Easy 10k trail in unknown territory. We're camping a long weekend up north, close to where our daughter and her friend bought a house recently, so we could help them in the new house yesterday. Today and tomorrow we enjoy the scenery and have some time together. No serious training this week because next weekend is the IJsselloop.

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Monday-running-club-day 😁. In preparation of the race in 2 weeks (15, 21 or 42k) there were long intervals (2x12 minutes at race pace) with an end sprint (2 min at 10k pace and 1 minute at 5k pace). It was really cold but luckily the rain had just stopped when we started.

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Another fun run done 😎. I plotted a course through field and forest and with some EG (125 m) along muddy paths and sometimes roads where I hadn't run before. I pushed a little bit in preparation of my first race of 2026 in 2 weeks, the IJsselloop in Deventer. I will do their max distance (15k) road race together with some colleagues.

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Monday-running-club-day 🔥
Today was long-interval-day. We did 3x10 minutes at HM pace with 2 minute breaks in between. The last one immediately followed by a 2-minute 10k pace and 1-minute 5k pace.
Feels good to be able to maintain a reasonable pace for a longer period. Wasn't able to do a long run the past 2 weeks due to family obligations so the legs and the mind really needed some exercise.

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Monday-running-club-day 😃. 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 😁

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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 12°C and 1,5 hour later it was 6°C). But still most of us ran in shorts.

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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 😁.
The pyramid was closed for renovations 😕 and I ran into forrest workers taking down trees 😲.

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Managed to squeeze in a birthday-run yesterday before friends and family arrived 🤩. Weather was 10° warmer than a week ago, so first run in shorts this year. Reward was a real nice birthday cake 🎂.

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