Dennis Hettema (of OP3 fame) was in town last week and I met with him, Mikky and some others in Den Haag. We had some serious catching up to do. I hadn’t seen Dennis since we did some eating, drinking and clubbing in Oslo back in 2005. Mikky and I don’t exactly see eachother every week either.

We met up in Cloose and had dinner in the place next door called Crystal, neither of which I knew (but then again, I hardly ever visit Den Haag).

Dennis is a sportive guy. He’s been competing in the Vasaloppet twice now I think and after having talked about that for a little while, Dennis mentioned he was going to (try to) compete in the Ironman 70.3 in Monaco. This race (a triathlon) is one of the ways of gaining access to the Hawaii (Kona) full Ironman in 2009.

Dennis told me I should join. Eager as always, I reacted positively and like the saying says: it was a done deal!

Fast forward 5 days: I just got back from another 5k run. My time has improved… a miserable 8 seconds… to a miserable 24 minutes and 57 seconds But then again, 9 months ago my 10k time was somewhere sub-50 minutes. I’m going to have to do some serious exercising thinking before I enter into this race…