Recently I followed an online course at Shaw Academy called ‘Sports and Exercise Nutrition – What Fuels Energy Systems’. I had the luck that I found out about it through an online action, so I paid €5 instead of €395. If you would happen to stumble upon it through Groupon or whatever, I’d say go …
2015 Annual Report
I must say that the figures really amaze me of my blog. I’d like to say a big thank you to all who have visited, read and commented here. I like running and I like writing about running so in 2016 I’ll certainly try to keep it up. If you’re interested in the numbers, click …
Goals For 2015: End Evaluation
Fa la la la laaaaa…. Merry Christmas everybody, what better time to evaluaty my goals for 2015. 3 months ago my quarterly evaluation could be better, 6 months ago my halfyear evaluation wasn’t all that better, let’s see what the end evaluation is… (Three quarters failed to be written up, so it’s a bigger leap …
My Lactic Acid Test
About 2 years ago I went running on a treadmill and had my ear pricked every 3 minutes. What I learned there was that my base could be a lot better and that the shape I was in at that time did not offer a good breeding ground to do a sub 3:30 marathon. I …
Race Recap: Marathon van Brabant October 25, 2015
Intro Sometimes life just goes and goes and suddenly you realize you haven’t written a blog post in almost two months 😮 This will hopefully be the first of many again! You might know or not know that my first marathon was the ‘Marathon van Brabant‘ two years ago. I chose this marathon then because …
Crushing The Long Runs
There has been a lot of changes in my training regimen since Summer, which I all want to share, but somehow I don’t seem to come around to writing more than 2 sentences at once. So more is coming … probably 🙂 One of the things that have changed since Summer is the time slot …
Unexpected Golden Legs
After my Trail Des Fantômes I took a week off (although I’ve done some small runs that week). After that it was a week of work and decent running (70k week) and lastly last week I took another week off without running. I got back Friday and did a 2h sloooow run on Saturday. Someone …
Race Recap: Trail Des Fantômes
Yet another trail run in the pocket! Last week I went running Trail Des Fantômes with my brother. We agreed on running this trail and adding some well deserved time off to it. This meant we arrived at La Roche-En-Ardenne on Saturday, setup the tents with the family, had a first rough night (party at …
Link Love July 2015
As I’m spending more and more time on blogs I sometimes find some really nice blog posts that I’d like to share with you all. Most of them are running related, some of them are not… https://robtoc.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/the-basics-proteins-fats-and-carbs/ Interesting read for everyone who wants to be more aware of what’s going into his/her mouth http://ultrarunnerjoe.com/2015/07/19/the-five-stages-of-ultraspouse-grief I …
Race Recap: 6h Of Aalter
Preparation A week has already passed, so a recap is long overdue by now! The race itself took place in the afternoon, which I thought was great, because I could get all the sleep I wanted and do all the food intake I wanted. So I got up around 7:30 am and started eating some …