year in sports 2020

Garmin Coach Half Marathon Plan

You have to do something in these days of Covid. So I decided to give the Garmin Coach training plan for a half marathon a chance. I have done 6 of the 17 weeks already and my coach is confident about that I will reach my goal :-). It is really easy to use. You

Looptijden

Week 48 – A lousy week

After the Warandeloop last saturday, the start of a lousy week was born. I had my doubts to participate because saturday morning I woke up with a snot nose and I was thinking that this could possible the start of the winter flu. I was right, saturday at the end of the afternoon it started

Week 46 – stay motivated

Friday evening 16th of November, until now the motivation is ok. Having a few events on the calendar help for sure. On sunday 9th of December I want to run the 10km in the stratenloop of Waspik, then on monday 25th of February I am in Sweden for the Oppet Spar Monday for a cross country ski

Week 38 – Almere 1/2 triathlon .. check .. done ..

After 6 weeks of preparation it was raceday on Saturday 8 of September. I have had a good training period in the weeks before Almere. At friday 3 of August we came back from our 3 1/2 weeks holiday in the USA and because the short period to Almere I started immediately. I still can

Week 32 -Decided to tri MD in Almere

Last weeks we had our summer holidays in the north east of the US. We started in NY city and then drove with our van from Escape Campervans from NY city to several Cities and National Parks. So we have seen cities, nature, museums, sports and other culture. The weather was hot and very humid,

Season … game over :-(

Saturday on the 5th of May at the end of the training I crashed due to a hole in the asphalt. Together with Jan I went for a last training ride into Zeeland before our Gerolstein adventure. The first thing I realised … it’s over … the accident is almost a week ago now. Last

Drunense Duinen – 1/2 marathon

Good enough for now. Especially how it feeled the last two weeks with those sensitive calves. I think I’ve to stretch more and maybe focus on some shorter distances to get the speed up.

One week until the 1/2 marathon in Drunen

A lot happened since the last post. The days are getting longer and I hope that the weather and temperature will improve in a short time because we had quite a few cold weeks and even for next weekend we have a winter forecast. Next weekend, on 18th of March I will run the 1/2