It was Sunday evening, 9:16pm.The kind of quiet where the week finally settles in your body. My legs were tired, but in a good way. Not the sharp, scary tired I remember from injury days. This was different. Warm. Earned. I had cycled 40km that morning. Nothing wild. Nothing to brag about. But enough to […]
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Jan
Jan
It feels really good to sit down and write again. I realized the other day that I had not published a blog post in almost two months. Not because I did not want to write, but because life felt full. Busy in a quiet but intense way. Healing. Rebuilding. Learning how to listen to my […]
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Nov
Nov
It’s been a while since I last sat down to write a blog post. Life lately has been a swirl of projects, emails, and plans that seem to multiply overnight. But beneath all that busyness, something deeper has been unfolding, a slow, quiet kind of healing. For months, my world revolved around recovery. The crash […]
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Oct
Oct
The quiet comeback of movement For most of my adult life, walking never counted as a “real” workout. I ran. I swam. I biked for hours under the sun. I trained for triathlons, chased speed, and tracked numbers. Walking was what I did between training sessions, not the training itself. But three weeks ago, everything […]
05
Oct
Oct
A Walk Around the Building A loop around my apartment building is about 500 meters. Normally, that would sound like nothing to me. I’m used to waking up at 5 AM, meditating, stretching, then heading out for a run, swim, or cycling session that lasts two hours or more. Long training sessions are my comfort […]
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Sep
Sep
The Crash That Changed My Routine It is surprising how quickly life can flip. One day you are training hard, keeping a routine you have built for months or even years. And then suddenly, in just one accident, you are forced to stop. For me, it was a fractured wrist and pain in my chest […]
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May
May
After sharing my swimming experience in the last blog post, it only feels right to write about the next two parts of my triathlon journey: the 90km bike ride and 21km run. Unlike swimming, which has always been my weak point, I used to consider cycling and running my strengths. But this race was a […]