Aaron Pulford: RT Journals

After finishing the world cross country feeling quite disappointed with my result, I arrived back in New Zealand where I had a short break from training. After my break I had a meeting with my coach and we worked out a solid training program starting on the 5th April leading up to the world juniors where I will be racing the 10000m (20th July). For the first 7-8 weeks I had just been working on getting my strength and fitness back that had some how disappeared towards the end of our track season here in N.Z .



I have now started doing a bit of faster stuff on the track to help sharpen up for world juniors. For the last 2months I have been living in Hamilton and have got together with a few local runners. We have a pretty good little group going now and I have been training with Michael Whitehead who has a 800m p.b of 1.52 and a 400m p.b of 49secs.  Since he has started training with me back in April he has lost over 5kg and is shaping up to run a good 1500m, he is hoping to run round 3.40-42. It's good to have someone fast to help out with my track training leading up to world juniors.



Also I have another training partner now in Cory Whiting who does most of my long runs and helps out pacing in my track sessions. It's pretty sweet to have people to train with now after training in Thames for the last 2 years and only having my dog to run with.

Thanks for reading. 

Aaron