Author: Piotr Goslawski
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Week 13
When you think it can’t get worse, it can. Because just after you recover from a mild injury, you get hit by some small virus. A few-hundred-nanometer thingy enters your body and shuts it down for one week. With 3 weeks of total break, I really don’t know if the whole project will continue. With…
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Week 11 – full speed reverse
This was to be expected.The recovery run showed that something still isn’t quite right with the right leg.And the left one, in an act of solidarity, decided to join in with occasional micro-cramps. 4 km out of 30 planned.Let’s see what the next week brings.
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Week 10 – The Envelope
Preparation is now somewhere in the middle. After a very slow winter start, the run is finally beginning to take its proper shape. I am still a bit behind with the weekly volume, but the long runs are now progressing as they should. The heart rate could probably be lower, but it does not feel…
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Week 9
It has been two months since preparation started. Statistically, during these two months around 100 children in the Netherlands were diagnosed with cancer. For many of them, treatment will last somewhere between 6 months and 3 years. Statistically, a person who stands on the start line of a marathon has about an 85% chance of…
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Week 8
Things are starting to get serious — entering strain-conditioning mode. Long runs, increased volume. With three months to go, it’s time to push harder… but not stupid hard — nothing should break. Sunday was the first true long run. I started with the standard route to the PMC building — the one I always used…
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Week 7
Finally, temperatures above 10 degrees ☀️ Back on track.(Though slightly behind the training schedule.) Week 4 and 5 were oscillations between “I feel good enough to hit the gym” and a never-ending flu. I probably incubated entire generations of new viruses that will be ready for next season. But for now — all is good.…
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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…
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Week 2 – Crushing through the winter
No cold, no ice, no snow, and no wild animals will stop me.Another week passed, and slowly my body is starting to adapt to the rhythm — made a bit more flexible to survive bad weather days and the occasional minor flu. I also tried to find joy during my last long run.Followed all the…
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1st week
First week, first lesson: winter running sucks.Or rather—I was doing it wrong. According to my personal trainer (AI): The goal isn’t to enjoy winter; it’s to get through it with consistency. The first part is going well. The second isn’t bad either—21 km this week is a solid start—but I can already feel I’m stressing…
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Goal
3:45 in Utrecht. End of May. This is it — 20 weeks to go.That means preparation moves from idea to reality. The training plan is ready. I tried to build one with AI, but it quickly drifted into extremes. So I did what has always worked best: downloaded something reasonable from the internet and trusted…
Run 4 PMC 