This morning I did a final easy 11km before the race week. While I will continue to stay active during race week, my focus will shift towards preparation, nutrition and race planning and visualisation.

Next week will be my race week, with the coast marathon on the 7th of February. Which means the last few days before the race I am focussing on staying fresh and rest + recovery. While my hamstring forced

Less than 2 weeks before the Coast Marathon, my taper plan suggested to run between 18 and 22 km today. Yesterday evening I texted a few guys with whom I occasionally run, to see if anyone wanted to join.

Taper is here! This means dail back on volume and keep the same intensity! That way I will be fully recovered and race ready for the Coast Marathon Nationaal Park Hollandse Duinen which will be hosted

My thursday training is normally a session with medium intensity, specifically as my mornings can be quite demanding (like it was today). Nevertheless, after lunch it was time for some road work! The weather

Garmin must be frustrated with me, ever since last weeks peak week it stating that my trainingsreadiness is low and I should take a complete day off. Today I felt the emotional urge to just put in some

Last week was fun and intense and I got some thinking to do in order to balance the benefits of an additional peak week vs the benefits of a good taper. Normally I use a basic weekly schedule based on

My first peak week of 2026 has concluded, while my last marathon was less than 2 months ago, my next challenge awaits within 3 weeks: the Coast Marathon “Nationaal Park de Hollandse Duinen | Four weeks

After Wednesday tempo run I needed to take a day off in order to both allow my body to repair aswell as to stay motivated. My Thursday focussed on trauma therapy so it was emotionally pretty taxing. Normally

While the slower runs have their value, sometimes it is just pure fun to pick up a little faster pace. Today was that day, as I tried to do an injury check / confidence boosting run - by incorporating

The annual 10 days of real cold weather in the Netherlands are over. Temperatures stayed above 0C at night so the snow and ice are melting! While I love the look and feel of winter running, I am also happy

This weekend we did not get new snow, but we had night frost with temperatures of - 12 C. This meant that I needed to make some adjustments for my weekend runs. Normally I do a short zone 1 on Saterday

After a few days of snow, last night we had our first snowstorm in quite some time. Chaos on the roads and public transport and my kids school was closed due to the extreme weather. Perfect time for a

I had scheduled a beach and dune run for today, but after a night of -10 C and lots of fresh snow, driving (on summer tires) was not an option for me. Nevertheless, today was such an amazing day! After

After yesterday’s long run I was looking for an excuse to go outside and enjoy the weather again! As my wife was planning to go to the gym this evening and she pretty hesitant to drive when there is so

Dark, cold and snowing what else can you ask for? Well this was so awesome! Starting the day on 06:15 , quick breakfast and a coffee before hitting the road! Within minutes I knew this run would be epic,

Most importantly, with last nights events I hope everyone here stays safe! I considered not posting today, but decided against that as running connects us and gives some positivity. Snow After running

Today I had a fun evening run! It was my first run of the new year, so I was really looking forward to go outside. As you can see in the pictures above it had been raining and freezing today. I had to

Today was my last run of 2025. Which turned out to be a fun but cold zone 1 run in the dark. It was freezing when I started my run, but it was still dry, so I assumed that I would warm myself after a few

Wheras yesterday I did a fast 5 km (in 20:10), I ran most of it in zone 4 and 5. This was quite a hard pace. Today I focussed on a trainingsblock that included a marathon pace effort - during that block