Adventures of a marathon girl

Hi Y'all, What's cooking sweeties? Well loads of stuff is brewing on my stove since I embarked on this madness ship and set sail to Marathon finish. I am working with two brilliant people on becoming the best me I can be and the progress I still notice is so motivating! Joris and Esther are miracle workers and both of them have been introduced last time. So what is brewing on my stove? What kind of juicy concuctions are about to be served?? I have been part of Mark Zuckerberg's 'A year of running'  page on Facebook since it started out in January. Why? Well sometimes even the most dedicated and devoted runners get stuck in a rut and I've discovered that reading up on adventures by others helps me find new open places, new faces and the best races. Combine that with the best advice I ever got on post-run items such as my foam roller and this magical cream called Body Glide and there you have it....inspiration. I have had so much help from people all

Hi y'all, So what have you been up to last weekend? Well....My weekend was filled with a whole lot of fun. Now you've probably guessed it by now but I absolutely love country music and Irish folk music. I love playing my guitar and singing the big old classics and I love learning to do new fast reels pretending I am half as good as Barney McKenna (the immortal Dub) or all the dixie chicks (epic musicians all of 'm). Ofcourse I am not but hey a girl can dream right? And if anything...I can sing along whenever the opportunity arises. Now...when it comes to the immortal Barney that change will no longer come along since he is playing on Fiddle's green and all we can do is keep his legacy alive by playing the music he loved as much as the town he was from. The chicks? Didn't tour in about ten years but I am one hell of a lucky girl because just last saturday I got to see them perform live in Antwerp and it was opening night of their world tour as well! I c

Hi y'all, Oh how the time flies by. Wasn't it only yesterday that I decided to take on this incredible journey? This morning I woke up feeling all jittery and filled with butterflies. Exciting times coming up this weekend and I can't wait for it to turn friday. So what's up? Well things are looking really good for me. Just one little snag being my elbow having a mild case of bursitis but I'm managing that. Trying to downsize screentime (hard for me...I am so attached to all things digital it's pathetic) and give my arm some rest. SO why so jittery and butterflied? This weekend will be epic to the max. We are going to Antwerp this weekend for two huge things: The Dixie Chicks in concert and the DVV Antwerp 10 miles. I am truely excited for both. I'm a true country music loving runner so this weekend could not suit me any better. And it helped think about what to do after the full marathon. You see I have learned one thing in San Francisco I absolute

Hi y'all, Another week in marathon training has passed and this week I skipped one training..OMG YES I DID. Last friday I was supposed to run an 8km easy run when my sister in law appeared to be at Schiphol Airport and rang if we were home for coffee. Well...she and her kids live all the way over in Friesland so I skipped training figuring I would do it next morning. Waking up on Saturday and way after breakfast I discovered that all my running outfits, literally all of them, were in the laundry and too dirty to wear them just that one more time. Oh come on we have all done that. After washing them, doing the weekly groceries and cleaning up the kitchen my energy just tumbled all the way down and I was actually too tired to do anything. So I just decided that I would sleep. Highly recommended work-out nowadays. Sunday I did go for my long run and even though the tiredness turned into a cold and got me sneezing and coughing, the run was fun! I ran 14km which is 1/3 of a marathon