The training
Until 3 years ago I was not the most sportive person (except for the occasionally walk or skiing holiday).
As I wanted to improve my health, cardio fitness and overall core strength I decided to take on fitness around 3 and 1/2 years ago and started going 3 times per week to the local fitness.
May 2016 I started running. Before 2016 I did not like, even hated, running. It was only after I had an operation to fix a cardiac arrhythmia problem and decided to quite smoking that I started running. The logic being : runners do not smoke, so if I'm a runner I can't smoke. I'm runner, I will not smoke.....
My first objective was to be able to run 5k, increasing distances to 10, 15, 20,.. increasing weekly frequency from 2 times per week to 3, 4, 5,....In 2016 I ran 1200 km. This year I ran 2900 k so far , completed my first marathon and plan to run around 3600 km in total. Some will say I replaced my smoking addiction with a running addiction, I will not argue with them.
Initially my plan was to walk to Santiago. But as I enjoyed running so much and would not be able to run while I was walking to Santiago I decided to run to Santiago. That way I would still go to Santiago but at the same would be able to run every day....
After deciding on the actual start date I started to train more specifically towards my goal. The team of my fitness Fitness Kine Rogge (and especially Stijn de Raedt) are doing a great job with defining specific training schedules to get me ready. Key focus is, of course, on running (a lot of running) and building a solid basis to run the envisaged daily 40 K. Run training consist of a mix of endurance-, hill and interval running. Endurance training is mainly done outside in the neighbourhood I life on mixed underground (road, trail, grass,....). As we do not have a lot of hills or mountains in Gent hill training is mainly done on a treadmill programmed with alternating inclination grades between 2 and 10% (thanks to Netflix the 2 hour runs on a treadmill are endurable).
Below you can find an example of a training schedule. Sunday's are my favourite as it focuses on endurance....
Besides running I do also some core training focusing on strengthen my shoulder, back and abdo (in order to carry my backpack) In addition to exercises to strengthen my gluteus Maximus (or buttock), biceps, aductor, etc...
Example training schedule.
As I wanted to improve my health, cardio fitness and overall core strength I decided to take on fitness around 3 and 1/2 years ago and started going 3 times per week to the local fitness.
May 2016 I started running. Before 2016 I did not like, even hated, running. It was only after I had an operation to fix a cardiac arrhythmia problem and decided to quite smoking that I started running. The logic being : runners do not smoke, so if I'm a runner I can't smoke. I'm runner, I will not smoke.....
My first objective was to be able to run 5k, increasing distances to 10, 15, 20,.. increasing weekly frequency from 2 times per week to 3, 4, 5,....In 2016 I ran 1200 km. This year I ran 2900 k so far , completed my first marathon and plan to run around 3600 km in total. Some will say I replaced my smoking addiction with a running addiction, I will not argue with them.
Initially my plan was to walk to Santiago. But as I enjoyed running so much and would not be able to run while I was walking to Santiago I decided to run to Santiago. That way I would still go to Santiago but at the same would be able to run every day....
After deciding on the actual start date I started to train more specifically towards my goal. The team of my fitness Fitness Kine Rogge (and especially Stijn de Raedt) are doing a great job with defining specific training schedules to get me ready. Key focus is, of course, on running (a lot of running) and building a solid basis to run the envisaged daily 40 K. Run training consist of a mix of endurance-, hill and interval running. Endurance training is mainly done outside in the neighbourhood I life on mixed underground (road, trail, grass,....). As we do not have a lot of hills or mountains in Gent hill training is mainly done on a treadmill programmed with alternating inclination grades between 2 and 10% (thanks to Netflix the 2 hour runs on a treadmill are endurable).
Below you can find an example of a training schedule. Sunday's are my favourite as it focuses on endurance....
Besides running I do also some core training focusing on strengthen my shoulder, back and abdo (in order to carry my backpack) In addition to exercises to strengthen my gluteus Maximus (or buttock), biceps, aductor, etc...
Example training schedule.
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