WRD: Week 18 – Liberation
Tweet While the US is celebrating Cinco de Mayo, here in the Netherlands we have the Dodenherdenking (Remembrance of the Dead) and Bevrijdingsdag (Liberation Day). The Netherlands was under German occupation from 1940 – 1945 and, thanks to the allies – in particular the British, Canadian, Polish and American troops – every year we celebrate…
WRD: Week 16 Sunshine in my Pocket
Tweet You guys! Spring is FULL ON. The weather has been amazing! What a mood shift!! I happy to report that, though I’ve been fairly quiet on IG (I mean how many of selfies can you have of me NOT running or in the gym, amIright?) it’s been a good week, I feel less funky…
Catching Up: Week 5 + 6
Tweet I’M JOINING WENDY AND HOLLY THIS WEEK FOR THE WEEKLY WRAP! JOIN IN WITH YOUR FITNESS RELATED POST TO GET AND RECEIVE SUPPORT FROM OTHER SUPER COOL AND FABULOUS BLOGGERS. I’m finally coming up for air and late with catching up. I know we’re already almost HALFWAY through February now, what the heck??? January is fully…
Friday Five : January Runfessions
Tweet it’s Friday and the last Friday of the month, which means I’m joining Marcia for Runfessions! I runfess that I haven’t run very many kilometers this month. For a person who was shouting from the rooftops at the beginning of the month what their goals were and exactly how they were going…
So. I did a thing. Amsterdam Marathon – CHECK!
Tweet After the DNF in Warsaw I immediately started to talking to my trainer about all the feels and what to do next. I was disappointed and I was mad. Mad at myself and mad at my body. Finally my foot felt OK enough to run and then something else happened! Frustrating doesn’t even slightly…
A Week In Boston Part II
Tweet Now that you’ve gotten through Part I, let’s finish it off with Part II. Even though Marathon Monday was so dreadful, we were still up and at ’em in the morning Tuesday, to be sure we were packed up and ready to go in the afternoon. We arranged our bike tour to be changed…
Catching Up || Recap: Week 11 + 12 2018
Tweet After my so called “hard reset” I still had some work to do. Training Week 11 was supposed to have minimum three runs, but once again I had only two. Monday night with Vincent’s Group was again intervals and technique but we mostly ran easy due to the Stevensloop Half Marathon that most of…
Catching up || Recap: Week 6 – 10 2018
Tweet Let’s see if I can’t just give a brief overview of what else has been happening: Training: It’s not going that well, I have to say. When we were in Poland – week 6 – we did run quite a bit, including participating in a local park run in Lodz, but I didn’t…
A Hard Reset
Tweet Right. Just as I was back from Poland and putting together a lovely recap of our trip, my mother-in-law became ill again. Only this time, she didn’t get better. We’ve gone through this before, but each time she got better, she found the will to go on just a little longer. But this…
Week 3-18 Wait, what was my word this year?
Tweet Oh yeah. Focus. It was a weird week. But I think a lot has to do with still being away and traveling back at the beginning of the week. Monday – we were still in Naples, but had to be at the airport around 12:45 so it was breakfast, pack, check out…