Don’t consider this as an example, because it is not. I am preparing for a half-marathon personal best, so need to deliver some proper training. The thing is, that in one day, particularly 5th of March 2025, reality drifted to another path, without having anything planned. The plan was a longer tempo, of 11 –…
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Jacob Kiplimo, of Uganda, new half-marathon world record: 56:42!
Jacob Kiplimo doesn’t come from nowhere, as he became the youngest athlete to represent Uganda at a Summer Olympics edition: Rio de Janeiro, 2016! 15 years old! Fast forward, nine years later, the guy from the country with the grey crowned crane on the flag, finished the Barcelona Half Marathon, on 16th of February 2025,…
2X2 Race – running on clouds
If there is one race I’ve participated at, in my almost one decade running “career”, I can always speak about in huge terms, that is, without any doubt, 2X2 Race. I’ve written a couple of times about my experiences from there, but I never truly expressed my real feelings experienced in 2024, when I’ve achieved…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Azuga Trail Race 2024, one of my best mountain runs so far
Back to Azuga! Trail running is not something matching very good my style and my training approach, but regardless, as years passed by I have developed a certain affinity for this hobby, and attended many events in the Romanian mountains, at most, in spite my proper training for this is nearly zero. In fact, my…
Maraton Piatra Craiului – luck can play a part, but in the end it fades away
Maraton Piatra Craiului – chose to spell it in Romanian, to stand up for the MPC famous acronym – played an essential part in my running journey just before the 2019 edition. Heard of it years back the moment, and perceive it like a Goliath of trail running, both because its alleged difficulty, mostly caused…
What does define a nation? Bucharest marathon vs. Oslo marathon
Norway is great, I can confirm this right now, after my third trip there! From many more that are about to come, but this is not the point of the article. The point is purely sports, mass-sports. What does this mean? Mainly… how healthy & how educated, in the end, is the population. The main…