Hi there, thank you for checking in on my running blog! After Christmas dinner last night, I really felt like running today. While my inlaws are coming over later today for dinner and I promised my wife

It is Christmas Holidays here, so my priority will be on family time for the next 2 weeks! We started the day with some ice skating with my girls and two of their friends from school which was pretty fun

Today was just a lot of fun! Despite having some early morning obligations, I found some time for a relaxed easy paced (heartrate zone 2) long run. The weather was just perfect - around 8 c with quite

Today I went for a recovery paced run with four shorter strides to prepare myself for my Sunday long run tomorrow. I prepared the workout in garmin, with 4 easy (zone 1 km) as a warmup, followed by 4 strides

Today’s training session focussed on speedwork, with the goal to gradually increase my Lactate Threshold (so I will be able to not only run faster, but more importantly to maintain a faster pace for a

I had it all planned out for today, waking up early to do some easy zone 1 warmup (5km) and then some 15 sec strides and sufficient time to recover before doing a 5km tempo block below my lactate threshold

After the Spijkenisse Marathon I started building towards the 2026 goals. In order to be able to do my hard sessions as effective as possible. I try to keep them as focussed and short as possible. That

Today was one of this weeks hard sessions due! Hill and speed work! I decided to start the day with some cycling as a cross training so I can keep the speed workout short but very effective without risking

Today I went for a lunch run with a colleague close by our work. We work together on a large project so we could brainstorm and reflect during the run with regards to the corporate transition that we are

With just a few more weeks until the start of the new year, I am creeping towards my 3000 km in 2025 milestone. This week my trainingsprogram starts for my upcoming marathons. In order to combine both

Hi there! After last week’s marathon I was excited to do a fun 22 km run today. This run I ran together with a friend that is a very experienced ultra runner so it was a great pleasure to hear the stories

While it has been only 5 days I feel ready to have some fun. Earlier this week my body reacted positive on some hill training. Today I focussed on 300m interval training. While 300m interval is not the

With 10 weeks to go until the next marathon - which will be a trail marathon on the beach and in the Dunes. I decided to spice up my recovery run a little today. After yesterday I felt strong enough to

Hi all! After last weekends race, I decided to break my normal routine and postpone the injury check run a day. Whereas I normally do this the day after a marathon, I felt that the post-race hypothermia

Today was my big day! The Spijkenisse Spark marathon! I had two goals: Beat my PR (3:20:16) Run a sub 3 hour marathon In the end, the distance proved to be humbling again! I had to make adjustments on

Just two more days until the Spijkenisse Spark Marathon. I am excited and feel pretty ready. Just like 2024, if Spijkenisse is succesfull I will close 2025 with 4 marathons ran within a year again! Mentally

Hi there! This Sunday is the Spijkenisse Spark Marathon, where I hope to beat my personal best time! Last few weeks I gave my body (and mind) some time to recover so I will be fully rested and ready on

Started the day at 04:00, it was a difficult night where my thoughts got the better of me. Easy morning routine with a nice cup of fresh ginger tea helped me to reset a bit. At 06:30 my kids joined me

I realized that tapering is something you need to become good at so you can just relax while your body is preparing for race day. Last week was quite difficult emotionally as I didn’t draw the connection

Yesterdays run gave me back some confidence in my recovery. Today I incorporated a short tempo element in the training by apternating 25 sec strides with 2 min jog (backed with 3 km zone 2 warmup and 3.5