.. or actually 50+ cars. Just last week we registered for Citélib car sharing system; for a reasonable monthly or a one-time reservation fee we have a number of cars available to be booked and used at any time, nearest ones just within a block from our home. We joined […]
Finally we managed to hike around Néron; we’ve made several attempts before, but all of them were compromised by either wrong route choices, late start (getting too hungry too early!), fallen apart hiking boots, or something else. Our legs were still pretty sore after the Saturday’s recce run, but we […]
In three months there will be 160-kilometer mountain race that traverses the four massifs around Grenoble: Vercors, Taillefer, Belledonne, and Chartreuse. We are going to run the last 40-kilometer leg on Chartreuse. Today, we had a recce run/walk on the first part — the major climb — of that leg. […]
After finishing a marathon in Madrid two weeks ago and an eight kilometer race here on Friday, we opt for a hike instead of a long run on this sunny Sunday (officially we are again on a training plan for the UT4M mountain marathon that’s going to happen in late […]
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 […]