Remember I have already shared a big hunch of our honeymoon in Seychelles, but also mentioned that the two-weeks experience cannot be efficiently resumed in one single post. I’ve preferred to expose La Digue separately, for a better understanding of what Seychelles is like, but of course, the rest of the experience needs to be…
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Where you can donate blood in Bucharest, Romania
It sounds like a stupid statement, but it is actually not. To donate blood in Bucharest, Romania, can be quite challenging, so I am gathering a list of locations where it is easier to undertake this precious operation. I am talking from the perspective of a guy who donated 26 times in 10 and a…
UTMB 2025 report – a fascinating experience of “running scared” in Chamonix
UTMB – Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, to be more specific – is widely regarded as the most important trail running event in the world. Probably one of the most important running events altogether, but since trail hits different than asphalt plain marathons, such as Abbott big seven now, we will stick to its unicity,…
RUNNING LEGENDS | Can an ultramarathon be easier than a… marathon?
Can running an ultramarathon be easier than running a… marathon? The short answer is: definitely NO! Like it’s a very obvious answer, but I am conflicted in how many morons state the opposite, on social media, and many tend to follow or to have a second thought. An ultra is something beyond a marathon, from…
Corsica: Restonica Ultra Trail by UTMB. What a story it is!
I have never heard of Restonica until 2024, but I did heard of Corsica, and actually craving for some time to visit the island. I just didn’t know when and how. Then, at Lavaredo Ultra Trail, in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, in June 2024, my first “by UTMB” event things escalated. While we were visiting the…
Living & running with Haglund
How I found out about Haglund deformity. When you run more than 10 years, you make a lot of mistakes. I have done dozens myself, and the biggest, I guess, was to neglect the pain from my right Achile tendon for more than one year. The pain is not huge, apart from some certain moments,…
La Digue, the pearl of Seychelles – with the heart in Le Domaine de L’Orangeraie!
Seychelles, and especially La Digue, should be for everybody on the bucket list. We were lucky enough to go there, in May 2025, for our honeymoon. Now I am trying to express everything we lived so intensively in words. It is not easy, but then I will split the story in two, because there are…
Cristian Săpunaru – the child who lived the dream
On 19.05.2025, among thousands of tears, Cristian Săpunaru played his last game on Giulești, for Rapid Bucharest. A bitter evening, in a 1-4 loss against a lamentable CFR Cluj team. A shame that Săpunaru’s colleagues didn’t fought at least this time, for the meaning of the event. But what is really the meaning of the…
Băneasa Forest Run: both sides of the story, one conclusion
In November 2024, I’ve decided to participate again at Băneasa Forest Run, after a long pause. This time it was about the 11K race, which I have never attended before, but wanted to in 2022. It just didn’t happen, because of an injury. After some half-marathons in the past, in the famous Băneasa forest, finally…
Bodø / Glimt – successful story of Norway: first European semifinalist, in 2025!
We begun 2025 stuck in Bodø, because of a snowstorm, and heavy snow. Even though our favorite place remains Tromsø, this town was pleasant from our point of view. Three months and a bit later, the same story: a snow storm arrived in Northern Norway, so Bodø was covered in white. Just before the first…