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The COVID-19 Season

The COVID-19 Season

All of the sudden it’s June… What happened to March, April and May? Time just its meaning. While the clock simply seemed to have stopped ticking, days, weeks and months evaporated in an unrecognizable new reality. A pandemic grabbed the world by its throat. While I worried about rehabilitating my injuries quickly enough to race the Enschede Marathon at April 19, sports events got cancelled all around the world. In Spain and Italy a humanitarian disaster unfolded and the Cortina Trail in the Italian Dolomites (June 26) and the Tenerife Blue Trail (June 6) got postponed until next year. Luxury problems: …

The obstinate reality: part 2

The obstinate reality: part 2

A trend seems to arrise: shortly after I share my training plans, I get injured. Just when I’ve regained trust in my right calf (and hip), my left foot lets me down. After spending the weekend browsing for information I am pretty sure about the […]

The obstinate reality

The obstinate reality

Eight weeks ago I wrote about my carefully planned preparation for the Enschede Marathon. In that post I already warned that planning and realization likely wouldn’t always correspond. I must have been tempting fate: after just twelve days my right calf collapsed under the load […]