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I completed a short and intense sprint recovery run today to compensate for yesterday’s food festivities and today’s lazy day on a sun bed. This 2.5-kilometer run included 8×20-second sprint intervals with 10 seconds of recovery. I ran on the trail path close to our holiday home in the shade in an area with as little elevation as possible.
This was a fun run to complete with my son. We ran up to the highest point near our holiday home (224 meters of elevation gain) and covered a total distance of 7.76 kilometers in 50:39. This was my fourth run in this area, and I can feel my body and muscles adjusting to the different types of terrain. Depending on how temperatures evolve next week, I will continue exercising here.
I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday afternoon, I add a song to my playlist. The aim is to capture my energy and feelings for that particular Friday with the chosen song.
Week 45/52: Anxiety – Doechii
After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, and high and low weeks of the year (from October 2024 to September 2025) in one self-curated playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.
This 8-kilometer recovery run in the Marche, Italy, was fun and challenging. I initially wanted to go out for a 10-kilometer run, but I decided to shorten it because of the increased intensity added by the 222 meters of elevation covered during this distance. This is something my body isn’t used to at all.
I covered the 8 kilometers in 54:27, maintaining an average pace of 6:48 per kilometer and an average speed of 8.83.
The Italian slope next to our agriturismo is perfect for a proper hill workout. I completed three sets of 60, 45, and 30-second intervals, with 120, 90, and 60 seconds of downhill recovery in between. This was a fun and challenging workout. The total distance measured is 2,75 kilometers of running up the hill, including a 5-minute warm-up and a 5-minute cool-down.
Now that I’ve arrived at our friends’ Agriturismo in Italy, I’m back on familiar terrain. The terrain here differs from what I’m used to in the Netherlands, so I started today’s run easily.
Running in this scenery always makes me happy, although it’s not always safe with speeding Italians on the road who aren’t used to runners or bikers being on the same road.
Dit is mijn zomervakantieboek voor dit jaar. Ruim 4000 pagina’s op mijn e-reader, een veelbelovende dikke pil dus. Een vriend van mij zei laatst dat dit het beste boek is dat hij ooit heeft gelezen, ik ben benieuwd.
Deze monumentale, rijk gedocumenteerde, historische roman vertelt het waargebeurde verhaal van het streven en falen van Alkibiades, de mooiste man van Griekenland. Hij was de extravagante, geniale, opzienbarende, androgyne, biseksuele en omstreden politicus en strateeg van Athene tijdens de grote oorlog tegen Sparta. Zijn verhaal is voor ons een reis door de tijd naar de wereld van bijna tweeënhalf millennium geleden, toen steeds meer symptomen, die voor ons verontrustend herkenbaar zijn, begonnen te wijzen op het verval van de democratie en daadwerkelijk leidden tot de nederlaag van Athene. De vraag is in hoeverre Alkibiades hieraan schuldig was. Was hij de populist die de democratie heeft ontmanteld of had hij de redder van Athene kunnen zijn? In deze roman legt hij verantwoording af over zijn idealen, strategieën en levenslange strijd.
Alkibiades is tegelijkertijd een geleerde historische studie en een grote roman voor onze tijd en voor elke tijd, die een even uniek als universeel verhaal vertelt over het najagen van ambities in een onvolmaakte wereld.
I’m collecting 52 songs in 52 weeks. Every Friday afternoon, I add a song to my playlist. The aim is to capture my energy and feelings for that particular Friday with the chosen song.
Week 44/52: Way Down We Go – Kaleo
After 52 weeks, I will have recorded all the seasons, holidays, and high and low weeks of the year (from October 2024 to September 2025) in one self-curated playlist on Apple Music. Don’t use Apple Music? Subscribe to weekly updates via RSS.
Running in the Alps in the ‘Sud-Tirol’ area today. We arrived here yesterday afternoon and are staying here until Saturday. I enjoyed this run on the slopes at 1200m, it was the perfect exercise after driving 700 kilometers yesterday. #running #runnersofmastodon
I headed out early this morning to beat the heat and hit the nearby track. With the sun already climbing, I did a challenging interval session: 20 sets of 30-second sprints with 1-minute rest in between. The shade at that time of day helped make it more doable. It was tough, but I felt great afterward!
