Azuga Trail Race 2024, one of my best mountain runs so far

Back to Azuga! Trail running is not something matching very good my style and my training approach, but regardless, as years passed by I have developed a certain affinity for this hobby, and attended many events in the Romanian mountains, at most, in spite my proper training for this is nearly zero. In fact, my…

How f*cked up is the world we live in? Ask a… coach

As years goes by, when you are trying to get your hours on this world matched to quality time spent learning, acting, or just planning, the disappointment in the way we are dealing with basic things, as human beings, can increase more and more. I was watching a Netflix documentary, with Bill Gates in the…

What does define a nation? Bucharest marathon vs. Oslo marathon

Norway is great, I can confirm this right now, after my third trip there! From many more that are about to come, but this is not the point of the article. The point is purely sports, mass-sports. What does this mean? Mainly… how healthy & how educated, in the end, is the population. The main…

UEFA Champions League – the new face or European football

UEFA Champions League 2024-2025 not only changes radically from what we knew, but it gest quite complicated to digest and understand the new shape. Does the imminent commence of European Super League in the near future be a factor? I can say this looks like to be the main key factor of the radical UEFA…

Paris during the 2024 summer Olympics: report

Going to Paris during the 2024 OIympic Games is an idea that came up more than one year ago, in 2023. The original plan was to take part at the “Marathon Pour Tous”, an event in which I believed without questioning its fairness, but in the end it just proved out to offer slots mostly…

Real Madrid, a trophy room full of… football players!

With the transfer of Kylian Mbappe at Real Madrid, official announcement on 16th of July 2024, the recap of a 21st century situation resumed. After 2000, Real Madrid did its best, thru the president Florentino Perez to sign all key players world wide, on astronomical amounts of money. The initial big signature of Real Madrid…