Hi all!
Today was my big day! I had the NN Marathon Rotterdam 2025 today - where I hoped to break my PR.
Today was an amazing experience, I really enjoyed the event and all the amazing support both from friends and family aswell as almost a million supporters that where present. I was not able to break my PR infact I hit the wall very very hard at 32km. For today I will look back proudly because “the harder the battle , the sweeter the victory”. I feel I left most on the track as I nearly fainted waiting for the metro back home - and needed my wife to get the car and pick me up from the metro (which I would normally be way to proud for to even ask 🤣). Two hours later, I am oke again!
With regards to my PR attempt. I don’t exactly know what went wrong today. I didn’t feel stressed, had a great training camp and didn’t push in the first half. I ran at comfortable pace with a low zone 3 heartrate - which should even set me up for negative splits. Still at 29km I noticed cramp building up and saw my heartrate rise. I decided to go for plan b and avoid hitting the wall. I slowed down in order to lower my heartrate but I was unsuccessful. At 32km I was no longer able to ignore the cramps. Forcing me to stretch and run again (in repeat). While it definitely didn’t go as planned I will break that PR the next time. I am far from done and will rebuild and become stronger than I was today. Infact my next marathon is already planned (30th November) but might also do one in between.
Some cool photos of today
Amazing friend came to cheer for me!
Hugging my oldest daughter at 41km
We will be back stronger!
Happy running! <3