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…
Author: dominte_mircea
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?…
15th of November 1987 – the running version so called “downhill” issue
15th of November 1987 is a very important date for Romania in general, and for Brasov, a city in the heart of the country, in particular. Because on this day, the workers from Roman Trucks made the first anti-communist insurgence, which basically opened the path to the revolution from two years and one month later,…
Oslo – secrets from the capital city of Norway
Being a natural born explorer in the sense I like to visit as much as possible from I place I go to, in order to consolidate and diversify my knowledge, Oslo was no exception in the way I have approached our vacation. It is true that the visit from the capital city of Norway was…
STATISTICS | Nations of Europe, by parameters – which is the most liveable?
Since I am born and raised in a country that is part of Europe, I always liked to check and assess what would be to live in any of the countries, not only those part of the European Union, but from the extended Europe. I am referring here to Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and, more recent,…