It looks like it has no sense, but it actually does. A marathon doesn’t have two even halves, to place it most correctly into the context. As following Bloomberg’s motto, “context changes everything!” 🙂 And so did I made a short cut in the title, to capture your attention. But what is this all about?…
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Is 30 kilometers really the maximum distance a human being is meant to run?
The first time I saw written that the marathon is a bit too long for a human to race, was in Matt Fitzgerald great “80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training Slower“ book (p. 197). It is a personal opinion, of course, but still an educated opinion. Starting from that, I will shift…
Diță 10K Bucharest – my 6th participation
I know officially it is “Bucharest International Half-Marathon by Constantina Diță” now, but when I first participated, back in 2017, the race was meant to be a pure 10K. It isn’t now, but this diluted both the 10K and half-marathon events. The problem with the actual branding is that Bucharest has already a labeled half…
World Record alert: Sabastian Sawe – 1:59:30 at London Marathon 2026
Not only that the marathon world record was broken in 2026, in London, but it was under 2 hours: 1:59:30, by former London Marathon 2025 winner, Sabastian Sawe. The 30 years old athlete from… Kenya made history, and not only run 30 seconds under the 2 hours mark, but it beat Kipchoge’s 1:59:40 from Vienna,…
Amsterdam Marathon 2025: learning lessons from each kilometer
Amsterdam marathon was the top running goal for 2025. If you want to be honest, the process starts long before the race. It is mostly mental, only after this you need to think about it in a physical way. “A marathon is a bit too far for a human being to run”, concluded Matt Fitzgerald…
Marathon 2025: national records, emotions and lots of idiots
On 12th of October 2025, two things happened at different hours, because the time zone. Both in Romania, and in US, the national marathon record was beaten. The similarities stop here, though, because the difference between Bucharest Marathon and Chicago Marathon are exactly like the ones between the cities, and even the two countries altogether….
RUNNING LEGENDS | Can an ultramarathon be easier than a… marathon?
Can running an ultramarathon be easier than running a… marathon? The short answer is: definitely NO! Like it’s a very obvious answer, but I am conflicted in how many morons state the opposite, on social media, and many tend to follow or to have a second thought. An ultra is something beyond a marathon, from…
Essentials: the feeling of failing to finish a half-marathon
11.65 kilometers. I stop my watch. The feeling is different. After more than 150 races of all sorts in which I’ve started in more than nine years, for the first time I call off one voluntarily. It is strange. I try to announce my DNF, but can’t find where I should do it. I am…
Jacob Kiplimo, of Uganda, new half-marathon world record: 56:42!
Jacob Kiplimo doesn’t come from nowhere, as he became the youngest athlete to represent Uganda at a Summer Olympics edition: Rio de Janeiro, 2016! 15 years old! Fast forward, nine years later, the guy from the country with the grey crowned crane on the flag, finished the Barcelona Half Marathon, on 16th of February 2025,…
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?…