Warm weather training

I just came back from 15 days warm weather training in the South of France. The weather was very good (sunny and 25 degrees Celsius), except on my resting days (cloudy and rain). This is nothing new to me because in almost every training camp the weather doesn't cooperate with my needs to go to the beach :-))

Training went very well. I have done everything that was planned for this camp and the results were very promising. Hopefully I can show this in the coming competitions as well. My first competition will be in Lisse (National Circuit) where I will long jump and run a 150. The week after I want to start in Hoorn (hurdles and javelin) and on the 17th I want to compete on the first day of the Dutch multi events chapionships. Then I will compete in Gotzis.

I'm looking forward to the season.

One more week....

... and I will be driving to the South of France. At the moment I have a easy week to get fresh for some high quality training in Boulouris.
Last week was very hard. Training itself was hard, but I was very tired from South Africa as well. And although it was tough, I did do some very good sessions. The biggest difference between training before SA and after is that my lungs recover much quicker after a run. So I do not have to be scared I can't finish a session because of pain in my lungs... I can do sessions now that I wasn't able to finish before (for example: yesterday I ran 2x6x200 with 90sec and 10min recovery).

Hopefully we will have a good time in Boulouris and that I will return fit and ready to compete.

Last week I did three exams for school. One of them was very hard and I'm not quite sure if I passed that one. The other ones went pretty well. Right now I started studying for the last part of the year. I need to catch up quite some work, but on the other hand... I can keep on working when everybody else has got holidays, because I do a distance learning course. So I will finish the whole year before the next year starts.

Well that was it for now...

long time no see

It has been a while since I wrote something in English and hereby I apologize for this.
It has been a busy time since I was in Clermont-Ferrand.
I had to recover from my almost injury and that went pretty well. Then Rudy, Pelle JJ and me decided that we didn't want to spend the rest of the winter in Holland in the cold, so we booked a trainingcamp in Potchefstroom, South-Africa.

I had a fantastic time in Potch. I never trained on a grass track before, but I absolutely want to come back and do more training there next year. The people are very very friendly and hereby I want to say thanks to Jean and Alta for taking such good care of us.

Training went very well and I did a lot of work that i couldn't have done in Holland in the cold. We had superb weather, only the last couple of days it rained a lot, but hardly ever during training. We also went on a safari on teh resting day, which was a lot of fun and I want to thank Zen (a friend of Rudy) for taking us to his property and showing us all the African Animals.

For now I'm back in Holland for 2 weeks. Next week I have three exams (psychology, phonetics and teaching) and on the 15th of April I will leave Holland again to spend two weeks in the South of France to prepare the summer season. I officially received an invitation for gotzis. I am very happy with that, cause now I know what competition to aim for.
If everything goes the way I want it to go, I will open my season with a 150 and long jump on the 5th of may.

I'm looking forward to the summer season.