Hey! Today’s training on the road to Spijkenisse-SPARK Marathon was scheduled as a low zone 2 run. As a low impact training that allowed to get some kilometers in. Right before starting the run, I got

Hi there! Welcome back to my “road to the Spijkenisse-SPARK Marathon”! As I have a solid foundation, I created a 8 week intense trainingschedule, that aims to help me break my previous PR. The schedule

Hi there! Another day, another run! Since last weekend I had to change plans for the November Spijkenisse Marathon. Rather than just pacing for a friend, I will aim to slighly beat my own pr! With just

Saterday evening I was notified that I would not have to pace a friend for the november Spijkenisse marathon. With 8 weeks to go, I decided to set the ambitions high! Rather than just cruizing to the finish

Hey! Today I had the opportunity to run with an experienced ultra runner, who did runs like MDS 120 Morroco and earlier this month the Jungfrau 2025 edition. As I want to do the 2026 edition of the Jungfrau

Work smarter not harder This applies to many things in life, but also to running. Simply adding to much high paced kilometers will leave you out of sufficient recovery time. In my previous training blocks

Heya! Two weeks ago I started with interval training. After a week of 6x 400m , a week with 8x 10 sec sprints, I got a 9x 15 sec sprint workout today. Last week I commited myself to achieving a sub 3 hour

Well, that was just amazing! Running through a little forest and crossing the water with a tow raft, before continueing my run My day started at 06:15, waking up getting dressed and a light breakfast before

It is easy to focus on building your strenghts rather than addressing your weakness. Translating this to my own running - I find myself a decent long distance runner, but I am feel I underexposed strenght

Hi all! One of the new running pairs I ordered earlier this week arrived! After running >1300km on the Saucony Omni 22 - I reordered the same model. Comparing the foam between the old and newer pair

Hi all, welcome back to my running blog! This week was a busy week at work so I had to be a little creative in getting some additional runs in. One way to get additional kilometers is to run early or late.

Today I decided to take a longer break during my work in order to reflect on last monday. Going for a low intensity run (up to low zone 2) can provide a great vehicle for reflection - and so was my run

Hey everybody! Today it was the last day of World Port Days, a large event in the Rotterdam harbour area. Making it a fun experience to do an early route through the one of the harbour areas as there were

Hi all! Welcome to my running blog! Yesterday evening I received a text of a friend that asked if I could help him to cover a half marathon distance goal today - he told me he got to 17km a few times but

Hi all! Thank you for checking in on my blog about this amazing #running experience that I had today on a Dutch Island called Ameland. Yesterday evening I arrived on the Island by boat (50 min) after a

Hi all, thank you for checking in on my #running blog! Tomorrow morning I will be going on a week holiday with my girls to a Dutch peninsula called Ameland. While the focus will be on family time, I will

Hi all! Thank you for checking in on my running blog! After a week of holiday I got home on Friday and started to add some miles on my weekly routine. #Running is both a physical aswell as a mental game.

Hi all! Today was the end of my holiday in the Belgium Ardennes. Early morning we packed our bags and cleaned the appartment before driving back to the Netherlands. Luckily today the traffic on the road

Hi all! Yesterday evening I arrived on my family holiday destination the Belgium Ardennes! While the drive should had been roughly 2,5h it took us close to 6h to get to the destination - but we made it!

Hi all, welcome back at my #running blog! Today was a fun but very busy day with both my kids aswell as taking care of my inlaws before having some time to stretch the legs in the evening. My run today