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I finished another 6k run on the island of Terschelling. I was able to squeeze this one in just between our afternoon beach walk and evening diner.
We are having good fun here as family. The island is beautiful and the whole family is enjoying our time together and time by ourselves. A perfect short holiday to recuperate from a busy first 4 months of the year.
I finished reading ‘Dit wil je écht niet weten’ by Huib Modderkolk today. This was a nice and quick read for me. A book full of information that I was technically aware of but not tying together as a whole.
This book is worth a read if you are technically savvy, interested in geo political affairs and like spy stories. Huib Modderkolk is a respected Dutch journalist writing for ‘the Volkskrant’. I do hope that he will be publishing more books in the future.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I finished my 1st ever trail run today on the island of Terschelling, which is located in the north of the Netherlands. We are here for a 5 day family trip and I must say that the nature on the island is astonishing. We are for sure going to enjoy ourselves here.
I got the tip to try trail running from Thijs who does this kind of running quite often. It’s good fun and I guess I will be trying this again sometime soon and closer to home. I do need to get myself some additional shoes for this.
I started the day in Paris on the treadmill again. It was too early and dark to go out and I don’t have any time tonight to do a proper city run.
I did a 5k interval run combining hills and different speeds. It was a good exercise.
From 7k to 8k to 9k this week. I finished my third run of the week. I did an easy run today as my body and legs were still a bit drained from my work week in Barcelona.
Next week will again be a week full of travel to Barcelona and Paris. I’m going to bring my running gear along. Fingers crossed to see if I can fit some time into my busy schedule.
I’m travelling back home tonight from 2 days working in Barcelona. I had the opportunity to run along the beach again today before my workday started. I did an 8k run this morning which I combined with a 20 minute guided Fartlek exercise. All went well and I feel strong and energized for the rest of the day.
I’ll be travelling Europe next week and will try to do two city runs while I’m at it. One in Paris and one in Barcelona. Should be fun.
I’m in the Barcelona area at the moment and had the opportunity to run along the beach this morning before starting my workday.
What a luxury that is, especially because of the weather here being amazing, compared to northern Europe. Going to do this again tomorrow for sure.
This is my ‘Age(today) – 30’ birthday run. It’s great weather today here in the Netherlands with a very comfortable running temperature around 15 degrees Celsius.
This run went remarkably well and very comfortable. Now on to the next week.
I finished reading ‘All the light we cannot see’ by Anthony Doerr last night. This book was a reading tip from Thijs as I’m going to spend part of my summer holiday in the St. Malo region this year.
I appreciated reading this novel, it’s a beautiful story taking place in Germany and France during World War II. I will skip the Netflix series though, I’ve heard from to many people that it has comes nowhere close to the original story.
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I was able to complete a decent interval training on the track yesterday where I combined intense intervals with active recovery periods.
It feels good to be in control with my running at the moment. I really enjoy that I’ve learned that I need to go slower in practice to go further and faster over time.
🔥 5:00 Warm up
👟 3:30 at 10k pace, 120 sec recovery
🔁 Repeat 2 times
👟 2:30 sec at 5k pace, 120 sec recovery
🔁 Repeat 2 times
👟 90 sec at 1500m pace, :60 sec recovery
🔁 Repeat 2 times
👟 :30 sec sprint pace
❄️ 5:00 Cool down