An intriguing question with a though answer. In my mind, pretty often, there is one of Emil Zatopek’s statements: “I know how to run slow, I need to learn to run fast”. This is pretty much what I am trying in this period. I am using a training plan for a marathon, not an easy…
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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…
Brașov Marathon 2023 – the experience I have been craving for many years
Brașov Marathon, the experience! I find it easier to run on asphalt, but at the same time, a plane running event is, for me, by far the hardest than a trail event, with a lot of ascent, even though I have greater chances to obtain better results when running on a straight surface. Does it make…
Wings for Life World Run 2023 – life is not a journey, it is a process!
Wings for Life World Run 2023. To state that I run / ran for anybody, it would be a ferocious lie, because nobody runs for anybody else except themselves. Any other statement is a mild form of hypocrisy. Running is, maybe, the purest way of selfishness, and that is the end. Now, I am running…
Short history of the marathon running culture – Zatopek, Abebe, Kpichoge, Kawauchi
When coming about marathon, energies are raising more and more as years pass. A short history about its debut, was written here. Since I ran a few, I am very well positioned to understand and to express what a marathon means. But what does it means from the eyes of the greatest? Of course, I…
Why did die the first guy who ran the… marathon? But… did he really die?
The marathon is a special athletic encounter. I would say the top off all, because of the legend that wraps everything. Many, if not all, heard about the story of a messenger that delivered the victory news to Athens, after the Athenians beat the Persians in Marathon, in 490 BCE, and after collapsed and died….
1 Decembrie Marathon 2022, a podium after three years and a PB
It starts to rain, and the temperature is almost 0ºC, but the real feel even lower, as the wind blows. Even though I like to look good in pictures, this time I need to wear ticker clothes and to cover my head. I am not the best in terms of appearance, but I am ready….
2X2 Race: the dream, the failure, the obsession, the focus
Us runners are aiming higher and higher because we have quite of a big ego that need to be fed. Believe me. If any runner says he’s not running for him at least at a level, mostly the main level, then he’s lying. For me, 2X2 Race was a dream from one year ago or…
CASE STUDY | Five consecutive days without running: the feeling
For some years, running became a lifestyle for me. Never had a major injury, that forbid me to do the job, to go for a run. Regardless how fast or how many breaks I took. The impact was in most case of the situation mental. The only trap for running almost every day was my…
Running in the rain and accelerating over the mud: Brașov Intersport Halfmarathon
Did you see “The Miracle of Bern”? It is a great movie, about the World Cup final from 1954, when West Germany beat 3-2 Hungary, “The mighty Magyars”, who led 2-0 in 10 minute and, most importantly, won 8-3 in the group stage. There are several theories of what happened there and the most interesting…