50.000km and counting…
Looking back in my old travel-journals I was traveling on my bike for a total of 21.840km before I decided that I needed another challenge… So when I started my triathlon-journey I also started...
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a virtual mini-vacation…
(or: “why do I always fall for these stupid ideas…”) Let’s start with a little history… In 2008, whilst cycling to the south of Spain, I decided to plan my route so that I...
ultratriathlon is about patience anyway, so…
as was to be expected: the SwissUltra Deca 2020 is now officially cancelled… (or: postponed to 2021…) With everything going on in the world right now I knew there was a 99.999% chance that,...
a (very) short update…
There’s some epic training-sessions to come in the near-future (well, unless we go into lockdown next week…), and the last few months haven’t been filled with epic races or training-sets… So it’s been quiet...
“Saturdays run will be shortened by 5 hours”
I’ve been on this deca-journey for quite some time now, and 2019 has been a year with some great adventures that will help me get there in 2020… The Double in Emsdetten was a...
a hard training-day, so I might as well enjoy it…
Antwerp, october 20th 2019 Training for The Deca has really begun (blog on that might follow later), so for the past few weeks it was time to up the running-mileage… To make sure I...
“do NOT look forward, however tempting…”
Long before I ever started swimming longer distances, I saw the videos of the ‘Lake Zürich Marathon Swim’. Not knowing I would ever be able to do something like that, I was still intrigued...
doubleultratriathlon Emsdetten
When I planned my 2019 season, the main focus was originally the Swissultra Continuous Deca (38km swim / 1800km bike / 422km run). In preparation one or two ‘shorter’ ultra-triathlons seemed like a nice...
Enduroman swim-3-2-1
I should know better by now… When you see someone post a race on their social media, do NOT visit the website of that race…
A lap around an island…
Texel, april 7th 2019 The ’60 van Texel’ is one of those runs that has been on my bucket-list for a while; it’s a 60km (or 120km, if you’re crazy enough to do the...
