When we travelled first time in Tromsø, in January 2023, at the beginning of the year, we covered a lot of things, and activities, but we actually miss some as well. This is why when we decided to spend our New Year’s Eve in Svalbard, Longyearbyen, we jointed four more nights in the Paris of…
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Running a marathon – thoughts about my journeys
I was thinking… what does it actually mean to run a marathon…? How rewarding is it, how good or bad for our bodies? It come up to my mind, because I was trying to count in my head how many times I have actually ran a marathon distance or more, or even less, but with…
Man becomes running expert after getting 100 crowns on Strava
Down the street lives a legend! Or is he one? An apparently ordinary guy is prepared to give running lessons, even though he doesn’t run that good. The main reason for this escalation was caused by the fact that when he checked his Strava account, by mistake, he realized he has more than 100 crowns…
Tromsø’s tunnels – how many are there and when all started
Visited Tromsø for the second time in 2023, and spent some of 2024 as well there, since our New Year’s Eve was celebrated in Svalbard, but what consolidate my astonishment regarding this city, Paris of the North, as they call it, is mainly the underground network of tunnels. Experience it in January 2023, but also…
Things to do in Svalbard & Longyearbyen – Kingdom of… snow
Here is the story of Svalbard and Longyearbyen, by winter or… by Polar Night! If you figure it out how to make enough money to sustain the burning fire of the desire to see the entire world, many remote places, then every sweet dream can become reality. Since I didn’t figured that out yet, I…
Rapid 2023 – was it a good year or one to forget?
Rapid 2023 | It is the most important year in the history of Rapid Bucharest. Simply because it is year number 100, a legendary mark. Being at its end, now I will draw a line, split in three, all relevant, to determine if, from sporting perspective, it was a productive year or not. From all…
SUPER LEAGUE | Yes, we can and we must have something new in football!
Almost three years ago, from Florentino Perez, the idea of a European Super League of football, a closed one, only for big and wealthy clubs, emerged. Of course, such an intention from the chairman of the Europe’s most successful club, backed up by… well, um, FC Barcelona – that is a huge rivalry, no doubt!…
Valencia Marathon 2023 – the process is complete!
After coming second in my age group on 1st December 2022 at the marathon with the same name, I’ve taken a brief decision to tackle an even better time in the future, and I’ve realized that Valencia Marathon is one year apart. All was agreed in my brain and somewhere in May, if I am…
Preparing Valencia Marathon 2023 – my training plan
Step by step, I will be sharing every of the 16 weeks of training before the Valencia Marathon, which will take place on 3rd of December 2023. Now, I wanted to find a way to prepare it properly and the way came through: a personalized program to follow each week, sent by the organizers. Well,…
Frank Schmidt, the 20 year long process of a dream team: 1. FC Heidenheim 1846
“Heidenheim failed to win its first ever promotion in the Bundesliga, after losing to Stuttgart the play-off of promotion / relegation in 2023”, could have been a headline, if Heidenheim would have lost at Jahn Regensburg in the last week game of the 2. Bundesliga 2022-2023 season. Nine years after its first ever promotion in…