Jose Quaresma

So, another season is on the way! Last year, I did a Half-Ironman, in Mallorca and it was an incredible experience! It motivated me even more to my goal of doing an Ironman. Unfortunately, that won’t happen this year. After the half-ironman last year, I got a stress fracture on my left shin, and I almost didn’t run for the rest of the season.

Now I am running again, but still have to be damn patient so I don’t upset my super delicate shins… But I think it is getting there!

For this season, I will start with the Danish championships in Sprint distance, in June, and tin July I will do a bike race in the French Alps, La Marmotte. I will for sure talk more about this one later. After that I am still not sure, will just see how it plays out…

On a different note, I changed my diet a bit. I started reading about all the possible benefits of having a whole foods, plant-based diet and it really got me interested in it, so I decided to give it a try. I guess I could say that I am currently doing a 99% plant-based diet. For now I don’t feel like going out of my way to to follow a strict plant-based diet, I don’t think it will do me any harm to eat a bit of meat or fish once in a while (yes, yes, for you meat lovers out there, I know, it might actually be good for me…). I started one month ago and I have been feeling really good since then. Let’s see how this one man experience will develop. I might write about that here in the blog since there are so many interesting resources about it.

Yours, Ze

Posted 3 months ago

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You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.

But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking…ask what time it is and wind, wave, star, bird, clock will answer you: “It is time to be drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of time, be drunk, be continually drunk! On wine, on poetry or on virtue as you wish.

- Charles Baudelaire

Posted 10 months ago

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It’s almost here! :)

My first race of the season is getting closer and closer.

This saturday at 8:20am I will be ready to get in the water! Oh my…! My first Half-Ironman. The race will be in Mallorca and I am flying there tomorrow.

I am really excited about getting in the start line and give all I got! :)

I can’t write much more cause I have an early flight to catch, I will write something from Mallorca.

/Jose

Posted 1 year ago

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You have not tasted success until you have succeeded at something you truly thought not possible.

- Coach Steve from Endurance Sports Institute

Posted 1 year ago

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Don’t follow your dreams, chase them.

- Richard Dumb via K-SWISS triathlon

Posted 1 year ago

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It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

- Theodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a Republic via James Shelley

Posted 1 year ago

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