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…
The flag – interesting facts about some countries
There are almost 200 independent states in the world, and each one has or should have a different flag. Most are quite straight forward, in spite can have a separate meaning. Rectangular, a couple of colors, and that is it. But I bet you know there are some special flags and you might wonder why….
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…
Union Berlin – a success story that reached the edge of the cliff
When I have visited Berlin for the first time, in 2017, in my three weeks spent there in September I have set some goals and many of them were related to football matches I wanted to attend. Hertha Berlin was the most known team back then, but I have learned that Union, from the East…