Twenty-nine

Following on from my previous posts for my twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth birthdays, here is my recap of my twenty-ninth year on Earth.

In the last year, I have:

• come 2nd place in the Sri Chinmoy Self-Transcendence 50km
• visited Vuurtoreneiland for Sanne's birthday
• been to

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If you've had issues with your webhook endpoint, and Stripe failed to send webhooks to you, it'll automatically retry with an exponential backoff. However, you might want to manually trigger the events to be resent before the automatic attempt.

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Running goals for 2024

• 5km: 17:00 (3:24 min/km)
• 10km: 36:00 (3:36 min/km) ✅
• Half marathon: 1:20:00 (3:47 min/km)
• Marathon: 2:45:00 (3:55 min/km)

Twenty-eight

Following on from my previous posts for my twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh birthdays, here is my recap of my twenty-eighth year on Earth.

In the last year, I have:

• spent Christmas + New Year in the Netherlands
• been to Spain
• received a Netherlands residency permit
• moved to an apartment

Running goals for 2023

• 5km: 18:30 (3:42 min/km) → ✅ 17:44 (3:33 min/km)
• 10km: 39:00 (3:54 min/km) → ✅ 36:55 (3:42 min/km)
• Half marathon: 1:25:00 (4:02 min/km) → ✅ 1:21:30 (3:52 min/km)
• Marathon: 2:

Twenty-seven

Following on from my previous posts for my twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth birthdays, here is my recap of my twenty-seventh year on Earth.

In the last year, I have:

• lived in numerous countries and apartments
• ran Ashby 20 (miles) in March
• ran 31km for Sanne's birthday in

Running targets for 2022

A clone of my targets for 2020 because I haven't achieved them yet.

• 5km: 18:30 (3:42 min/km)
• 10km: 39:00 (3:54 min/km)
• Half marathon: 1:25:00 (4:02 min/km)
• Marathon: 2:59:59 (4:16 min/km)

Twenty-six

Following on from my previous posts for my twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth birthdays, here is my recap of my twenty-sixth year on Earth.

In the last year, I have:

• lived in York, UK for 1 year
• ran a 19:13 5km at Parkrun
• visited Amsterdam and run a 1:28:

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Twenty-five

I've previously written my year-in-review for my twenty-third and twenty-fourth birthdays. And now for another!

As well all know, this year has been a weird one. Things didn't go as expected for many but I've tried to make the most of it regardless.

In

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Running targets for 2020

As of October 31st 2019, my current running PBs are the following:

• 5km: 19:49 (3:58 min/km - November 2018)
• 10km: 42:13 (4:13 min/km - October 2019)
• Half marathon: 1:30:17 (4:17 min/km - October 2019)
• Marathon (unofficial): 3:39:46 (5: