There are many ultra’s to choose from, but these will definitely be intermediate goals, to get to the 100 Miler. This one looks promising, and a nice excuse to visit Texel:Zestig van Texel60 or 120 K race, April 5 2021 with a grueling 30K in beach sand. Looking forward. To get familiar with my goal…
Why running an ultra?
After running with 2run4fun for a couple of months, I found myself running at least a HM every weekend, and not even having to restore from it. In my mind, the goal of running a Marathon became less and less a real goal and more something that would be easily achieved. Something like, OK did…
I want to run a marathon, now what?
After my decision to run a marathon, I really started training. All by myself. As an intermediary goal, I set the HM (half Marathon) in Eindhoven 2018, and started training for it, using online running applications to set training schedules. Looking at my age when I first started running, and not having done any sorts…
Why I started running
In March 2017 two of my buddies, Jeroen and Dirk, ran the local 10K Venloop. While I was supporting them (read: drinking beers in the crowd) I noticed their end time was doable for me, by just walking that distance. I told them. SOOOO. Next year, I had to prove that. August 2017, I thought,…