My Personal Blog
As you can see in my post My First Marathon, I finished the Las Vegas Marathon 2017. It wasn’t a pleasure walk. It needed preparation and a lot of research regarding my diabetes. Here are my personal 5 tips to run with Diabetes and finish a marathon. Tip 1 : Fill yourself with Carbs ! … Read more
In may 2016 I started, since the first time in my life, with running. Just to make sure I could make the finish line in september 2016 during a mudmaster race. Then there was the 5K run, the 12K mudmaster run and now, 18 months later I am a Las Vegas Marathon finisher ! I … Read more
Right now I am running for about one year which isn’t long yet. So I don’t have a lot of experience. The only experience I got is how my body reacts with running. Sometimes it’s difficult for me, because of my diabetes. I like to put all experience of others together and try to experiment … Read more
My Garmin ForeRunner 620 got a lot of nice features and one of them is the Virtual Partner. Although my intension was to run my last 6k on a quicker pace, I decided to test it with this feature. Normally I was running at pace or heart rate (During trainings). What is it ? With … Read more
Because I am living in The Netherlands, the metric system is what I know. I hope to run the Marathon of Las Vegas in 2017 and there everything is in Miles. To practies for the Marathon in the USA, I create a conversion chart so that I know how many KM I should run for … Read more
Since a time I am running with a Garmin 620 sportwatch. It should be capable to predict your time on different distances. Race Predictor : Is it possible ? My VO2max right now is just 42. I know it’s not high, but atleast I am running frequently and I like it ! Sometimes I am … Read more
To stabalize my sugarlevels, I am eating not much carbs. Now I do love pancakes, but they are filled with carbs. Here’s a recipe with less carbs ! Eggs and Banana ! The recipe is very easy. You will need 2 eggs and 1 banana. The mix it together. and then put them in a … Read more
Right now I got the FreeStyle Libre for a week and although there are some things for improvement, I really like it. Why use it ? As you may know I got diabetes and using the Omnipod. Although I do some running and watch my health, my hba1c value wasn’t great the last 6 months. … Read more
My diabetes wasn’t stable all the time and I knew when I was sporting, the results were way better. That’s why I did the Mud Masters 2016 in Biddinghuizen. Of course I choose the smallest distance, which was 6 Km. Mud Masters 2017 My next challange was the Mud Masters Haarlemmermeer 2017 12Km. This time … Read more
Running is what I like. Not convert speed to pace to miles to km…. Running on speed. Although I am a beginner, preparation is what counts. So I got some trainingplans from Runtastic.com. They are using a pace/km. Nice, but I run with km/h in the Netherlands and miles/h in the USA. So sometimes it’s … Read more