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May was the busiest month we've logged so far. Between school, club sessions, and a run of weekend meets, Uta barely had a quiet week.
Here's what the numbers from her training log say about how the month actually went.
| Distance | 118 km |
|---|---|
| Days run | 23 days |
| Rest days | 8 days |
| Easy : hard | 32 : 68 |
| vs 2026-04 | +29.5 km / -1 days |
| Races | 7 |
What the training looked like
Uta trained 23 days in May and rested 8, covering 118km in total - about 5.1km on an average training day. The week-by-week numbers show how uneven the month was: a short two-day stretch of 10.6km at the start (May 1-3), then a jump to 34.6km over six days (May 4-10), still strong the week after at 30.3km over five days (May 11-17), a clear dip to 16.4km over five days (May 18-24), and back up to 26.2km in the final week (May 25-31). Her longest single session was a 9.4km jog on May 16. Looking at session types, she logged 10 jogs, 8 interval sessions, 2 pace runs, and 7 race days - interval work and racing made up a big chunk of the month.
Easy vs hard: what the split says about the month
Only 32% of May's training counted as easy, with 68% classed as hard - intervals, pace runs, and races. That's a month tilted heavily toward effort rather than recovery jogging. Compared with April, Uta ran 29.5km more total distance in May despite training one fewer day (23 versus 24), which lines up with the heavier week in early May and the five race days packed into the back half of the month. The numbers suggest May was less about building a big aerobic base and more about sharpening and competing.
Races and marks, including any personal bests
Uta raced seven times across five meets in May. At the Toshima Spring Record Meet, a local track meet in Toshima, Tokyo, she ran the 100m in 15.78 seconds - a personal best, improving from her previous mark of 15.84 - and jumped 3m31cm in the long jump. At Challenge Cup Tokyo she threw 27m60cm in the javelin ball throw. At a kids' athletics meet she ran 2:47.48 for 800m. At the Saitama City Citizens' Sports Festival she ran 3:34.49 for 1km, and at the Hitachi Championship meet she closed the month with 3:36.97 for 1km and 3m23cm in the long jump.
Looking at next month - only what the numbers support
May's numbers point to a month built around racing and intervals rather than long, easy mileage - the longest run all month was 9.4km, and hard sessions outweighed easy ones by more than two to one. With five race days already behind her and a heavy hard-training share, the log suggests June could be a good month to watch how that balance shifts, simply because May leaned so far toward effort. That's what the data shows - nothing more.
Seven races in one month is a lot for anyone, let alone a kid who's still in elementary school. Uta seemed to take it in stride, and that new 100m best was a nice moment in an otherwise packed schedule.