2X2. When started to write here after many, many years I was in Hungary and didn’t met too many runs with ascent, despite running a lot. Ironically… It is ironic that also I have started to go running on mountains, in 2017, before actually going on a serious mountain hike. In fact, I did only…
Going for the PB Half-Marathon – 1st of December 2021, Titan Park
2021 didn’t seem a year for records in terms of running, given that I am not a fast runner anyway. Still, one day, I’ve went to a crazy 1:33 half-marathon, even though I wasn’t planning anything and that moment I’ve realized that I actually can go below 1:30 on the half-marathon. Truth being said, my…
Marius Șumudică, the hot potato next to Rapid Bucharest
Days before the match between Rapid and Dinamo, Marius Șumudică, probably the best Romanian football coach of the moment – and I am not joking – put his guns, metaphorically speaking, on Daniel Niculae and Mihai Iosif mostly. Not very polite. OK, this is it… Their problem… I don’t forget, though, one year and something…
Spartan vibes in Veszprem: “One hour burpees or you go home!”
Spartan Races cut my path somewhere in 2019 and, absolutely without any warning, they took part of my 2020 in many corners of Easter Europe. I have write about some of them, yes, but I have some particular memories that deserve developed more in detail. Trust me, you’ll like them. So let’s start with the…
How can we still love football?
I’ve starting watching football in 1998. Enjoyed thousand of football matches on screen, hundreds from the stadium, but as years went by, my passion decreased and not because I’ve changed some priorities, because the level of the game dramatically went to the floor. I’ve tried, after some large breaks, to watch a full match: PSG…
The Speed Project Diary, episode 1
I know that what I have faced was called The Speed Project Do It Yourself, the virtual version of the great 550 kilometers run between LA and Vegas, but my reality is no virtual stuff at all. I mean, I felt for months the live pain in my right knee after the… wonderful experience. And…
Mihai Iosif, what it takes to be a football coach
Motivation. It is the key word that gravitates around every successful football club. Others are just, at most, complementary things. Now, the subject, to be clear from the beginning, is Mihai Iosif. A football coach about which Europe heard so little, but whom put a lot of work in re-birthing Rapid Bucharest. I know, this…
1 year. 353 running days. 5.254 kilometers
Well, things are progressing. The COVID-19 pandemic is still here, but got used to it. On 19th of March 2020 I flew back from Bucharest to Budapest. Alone in the plane! In that same evening I’ve started running after a three days break. I didn’t stop a single day until 11th of… December! 268 days…
Barnsley, Barnes… Burnley!
FC Liverpool came short, 0-1 at home against a modest team named Burnley. OK, the away winning club has two England championship titles in 1921 and 1960, but their CV is nothing compared to Liverpool’s especially that the 83rd minute penalty goal scored by Barnes put an end to a non-losing home streak of The…
You don’t need special shoes to run! 6.000+ km story of Kalenji
Look very carefully at the picture. This ordinary Kalenji Ekiden Trail shoes gathered more than 6.000 kilometers! I don’t know to tell you exactly how many, because I never thought, when I have started using them, that they will be so long in service. Though, the motive is simple. When I’ve been relocated to Budapest…