After some morning cycling to and from appointments I had just enough time left to do a short (but fun) run to enjoy the weather before heading to an afternoon appointment. With the harder workout yesterday

After running a mountain marathon simulation on my trail shoes last week - I picked up my road shoes again and noticed that were overdue as the foam was almost completely gone on 1 side of the heel. I

After my tuesday mountain marathon simulation I had assigned a full week for resting and (active) recovery. Apart from some blisters I felt fine - the soreness in my legs was there but not to an extend

Hey everybody, thanks for checking in! In September I will be running a mountain marathon in Swiss. In order to prepare for that run I tried to create a simultation that I could run here in the Netherlands.

With my eyes set on Tuesday for a baseline run I decided to just do a fun run this morning. Normally I will do a hill repeat session on Sunday, but that would be too intense and too close to Tuesday. Therefore

Tnx for checking in! I have been doing some hill repeats for the last few weeks, most of the time 2 sessions a week (one easy 500-700 meters climbing and one harder session >1000 m climbing). I decided

Hey! Last few sessions have been hill work - either hill repeats or mountainbike paths. Today I decided to make my hill repeats a bit harder compared to my usual routine. Normally I run a winding path

As one of my two weekly hill specific training sessions today I decided to mix it up a little compared to the pure hill repeats I did on Sunday. I did go to my usual training spot “Hoge Bergse Bos” and

Hi all, thanks for tuning in! Mental health is a topic that I bring up from time to time as it is having quite an impact on my life. From October 2025 I am working in a year long program that contains

I had a spare hour to run in between appointments. As my planned hill session for Wednesday would be making my schedule to tight, I decided to go for the hill work today. When I got to the hill it started

It would had been tempting to trust my morning check in where I scored 0 out of 10 on fatigue and pains. But I knew better, yesterday’s session was hard and most of the impact will be more noticeable after

Finished my weekend hill repeat session and noticed my body is adapting fast. I aimed for doing 1km climbing (min 29 climbs) but as I was climbing I was also calculating if I had sufficient time to reach

In the road to Jungfrau Marathon I am incorporating 2 weekly trainingsessions dedicated to hill work. On Wednesday my focus will be on the technical aspects, in the weekend I will work on gradually increase

Oef that was a challenge! After the hill repeats my legs were quite heavy this morning. I decided to focus on the mental aspect of running today: pushing on when your feel like quiting. These types of

I started my trainingsblock towards the Jungfrau Marathon earlier this week with an easier hill training. As the Jungfrau has +/- 1800 m climb (almost all in the last 17km of the race) , I want to start

Been a while! After roughly a full year injury free, I had fallen to the ground on two seperate occations within two weeks - one time diving for the ground from my bike in order to prevent a crash against

While I am not the biggest advocate of no activity during recovery, I had to dail back everything on Thursday, Friday and Saterday. This was caused by a hard fall with my bike last Thursday, as I had to

Remember the phrase - it is a marathon, not a race. For me as a frequent marathon runner, that helps me dose my energy during a marathon, but on shorter distances it hinders me to really give my all and

After a marathon I always try to do a full injury check run within 48h. This timing allows you to distinguish between muscle pain and real injuries. While I normally try to do it the day after - right

I just came home from the Coast trail Marathon Nationaal Park de Hollandse Duinen. The run was amazing despite an injury that popped up around 35 km - but that could not ruin the fun! Finished at 10th