Adventures of a marathon girl

Hi y'all This morning I woke up with a vivid dream that lingered for several hours. I dreamed about my mom and her ALS and what I could do about it. It was an intense dream like someone shouting in my face for hours on end. I felt like I had to do SOMETHING. Don't just be a bystander watching her body go through the stages of ALS and do nothing. I can't do that. I have to do something. This horrible disease is claiming my sweet and beautiful mother. Do something....anything...that is the feeling I woke up with. As I made my way from home to the dentist office I kept seeing the huge ALS campaign posters through the city and with each poster I got more angry. When ALS enters your family the posters you see with faces of people asking you to fight for them since it is too late for them, that is when you realize that each and every face on these posters is your family member. In my case it is my mom. And thus I decided that I AM DECLARING WAR ON ALS. This disease has to die...

Hi y'all, It's been a while and for a good reason. I didn't stop running but the holidays were intense and beautiful at the same time. The first week was all about getting christmas dinner done, the second week I kicked up my feet and decided to take a week off. So I didn't run and than last week came around and....My sister-in-law gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Gwen, making my little brother a dad and my parents turned into grandparents. WOW. She is positively the best thing that happened within the family in a long time. We are all very happy. With that in mind I decided that nowadays I am able to run a 10km run without training too much for it so a quarter marathon doesn't scare me. Therefore I just showed up and did the work. Now there is something you need to know about running Egmond. In Dutch we call this run one of the winter classics because you always have to battle the elements and part of the race course leads you over a 2km stretch ...