15x400 in the snow

The training of tonight sharply contrasted the past trainingcamp in South Africa. In a temperature of around -5 degrees, a strong, gusty wind and track covered with snow and ice I performed my training session. Not quite the 30 degrees Celcius I was used to run in. Also not quite dressed the way I was...tonight at least every patch of skin covered in double clothing, felt a bit like running santa claus.
The program was 3x5x400 rest 4min between series. First two series on running flats which was quite slippery. Actually it felt more like a cross country training then a track training. Serie 1, 1min rest between intervals, 70-69-69-69-68. Serie 2, 90sec rest, 68-67-66-67-66. Serie 3 on spikes 2min rest: 66-63-63-64-63. Pretty decent times given the circumstances! Looking forward to a good period of training now, leading up to the national cross country championships short distance (2,6k).

3rd place at 3k NC Indoor

After a succesful trainingcamp I competed in the Dutch National Indoor Championships this weekend. I chose to compete in the 3000m as I've done a lot of basetraining lately and figured I would have good chances to win a medal. Personally I've been trough a tough week so I was not as focussed as I would have liked. Still I managed to grab the bronze medal in a new PB of 8.23.37. Winner was Gert-Jan Wassink in 8.20.5 and second was Roy Hoornweg in 8.21.9. I will now start with a period of tough training with (again) a lot of base work. I'm not running any competitions in this period but I will, however, round it off with running the Dutch National Cross Championships (short course - 2.6k) on the 7th of March.