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 […]
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 […]
Less than 500 meters away, to be exact. We got some sleet yesterday afternoon, but the overnight rain melted it all. This morning there were some snow flurries on the lower slopes of Chartreuse and Belledonne. While during the week we had some gorgeous sunny days, with daytime temperatures climbing […]
I guess I posted a similar title a couple of weeks ago. The weather forecast promised rain for the morning and then clearing skies for the afternoon. Well, it did not happen. It was varying clouds and sun in the morning and at 2pm. when we headed out it was […]
Our long runs have met some bad luck recently. Partly because of us, as we’ve been watching winter sports on TV, but today nature was against us. It was barely snowing when we left (after watching two and half sets of Djokovic-Murray Australian Open final for three hours), but just […]
… that my transition lenses wouldn’t turn black, or we couldn’t go running. We had our first (and last?) snow last night, but following a day of icy drizzle and rain, all the snow is gone now.