Monday-running-club-day π. And today there was another 3k benchmark run to see if training has improved my running. And it did. A very satisfying 40 seconds faster than 2 months ago. I started at 4:30 /km and could maintain that throughout the 3k. Circumstances were ideal; cold and dry, nearly no wind.
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Slightly damp, increasing sunshine, perfect temperature and lots of nature (the Engbertsdijksvenen; a big peatland). So I had no excuse to not enjoy that. And on top of that I ran my first 21k of 2026. But that was ofcourse mostly inspired by @pfernandes π
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Monday-running-club-day. After the usual exercises we did long intervals. 3x1600m at HM-pace (5.15/km in my case). Nice running weather although temperature dropped rapidly during training (starting of at 12Β°C and 1,5 hour later it was 6Β°C). But still most of us ran in shorts.
Goedemorgen. Het lente-hardlopen is van start: korte broek, zonder vest. En omdat mijn grote opdracht afgerond is, heb ik er ook weer drie keer per week tijd voor.
Vandaag goed begonnen met 7 km. #mastorunNL #hardlopen
Beautiful weather, a lot of interesting trails around here. I looked up the course of the Austerlitz Trail and did the green loop. A lot of trees, single track, bush tracks, sand path.... It was fun π.
The pyramid was closed for renovations π and I ran into forrest workers taking down trees π².
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Managed to squeeze in a birthday-run yesterday before friends and family arrived π€©. Weather was 10Β° warmer than a week ago, so first run in shorts this year. Reward was a real nice birthday cake π.
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Monday-running-club-day. After some exercising the main course today was 8x600m at 4:40 with walking breaks of 90 sec in between. Nice cold and dry weather, little wind, so excellent conditions for a night full of joy of running.
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Slow-run-saterday. Figured I'd get some EG in today so National Park Sallandse Heuvelrug was the place to run. I enjoyed myself very much with no other goal than joy of running, experience the soul healing power of nature and being outside. A not intended coincidence is that Barkley 100 seems to have started this morning.
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Two days away from home for work so no running club tonight. Trainer said he was gonna do a fartlek training so that is what I did. Random stretches at 3k, 5k and 20k speed. It was already dark when I arrived at the hotel and the nature territory is closed for public after sunset so I had to run along bicycle paths. 7k altogether.
I'm liking these 'no-pressure-runs'. Just go to a beautiful (preferably quiet) spot, start running and go with the flow. Today I went to a spot where I used to run 10 years ago, because I lived on that side of town. It's been upgraded with proper cycling paths and beautiful trails. Lots of birds, room for the river to choose it's own path and a close encounter with wild horses (very friendly ones). And it was hot π₯΅ (9Β°C).
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