Irene Schouten marathon champion
13Irene schout was born in 1992 in Zwaagdijk in Noord-Holland. Her family had a business in Andijk groing and selling tulips. She had two brothers and one sister. They were acostomed to do sports, swimming and skating. She, liked most dutch skaters,skated in the winter on the ice and in the summer on inline skates. One of her brothers Simon was a very strong skater and won in 2013 the alternative Elfstdentocht on the Weissensee in Austria.They were accoustomed to work hard and to do sports as well. Their mother was always available for tthem and helped them to go to the sport complexes till she at the age of 55 got a brainstroke had and was not able to play the role she did before.
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Irene admits that she always wanted to win. Training with the men, her brother was often surprised that she still continued skating while many men had already had given up to follow the leaders. The year that her brother Simon won the Alternativ Elfstdentocht she won for the first time a marathon race . Later that year she also became for the first time national champion marathon skating on artificial ice. This result she repeated 7 years in a row.. She suggests that winneing requires a very good condition, looking for your opportunities, tactical inside and a very strong sprint also after a fast race. To illustrate why this is so, we present here one of the marathon races which she won. .
She had so much success in this sport that she also tried other skating sports as well and as we will see with a lot of success
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