Bio





Occupation: Equine Veterinarian, Joii Online consultant, MTB guide 
                      Off Road Triathlete, Mountain biker (part time)

Nationality : Dutch (Netherlands), born in Italy raised in Euroland

Countries lived in : Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand, USA, Singapore, Australia, Scotland, France

Main Sporting Discipline: Off Road Triathlon/XTERRA, Mountain bike

Favorite style of racing: Off road, adventure racing 

Strengths on the bike: long rocky climbs 

Annual training volume: ?????? 15-25hrs week depending on stage of training and work commitments

Bikes: BMC Race Machine, Open Hard tail MTB, Canondale Flash 29, Specialized Epic Expert WC, Ridley CX bike

Year started racing: 2009

Racing Highlights : Winning my age group and first amateur home, 4th Female overall at Xterra Philippines and winning the prestigious Australian MTB Marathon50km The Highland Fling

Racing Lowlights : Just missing out on the podium by coming 4th in my AG at the Xterra World Champs 2012 due to a badly executed race by leaving my nutrition in T1. Which you can read about here

Coach : James MCCallum 

Favorite training ride: anything with nice views 

Ideal day on a MTB: sunny crisp weather, combination of technical stuff and climbs, with mates

Favorite Food: Italian, Japanese, chocolate

Favorite Race: XTERRA World Champs Maui with XTERRA France a close 2nd

Coffee Preference: Chai Latte

Favourite Olympic moment : The kiwi rowing twins Ever-Swindell winning gold at Beijing 2008 after the Media insinuated they should have retired due to an average lead up to the Olympic games.

Favourite athlete : Emily Forsberg, Gunn Rita Dahle

Favourite Movies : Le Grand Blue, Meru, Free Solo, Once, Dawn Wall, 

Favourite Music : Angus&Julia Stone, Brandi Carlile, The XX

Personal Sponsors: Terraventure, Gore, Whatsyourmeta, MSC tyres 
                          

Racing goals : Stay injury free as much as I can 

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