After the first week of the heat wave we escaped the town for the weekend to the nearest ski resort on Belledonne range, Chamrousse at 1750 meters above the sea level. The difference in temperatures, especially at night, was significant. Even if daytime temperatures climbed quite high (up to +30C), […]
We love to live in the place with seasons, not only seasons in weather but also in fresh produce. Earlier this Spring, like last year too, we had a citrus fruit season when an abundance of mandarines, clementines, and satsumas were available (of course lemon, lime, oranges, and grapefruit are […]
Our original plan for the Ascension holiday weekend was to visit Annecy, which we have wanted to do for some time (since winter). Then we checked the weather forecast; it promised mostly rainy and chilly weather around Annecy and Grenoble. Another look at the weather map told us to go […]
.. 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.