About me

Personal data

Name: Ole Nielsen
Born: 1963
Height: 1.76 m
Weight: 68 kg

History

My running 'career' took off in spring 2006 when I joined a 'Run4fun' course organised by the Jogging Club at work. That was a trigger. Until then I had tried to do a little bit of running but at best I did 5 km once a week, but often there were two or three weeks between runs. Now, I started running about three times a week including once a week with the club. I progressively increased both pace and distance as my fitness improved as well as getting rid of some surplus kilograms. After three months I started doing 10+ km trainings and took the opportunity to explore the wide neighbourhood during my runs by developing a veritable maze of running tracks. Here is the extended version including the "park&run" trainings. My first real race (excluding the annual Patent Run races at work) was the CPC half marathon in the Hague in March 2007. I completed in a respectable time of 1:47 despite dealing with a knee problem in the weeks up to the race. Since then I have participated in a lot of races and improved my times quite a lot :-)

Personal bests

5 km: 19:57 (Royal Ten 5k, Den Haag, 2008)
10 km: 41:45 (Laan van Meerdervoort Loop, Den Haag, 2009)
15 km: 1:04:17 (Zevenheuvelenloop, 2010)
16.1 km: 1:11:37 (Vlietloop, 2008)
20 km: 1:32:25 (20 van Alphen, 2009)
21.1 km: 1:31:25 (Spijkenisse Marathon 1/2M, 2009)
30 km: 2:18:47 (Groet uit Schoorl, 2010)
42.2 km: 3:19:41 (Barcelona Marathon, 2011)


Cooper test: 3140 m (AJC 4 June 2009)

Statistics