Adventures of a marathon girl

Check my latest run here So yesterday I went running with my coach again. I know he's not really my coach anymore but since he's the only one so far that seems to understand what I absolutely love in running, he to me still is my coach. However...Everytime I run with that group I am the slowest one there and You might have guessed by now that I hate that. Yesterday though I decided to enjoy myself and work hard but also listen to my body. To some extend ignoring that voice in my head Chris Powells describes so well but on the other hand also listening to the returning aching runners knee I really did not want to strain too much. I ended up being the slowest ever but my knee isn't killing me today and I was so happy I did join in for the run. I love running and I'm dead serious about running the Dam-tot-damloop 2013 and the half marathon after that. I know I can do it but I need to recover from that stupid Neuralgic Amyotrophy. That said.... Today I had a physical th...

Dear readers, As I'm about to dash out the door I thought I might want to update you on my training schedule so click right here to see what I am about to do now but that isn't all... If you want to see how I've done than you might want to try your luck here. Ofcourse this is a bit strange because it seems like I have only been training since this week but obviously that is not the case. This schedule is the one I will be using to train for the half marathon which is in october but since I'm training for the Damloop I thought it could be really good to end with the half marathon. Oh and before I forget: who has not seen the extreme makeover episode with Ashley kicking her weight to the curbe and starting a healthy life? check the episode right here I know what she's been through though Ashleys' struggle was way more difficult than mine but still I lost a lot of weight too. Her story reminded me of the person I never wanted to see in the mirror again. ...

No way! It can't have been?! Wow that is shockingly long ago. What happened in all those weeks? Well I kept going and guess what? I ran a 10km race under the hour and I felt so proud. The race was called Brettenloop and I got off to a good start, felt like a million bucks and kept going. Finally I could take off that red ribbon that has been on my wrist for nearly a year as a promise to myself that I would finish a 10km race under the hour. Next to all the training I've done I also started a new 30 days challenge. This time it is write a poem every day and...I have done my first jobshadow experience. That was a really great day. Hopefully I get to do two more this month. What else? well I have my startbewijs for the Damloop 2013 since I have already raised 200,73 euro's for ZZF. Check it out: My fundraiser page and please donate! Every penny helps to get research done on Neuralgic Amyotrophy a disease I suffer from myself. I have had two attacks and I want this d...

Dear readers, Well this week sure has proven to be a challenge but thinking about my sponsors made me get out there and work out. And I do thank all of my sponsors https://www.justgiving.nl/nl/pages/1740-marlies-loopt-voor-het-zzf So this is what happened: Well this week started out very good but than after monday...it all kind of fell apart. First of all this blog is called adventures of a marathon girl and sometimes you just wish you were NOT a girl for all the obvious reasons and after that there were so many reasons this week was hard I kind of lost count...but I stuck with it and did what I needed to do.  The picture on the left shows the amount of snow that fell during practice today and I have to say I am seriously fed up with the cold wind and the snow. I could not see anything at one point and my legs? OMG do NOT get me started on that....they are red and painfull even though I do wear those horribly uncharming and very very ugly thermopants under my tights. So I lo...

Well goodmorning to y'all (she said with a very broad smile) Just got back from my first trainig of the week and I did what we call duurloop in Dutch. I should translate that but I am too sweaty and in dire need of a shower to actually do that right now but I will get to it....promise. However this was my lap http://runkeeper.com/user/Seilram/activity/150230498?&tripIdBase36=2hfyle (can somebody please tell me why the links never work even though I do try to get them clickable? Sjiiieees) I simply loved todays run! So much better than how I ended last week on friday. Did I tell you? I don't think I did. It was horrible. I struggled for 8km and I felt like dung. How come some runs are fantastic when others feel like war the entire time? This week I am off to a good start I think. If this run is the fortune cookie for the runs to come than I feel lucky already. Weather was beautiful and I love Sloterplas. So calm and quiet in the midst of all that noise. After my r...

Hi all, So yesterday I went for a run & workout and after a day of screen staring and wrapping my brain around nearly existantial questions on what defines the human, running felt really good! Training was a mixture between muscle strength and running. Wanna see where we went? Check out the link: Afterwards I went for a soak in the hottub at my parents place. The treat after training. Next to all of this I got inspired by Matt Cutts during an assignment I was doing for E-learning and digital cultures and I decided to pick my own 30DC. My challenge is to work my abs for thirty days starting today. Want to root for me? Find me at: http://www.my30dc.com/project So that is all for today. Training went well and challenge is a go. Wanna say hi? Leave a message. Love to hear from you guys. Until we read again: have fun! Love Marlies

To my dear Dutch donating friends and all other readers, A new blog. It has been a while since I blogged about anything so why start now? I am fortunate enough to be one of many runners of the famous Dutch Damloop and I've taken on this 10 mile run as fundraiser for a very good cause. They're called Stichting Zeldzame Ziekten Fonds This organisations' main goal is to raise money for research on rare diseases such as Kawasaki's disease and Neuralgic Amyotrophie. Why this organisation when there are so many others? Well that is easy: Since little is known about those rare diseases research needs to be done. As we all know research is expansive and since everybody has to make budget cuts the research on these rare diseases is likely to be put on hold. But did you know in Holland most patients of a rare disease are children? And did you know that most rare diseases are life threatning or leave you (severely) impared? Did you know that in Holland 30% of the children s...