Treadmill running....

Coming back from 30-35 degrees Celcius in Potch to minus 5 degrees here was quite a shock. On friday heavy snowfall unfortunately covered all my regular tracks. The saturday interval session I could finish running up and down a bicycle path which was just shoveled a few minutes earlier. On sunday, however, I had no choice but to train indoors for a 90 minute (!) long run on the treadmill. Temperature wise this was more like the South-Africa business, but it was indeed very boring!

Training camp Potchefstroom

From Januari 7h till 28th I went on training camp with the Dutch squad in Potchefstroom, South Africa. We used the training facilities of HPI (high performance institute of sport) an orginisation run by Jean and Alta Verster. Staying in our regular homebase On Golden Pond we were close to both grass track and gym. Endurance runs were on gravel roads approximately 15km outside Potch. The group this year was very diverse with Joeri Moerman and Niels van Dijk on the shorter 200-400m distances ; Robert Lathouwers and Yvonne Hak on the 800m and Dennis Licht, Gert-Jan Wassink, Adrienne Herzog and myself on the longer distances. Physios Joost and Rick and coach Honore Hoedt completed the team. The training camp was a succes for everybody and gives a boost of confidence and training morale for the coming period. Up next for me is the 10k race in Schoorl where I hope to shatter my long-standing PB of 31.55.