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…
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…
How many degrees from the idiot are you?
“You” is the generic noun, it has not got any target on its back. By coincidence, exactly in the period in which I am reading “The Idiot”, Mike Prince, the character from “Billions”, had a great speech, about “how many degrees from the idiot are you?” He gave an example with the quarter back from…