#39 - Jessica Reyes

This conversation is with Jessica Reyes, who is a runner, and Head Coach of Team Sugar Runs, which she started to connect with the running community. It has grown into a community of female coaches helping athletes of all abilities achieve their running goals

She’s a Level II RRCA certified running coach with personal bests of 3:01 in the marathon and 1:24 in the half marathon.

We talk about:

• Playing soccer competitively until she was 22
• Her first race and why she runs
• The importance of community and why she started coaching
• Her honest blog post about the challenges of family planning as a female athlete
• Training for a sub 3 hour marathon
• Dealing with the mental side of marathon training
• Plus various other insights.

You can follow Jessica on Instagram @sugarruns