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My first 15K – Bruggenloop Rotterdam

December 10, 2019
Garmin Coach
Race day is here! I'm feeling fully prepared for my very first 15K race. I never ran this far and this race would not be an easy route. There are three large bridges to cross through the city of Rotterdam. But, I trained well and even added my own little ...

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Road to my first half marathon – Week 6

December 7, 2019
Garmin Coach
This week starts of with the plan to spend Monday till Friday in Paris for work. As I'll be slowing down on training in preparation of Sunday's race I figured I would do two runs this week. One on Tuesday morning and one on Thursday morning. Upon arrival ...

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Road to my first half marathon – Week 5

December 2, 2019
Garmin Coach
Week 5 of my road to my first half marathon includes me skipping runs, deviating from my Garmin Coach plan and Coach Greg's favorite speed repeats! I also changed my goal and as I'm finishing up this post my first 15K race is less than a week away!Easy ru ...

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Road to my first half marathon – Week 4

November 26, 2019
Garmin Coach
It's the fourth week of my half marathon training and I'm feeling stronger and more confident. This week I picked up my custom insoles that are supposed to prevent that my foot injury comes back. I've been instructed to first start walking in them before ...

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Road to my first half marathon – Week 3

November 18, 2019
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Week 3 of the road to my first half marathon includes my first skipped run of this plan, intervals in a foreign country and a trail run that didn’t exactly go as planned.

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Road to my first half marathon – Week 2

November 12, 2019
Garmin Coach
I just finished the second week of training for my first half marathon and I'm still excited!Let's start with the bad news, I got an email this week that the first of my upcoming races, Glow Run Eindhoven, has been cancelled. Not enough runners had re ...

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Road to my first half marathon – Week 1

November 3, 2019
Garmin Coach
Here we go again! I presented my plan for the coming four months last week and it will end with my very first half marathon. This week is the first week of training. I took one week completely off of running after my 10K race and took it easy for the week ...

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What’s next for me? A new running plan

October 27, 2019
Garmin CoachRunning
At the beginning of this year I presented an ambitious running plan for 2019, keeping in mind that even though I've been running for years, I had never ran a race. I would run a 5K race in April, 10K in May and start my half marathon training in June to p ...

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My first 10K – Marathon Eindhoven

October 17, 2019
Garmin CoachRunning
It's race day! I've been working up to this day since the beginning of the year when I started my first 5K plan with Garmin Coach. I had it all planned out, today I would run my first half marathon. But, sometimes things don't go your way. Today, I run my ...

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Garmin Coach Half Marathon – Week 20

October 12, 2019
Garmin Coach
Week 20 of my preparation for my first half marathon with Garmin Coach. Well, not really. A few weeks ago I made the decision to run the 10K distance instead of the half marathon. Even though this was a difficult and disappointing decision to make, I've a ...

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Personal bests

1K: 6:21
February 17, 2019 (in training)

1 mile: 10:25
February 17, 2019 (in training)

5K: 34:59
April 13, 2019 (JP Balki 5K)

10K: 1:17:37
October 13, 2019 (Marathon Eindhoven)

Longest run: 14,01 km
November 10, 2019 (in training)

Recent posts

  • My first 15K – Bruggenloop Rotterdam December 10, 2019
  • Road to my first half marathon – Week 6 December 7, 2019
  • Road to my first half marathon – Week 5 December 2, 2019
  • Road to my first half marathon – Week 4 November 26, 2019
  • Road to my first half marathon – Week 3 November 18, 2019

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