Week 3 Winter hits back

If you think you can just put on your running shoes and start chasing geese* in winter, let me stop you right there. The Dutch winter has a secret way of punching you from the inside. No idea how it does it, but it feels like a million tiny cold monsters biting straight into your flesh.

So I retreated to the gym — two sessions moved indoors, hoping things would improve. Instead, I got sick again.

If this keeps going, there won’t be any real time left for proper training before the end of May. Change strategy?

What’s actually happening

You’re not “failing winter.”
You’re stacking cold + exposure + intensity + inconsistency, and your immune system is tapping out. Dutch winter is sneaky like that — damp, wind, and just warm enough to trick you.

My trainer told me exactly what I already know. So the plan stays simple: keep intensity low and wait for spring. According to all predictions, that should arrive in early March.

Until then, this isn’t about building fitness.
It’s about staying healthy enough to be ready when it finally does.

* after making research I found out that Joy is a Greylag Goose