Since you all know now my reasons for running ridiculously long distances, I thought to leave a small recap on how the first ultra in Spain went. It happened just a few days ago, an 80km race called Eco Trail…
I ran my first marathon when I was 42. Seemed like a nice number: 42 kilometers for my 42nd birthday. Back then, I thought 42 kilometers was a huge distance, an absolute upper limit, hard to imagine reaching, let aside…
I’n writing this in an airport, waiting for my flight back to Bucharest. For the last 3 days I’ve been at a running event, called S24h. It’s an ultra-marathon competition, with races from 12 hours up to 48 hours. It’s…
As some of you know, I'm on a new eating pattern: I'm concentrating all my calorie intake in a 6 hours window, usually between 10 AM and 4 PM. It's been more than 3 months since I'm doing this, so…
For the last 20 days I've been on an intermittent fasting challenge. What is intermittent fasting, you asked? Well, intermittent fasting is not a diet, but an eating routine. It groups all the meals of the day in a certain…
In a rather twisted way, I chose to run a 48 hours race before even trying a 24 hours one. It happened this March, and you can read all about it here. Since the 48 hours race didn’t go out…
It’s pitch dark, my soles are hurting like shit, the air that I breathe is scorching hot and I’m running somewhere in the middle of fucking nowhere. It’s not a nightmare. It’s my real life. I’m running the Ultrabalaton for…
One of the fundamental building blocks of my online business is a short page called Contact, on this very blog. You wouldn’t believe the amount of feedback, constructive criticism, profitable ideas and partnership proposals I get through that tiny page.…
When I started to run ridiculously long distances, 2 years ago, people who found out about that were puzzled: “How can you run 200 kilometers, Dragos? Even by car, this is a very long distance!” For a while, this was…
Last year I signed up for my first 48 hours race, an event scheduled at the end of March, in Athens. It was an act of pure curiosity, to be honest. I’ve never done a 48 hours race before. And…
The first half of 2016 is already planned - there will be 5 races: 1 semi-marathon, 2 full marathons and 2 ultra-marathons. As for the second part of my 2016 running calendar, I chose to keep a little bit of flexibility, party…