A client report on training planning with Jasmin Nunige

Dreaming big

A magnificent backdrop and a huge event at the foot of Mont Blanc: that is UTMB (Ultra Trail Mont Blanc). The striking images of the week-long trail running event in Chamonix drew me in completely. To cross that imposing finish arch just once, that would be something! Start places at UTMB are in high demand and the process is complex: a draw decides who gets to start. My goal is ambitious, my joy is great, and the road to Chamonix is a long one.

Focused and efficient thanks to training planning

For the best possible preparation for the 2022 qualifying races, I decided to use Jasmin Nunige’s training planning. I got to know and value Jasmin at the training camps in Pontresina and Davos. Her competent, warm and patient manner inspired and impressed me from the very start. From February to September I trained according to her plan. Thanks to the online planning tool «Nöliö» the training sessions were laid out clearly and also available on my sports watch. Feedback was quick and easy to log. Once a week we had a call to discuss things. Jasmin gave me feedback and we agreed on the training sessions for the following week. Everything ran very smoothly. A real highlight was the monthly meetings and training together in Davos.

No sweat, no prize

That year I did not train more, I raised the quality of the sessions and brought in more variety. Jasmin’s training planning was varied and sometimes intense: stair running, 30-second intervals and intervals on the track or on the mountain were hard work, but purposeful and efficient. Looking back, it was a good and successful running season. I reached the goals I had set. Taking on the races well prepared was a particularly good feeling.

Whether I can start in Chamonix next August is now down to the draw. Whatever the outcome of that draw, the effort until now has been more than worth it. Working with Jasmin was exciting, motivating and rewarding. Training planning, and above all individual feedback from a professional, is simply on a different level. I am looking forward to setting new training impulses with Jasmin in the future too.

Monika Albertalli