Sport and money – case study

Is sports all about money? Yes, it is. The main and key idea from which we should start. As a matter of fact, Neymar’s statement from a press release, where he said that he and Messi experienced hell at PSG. Wait, what? Does anybody have any idea how much Neymar earned in his six-year stay…

And then, here is Andorra! You must visit it!

My madness to complete a Spartan Race Ultra brought me to small, but very beautiful Andorra. In fact, from the bus ride started in Barcelona, one of Europe’s hubs of basically everything, things started looking great. Our accommodation happened to be in Andorra La Vella, the capital city of the very small state from the…

UTMB 2023 – two decades down, endless to go!

UTMB or Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc, if you choose the fancy version of the name is, in both ways, the most popular mountain ultramarathon in the world. The essence of the event is the 172 kilometer race that goes around Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Western Europe, thru three countries, France, Italy and…

Running on top of the mountain: X2 Race

I have just written some words about what running can be from my perspective, now I’ll switch my attention to a lovely Race, 2×2, but not the big one, just the shorter version, X2. One year ago, in 2022, I’ve presented the way in which I have failed to complete the queen version of the…

What is running?

What is running? It seems like a philosophical question, but it really is not. “It is when you are walking faster”, jokers would say. In reality, I am not trying to come up with a definition but to express the whole volume of feelings and emotions I have experienced in the last eight years of…

Tromsø, how to live a dream – chapter 2

My curiosity about Tromsø was born from a… magazine. I saw the Midnight Sun Marathon advertised, so I have decided from that moment I needed to attend it. Now, it is not so easy to go to the northernmost city of Norway and, I think, the biggest northernmost city in the world actually, so for…

Saint Lucia, how to live a dream – chapter 1

A different story about Saint Lucia. I like adventure, I am keen to discover every new far away corner, places that seem available only in documentaries. Locations thousands or even tens of thousands kilometers apart from Romania. In 2023, the ultimate travelling adventure proved how and why dreams come true: the trip to picturesque Saint…

Spartan Ultra Race Encamp – 2023, the year of the LEOPARD

For some years, the Spartan Races are “branded” with an animal each year. After the scorpion and the eagle, the time has come, in 2023, for the… leopard! An animal which amazed me, seeing his ferociousness in the documentaries. I got fascinated by this very wild cat because of his very intense temper and because…