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…
Reading books, the radiography of a habit matched to 2024
Reading books has always been considered a way in which one proves superior intelligence. Of course, this is not far for being the truth, in fact it makes a lot of sense. Like the late Charlie Munger was saying, two weeks before his death at almost 100 years, “I didn’t see an intelligent person that…
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…
Secret tips for running a super fast marathon
I am not even sure what a super fast marathon is. Let’s assume the benchmark is the world record, we cannot find any better: 2:00:35. But most likely you won’t be able to run a sub 2 hours marathon in any case, so you need to lower the expectations with two hours. Is that OK?…
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,…
Oslo – secrets from the capital city of Norway
Being a natural born explorer in the sense I like to visit as much as possible from I place I go to, in order to consolidate and diversify my knowledge, Oslo was no exception in the way I have approached our vacation. It is true that the visit from the capital city of Norway was…
STATISTICS | Nations of Europe, by parameters – which is the most liveable?
Since I am born and raised in a country that is part of Europe, I always liked to check and assess what would be to live in any of the countries, not only those part of the European Union, but from the extended Europe. I am referring here to Norway, Switzerland, Iceland and, more recent,…
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…
How f*cked up is the world we live in? Ask a… coach
As years goes by, when you are trying to get your hours on this world matched to quality time spent learning, acting, or just planning, the disappointment in the way we are dealing with basic things, as human beings, can increase more and more. I was watching a Netflix documentary, with Bill Gates in the…
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…