Rob Renders

Start to ultra - X-Traversée, Verbier (76k, 5300D+)

I’m passionate about quality of life. Therefor I have my daily rituals in order to maximize my energy, mental and physical health.

But my believe is also that if you want to have an extraordinary quality of life, you have to push yourself on a regular basis out of your comfortzone.

That’s what I’ve done in January 2022 by signing myself up for an Ultratrail 75K 5000D+m in the swiss alps.

I had no experience at all in Ultrarunning nor marathons. The only thing I did was running approximately 20k in a week to keep myself fit.

I’ve started my journey with a training schedule on the internet. Pretty soon I realized this wasn’t going to work out. My friend introduced me to have a chat with Erik.

I’m super grateful because without Erik, I wouldn’t have hit my outcome. After 1 hour of introduction meeting, I knew he was my man.

I always like to learn from people who are walking their talk. And that is what Erik still does after 15+ years of Ultratrails.

We had 6 months to prepare so I couldn’t afford myself a serious injure or I could forget my race.

Thanks to Erik’s professionalism and his mantra “slow down on a regular basis in order to speed up your progress” I was able to start the race injury free and also important, to finish the race injury free.

Trust the process, he’s always saying and that’s what I did.

I’m super grateful to have you in my life as a coach and mentor. You’re a source of inspiration.

See you soon for the next challenge