{"id":15539,"date":"2025-02-27T21:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T19:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/de-via-belgica-als-echte-marathon\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T18:36:35","slug":"de-via-belgica-als-echte-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/de-via-belgica-als-echte-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Via Belgica as a True Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":{"categorie":33,"afbeelding":12805,"auteur":"Harry Lindelauf","fotografie":"Marathon Via Belgica","contentbuilder":[{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst","tekst":"In Roman times, the journey from the bridge over the Worm near Rimburg to the bridge over the Meuse in Maastricht would have taken a full day of steady walking. Nowadays, you can hike the route in stages \u2014 but it can also be done more sportively: the fastest runners of the Via Belgica Marathon on Sunday, May 25, will need no more than 2.5 to 3 hours."},{"acf_fc_layout":"foto_tekst","foto":12797,"tekst":"The third edition of the marathon starts at 10 a.m. in Rimburg, at the spot where the modern version of the Via Belgica route crosses the Worm and the German-Dutch border. From there, the route goes to Snowworld in Landgraaf and through the Caumerbeek Valley to Coriovallum, or modern-day Heerlen. As a tribute, the route passes the Roman bathhouse and continues to the site on Steinweg in Voerendaal, where the remains of the large Roman villa Ten Hove were discovered."},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst_foto","tekst":"<h3>Goudsberg<\/h3>\r\nFrom Voerendaal, the route climbs via Craubeek, Termaar, and Koulen to the Goudsberg. This is where the foundation of a Roman tower was found \u2014 probably a watchtower that allowed the Romans to oversee activity in the Geul valley.","foto":12793},{"acf_fc_layout":"foto_tekst","foto":12789,"tekst":"<h3>Calf-Burner<\/h3>\r\nWhat goes up must come down: runners descend to a footpath along the Geul in Valkenburg. In Geulhem lies the greatest challenge \u2014 the \u201ccalf-burner,\u201d with a 60-meter climb up to Berg en Terblijt. After that, the course continues toward Maastricht. The finish line is on the ancient Servaas Bridge \u2014 exactly 42.195 km, just a few dozen meters from where a Roman bridge once crossed the Meuse."},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst","tekst":""}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15543,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15539\/revisions\/15543"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"category","href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}