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today joppi, chrissy, stephy, markus and me paticipated at the swb marathon 2009 in Bremen.

It was a very cool event. Very good organisation with food and drink  supplyies as well as amazing support alongside the course.

Chrissy, Stephy and Markus took the 10 km course, while joppi and me chose the half-marathon, this time. Time was not that important, finishing was the goal – and we made it. The swb-marathon is somehow the home event for me since it was my first official (hobby) running event I ever made. (Amazingly the first one was just a year ago in 2008)

So after all a more than sportive year so far. Can really hardly believe how much I improved in one year and what all seems possible now. I can really just encourage everybody to start with some jogging or cycling. It does not need much – and it’s amazing how proud it  makes to improve.

So here is the course ( tracked with the garmin 305 which is still an amazing gadget ) :

half marathon course

Here are all courses (10km, half marathon, marathon) – official map:

And here are the results: (preselected for the half marathon)

Personal result is a 1:47:36. Plan was to land somewhere in between 1:50:00 and 1:55:00 so I am quite happy with that.

A small side remark to the glorification of sports some paragraphs above:

my legs hurt, I got aking muscles like mad. Where is the glory?

There is only pain …

But you know, at least since this post that I am a wimp

I learned something today, from a T-Shirt of someone running in front of me (of course just before I passed him   :

The Pain is Temporary, The Pride is Forever

Just as a side remark: do not give too much on things you learn from T-Shirts.To me and today it just seems vice versa, believe me … do not believe the shirts !!! do not trust shirts !! don’t believe what they say !! dont’t do it ! NO !.

Anyway:

Greatest respect and greetings to chrissy and stephy who finished their first 1ok. To Markus who almost broke the 50:00 barrier on 10k with a very good 50:33 (that is so damn close) . And of course  to joppi who really did great and finished this one as well as the triathlon and  all the other events this year. Thank you, thank you and thank you  for accompanying and pushing me.

Just for the statistics: 5 guys – 5 personal bests. What more can you want.

kindest regards,

khz

10 km round in zuid holland:
ouddorp -> goedereede -> and retour.

Read more about the track map, distance, duration etc.

Update: new pictures:

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Hi eveyone,

I am off to the bretagne now and want to suummarize my experiences on the  running and cycling courses I did in the past 1 1/2 weeks.
To be honest that’s also a summary for me to see the concrete pratices I made
in the right order for the first time.

So here we go:

• 05/07    - cycling    Ouddorp- duinen – de punt – ouddorp haven – ouddorp length:    27 km

• 06/07    - running    Short course: length:    5km

• 07/07    - cycling    Ouddorp- duinen – de punt – ouddorp haven – ouddorp (short version) length:    18.9 km

• 08/07    - pause

• 09/07    - running    ouddorp – goedereede – ouddorp length:    9.5 km

• 10/07    - cycling    ouddorp – haven – stellendam – melissant – nieuw kraaijersedijk -halsponderdijk – stellendam – havenhoofd – goedereede – ouddorp lenght: 39.5 km

• 11/07    - running    ouddorp – goedereede – ouddorp length:    9.5 km

• 12/07    - cycling    ouddorp – haven – brouwersdam – scharendijke – den osse – brouwershaven – brijdorpe – looperskapelle – brouwersdam – ouddorp length:    50.5 km

• 13/07    - pause

• 14/07    - duathlon    cycling: ouddorp – oostduinen – havenhoofd – stellendam – haven lenght: 23.8 km + running: short course 5 km

• 15/07    - pause

You can read more on every training and it’s courses here on the blog. I will – as stated before – add
some more videos and pictures to the tracks after the vacation cause this takes some time.
And will link the trainings accordingly, then.

So far so good I am not pretty sure about the pause day on the 13th… Sometimes the garmin
just makes from two (for me separated trainings) one multisport event which I have do ‘detach’
manually afterwards … They then both get the same date (the first one) even if they took
place on different days.

But due to my new motto: I will first of all blame me for mishandling

It’s probably me that just can’t handle the garmin 305 as good as one should.

Keep on sporting,
Klaas

10 km round in zuid holland:
ouddorp -> goedereede -> and retour.

Track Summary:

• Distance:   9,65 KM
• Duration:  0:47:02
• Average Pace: 4:52 / km
• Average Speed: 12,3 Km/h
• Max Speed: 15,1 km/h

Track Experiance:

A 10 km track from ouddorp  to goedereede and back.

Good to get your midn free. Will add details and pictures later.

Update: See pictures from the course here.

Conclusion and judgement:

Very nice. Especially Goedereede is beautyful. (see pics here)

running_09_07_2009

keep on sporting,

klaas

Just a short round.

Track Summary:

• Distance:   6,6 KM
• Duration:  0:32:21
• Average Speed: 12,1 Km/h
• Max Speed: 15,1 km/h

Track Experiance:

Just a short round in our village. Nice, calm and quit. Good to get your mind free. As you can see it’s mostly along fields in the Leester Marsch.  See some pictures here.

Conclusion and judgement:

My round for a short run jst abround 30 minutes. Good to be done after work.

Open track in google earth and you can scroll around the area.

keep on sporting,

klaas

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