Category: Training
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Here versus there
Do you know that feeling of battling against the current, exhausted, wondering what you did wrong to end up here? I recently found myself struggling to reach progress using old methods, until a scene of local nature taught me why this never works. An exhausted Tuesday morning. A slow endurance run at three alternating paces,…
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What would it look like if it were fun?
In a multi-month period of trying to train while dealing with a long injury, I’m faced by all kinds of questions. Dark questions. Desperate questions.-What if I can never run fast again?-What if the most fun races will forever be off-limits?-What if it’s never gonna heal? Should I quit running altogether? Those are understandable questions.…
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The dip
Last weekend provided the last long endurance training on the road to the Spartathlon, in the shape of the 100k RUN Winschoten. Like most of life’s big projects, this race was long enough to start with a high that turned into a low over time. The strange thing: I wouldn’t wish it any other way.…
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Permission to not achieve
During the last 5 months I was always preparing for a race. I wasn’t fast enough to run competitively (yet?) so I raced against myself, but training was serious and numbers-driven. Room for playing around was limited, as I wanted to hit a certain number of kms weekly and do specific speed workouts to up…