Sunday the 7th of May it was time for competition again! Both our women’s and men’s team went to AV Generaal Michaëlis in Best to participate in the second division. Of course, it started early already so most Gauls travelled to the track together by train early in the morning. Jim started off with a great result on Javelin throwing …
Batavierenrace 2023
Night Shift Before the runners of the night shift left for their stages, they had some time to kill in Nijmegen. What better way to do that than to play some cards? The 51st Batavierenrace was started by Job Reurink and Domingos, who both ran very well first stages! Job had an average pace of 18.34km/h (which turned out to …
Cross Country Winter 2023
With the cross country season having come to an end, it is the perfect moment to look back! In this blog, we will do just that: provide an overview of the performances of Asterix members in the cross country races of January and February. Eersel For many Gauls, this was the first cross after a well-deserved Christmas break. It was …
Cross Country Fall 2022
With 2023 having just started, it is a good moment to look back at the first part of the cross country season. Asterix is part of the Kempian Cross Competition, which naturally means most Gauls end up participating in cross country races from the Kempian Cross Competition. This season, four races have already taken place. Veldhoven Let us start in …
NSK Teams 2022
Last Saturday, the NSK Teams took place in Delft. Many Gauls went there, and they even brought some friends that also study in Eindhoven. Team Eindhoven participated with two teams for the men and one team for the women. Only the first team for the men could score points, the other teams participated Out of Competition. After most had arrived, …
Promotion Competition 11-9 Barendrecht
With the great results of our Gauls at the first three national competitions, both our men’s and women’s team successfully qualified for the promotion competition which took place in Barendrecht last Sunday. Twenty-two Gauls travelled to Barendrecht to represent Asterix. With 28 events that needed to be filled (women’s and men’s combined), this was quite the task. Bente, our competition …
NSK Track 2022
Last weekend, the NSK Track took place in Wageningen, organized by WAV Tartlétos. Of course, many Gauls participated! In the very first event on Saturday, there were 3 Gauls trying to run PBs! Domingos was the first to run, and he ran a time of 55.93. While being one of the fastest times he has ever run, he was not …
National Competition 3-7
Last Sunday, the last of the national competition games took place! Asterix competed with a men’s team in the second and third division, and with a women’s team in the second division. Our second division teams competed in Nijmegen, and the men’s team in the third division competed in Valkenswaard. The first event of the day was the 100mH for …
NSK Trappenloop
On Friday June 17th, three strong Gauls went to Enschede to represent Asterix in the un-official NSK Traplopen. Without having practiced too much, Vincent, Matthijs and Lorens traveled to Enschede. When they arrived, they noticed that the competition would be very strong with many athletes from our main rival-associations of Dodeka, Phoenix, Kronos and Vitalis. In the feared Horst-tower, the …
NSK Meerkamp 2022
Last weekend, Asterix went to multiple competitions in the hunt for new PBs! On Friday evening, some runners went to Utrecht. Jordi ran his first sub-2 this year, breaking his PB with an impressive 1:57.73! Domingos, perhaps inspired by Jordi, then ran a new PB on the 400 in 55.91! It was the first of many sub-56 performances by our …