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…
Category: Run
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,…
Running: tempo run vs. threshold run
When it comes for a run, I never understood how can you evaluate the percentages at which you will track that one, in order to be comfortable, or to push hard. However, as you read, exercise, and especially know your body better, the percentages can make sense, “incarnated” as the way in which you feel…
Catch me if you can! How fast can a human being run?
Running is now part of my life for so many years, and aside from my 22.000+ kilometers process already in progress, I have read, studied and analyzed tons of data. And I am really curious… How far can a human being run? The answer is hard to be funneled in a couple of sentences, because…
Running & the genetics Way – some interesting facts
Running can be called many ways, even a very strange sport. The sport in which you can start just to pick up a healthy lifestyle and you just end up breaking record after record. Regardless if we consider a world record, several world records, or simply national records, but not in any nation, but like…
Running lies: “compete with yourself” | How to race uphill
In running, there are some significant lies and the one that states “competing with yourself, not with others” has the power to amuse me every single time. I mean, be honest… Have you ever participate in a race and didn’t feel a need to overpass somebody or to feel the joy, once you did it?…
Have I learnt to run fast? Faster than 40 minutes for 10 kilometers
An intriguing question with a though answer. In my mind, pretty often, there is one of Emil Zatopek’s statements: “I know how to run slow, I need to learn to run fast”. This is pretty much what I am trying in this period. I am using a training plan for a marathon, not an easy…
Kelvin Kiptum – how to run a marathon at world record pace?
On 8th of October 2023 the world record for marathon was corrected again, but this time not in Berlin, but on the streets of Chicago. Kelvin Kiptum crushed everything and in spite of me being sure the Kenyan will get the WR, there are a lot of unusual components involved and I want to present…
Chicago Marathon 2023 – Kelvin Kiptum’s New World Record 2:00:35
Chicago Marathon 2023 was announced as a World Record tentative, but not from Eliud Kipchoge, but from Kelvin Kiptum, a 23 year young prodigy from the same Kenya. Well, Kelvin Kiptum already amazed in Valencia and London, where he run his first and only marathons, in 2:01:53 and 2:01:25 respectively. Two of the fastest five…
Piatra Craiului Marathon, once again: the experience
Piatra Craiului Marathon is the oldest continuous running event organized in Romania, as I am aware of, at least. Dated back in 2006, in 2023 it had registered its 16th edition, because the ones from 2020 and 2021 were cancelled, mostly because of the pandemic. Now, about this one, I’ve heard around 2018 and I…