What Ultra’s to run in preparation
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,…