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the Bretzel Quintuple — this is my happy place now…

A long race, so a long story… Feel free to just look at the pictures, but I just couldn’t possibly keep this one shorter than it is… Seeing…

DoubleBretzel UltraTriathlon 2022

There’s one quote that I keep thinking of when looking back on this race, and it’s a quote from triathlon-legend Chrissie Wellington: “the perfect race is the race…

don’t stop when you are tired. stop when you are done…

this should have been the hardest decision of my sports-“career”… …but it turned out to be the easiest… (spoiler alert for the impatient reader: I’ve decided to cancel…

when a 100km run is done after 60km…

Winschoten, september 11th 2021 It’s been a while since I’ve posted something here, but in these crazy times there’s just not been many big adventures… But this weekend…

“…een half maandje racen…” (in Dutch)

(apologies to my english-speaking (or ‘english-reading’) friends… This one is in Dutch, since it’s basically a repost of an article about my Deca-journey, written by Frank Heukels for…

the PanbosUltra100km

Before the world got all weird, the plan was to do a 100km run in February/March as a long training run for The Deca. I plotted a route;…

a hard training-day, so I might as well enjoy it…

Antwerp, october 20th 2019 Training for The Deca has really begun (blog on that might follow later), so for the past few weeks it was time to up…

“do NOT look forward, however tempting…”

Long before I ever started swimming longer distances, I saw the videos of the ‘Lake Zürich Marathon Swim’. Not knowing I would ever be able to do something…

doubleultratriathlon Emsdetten

When I planned my 2019 season, the main focus was originally the Swissultra Continuous Deca (38km swim / 1800km bike / 422km run). In preparation one or two…

Enduroman swim-3-2-1

I should know better by now… When you see someone post a race on their social media, do NOT visit the website of that race…