By way of Instagram, 31-year-old Irene Schouten shares a photograph of her and her husband Dirkjan Mak with an ultrasound picture. “Very grateful and full of affection,” she writes in English.
The pregnant Schouten doesn’t count on any quiet months in her first summer time with out heavy coaching schedules. In July and August she is going to interview the Olympic athletes in Paris in Humberto Tan’s new discuss present, her debut on the opposite facet of the microphone. She and her husband are at present placing the ending touches on her home. It was additionally introduced final week that her biography can be printed in October.
It isn’t recognized whether or not her being pregnant will have an effect on her plans to skate marathons subsequent winter. Over the last Daikin Marathon Cup of final yr, she stated the next: “That is my final marathon that I’m match, which can be fairly a battle. Now I’ve the intention that I’ll experience marathons subsequent yr, however possibly I’ll suppose properly: Oh, that is horrible. I am not going to experience round as a platoon filler.”
Her coach Jillert Anema expects that we’ll see the fanatic again within the peloton, all the time on the hunt for challenges. As a result of there are a number of extra achievements that Schouten can add to her spectacular record of achievements. Though she was one of the best on synthetic ice at least 59 instances, this doesn’t make her the document holder. Atje Keulen – Deelstra took her 61st victory on synthetic ice on January 29, 1984. Daniëlle Bekkering leads the rankings with 63.
And there are two main competitions lacking from the North Holland facet’s record. We’ve to hope for heavy frost for the true Elfstedentocht, however she by no means rode the Different both. A primary journey to Lake Weissensee in February may change that…
