Marathon Woman Returns!: maart 2018

zaterdag 31 maart 2018

donderdag 29 maart 2018

dinsdag 27 maart 2018

maandag 26 maart 2018

zaterdag 24 maart 2018

vrijdag 23 maart 2018

woensdag 21 maart 2018

dinsdag 20 maart 2018

(Still bare) bulb field circuit

12.37k
Start 15.14

maandag 19 maart 2018

zaterdag 17 maart 2018

vrijdag 16 maart 2018

donderdag 15 maart 2018

The return of the big knickers

14k
Start 6.44

dinsdag 13 maart 2018

Cold with short sleeves and no gloves

16.80k
Start 15.27
Wind was colder than I thought and it took some time to warm up - did briefly think of turning round to change but it was too much palaver so I just kept going till my hands started functioning again.

maandag 12 maart 2018

Zoo 4 - Otters

9.37k
Start 15.27

zaterdag 10 maart 2018

More logs

13.92k
Start 15.18

vrijdag 9 maart 2018

Logging in

10.88k
Start 7.16

woensdag 7 maart 2018

Bleeding heart run

18.64k
Start 6.49

maandag 5 maart 2018

The day the music died

12.88k
Start 16.33

Decided to take an old mp3 player with me rather than my iPod with podcasts as I didn't have any new ones to listen to. I was enjoying hearing a lot of music I'd forgotten I'd put on it but on the way home the battery died.

zondag 4 maart 2018

White on grey

17k
Start 6.50

vrijdag 2 maart 2018

BoatyMcBoatFace and the Frozen Turkey

15.15k
Start 16.15

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)