Salomon on top

I took a big decision, after the shoes,the backpack had to be ordered.
I decided to buy the Salomon's XA 20M backpack with the Salomon's custom frontpack. It's a 20L backpack with a  4L chestpack. Now I have to train with it and evaluate if this is the gear that will work for me.

N°64

N° 64 will be my official startnumber for the 2012 Marathon des Sables. Training has already started, slowly,  but from this week on we will take it to the next level.
From now one I will run on a daily basis with no real resting days. This doesn't mean that I won't rest but every day I will run a minimum.
Yesterday i bought a new pair of running shoes, Salomon speedcross 2 and if I like them I will use the 3 to run the MdS.

I still find it hard to decide which backpack Iwill use, next week I will make a decision on this subject.
From next week on I will post my trainingschedule for the 2012MdS.

Training in the South of France

Like you all know, my home base for the moment is the South West of France. It is good living over here, nice people, great sceneries, excellent food, etc... Upon till now the weather was fine as well but this summer, were I wanted to train in the heat and the sand, it seems that the rain will keep falling down with temperatures well below average. What a shame.
So now I have to do my daily training in the rain and in cool conditions. Maybe that god keeps the good weather and the hot temps for the winter, so I will ready to go to the MdS..

Birthday Party

Yesterday I had my birthday party, for the occasion I invited some friends.
It was a wonderful party with too much food and alcohol, but once in a while people have to relax. I also had some of our students over to the party and they didn't buy me a present but they became our first sponsor for the 2012MdS.  Thx guys, this is really encouraging and heart warming for me. The return is that they asked me to wear their promo colours during the event, which I will do with a lot of pleasure.
No hangover this morning so I will be able to go for a run this afternoon before I watch the end of a beautiful TdF.
I'll keep you informed about the trainings and competitions in the future.

Team Quest

Birth of a new project

Last week our project suddenly became reality. About a year ago I received a phone call from a colleague  in Belgium with the question if I was interested to participate in the 2012 Marathon des Sables. I didn't need much time to say yes but there were some practical problems such as entrance fee, solo or in team, etc...
After some phone calls we decided to run in team and we would look for some sponsors, but the most important decision was that we would link out expedition to a good cause.
So here we are now, application is accepted, Team Quest is born and we are running to raise some funds for cancer research (name of the project will follow later).

Our team will keep you informed about the project, the training and the sponsoring.