Marathon Woman Returns!: december 2014

woensdag 31 december 2014

The Last 10k

9.97k
Start 8.14

Reeuwijk circuit this morning as I know this is a 10k run that would bring my total this year up to the 2222k mark. The initial goal was 2400 but with the Scottish-Hill-Jiggered knee mucking up the schedule for the last quarter I was pleased to get going again in time to get this far.

maandag 29 december 2014

Sunset over the sluis

7.03k
Start 16.32

zondag 28 december 2014

Haasdrecht sunrise

11.42k
Start 8.32

zaterdag 27 december 2014

Slush Run

6.39k
Start 11.45

donderdag 25 december 2014

Christmas Day

9.22k
Start 16.17

woensdag 24 december 2014

Christmas Eve

9.19k
Start 16.01

maandag 22 december 2014

Ieper running

2.45k
Start 17.06

zondag 21 december 2014

Zwembad run

8.13k
Start 16.33

zaterdag 20 december 2014

Windy 8k

7.98k
Start 16.33

donderdag 18 december 2014

Reeuwijk regained

10.06k
Start 7.56

dinsdag 16 december 2014

Out and about

6.55k
Start 16.58

maandag 15 december 2014

Sunset with windmill

6.31k
Start 16.53

zondag 14 december 2014

Christmas Lights

6.51
Start 16.41

maandag 1 december 2014

Beach Run

6.68k
Start 15.26

The Plan is: to run a marathon in every county in the Netherlands.

Last Dutch county marathon completed!

Zuid Holland ~ Rotterdam, April 1997 4:22 (pre-blog days, so no link to a race report as with my later marathons)
Flevoland/Overijssel ~ Urk/Zwolle November 2009 4:53:30
(this is 'cheating' a bit as the race begins in one county and ends in the other, so I'm going to run it again this year to make one whole marathon for each county)
And here it is - the second Zuiderzee Marathon, November 2010 5:03(?)
Utrecht ~ Utrecht, April 2010 2010 4:52 (no offical time as last minute entry and Utrecht then makes you pay lots of money for practically nothing)
Brabant ~ Eindhoven, October 2010 4:50:08 (Great crowd support.)
Zeeland ~ Burgh-Hamstede/Zoutelande, October 2012 5:59:56 (First one where I thought I might DNF.)
Noord Holland Beemster, May 2014 (4:45:??? - no official time released)

Friesland Sneek, June 2014 4:28:03
Drenthe Klazieneveen, May 2016 4:47:43

Groningen Blauwestad Feb 4th, 2017 4:36:18

Gelderland 2 Rivers Feb 12th, 2017 4:33:35
Limburg Meerssen Oct 8th, 2017 4:59:40

Newsflash - Garmin stats and maps for all my runs since the start of August can be found on:http://connect.garmin.com/activity/216725318

Well, I hope they can... Not sure how to post the link to all of them, but via this birthday run the others should be visible under 'activities'.

Quotes to go with all the sunset/sunrise photos:

I watch God's face falling slow slow, even orangier and the clouds are all colors, then after there's streaks and dark coming up so bit-at-a-time I don't see it till it's done.
(Room ~ Emma Donaghue)
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They drove on into the last of the day's blue, so pale, haunting and intense in the way brief things are.
(Romanno Bridge ~ Andrew Greig)
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an oyster light that lasts for hours before the sun is actually up and so has about it a diffuse and magical quality
(The Weight of Water ~ Anita Shreve)
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in the far sky a huge bank of slate-blue cloud was shutting down like a lid on the last, smouldering streak of sunset fire.
(The Book of Evidence ~ John Banville)
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Oriental sunsets of soupy jade and marmalade
(Ghostwritten ~ David Mitchell)
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the mournful, bittersweet color of a day's end, that piercing golden bask over the landscape made all the more aching for the fact that it wouldn't last.
(The Post-Birthday World ~ Lionel Shriver)
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It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean.
(Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close ~ Jonathan Safran Foer)
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low-flying clouds of red and purple, lit from below with dark gold
(The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society ~ Mary Ann Shaffer)
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a daybreak like a row of sparkling dinner knives
(A Long Long Way ~ Sebastian Barry)

Marathon Woman Returns!