Just a quick update for all of you who are keeping up with my latest news: I have finally reached China and started to get ready for my race.Shown in the picture above is my team-mate “Vico Merkheim” and my amazing trainers “Herman Vrijhof” and “Henk Ceelen”. I shall be back with some more interesting […]
The first Handbike City Trophy marathon in Hamburg, Germany, was packed with many highly experienced athletes to include the German ex-World Champion ‘Stefan Bauman’. I got there early so I manage to warm up well before the start at 8:45am. The race started at a very high speed and after 7 km, we split into […]
I got up in the morning, looked out of the window of my hotel room to see that the weather was good. I left the hotel, prepared the handbike and started my warming up session. We were called for the start and told that the first 3km will be neutral start. That meant that we […]
This race is the second race of the European competition. I arrived to the race after driving more than 350km from Holland. Once there, I picked up my race number, and prepared my handbike. The race was taking place on a Good Year circuit and the weather was very windy, eventhough the sun was shining! […]
Mannheim marathon in Germany was the 3rd race of the German competitions.Early morning, I was happy that I was able to warm up in a nice weather.The race started at 17:30.I was aware that the guys in my team wanted to cycle as fast as they could in order to break our World record that […]
I am glad to announce that Nestlé Pure Life® is now one of my official sponsors.Nestlé is #2 biggest brand worldwide and Nestlé Pure Life® is distributed in 21 countries – 400 glasses of Nestlé Pure Life® were drunk every second around the world in 2005!Nestlé’s sponsorship will enable me to train harder and more effectively in […]
First thing in the morning, the weather did not look any good! And as expected, once I arrived it was already pouring down with rain which makes me feel that I won’t be able to break my last year record when I won the 2007 race. After setting the bike and preparing it for the […]
The first race in this year was in Rosenau in France. This year was different from last year as the weather was very cold. At the race day we were lucky that it didnt rain but the weather was very cold. After suffering from coming back from South Africa where the temp was more than 25 […]