News USA, Olympics, a fresh start and hurdlesAugust 5th - A short update to inform you all that I’ll be in the US until end of august. I’ll fly to Albuquerque (New Mexico) tomorrow and will stay in the mountain area for almost three weeks. My main aim is reloading my battery and increasing my training volume. I’ll take my time to travel around with Gert-Jan, do some hiking and other fun stuff I don’t often get the time to do.
I have been in the Rockies before and still remember how much I enjoyed my time and the beautiful scenery, I’m exciting to go.
The last two weeks me and coach Eddy already took the time to look ahead to new aims. I finished my season because we guess the smartest way right now is slowly building up my training volume without feeling time pressure. Of course I’m frustrated about missing my summer season (again) after my strong winter season. On the other hand I’m just happy that I recovered this quick and feel better day by day. I already did some small interval stuff but we are very careful and I’ll use the whole next month to build up to 100% training. This means I’ll again (same as last year) focus on the winter season. I’ve my eyes on the European Cross Champs (Brussels) and my main aim will be the Europeans indoors (Turin). Running indoor is something I haven’t done since I was a junior so I’m very exciting. Something else that makes me exciting is my start up with hurdle training to slowly open the door to running my first steeple. But later more about all this when I’m back and refreshed from my trip in the US.
I want to wish everyone fun with watching the Olympics and will be cheering on the Dutch team from the USA.
Posted on 5-aug 12:51 - ReactGreen light!July 15th - I got the green light to start up with increasing my training volume. My blood showed I recovered from the virus and my liver values are back to normal. I feel happy with the good news. I felt the whole last week that I was fit. The time of running with a bear on my back was over and I felt recovered. I ran every day 30 min the last 3 weeks and I will slowly go back to normal endurance runs in the next weeks. For me this was the best strategy to recover. I know how grumpy I can be when I don’t run so jogging was part of my medicine.
I want to thank people around me for their support. I got some really nice and helping e-mails from athletes who faced mono before. I also want to offer my experience to others who face the disease, so feel free to mail me. There is a lot you can do yourself to recover faster; a good thing is following a strict diet to help your liver recover!
I’m happy I can start building up things. I will post my plans soon. I feel like a horse that has been for to long in its barn and is itchy to go out. I know after my injury last year that this feeling is a good base for success!
Posted on 22-jul 09:38 - ReactRecovery neededJune 28th - Unfortunately I don't have good news to report. The tonsil infection I faced a few weeks ago is to be attributed to an infection with the infamous Pfeiffer disease, also called Mono. So this means I will only do some short endurance work over the next month and no racing. Since I probably have the virus for a longer time into my blood my first aim is to get rid of it as soon as possible. There are no medicines, living healthy and sleeping a lot is the best way to be fit again soon. I’m happy that I’m able to keep on running and that I don’t feel tired the whole day. 97% of the people are infected with the mono virus before the age of 30 and lots of them don’t even notice it. I probably also trained and raced with it for a longer time. When an athlete is in top shape, defences are mostly low and that makes that the virus can do its work the best way. So my aim now is to let my body fight against the virus and be fit as soon as possible. I still believe I might be able to be fit again to race some end-of-season races but it al dependents on my recovery. Given the fact that no substantial abnormalities were observed in other blood parameters, it could mean that the condition is relatively mild as compared to the more severe cases. So, let’s hope the best from it. Whenever I have (hopefully good) news to report I will post an item.
Posted on 28-jun 12:59 - ReactBump in the roadJune 10th - Time for a personal message after two races who didn’t quite go as well as I had hoped. This remind me about how much you should cherish the perfect ones and how fortunate you should feel when your fit and injury free. Unfortunately after my health problems in Belgarde I turned sick in the week before Regensburg. Yesterday my doctor told me I have an infected tonsil and need some time to recover. This seems a bit of a bump in the road but to be honest I’m happy with the clear message that I’m not fit and have to take some days to recover. I will just try to be smart about it and listen to my body and trust on the good training I did and the strong way I opened my season.
It's early June and the season is still really fresh so I hope to be fit again in a few days and plan my races from that point.
Luckily I have some great people around me: coach Eddy who tells me to be patient and don’t panic. I got some good advice from Gert- Jan saying athletes always doubt but doubts should be your friend. I just need to take some easy days and be confident that I will be back racing soon. I believe with this strategy I will be back soon.
I want to thank to people around me for being amazingly supportive helping me stay calm and relaxed. There is lots of season left and I will be back soon fit and strong!
Posted on 10-jun 09:50 - React
Picture: Karel Delvoye
Hurricane of bad luck in BelgradeMay 31st - Racing fast doesn’t come by itself, lots of circumstances and factors have to come together and also a bit of luck is needed to bring fast times on the clock. Yesterday wasn’t a lucky day for Adrienne. With a hurricane blowing over Belgrade circumstances where heavy for everyone but for Adrienne it was a really rough day at the office since she didn’t felt fit.
“I felt very flat while warming up but I just told myself that it had to do with the nerves. When the gun went I directly felt something was wrong I missed all the power in my legs and didn’t felt myself. After the race things where clear as I had lots of allergic reactions. Windy warm weather is awful for allergy patients. All this made me feel horrible while racing, right form the first meter”
The pack went out at 2.40 for 1000 meter which leads to 4.00 pace with lots of girls aiming for Olympic standards but nobody was able to keep the pace. In the sprint they measured wind guts from5.7m/s and sadly it effected the competition a lot.
“It wasn’t my day today. The feeling was the opposite from my good race last week. I want to forget this experience and trust on my good training and test last week because this tells me I’m fit and strong”
“The only good thing is that it’s a good learning. The best thing to come out of a disappointing race is that I'm hungrier for success!”
Next up Adrienne will race a 1500 meter in Regensburg followed b a 1500 meter in Rabad.
Posted on 5-aug 12:56 - ReactPromising 1500 meter test in Den HaagMay 23rd -
Yesterday Adrienne tested herself in a small low-key meet in Den Haag and finished her first 1500 meter in 4.13.5. Paced by her team mate the race was mostly a race against the clock.
“I’m happy with this result but mostly with the ease I ran with. This might be my first 4.13 time where I felt this comfortable. Only the last meters I felt sore but with a couple of races, good weather and some feminine competitors around me I will be more motivated”
Next up Adrienne will start in Belgrade may 29th.
Read a nice article about the test yesterday at: www.losseveter.nl
Posted on 23-may 10:35 - React
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USA, Olympics, a fresh start and hurdles (5-aug) | |
Green light! (15-jul) | |
Recovery needed (28-jun) | |
Bump in the road (10-jun) | |
Hurricane of bad luck in Belgrade (31-may) | |
Promising 1500 meter test in Den Haag (23-may) | |
Successful season start with a new 800 meter PB (10-may) | |
Eager to face the track! (7-may) | |
Smelling summer (2-apr) | |
Adrienne captures 4th Dutch Cross Country title in a row (2-mar) | |
Full of southern fuel ..facing nationals! (24-feb) | |
Strong 6th place in ´Cross Internacional de Castellon´ (10-feb) | |
Adrienne signs contract with PK (4-feb) | |
Training and racing in the south..NOTE: Adrienne will race sunday: february 10th (1-feb) | |
Adrienne kicks of 2008 with a victory in Breda (20-jan) | |
Looking back forward (11-jan) | |
Adrienne ends up 2007 with a spectacular victory in Soest (31-dec) | |
Adrienne shows excellent shape in IAAF Cross of Brussels (23-dec) | |
Silver medal in superb XC race at European U23!! (9-dec) | |
6 days to go to Orange Toro... (3-dec) |
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