“Are you crazy?! You’re going to do an IronMan 70.3 without having done any other smaller triathlon?” I hear that a lot! Well, it wasn’t my original plan to have such a rocket start. Have a look what my initial plans were and why they changed.

This is a bit of an usual post for me because I’m going to share some training stats with you and explain what they mean to me.

Part 3: This post is an important one for me personally. It feels more like a motivational speech to myself on how to overcome my deep fear of swimming the open water.

What is visualization and what techniques have helped me?

Part 2: In this post, we’ll go back to 2019 again and have a look at how my transition from weight lifting to triathlon training looked like.

New mini series: Why did I decide to do a triathlon? Where it all began…

Everyone’s journey starts somewhere. My running journey started at 0 km. Here’s how I’ll work my way up to 100 km.

Mantras help me throughout life. In this post I’ll share with you some of my favourite mantras I use for my ultra trail run challenges and training sessions.

Yesterday parts of my beloved home trails got devastated by a fire.

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” That’s certainly true when it comes to blisters and infected toe nails. Warning: This article contains pictures of blisters and lost toe nails at the end of the post.

Fastpacking is a combination of trail running and camping. Thus, key is to pack as ultralight as possible.

Finding what works best for my recovery has been a game changer. Here’s my recovery routine.

Pretty much every time I talk to someone about ultra trail running, these questions come up.

Here are my personal top 5 choices that changed my trail running performance and experience.

All you ever wanted sits on the other side of fear.