About Janie
Honest training, from the lane next to you
I'm Janie Denaeyer. I sprint for Belgium, I ran at the Olympics in Paris, and I build honest courses and programmes for female athletes who train seriously and want to be taken seriously. I believe you don't need a pro contract to deserve real technique, real training and someone who tells you the truth about both. Speed is what you'll come here for. Feeling sure that you belong on that start line is what stays.
Janie Denaeyer, founder of faster with Janie
Janie De Naeyer · Sprinter from Belgium · Olympian
Where I come from
Athletics was never a decision in our house. Both my parents ran, so the track was simply where we were on Wednesday afternoons and Saturday mornings, the way other kids had a football pitch or a swimming pool. I didn't fall in love with it in one dramatic moment. It grew. Somewhere between the kids' groups and the first real 100m races, running stopped being the thing we did and became the thing I was.
By 2019 that thing was going well. Sprinting for Belgium, the times coming down, the sense that the next step was right there. Then I broke my tibia. One fracture, and a plan that had been years in the making became two years of rehab.
How faster with Janie started
The strange part is that the doubt didn't show up with the break. The first months were almost calm. It was a bone, bones heal, I just had to be patient. The doubt came later, when I was finally allowed to run again and I was slow. Slower than I'd been at 16. Training partners I used to leave behind were now pulling away from me, and I compared every single session with the athlete I'd been before, and with whatever everyone else was posting on Instagram.
I'm not going to make that period sound prettier than it was. At one point I stopped. For three months I wasn't an athlete at all, I was someone who used to run. I honestly didn't know if I'd go back.
What brought me back wasn't a big moment or a quote on a wall. It was small work. Drills. Plyos. The same boring exercises, every day, a little more each week, until one day I noticed my body had patterns it never had before the injury. I came out of those two years faster than I went in.
The doubt never fully left, by the way. I still have it. I just stopped letting it decide my pace.
That is why this exists. Along the way I kept meeting athletes who train four, five times a week, with school or a job next to it, who have the exact same doubt and nobody around them who takes their sport seriously. Today I'm still on the track myself, Paris 2024, a Belgian record in the mixed 4x100m, 5th at the European Championships in 2026, and next to that I build programmes and courses for those athletes. What I learned in the lane next to you, written down properly.
In numbers
Paris 2024
Olympian
Mixed 4x100m
Belgian record holder
5th
2026 European Championships, 4x100m
7.32 · 11.29 · 23.24
60m · 100m · 200m
1 · 2 · 3
Broken tibia, years of rehab, months of quitting
36K
Athletes following along on Instagram
I post new content every day of the season, indoor and outdoor. And I believe you're already faster than you think. You just stop letting the doubt decide your pace.
Keep me in the loopWhat you can expect from me
Honest
I don't promise anything I couldn't do myself, and I don't sell you a prettier version of training than the one I live. If a session is hard, I'll tell you it's hard, because I felt it this week.
Serious, not professional
You don't need a contract, a coach with a clipboard or a spot on a national team to be taken seriously. You train, you show up, you want more. That's enough for me to treat you like an athlete, because you are one.
The small work
Speed comes from drills, plyos and repetition, the boring stuff nobody films. Not from a motivational line at 6 am. I'll give you the boring stuff, and I'll do it right next to you.
Janie in the wild
Antwerp is home. Coffee is the first thing I think about in the morning and cooking is how I switch off after training, so if you ever want to talk about the perfect flat white or what to do with a bag of sweet potatoes, my inbox is open.
I trained as a midwife and did my internship, but I don't work in the field right now. That training still shapes how I see the body, recovery and the female athlete. And when you tell me you're squeezing your training between work or school, I don't nod politely. I get it.
In whatever hours are left I do social media for other entrepreneurs, which is also where faster with Janie learned how to sound like me and not like a coach.
Find me on Instagram
I post every day of the season on @janie.denaeyer, indoor and outdoor, the fast days and the ones with legs like concrete. If you want to see what training for real looks like before you buy anything, start there.
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I'm in the lane next to you
I'm not ahead of you. I'm in the lane next to you, with the same doubt and a bit more mileage. Tell me where you are and let's see what we can do with it.
Say hirun faster. doubt less.