Maroccothon Woman Returns!: Utrecht

The Plan is: to run a marathon in every county in the Netherlands.
The Story So Far:
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.)
Limburg 11-9-2011 http://www.mergellandmarathon.nl/
Zeeland Begin Oct? http://www.marathonzeeland.nl/
Noord Holland 25-9? http://www.zilverenkruisachmealoop.nl/
Gelderland 12-4-2011? http://www.hankanmarathon.nl/
Drenthe 28-5-2011? http://www.drenthemarathon.nl/index.php
Friesland 6-11-2011 http://www.berenloopterschelling.nl/
Groningen Can't seem to find any up there... the Groningen City marathon went bankrupt in 2009 - maybe somethng will be arranged by the time I've done all my others... if anyone has any news please let me know.
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Newsflash - extra non-Dutch Marathon...
Marrakesh 30-1-2011 As one of my pals said when I told her of this plan - "I know there are a lot of Maroccans in the Netherlands but I hadn't realised it had become an official extra county..." Well, it hasn't but I fancy running it anyway. See here for details. And, look, look, what a wonderful wee hotel I've booked for 3 nights just a few hundred meters from the startline.)

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)

Maroccothon Woman Returns!

dinsdag 31 januari 2012

Utrecht

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