It’s been three years since we last visited our friends in Chinchón and three years since we ran our last street marathon, also in Madrid. As usual we arrived at Madrid-Barajas T4 and picked up our rental car in T1, and then drove about 50km south to Chinchón. On our […]
Not much has been done yet to clean things up after last weekend’s flooding. Yesterday’s running race was rerouted to avoid the tree debris left behind by the receding water. The road and some of the pedestrian paths running along the river are still covered with thick mud.
The water level in the river Isère is very high after yesterday’s full day of rain, and more rain is forecast for this afternoon. In the middle picture below, there is a street totally submerged on the left side of the river. The water is thick brown and full of […]
So we were in Groningen, the Netherlands, for a conference for four days. We’ve never met as crazy a bicycle town as Groningen. You may expect that a completely bicycle friendly town with practically no cars would be a nice and relaxed place to go about. Think again. Groningen is […]
Yesterday we ran our second Grenoble – Vizille semi-marathon race — or actually a 22(.2) -km race. We improved our time from the last year by ten minutes. The weather was equally miserable as last year; cloudy with strong and chilly Northerly wind. The weather changed drastically last night, and […]
This post is about our winter vacation in Biathlon World Championships in Kontiolahti, North Karelia, Finland. This was the first time we attended a winter sport event of this scale. There were some serious problems in the organization on the first major event day — long lines for toilets, food […]
We are in Joensuu, North Karelia (Finland) for the biathlon world championships. So far the weather has been miserable. And the next few days were not any better. Helsinki was all about drizzle and sleet, and a freezing wind. On march 7th we took the train to Joensuu. This is […]
If you’ve read our posts, you have probably learned that we’ve had bad luck with weekend runs recently—that’s when our long runs are scheduled. This weekend we headed for our longer run on Saturday, since rain was forecast for Sunday. Good decision! The weather on Saturday wasn’t the greatest but […]
We never used to think that Europe is a place with unique characteristics that its members share and at the same time make it a thing, different from other things. Salad at Crudo Osteria Temporane, Turin, Italy. To us what constituted Europe appeared as separate countries like Finland, Germany, Spain, […]