Tanned and in shape, William Coenen may describe himself with conviction. That is a world of 25 kilos difference compared to the William of ten years ago. In a period of four or five months, he walked himself towards a new mental and physical health. \u201cThe psychologist said: \u2018walking is good for you\u2019,\u201d William recalls. Not a word of that was a lie, thanks to William\u2019s own effort. Sitting on the couch and snacking he abruptly turned into moving and eating healthily. \u201cThe beginning was not easy. But when I start something, I persevere. I do not give up,\u201d says William.<\/p>","foto":9424},{"acf_fc_layout":"foto_tekst","foto":9433,"tekst":"Volunteer work\r\nThe reborn William finds relaxation in photography and, as a volunteer, guides young people in difficulty at Perron045, and he would also like to volunteer again at his favourite football club Fortuna Sittard. But it is all about walking from Heerlen. He really walks a lot (5,000 km last year) and does about 40 kilometres per day without a single cent\u2019s worth of pain. If the landscape is flat, William\u2019s average is around 6.5 kilometres per hour. That works, for example, in the north of the Netherlands on the Elfstedenpad. The average is of course lower when he walks the Dutch Mountain Trail, the more than 100-kilometre-long up-and-down hike straight through the Limburg hill country."},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst_quote","tekst":"
The Via Belgica once more\r\nWilliam is constantly looking for new walks and at the first news about the long-distance walk of the Via Belgica he was already on his way. And he looks back with satisfaction: \u201cEverything was marked super well and the information about the Romans on the signs is interesting. Special too to walk where the Romans presumably also walked.\u201d William has therefore already completed the route between Maastricht and Rimburg \u2013 and earned the pin \u2013 but he is happy to take on the challenge again:<\/p>","quote":"\u201cI can switch off wonderfully while walking and the hilly terrain in South Limburg offers me variety.\u201d","naam":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"slideshow","slideshow":[9427,9439,9436,9430]}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17155,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions\/17155"}],"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=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}