last 12k if need be. And enjoy it more than last time! I certainly set out too quick & let adrenaline kick in and was probably far too quick for the first half of the race. But I decided to play a dangerous game & see how long I could hold on for! Probably not the best idea for a full marathon and could easily have back fired!

I got to 35k and looked down and saw I was around 2 hours 53 or just under. I knew at that point I was on for a great time, much better than I ever could have thought!
I had started to struggle but I knew I could get to the finish line! I had done it before and this year I was stronger, faster and better and trained even harder!

Taking in the crowds, my music and voicenotes from my lovely clients, family and friends, soaking in the the atmosphere, looking UP rather than at my watch and trying to take it all in. Crowds of people all there to cheer you on, thousands and thousands of runners. I really let the crowd pull me home for that last 4-5 miles!

I’d done enough - and got over the line! In a time I could only have dreamt of too!

I was so so shocked to have taken 35 mins off my time from last year!! Still can’t believe it! A marathon in 3 hours 36 mins!
But I didn’t put any pressure on myself. I just wanted to run my race. Felt great up until 30k, then it was a mental battle!!

Thanks so much to all my friends and family and lovely clients who left me a voice message on each kilometre, without you guys’ and your support I’m not sure I would’ve made it through!!

Well done to everybody out there today, you all smashed it!

I’ve proved to myself I can do hard things…and never say never I suppose ….if London marathon became an opportunity , maybe I’d go again - but for now let’s stick to Half Marathon and 10k distances, I enjoy those more! 🏃‍♀️💨🙌🏼💪🏼🔥💃

Since Run for all have decided to cancel the Hull 10k event this year, I have decided to create my own for clients, but anybody is welcome!!

We are going to do a 10k course, starting at my home gym, JRFITNESS, going through willerby via the back of Springhead golf course into Main Street, Willerby low road, through Cottingham and up priory road, making our way back to the gym to finish!!

Whether you want to run, jog, walk or do intervals…or anything inbetween, I will also be looking to get some volunteers to help provide aid and water stations and support across various points of the course, so would be good to get as many people involved as possible!

I will be in my car providing music through a speaker and moral support and encouragement throughout!

We will even try and get some “race day photos”, medals and goody bags!!

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31st May, 10am start! We will be providing a warm up outside our gym @ 9.30am, ready to set off @ 10am!