First, a brief look back at last week: On Monday, my wife underwent a laparoscopy to check whether, in addition to the tumor in the stomach and metastases in the lymph nodes, there were also metastases

We've had another tough and eventful week. We received the test results last week. Unfortunately, metastases were found in the lymph nodes. Tomorrow she will undergo a laparoscopy to determine if there

We have a big day tomorrow as the doctors will present us the test results (stage and potential metastases) and threatment possiblities. To be honest I am overwelmed with fear for the outcomes of all the

Last few days have been a rollercoaster. I am very grateful for the support I received via hive/ discord or whatsapp from the people here on hive. 🙏 While my personal running ambitions are no longer on

Last Monday my world fell apart. I was waiting in the hospital for my wife to finish a gastroscopie as she had some (seeminly) smaller issues since the end of December 2025. Due to a local anesthesia she

After breaking my personal records on the 5 and 10 km last week, I decided to go for an attempt on the half marathon today. While my goal was to beat 90 min (1:30:00), my old pr was still stuck on 1:32:29.

Another beautiful Sunday morning filled with sun. I decided to do 80 min of hill repeats and finish the session with 10 min cooling down and use a sequence that alternated between my power and heartbeat

I try to become less focussed on analysing performance (all the time & in all aspects of my life). One of the elements for that is to garther less data - this means I limit myself when to use my garmin

After some morning cycling to and from appointments I had just enough time left to do a short (but fun) run to enjoy the weather before heading to an afternoon appointment. With the harder workout yesterday

After running a mountain marathon simulation on my trail shoes last week - I picked up my road shoes again and noticed that were overdue as the foam was almost completely gone on 1 side of the heel. I

After my tuesday mountain marathon simulation I had assigned a full week for resting and (active) recovery. Apart from some blisters I felt fine - the soreness in my legs was there but not to an extend

Hey everybody, thanks for checking in! In September I will be running a mountain marathon in Swiss. In order to prepare for that run I tried to create a simultation that I could run here in the Netherlands.

With my eyes set on Tuesday for a baseline run I decided to just do a fun run this morning. Normally I will do a hill repeat session on Sunday, but that would be too intense and too close to Tuesday. Therefore

Tnx for checking in! I have been doing some hill repeats for the last few weeks, most of the time 2 sessions a week (one easy 500-700 meters climbing and one harder session >1000 m climbing). I decided

Hey! Last few sessions have been hill work - either hill repeats or mountainbike paths. Today I decided to make my hill repeats a bit harder compared to my usual routine. Normally I run a winding path

As one of my two weekly hill specific training sessions today I decided to mix it up a little compared to the pure hill repeats I did on Sunday. I did go to my usual training spot “Hoge Bergse Bos” and

Hi all, thanks for tuning in! Mental health is a topic that I bring up from time to time as it is having quite an impact on my life. From October 2025 I am working in a year long program that contains

I had a spare hour to run in between appointments. As my planned hill session for Wednesday would be making my schedule to tight, I decided to go for the hill work today. When I got to the hill it started

It would had been tempting to trust my morning check in where I scored 0 out of 10 on fatigue and pains. But I knew better, yesterday’s session was hard and most of the impact will be more noticeable after

Finished my weekend hill repeat session and noticed my body is adapting fast. I aimed for doing 1km climbing (min 29 climbs) but as I was climbing I was also calculating if I had sufficient time to reach