Yes I made it so far..

Dear reader,

A few days ago I succeeded to get a start position at the most famous jogging-events in the Netherlands. On Sunday September 20, 2009 I will run 10 English Miles (16,1 km) from the centre of Amsterdam to the centre of Zaandam. Both cities do have a big square in the centre called "The Dam". From this fact the name of the run originates; "Dam tot Dam"-run, see link.
In order to control the event the number of runners is limited to 35.000 people. And guess runners are like cattle, they all go for the same run, on the same day, etc... At April 1, 2009, 00:00 hrs the run opened up for subscribing. In less than 2 days 35.000 people did and the run was closed. Alright it's the 25-th edition, but still I find it incredible that so many runners in so short time do subscribe. A quick calculation shows, that from the 16 million inhabitants of The Netherlands, 50 % is either too young, too old, too sick or no runner at all, 0,5% is joining this run. Still amazing to me!!
AND.... many of the runners styad up until after 00:00. I didn't, but......... I got up at 6:15 in the morning and was lucky to find no overloaded, slow and unreliable website. I finished my application in 5 minutes.


At the start of my 1-st Dam tot Dam-run sept 2003


Start of the 2004 edition. I'm the runner in black short & shirt in the middle passing the start

So here I am to prepare this run carefully and most important stay healthy since I missed the 2007 and 2008 runs due to injuries.

I keep you updated about how things are going, stay tuned, Oculus