My story from the Prague Marathon 2022. Pain and happiness! From the beginning I’ve said to myself that I need to achieve a marathon at around 3:15 hours. My previous record, 3:31, was obtained with less effort, so I knew it was room for some improvement. Therefore, the very expected Prague Marathon 2022 which should…
Author: dominte_mircea
Rapid Bucharest, 2021/2022 season – one year before the big celebration
OK, so the football season is over for Rapid Bucharest. Even though the fans hopped for a qualification in the Europe Conference League, a kind of Intertoto Cup, this never happened, after two brutally abnormal defeats in the last two matches, against FCU and CS Mioveni, two “umplutura” teams, as we say in Romania. Of…
Alexandru Corneschi, the making of an Olympic qualifying time
The sport in Romania is below sea level and when it comes to athletic it is below the ocean floor. Believe me. Something very clear was explained by Alexandru Corneschi in this article. I know, it is in Romanian, but you can always use Google translate, because the topics are the same in every country…
Aleksandr Sorokin, the king of long distance very fast running
How should it be to run 100 kilometers at a 3:39 minutes / kilometer pace…? Well, ask Aleksandr Sorokin, he just beat the world record in the 100 kilometer run. In slightly over 6 hours and 5 minutes, the Lithuanian trashed the former World Record. Not only did he do that, but he managed to…
Rareș Ilie, the fans and a flag that has nothing to do with football
About Rareș Ilie I’ve spoken to everybody I know since almost two years ago. When I saw him in his first matches at Rapid Bucharest and after hearing him talk and watching him act. His physique is impressive, his technique outstanding. He was only 17 years old back then. Two seasons on and he topped…
CASE STUDY | The radiography of sport… that became garbage
All my life I was connected in one way or another with sport at different levels, in different perspectives. From the childhood play ground, going to the high passion for football that culminated with the job of sports journalist for several years and ending with me practicing kick-boxing, running, swimming and other types of working…
Paris, the happy city of sun and well being
I didn’t fly for almost two years because of the pandemic. Lucky me, my first airborne trip from 2022 happened in Paris. Not really a city I ever plan to visit, not so tempting for me, but thanks to the unique Spartan Stadium event I’ve decided to book a visit there, since beginning of 2020. As said, it got postponed…
Spartan Stadium Paris (Saint-Denis, Stade de France) 2022: different experience
My participation to Spartan Race events started in August 2019 and especially in 2020 I’ve attended several Sprint, Super, Beast, Honor and even Hurricane Heat events all around Central Europe, in my home country, Romania, but also in Slovakia, Czech Republic and Slovakia. From that same year I’ve aimed the yellow medal of Spartan Stadion,…
CASE STUDY | Five consecutive days without running: the feeling
For some years, running became a lifestyle for me. Never had a major injury, that forbid me to do the job, to go for a run. Regardless how fast or how many breaks I took. The impact was in most case of the situation mental. The only trap for running almost every day was my…
Cristiano Ronaldo & Lionel Messi football era comes to an end
Cristiano Ronaldo – Lionel Messi is, for sure, the most consistent rivalry in the history of world football in terms of statistics especially. I am mentioning this, because is quite hard to avoid Eras in which Maradona & Platini were playing, when Di Stefano & Puskas were on the same pitch, when Zidane & Ronaldo…