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Gerard Terwisscha van Scheltinga
I'm a 46 year old triathlete, living in the Netherlands, married, two kids, working as student counsellor with medical students. I've been doing triathlons since 1986, have completed nearly 200 races, of which 23 over the ironman distance. Raced Roth, Almere, Lanzarote, Florida, the Norseman etc. My personal best is 9.38. The next challenge is the a small ironman distance race in Germany on June 15 and the world championships long distance in Almere in August. Use PC's since november 2005, almost exclusively. Mostly ride 150-300 k's a week. Race on normal cranks.
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Racing the Norseman 2007
Published 10/10/2007
For my first blog, a short intro: I’ve been training and racing triathlons since 1986, and completed 23 ironmandistance-races since. The last of these, and by far the toughest, was the Norsema...
Nordic again
Published 11/12/2007
Three weeks after finishing the Norseman Xtreme I participated in a half ironman distance race. The reason was that I had recovered unexpectedly fast from my Norwegian experience. I felt so good I j...
My left leg
Published 12/20/2007
When I first started training on powercranks in the fall of 2004, after Ironman Florida, I had a hard time adjusting. But that was to be expected. After a few months though, I noticed a distinct d...
On the road again
Published 02/11/2008
Last Saturday the weather in The Netherlands was finally good enough for me to get out again for a bike ride on a ‘real’ road. The Dutch winter has not been cold, but very, very wet. W...
No easy spin
Published 02/18/2008
Last weekend the weather was beautiful, again. Clear, sunny, but very, very cold. I decided to make the most of it. Four days earlier, on Tuesday (my day off) I had managed to do a 100 K. bike ride ...
Injured but training
Published 04/16/2008
In my last blog I talked optimistically about my first race of the season: a wintertriathlon. Well, unfortunately I had to skip that race because of a torn calf muscle. It happened in the middle of ...
PR at 47
Published 06/16/2008
Last Saturday, June 14, I participated in an Ironman distance race in Moritzburg, Germany (near Dresden). As regular blog readers might recall, due to a torn calf muscle I was unable to run for two ...
PR or PR?
Published 06/18/2008
In my bio I state that my PR was 9.38, but in my latest blog I told you about a new PR of 9.39. So whats up? My PR is 9.38, but to be honest that time was set in a race with a bike course of only...
At the World Championships
Published 09/2/2008
Last Sunday (August 31th) I raced the World Championships Long Distance in Almere, the Netherlands. This is a so called O3 race: a 4K. swim, a 120 K. bike and a 30 K. run. The ITU considers this sti...
Running an end of season marathon
Published 09/22/2008
Yesterday I ran the Groningen marathon. I do not consider myself a runner. I’m a triathlete first and last, but when your home town hosts a marathon, I think you should run it at least once. T...