The organization was well prepared for the summer heat this year. “It almost seems like a recurring phenomenon here in Hoorn, that it is getting warm,” organizer Loek Schreurs (29) said recently. against NH.
In 2023 it was also very hot during the annual triathlon and about ninety people became unwell due to the heat. A few even had to go to the hospital. That is why several ice and water points were set up this year.
Discomfort seems to be not too bad
A lady who stumbles from the finish line towards the water troughs with her recently won medal, sighs when a volunteer number two squeezes wet sponges on her neck. “Thank you,” she continues to puff, as can be seen in the video report above.
All measures seem to have helped, says Eddy Bakker, from organizer Stichting Westfriesland Events: “I don’t have a view of the numbers yet (the evening after the run, ed.), but the number of people who have become unwell seems to be not too bad.”
