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This is truly an amazing achievement, so you better check it out for yourself. Something we can all be very proud of that's for sure.



TomTom Route Planner

The interesting challenge at the company at which I work is that everything depends on keeping pace with the latest the greatest technology.

Developing really great software products means that one has to sit down with other top notch software engineers and figure out how to roll up one's sleeves and just get the job done, no matter what.

The latest the greatest technology changes all the time, even as we speak, so one has to aim slightly ahead of the moving target.

Ever so slightly, take aim, one, two three, fire.

These are the TomTom runners (spot me if you can).

I knew I could do it, and that's exactly what I did. Just a steady pace for 16 kilometers keeping focussed and resolute. At almost exactly two o'clock I crossed the finish line, having run the whole way without stopping. That was a tremendous feeling.

05 km    0:29:06
10 km    1:00:25
15 km    1:32:20
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16 km    1:38:53 <<<

So when I finally got home I took a nice long hot bath, and I haven't had such a nice bath like that in years.

In a little more than two weeks (21 September to be more exact) I'll be taking part in the annual Amsterdam marathon called Dam tot Damloop as one of the team members for my company TomTom.

Currently I'm training intensely three to four times a week, running my usual loop of 6 kilometers, picking up the pace significantly, ending the thirty minute jog huffing and puffing and sweating all over the place.

Soon I'll have to increase the distance quite a bit, as the marathon is officially 16 kilometers long. I hope I'll be ready by then, but if not then I'll just have to take it slow and easy, the goal being simply just to complete the race.

I believe that I'll be one of the oldest members, but that should not matter, I hope. Just by completing this fine event I'll be another hero.

We've worked long and hard on the project, the many complex pieces of the puzzle are now falling nicely in place, and now the first fruits are being plucked from the tree of success.

Today Startpagina verkeer went live using the advanced HD Traffic technology. One has a good feeling that it has been a worthwhile endeavor, and to think that there is more to come makes it all even more exciting. Just wait and see what we have in store!

I'm proud to be a part of the team, that's for sure.