Leontien's ladies ride



Edsmaida, Corrie & Gracienne before we started

Last sunday, june 26, we started in Bergschenhoek to bike to the start at Nesselande. Gracienne came from Zoetermeer on het bike. She was very brave because she already had her first 10K before we drove to the start to bike 35K. Edsmaida had her bike in the back of het car. So with the three of us, we started to bike to the start, 10 K in appr. 40 min... 

All together, every year a different group...

This is the start.... after we collected our t-shirt, put it on and got our yoghurt as a in between breakfast...
At the start it was very crowded. Appr. 6000 ladies wanted to start.... the first girl who rode 65K were already gone. We were in the last batch to start. And still there were a lot of girls.

on my bike, and look how many ladies there are behind me!

 We got ride with a nice temperature, but it was very crowded. Over the total route we stopped several times, to cross very busy streets, small bicicle roads that slowed us down and several other points. We sometimes walked a bit because that was easier than biking....

Lunch with Annette, Saskia & Corrie (and Edsmaida & Gracienne across)

Half way we had some lunch and something to drink. This was a little disappointing. In the earlier years we got in the first stop a nice cup of coffee and a dilicious cupcake and a very good sandwich with an icecream for lunch at the second stop.
This year there was only one stop, that was our lunch with a cheeseroll, krentenbol (kind of an coffeeroll), eierkoek and a sultana cracker. So we were a little disappointed.

After our lunch we got back on our bike and biked the last bit.
A very happy day, with a lot of grazy, nice, loving ladies on a bike in the same bio t-shirt. I had a lot of fun, with the girls.... Thanks girls ! Next year we do it again...

With love, Corrie

ladiesrun Rotterdam June 19, 2011

After the last 10KM on April 10th I was determined to run again. All I wanted to do was to run a little faster then the last one.



Corrie & Ingrid



So I bought myself a ticket to run with the Ladiesrun in Rotterdam. With this ticket as a reminder, I practiced a lot with my traininggroup. We trained every week on Thursday and on Saturday. On Thursdays we trained technique & speed. On Saturdays we trained endurance. Just to keep track of your heartbeat (not to high) and the distance (8KM or more).

The Ladiesrun is an event only for women/ladies. A total of 6000 ladies registered to run 5K or 10K.

  

before the start, full with adrenaline

On Sunday June 19th we gathered with all the ladies of RegioFit NL in the Ahoy Rotterdam to run the 10K. First there was a warming up. We entered the warming up in the middle because there was a lot of rain in the first part of the warming up. After that it was reletively dry. And when you are running you don't even notice a little bit of rain....

Ingrid, Wendy and I tried to stay together, but they run to fast for me. I am the slowest of them all and I had to let them go. They are just a lot lighter then me and have more experience so it is normal that they are faster. It hurts to see them run so lightly but I have to practice a lot, lose more weight and grow on my strenght. Then I hope I will run as fast as they did. But I think it is a long way to go....



Finish picture : Corrie, Ingrid, Marianne, Hanny, Esther,
Wendy & Helen



My medal and number



With Love, Corrie

Pretty

Last Sunday we had a high tea in Utrecht. We had a reunion with some GASTT trainers from FRS over the last three years. The group was originaly 11 people  in total, but we were with 5 trainers. That's fine, we could take to everybody and we sat in a nice restaurant.  And our table was like the picture above. Just in balance. Where I needed to adjust to was the tea in glasses. If it was my dissicion than I had served nice procelain teacups. It was different, but nice as well.

Romantic?? what do you think?

With love, Corrie

Idea for the patio

In the near future we want to live on Curaçao. And we are already busy with our future house and our life out there. Everywhere we go we keep our eyes and ears open. And if we spot a great idea, we make pictures or sketch it.

This is one example of an idea for our patio outside. And we can make it ourselves! Thats the great thing too.The live on Curaçao will be different. A lot relaxer than the live we have here. So I want to do a lot myself.

Look at the cabinet outside, Isn't that lovely!

And a large tray on the table with matching flowerbasket and small light. Great.

With a change of the flower you can make a whole different look.

Follow my blog for more ideas we come across.

Thank you for stopping and reading my blog, leave a comment if you like.

With love, Corrie

From beginners to the 10K in Rotterdam

In January 11 2011 I started running with 4 people in a beginnersclass with Marcel Treurniet as our trainer. The four of us wanted to run the 10K on April 10 2011. The first training was a Coopertest and a parcours to test our stamina and our skills. Right in the first training we got our first tips, like "keep your head up" and "walk small steps but in a quick paste". During the first month we had to train for our first 5K run on february 5th. During that run we didn't stop, that was the challenge....and we succeeded.
After running our first 5K we added the Running BootCamps to our trainingschedule and extended our runs with 0,5 or 1 K per week......Did we had musculepain? Ohh, yes we had...but we enjoyed it every bit.
Last thursday we had out last training for "The BIG day". The beginnersgroup was so proud of our accomplishments that we gave out trainer a nice t-shirt....he was our "drill intructor" for the last 13 weeks. But we dit it! and we our proud..... Here are some pics.


for left to right: Wendy, Marcel, Gaby, Corrie



our proud "drill instructor"

From left to right: Marcel, Fer, Gaby, Hanny, Corrie