“It’s a beautiful experience,” Lucas Nieuweboer looks back on the past year. The win of the previous edition in Egmond made a lot of noise. “It was exciting at first, but it is now more normal. It is time to just move on.”
In the second half of last year, Nieuweboer suffered a foot injury that kept him sidelined for a long time. Last month he ran to his own satisfaction at the NK cross (10 km) to the eleventh fastest time in 30 minutes and 20 seconds. “There I felt the power in my legs again.” He skipped the Sylvestercross in Soest as a precaution in order to be fit at the start in Egmond.