Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
When I started to run, it took me a few months to be able to run continuously 1 kilometer. In hindsight, this seems ridiculous. And yet, that was the level I was at, back then. Overweight, untrained, stressed and ignorant. Slowly, by pushing through, I somehow broke those barriers, but it was rally hard. After … Read more
First of all, the title is piggy-backing on a popular meme, I speak English long enough to know when to say “more important”, so don’t even bother correcting me. Second, this is true. I mean, the title. New beginnings are fundamental, but they can’t exist outside honest endings. Let me tell you a story about … Read more
“In an ultra, walk before you have to.” I know that for many of my readers, the sentence above doesn’t make any sense. So let me explain. An “ultra” means an ultramarathon, a running competition longer than 42km (which is the length of a standard marathon). Any number of kilometers on top of 42 will … Read more
As I’m slowly getting on track with my 230 days blogging challenge – this is my 6th day, by the way – I’m starting to revisit feelings and attitudes from my ultra-running races. If I really think about it, such a long writing challenge is very similar with an ultra. It stretches over a huge … Read more
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 de Madrid. It was a gift for my birthday (I usually run my age for … Read more
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 going over it, if ever. Since then, though, I finished quite a few much longer … Read more
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 my second participation at this event and this year I ran the 48 hours race. … Read more
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 I thought an update will be necessary. Weight Loss I’m finally getting confirmation from my … Read more
