Training 2026 Week 14: Catecholamine Party
This week was… spectacularly awful. The kind of week where things don’t just go wrong, they detonate with commitment. If I say it ranks in my personal top ten of …
Training 2026 – Week 12 & 13
After our last attempt at a 500 km (310 mi), we decided to upgrade some of our gear. Gear upgrade Power meter pedal During last week’s ride, I noticed my …
Training 2026 week 11: The Limousine bonked first
This week we decided to attempt another 500 km (311 mi) ride to prepare as well as possible for the Race Around the Netherlands, and to test and tweak some …
Training 2026 week 10: The Limousine Eats Another Bottom Bracket
Tandem update Last week, during our first DIY multi day mini ultra, the captain’s bottom bracket started clicking about 150 km (93 miles) before the end. Every rotation came with …
Training 2026 Week 9: Two Days, One Tandem, Zero Regrets
Gear update Saddle As I wrote last week, I decided to order the same saddle I had, but in the narrower version. When it arrived, it looked… off. I quickly …
Training 2026 week 8: Schrödinger’s VO₂ Max
Indoor Training update This week I increased my indoor training sessions from 60 minutes to 90 minutes. Sixty minutes no longer felt like training. It felt like warming up before …
Training 2026 Week 7: Plans Were Made, Life Responded
This week, life decided it would happen with complete disregard for our carefully constructed plans. The intention was clear: a 160 km (99 miles) ride in Niffer. Reality, however, had …
Training 2026 Week 6: The haunting subsides
This was the week where things finally started looking up, in the quiet, deeply comforting sense that cause and effect had re-entered the chat, after a brief but alarming absence. …
Training 2026 Week 5: When everything surfaced at once
I have to admit: writing this week’s blog post wasn’t easy. Things weren’t flowing. Not on the bike, not mechanically, and not emotionally. We were both tired, a little frustrated, …
Winter training: When Everything Feels a Bit… Wobbly
This week felt slower than planned. Not just on the bike, but mentally too. I started training cautiously, partly because I was sick last week, and partly because December happened. …