Christien came to see me as she had heard about my Biomechanics Screenings and wondered if I could help her. She had been running for a while and when she decided to move up from running 5kms to half marathons she started to experience injuries. She has successfully ran 4 half marathons despite the occasional [...]
It was a couple of weeks back that I completed the Wormerland Sprint Triathlon, my first of 2017. I had originally planned a different triathlon that day which was then cancelled, leaving me quite disappointed. Luckily I found another on the same day and the same distance, and that was also not so far away. [...]
I started running back in 2004 (or was it 2003?). I started exactly how I now recommend runners should start. With a simple programme where for the first week you run 1 minute, walk 1 minute x 10. Strangely my memories of this was doing it in the dark and I had no idea what [...]
As you will no doubt have realised if you follow me, I am always trying to encourage people to sit less. Today I take the challenge to get off your butts. We are designed to be hunters and gatherers but there has been a relatively recent change in human behaviour. We now sit more, we are [...]
Today I would like to share with you the story of a runner I have been working with. Joost came to me because he had heard about what I do and wondered if I could help him with the problems he had been experiencing while running. I explained to him that I don't treat pain and [...]
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 [...]
This year, us boot campers celebrated the summer solstice one day early with a night run. On the 20th of June, the second longest day of the year, we met in the beautiful Amsterdamse Bos for an evening run. We had runners for the 5K and for the 10K: Emma ran both, Jeremy and Natalie [...]
My goal for 2014 was to take part in my first half distance triathlon and I thought it would be nice to do it with other members of ATAC (Amsterdam Triathlon and Cycling) the club I’ve been training with. Also, club mate Chloe came up with a good argument for doing it early in the [...]
