Rapid, wrap up for 2024 & hopes for 2025, under Marius Șumudică

I was waiting for Dinamo – Rapid to end, in order to comment how my favorite team stands at the end of 2024, and what are the certain prospects for 2025. Horrible game. Both teams played miserable. If somebody would tell them at the beginning of the game that it will end 0-0, both would…

Inside, The Village – a different kind of Romania, in the remote rural

After competing at the “Run for Life” Cross in October 2024, organized by Life Call, we both won our races, and then gained several wonderful prizes. Anca got a two days accommodation at Inside, The Village, in Dâmbovița county, Romania. Of course, being a two persons award, we both went there. It happened in mid-December…

Running early in the morning, the best thing: haha, what a joke!

Have you ever heard conventional wisdom from so-called healthy life style specialists – who usually don’t look anywhere near a healthy life style – saying that running early in the morning is somehow a blessing? That is the best idea, the best practice, ultimate habit? Well, yeah, I’ve heard also them a lot, and I…

How well do you sleep? My heart rate

Being obsessed about numbers in many regards, especially when it comes to my own person, I am leveraging my Polar watches I have for almost six years now not only to track my exercise – mainly for running it has a pivotal role – but also to track my sleep. Yes, for so many years…

Short overview of high speed trains around the world

How can you define a high speed train? Conventionally, it needs to go above 200 km / hour at maximum speed. Of course, this can still be debatable, but it is a global accepted truth. Now, we see more and more projects around Europe to switch flying mode with railway journeys, which is not a…

Valencia 2024

It is almost one year since I’ve clocked a good 3:13:37 at the Valencia Marathon. Now, with the latest events in one of the most beautiful cities in Spain, I felt saddened, and I was also expecting for the marathon, from 2024, to be cancelled. Hundreds of deaths in the region, after historic floods, followed…

Reading books, the radiography of a habit matched to 2024

Reading books has always been considered a way in which one proves superior intelligence. Of course, this is not far for being the truth, in fact it makes a lot of sense. Like the late Charlie Munger was saying, two weeks before his death at almost 100 years, “I didn’t see an intelligent person that…

Impressions from Cernica forest @ Cernica Running Trails 2024

I’ve never been to Cernica before, even though it is not very far from me. I found a perfect occasion with a new running competition, Cernica Running Trails. I knew that the organizer puts on the map top running events in Romania, such as Retezat Sky Race,  Azuga Trail Race, Timisoara 21K, Alba Iulia City…

Secret tips for running a super fast marathon

I am not even sure what a super fast marathon is. Let’s assume the benchmark is the world record, we cannot find any better: 2:00:35. But most likely you won’t be able to run a sub 2 hours marathon in any case, so you need to lower the expectations with two hours. Is that OK?…