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Last day of the year

Hi y'all,

Well we're here on the very last day of 2016 and today marked yet another milestone in running for me. Today I ticked 1450 kilometers in running and that is by far the most I ever ran in one year. It really is a lot. Sander made me this map and even calculated the curve of our globe. The circle represents 1450 from the red Amsterdam tag to the edge of it and thus you can see where running those 1450km could have taken me in each direction. I would have, for instance, passed Rome and I would have run straight through all of France. Just a fun fact.


You might have picked up on a little something but I love data. Runkeeper is my favorite app and when I saw that I might be able to make it to 1450km somewhere in the first week of December I started checking out my stats for 2016 on runkeeper and though I was well aware of my changes it kind of hit me that this is really me....I really did this. I ran all of these kilometers and I lost about 20kg of body weight. So what does that look like? Well....like this:

Starting calculating in June but I started working on my weight loss in march '16 going down from 95 to 75kg

And there it is....in writing....and entire year of running. I crossed the marker with an extra 2km and I can only say that running a year like this changes you. 

I am proud to have done this. Today I most definately earned my last HRC medal of the year, the king's cross challenge medal and to make this year even better I made perfect prefect at the same time. So without further ado I present to you my last HRC earnings:


Running has saved me in so many ways this year that I don't even know where to begin if I were about to explain it to you. I will not though but what I will do is invite you to join me in 2017.

Whatever it is you are facing I know you can do it. You are far more capable of anything than you would ever think you are. You too can make the impossible happen for you. I believe in you. Next year I will run a 1000 miles and I will continue on my journey. Keep it unreal and make it happen.


That's it for now, until we read again
Have an epic night, stay safe and be awesome.
Lots of love, Marlies

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