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the Bretzel Quintuple — this is my happy place now…

A long race, so a long story… Feel free to just look at the pictures, but I just couldn’t possibly keep this one shorter than it is… Seeing…

DoubleBretzel UltraTriathlon 2022

There’s one quote that I keep thinking of when looking back on this race, and it’s a quote from triathlon-legend Chrissie Wellington: “the perfect race is the race…

don’t stop when you are tired. stop when you are done…

this should have been the hardest decision of my sports-“career”… …but it turned out to be the easiest… (spoiler alert for the impatient reader: I’ve decided to cancel…

when a 100km run is done after 60km…

Winschoten, september 11th 2021 It’s been a while since I’ve posted something here, but in these crazy times there’s just not been many big adventures… But this weekend…

“…een half maandje racen…” (in Dutch)

(apologies to my english-speaking (or ‘english-reading’) friends… This one is in Dutch, since it’s basically a repost of an article about my Deca-journey, written by Frank Heukels for…

5 days, 5 marathons…

Where normally the year is filled with all sorts of events, this year has been ‘eventless’, which is weird, since it was an eventful year… In October coach…

the virtual pole-to-pole ultrarun…

just a really short update, since I just reached a little milestone in my running ‘career’… “A few years ago” I went completely out of my comfort zone…

a 24 hour interval run…

A while ago I stumbled upon the youtube channel of Australian adventurer Beau Miles, and used his videos to get me through some indoor-cycling sessions during the winter….

the PanbosUltra100km

Before the world got all weird, the plan was to do a 100km run in February/March as a long training run for The Deca. I plotted a route;…

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…