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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…

“…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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

“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……

760 lengths in the pool…

a little peek in my head: – when coach Jacomina said she wanted to do a 6 hour pool swim this month (training for the enduroman arch-to-arc), someone…

run #1000

For those who don’t know me: I like numbers… And it won’t be a surprise to anyone that I like running (and cycling, and swimming, but today it’s…