Marathon Woman Returns!: januari 2017

maandag 30 januari 2017

zondag 29 januari 2017

Husky run +

18.96k
Start 16.09
First 10+k circuit of the Beijersche Weegje with Chika then some interval training to make up the last kilometres for the week.

vrijdag 27 januari 2017

woensdag 25 januari 2017

dinsdag 24 januari 2017

zondag 22 januari 2017

zaterdag 21 januari 2017

donderdag 19 januari 2017

woensdag 18 januari 2017

dinsdag 17 januari 2017

zondag 15 januari 2017

zaterdag 14 januari 2017

Light blue shoes, fast fourteen

14.12k
Start 12.55

vrijdag 13 januari 2017

woensdag 11 januari 2017

Long and damp

33.29k
Start 7.21

N ever noticed this marble step in the
verge despite passing it loads of times.

maandag 9 januari 2017

zondag 8 januari 2017

Grey sunset run

16.16k
Start 15.29

Dropped glove off bridge onto thin ice...

zaterdag 7 januari 2017

vrijdag 6 januari 2017

34.38k
Start 7.07
Remembered to take thicker fleece gloves and to smear my face with vaseline. Forgot to wear extra layer of shorts over my leggings. Luckily the sun came out for the second half of the run but there were moments in the middle when my bum was frozen and my hands didn't work.

Exotic winterguest ducks

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)