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June turned into a busy racing month for Uta, with meets stacking up almost every other weekend. In between, training kept going at its usual rhythm of jogs, intervals, and rest.
Here's how the kilometers added up over the month, and what she actually ran and threw when it counted.
| Distance | 111.6 km |
|---|---|
| Days run | 21 days |
| Rest days | 9 days |
| Easy : hard | 46 : 54 |
| vs 2026-05 | -6.4 km / -2 days |
| Races | 4 |
What the training looked like: the mix of sessions and how the weeks went
Uta trained 21 days in June and rested 9, covering a total of 111.6 km - about 5.3 km on an average training day. The month moved in waves: 28.1 km in the first week (5 days), dropping to 21.9 km in week two, then jumping to the month's biggest week at 32.8 km in week three, back down to 23.1 km in week four, and just 5.8 km in the final day and a bit as June ran out. Her longest single session was a 10 km jog on June 20, sitting right inside that big third week. Across the month she logged 14 jog sessions, 8 interval sessions, and 5 meet days - so a good chunk of her training days involved either hard interval work or an actual competition. Compared with May, June's total dropped by 6.4 km and she trained on two fewer days, which fits a month with more racing packed into it.
Easy vs hard: what the split says about the month
46% of June's training counted as easy, 54% as hard - so more than half of what she did this month was hard work, whether that meant interval sessions or racing itself. With 8 interval sessions and 5 meets inside 21 training days, hard efforts were never far apart. The 9 rest days spread through the month are what make that workable - a hard day followed by a day off, rather than a steady drift of medium effort. For a parent tracking this kind of thing, the easy/hard split is worth watching over time: when hard work tips past half, rest days start carrying as much weight as the sessions themselves. June doesn't read as a month of simply piling up kilometers. It reads as a month built around sharper, shorter efforts layered on top of jogging, with real days off on either side.
Races and marks, including any personal bests
June turned into a genuinely busy racing month, with meets across three different weekends. It opened on June 7 at the Saitama no Kuni elementary school club meet (summer edition), a local invitational for school running clubs, where Uta threw 33m04cm in the javelin ball throw - a personal best, up from her previous mark of 30m96cm. On June 14 she raced the Katsushika Championships and did double duty: 3:27.99 in the 1km, a personal best over her old time of 3:29.00, plus 3m40cm in the long jump. The month closed on June 28 at the Nisshin Cup Saitama meet, where she ran 1:57.07 for 600m. Two personal bests in one month - one in a throwing event, one in a middle-distance run - is a good sign that the mix of jogging and intervals is showing up in competition, even if it's impossible to draw a straight line from any one session to any one result.
Looking at next month - only what the numbers support
June ended on a light note, with just 5.8 km logged in the final day and a bit of the month - a soft landing after the 32.8 km week that came before it. If that pattern holds, July could start from a rested base rather than a tired one. June's overall volume (111.6 km) came in a bit below May's 118 km, and training days dropped from 23 to 21, so the trend across two months running has been slightly fewer days and slightly fewer kilometers, even as the racing load went up. Whether that's a target to rebuild from or simply where things settled for now isn't something the numbers alone can answer. What they do say clearly is that rest is already a real part of Uta's month, not an afterthought, and that's worth holding onto if the kilometers start climbing again.
Two personal bests and a month full of races - not a bad way for June to go. On to July, and whatever it brings.