After having made a video of my session with a Sports Psychologist I thought it would also be interesting to interview my triathlon coach Matt Warnock to share the type of training I have done in the first 3 months of training for Boston Marathon. It is called MAF training - that stands for Metabolic Aerobic [...]
As some of you may know, I am going to be running the Boston marathon (read here for more information). As a Personal Trainer I know the importance of training and having a plan to run it. The psychology is also part of the preparation. I am fortunate to be friends with a Sports Psychologist, Suzannah, [...]
Training for hills in a flat city On the 1st of November I started my training for the Boston Marathon. And the biggest challenge is: how to train for a hilly course in a completely flat city? Here are some of the training tools we (my coach and I) have come up with that are going [...]
A few weeks ago I got my confirmation that I had been accepted for the Boston Marathon and last week we booked the flights and hotel. So it is really happening. Enjoying my first marathon On telling people that I am going to be running Boston Marathon I have had two responses. The [...]
An unglamorous view of the Egmond Half marathon Six years ago I signed up for the Egmond half marathon and it was unfortunately cancelled due to bad weather. A year later I ran it and vowed never to do it again. It was dreadfully cold and painful. But three years later, when the [...]
On Saturday I completed my second last triathlon of the season, the Politie Triathlon (the one that I have been putting all my efforts into). I'd been watching quite a lot of sport during the week and I really took some inspiration from two athletes that I had seen. Interesting neither were British, which for me [...]
In one of my previous blogs posts I spoke about my training leading up to my first ultra marathon, the D33, in Scotland. On Saturday I did it! My last week of training had me running a 70 minute run on Tuesday. I felt amazing and ready to go and then on Thursday I ran [...]
An ultra marathon is any race longer than a marathon, longer than 42.2 km. Last year, after running the Barcelona marathon, I felt I could run a bit further. How much further, I don’t know yet… But I am now training for a 33 miles (53km) ultra marathon, from Aberdeen (North east of Scotland) to [...]
One of the hippest locations in Amsterdam at the moment - De Hallen has been open for quite a while now, but they only had their official opening on the 6th of February. Instead of their usual weekend Local Goods Market, they organised a special Neighbourhood Market, inviting organisations and entrepreneurs from the neighbourhood to [...]
A couple of weeks ago, Natalie from PhysioMatters and I gave a workshop at ATAC - the Amsterdam Triathlon and Cycling club. I’ve been a member at ATAC for more than a year now, and the idea to give a workshop there was a way of giving something back to the club. Also, I know [...]
