Camiel Schoonens

Product and Technology enthusiast

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I followed up with the advice from Willem this morning during the 30-minute recovery run I had planned for today.

Being patient with my running is challenging for me. I shared with Willem yesterday that I always want to feel a little exhausted after a run, and because of that, I almost always run too fast. Willem is right, though; I should train more in zones 2 and 3 to increase my pace over time. So that is what I did today, with 45% of my run being in Zone 2 and the remaining in Zone 3. My average heart rate was precisely 130 bpm.

https://camiel.schoonens.nl/2025/571/

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I’ve decided to post on my blog in English and Dutch. While I tried switching to all Dutch on January 1st this year, I missed interacting with my English followers.

To make it easier for each target group of readers, I will tag my posts written ‘In Dutch‘ so that you can easily filter these posts.

https://camiel.schoonens.nl/2025/563/

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Het bevalt mij goed om geen onderdeel meer te zijn van één van de grote sociale netwerken. Terug naar de basis, naar je eigen website en je eigen bubbel. Mastodon en RSS helpen daar goed bij door het gebrek aan algoritmes en de noodzaak om zelf te investeren in je online netwerk. Ik volg op Mastodon enkele hashtags die tezamen mijn ‘community’ vormen rondom: #hardlopen, #fotografie en #widm. Andreas, schrijver op 82MHz.net, vat het mooi samen.

” But you don’t have to become a hermit and go offline permanently. Instead, you can use the internet in a way that is more compatible with the way our brains work. Find smaller communities around things you like and interests you have. Are you interested in board games? Retro computers? Knitting? Woodworking? Reading? You can start looking for blogs, online forums, small Mastodon instances etc. that center around the thing you’re interested in. Then follow these blogs, register specifically to those forums or smaller networks, and interact with the people there. It might take a while, but you can find like-minded people on the internet who share your interests and values, and you can build a community around that, engage with the people there and ignore the rest.

🔗 You don’t need to be connected to the whole world door Andreas

https://camiel.schoonens.nl/2025/551/

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Ik had het plan om vandaag een langzame duurloop te doen maar dat pakte net iets anders uit omdat al mijn herstelwaarden goed waren en ik het advies kreeg om wat intensiever te trainen vandaag. Dus deed ik twee tempo trainingen. Eén van 8 kilometer en één van 5 kilometer.

Datum Duur Gem. Hartslag Afstand Tempo V02Max HRV RHR
20250119 30:13 170 bpm 5,25 km 5:45 44,2 65 ms 55 bpm
20250119 41:56 167 bpm 8,00 km 5:14 44,2 65 ms 55 bpm
20250119 1:12:09 168 bpm 13,25 km 5:30 44,2 65 ms 55 bpm

https://camiel.schoonens.nl/2025/543/

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”