Marathon Woman Returns!: januari 2019

woensdag 30 januari 2019

dinsdag 29 januari 2019

zondag 27 januari 2019

zaterdag 26 januari 2019

donderdag 24 januari 2019

maandag 21 januari 2019

12.03k
Start 15.30
While listening to the episode from my favourite American podcaster where he told of the demise of his 16-year-old Border Collie, Buddy, I met this dog on the beach and spotted this mailbox on my way home.

zondag 20 januari 2019

Icy puddles

10.66k
Start 13.42

zaterdag 19 januari 2019

New Garmin

12.25k
Start 11.05

vrijdag 18 januari 2019

Sport 2000

17.51k
Start 9.46

woensdag 16 januari 2019

Yurt with wolfdog

10.16k
Start 13.23

dinsdag 15 januari 2019

Horse, then cart

14.66k
Start 12.59

zondag 13 januari 2019

Doggersvaart, heliport

9.90k
Start 15.14

zaterdag 12 januari 2019

Schoorl

6.09k
Start 12.49

vrijdag 11 januari 2019

Zoo 20 - Woodpiles and white wolves

15.20k
Start 12.52

woensdag 9 januari 2019

't Kuitje

7.26k
Start 15.44

dinsdag 8 januari 2019

Action run

10.46k
Start 14.33

zaterdag 5 januari 2019

Volvo drop off

15.55k
Start 14.25

donderdag 3 januari 2019

Doggersvaart

12.50k
Start 15.05

woensdag 2 januari 2019

Zoo 19

13.06k
Start 13.13

The Plan is: to run a marathon in every county in the Netherlands.

Last Dutch county marathon completed!

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.)
Zeeland ~ Burgh-Hamstede/Zoutelande, October 2012 5:59:56 (First one where I thought I might DNF.)
Noord Holland Beemster, May 2014 (4:45:??? - no official time released)

Friesland Sneek, June 2014 4:28:03
Drenthe Klazieneveen, May 2016 4:47:43

Groningen Blauwestad Feb 4th, 2017 4:36:18

Gelderland 2 Rivers Feb 12th, 2017 4:33:35
Limburg Meerssen Oct 8th, 2017 4:59:40

Newsflash - Garmin stats and maps for all my runs since the start of August can be found on:http://connect.garmin.com/activity/216725318

Well, I hope they can... Not sure how to post the link to all of them, but via this birthday run the others should be visible under 'activities'.

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)