June 21st - Today Adrienne finished 4th in the European cup in Bergen. For Adrienne a decent result but she could have done better if she would have ran tactically stronger. The race was very slow but Adrienne finished with a last lap of 62.The victory was for Sonia Roman of Slovenia (3th in Turin) and 2th place 800 meter runner Kurt Yeliz from Turkey, finishing just ahead of Adrienne
“I wanted to win today. My shape is better then in Hengelo but I ran defensive and the whole race I was in lane 2. I never found a good place to run and lost to much energy by this unquiet racing. I learned so much from it, next time I will try to control races like this. I’m very eager to show my real shape next week in Malaga where I will face a strong field”
Personal best 4:07,33 and qualification mark for World Championships
June 2nd - Yesterday Adrienne showed her home public in the Grand Prix from Hengelo she is in great shape and improved her personal best to a strong 4:07,33. This means she ran below the qualification mark of 4.08.76 for the World Championships in Berlin. Only if an other Dutch girl will be faster than 4,07,33 Adrienne has to run the A standard of 4.06.00.
For now the qualification mark gives a lot of confidence and rest to prepare the best possible way for Berlin. Running this strong time in her first race with quite some wind means there is space to improve towards the WC.
`Everything went follow plan. I ran 4.07.33 in my first race of the season and my coach predicted me to run 4.07.30 in this race. I lost some crucial time in the last lap as I was a bit locked up by the big field and I almost fell down with 300 to go. Luckily I didn’t and I finished in this great time. For now I’m happy with it but my aim is to improve towards the championships`
May 23rd - Adrienne is happy to annouce that she singned a new sponsorcontract with Run2day. Run2day has 19 professional runningstores all over the Netherlands. The stores all have a big runningheart since all the employees love to run them selves. This makes that they give the best possible advice to there customers. Adrienne is happy to have this passionate sponsor behind her for the upcoming period, it gives her the possiblitie to invest in her sport there where needed.
For those who want to know more about Run2day: www.run2day.nl this website gives a varity of info about running and about the plenty of options the shops offer (professional shoe advise – free trainingschedules and even injury advise)
April 25th - Right in the middle of a really hard training block Adrienne took the line in the Lucerne Stadtlauf (aprox. 4,250 meter) and finished a strong 3th with a time of 13.20 (average 3.05 every km).
The race held at 20.30 in the evening took the runners through the beautiful historic city centre of Lucerne where the roads where packed with spectators. Helen Clithroe of Great Britain (4.01 over 1500) finished first place only 8sec ahead of Adrienne. In second place, only 2 sec in front of Adrienne, finished Sonia Roman of Slovenia (bronze medal in Turin over 1500).
“I truly enjoyed the race and I’m happy with the result. I went in the race with confidence since my training is on a really high level at the moment. I trained a lot of volume together with a lot of quality and did not hold back a single day for this race. I did not felt great while racing since I’m not fresh at all but I’m happy for the result”
The race is a really wonderful and atmosphere rich event and takes part on a small 890 meter lap with a lot of sharp curves and hills. For Adrienne it was a nice break to travel to the beautiful city of Lucerne before she is going to continu her good training towards her seasons start in Hengelo over 1500 meter.
March 4th - Hi All,
I hope everyone is doing well! A bit of a delayed post but I have only just got back home so it is kind of quick for me!!
I spend my last week in Spain and joined some of my good friends for a training camp. I’m more as ever inspired by the Spanish way of training, the sun the knowledge and great working attitude. I’m back home now and I made quite a change in the way I train nowadays. I noticed in Spain that my big strength is my ability to run fast (vo2max). This sounds a kind of logical but for improving to world level a dose of talent isn’t enough. I right now work a lot on my technical abilities and strength (plyometric training, hill drills, and weights) but everything based on translating it in the right way to a good running technique. Next to this im focused on a good dose of miles and quality.
I have a great time of training behind me and it’s amazing to see how easy things go under the Spanish Sun. Spain is for me the heart of middle distance in Europe and it was great to work out with Nuria Fernandez. She ran a world leading 4.01.77 in Valencia and prepares the 3000 for Turin EC indoor. I will spend some more time in Spain in April and we will work out together again. I look forward to it a lot. The Spanish way of training inspired me enormously and I’m more as ever inspired, motivated and eager!
I will try to update a bit more over the next period and drop some pictures of my workouts
I want to send a big big thanks to all the people who support me the last time. I can drop a list of names but I just hope those who read this know that my warm words are meant for him/ her!
February 1st - UPDATE: Adrienne will line up again for a 3000meter in the IAAF permit Meeting pas de calais in Lievin on February 10th.
Last week was a bit of a roller coaster week for Adrienne, but also week with the best specific indoor training there is; two races. After the disappointment of the canceled 3000 meter meeting in Bordeaux, she picked her self up and traveled to Metz (France) where she ran a decent 1500 meter. Two days later she took the line and ran a solo 3000 meter in her hometown Apeldoorn, the toughest training there is.
"Last week was a week with a lot of traveling but I am happy to have two good races in my legs. This is the best specific training there is and I know I needed some racing before hitting the international races. The races where far from ideal to make the standards so I don’t want to look to the finishing times too much. I want put trust in the training I did. I’m happy to be able to start in international races having done those two indoor competitions. It was good to do after the long distance of the cross country races, and it least shook my body awake. I am also happy to have the experiece of indoor running as it is a special dicipline and my first indoor season ever. I ran my first ever 1500 and 3000 indoor last week”
In the light of the EC indoors in Turin Adrienne and coach Eddy have there eyes mainly on 3000 meter but also think a fast 1500 meter must be possible.
Personal best 4:07,33 and qualification mark for World Championships (2-jun)
Adrienne signs sponsorcontract with Run2day (23-may)
Adrienne on the podium in Lucerne (25-apr)
Viva España !! (4-mar)
One week two specific training races (1-feb)
Adrienne ends up 2008 with a victory in Soest (1-jan)
Adrienne shows with 6th place she is ready for European top level (15-dec)
Everything is possible! (10-dec)
Spectacular 2nd place in white Tilburg (24-nov)
From Tilburg to Brussels! (6-nov)
Strong come back with new Dutch 4 mile record (13-oct)
Victory in 'Stichting Kinderwens' relay (28-sep)
Adrienne back with a victory in Hattem 7km (21-sep)
Refreshed and refocused building up (10-sep)
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)
Chasing my dreams
I have a dream, I want to see come true. I won’t give up, no matter what I do. If there’s a long, long way I have to go I’ll keep on running this. I know I’ve got the power to make it come true.
I’m chasing my dream, go and chase yours too
Personal Bests
800 meter
2.06.12
3000 meter
9.01.69
5000 meter
15.42.24
4 Em
20.59.90
1500 meter
4.07.33
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