We have finished fifteen weeks of Polar’s training program, started this morning the sixteenth, and feel pretty good. We have still six more weeks to go in the Base building phase of the program, and thereafter 13 weeks of Build-up until the race day. We were confident enough of our […]
It was only the second time we entered the lottery to participate in Berlin marathon and we were lucky. So, we took our training seriously; we started in early 2018 when there were more than 30 weeks to go, though because of traveling we took some weeks off or did […]
to Asics Stockholm Marathon for which we have been training most of the Spring. Yesterday (May 13, 2017) we had our last very long run, 30.15 kilometers. Once again we took the Transisère bus to Goncelin, and ran back to Grenoble, or more specifically to the university campus in Gières, […]
Chapeau! We finished the 40Km Vercors race. We suffered of no injuries, no blisters, no chafing, only slight dehydration (I lost about 4kg in weight, even if I emptied the 1.5l-bladder about three times), and had a huge appetite afterwards. This was what Tei was planning to carry on her […]
This year Tomi ran alone, since Tei was sporting an annoying back leg/butt injury. He finished in 2:12:51 (zip time 2:11:38), which was about 15 seconds better than our finishing time last year. The weather certainly was much nicer this time: even if cloudy, it was much warmer. Here Tomi […]
Before our early morning flight (6:15am) to Budapest we spent a night in Geneva at hotel Windsor near the railway station. They had a cool exhibition of pop art in their lobby. We also found a brew pub nearby and there the most pathetic nachos (no photos, sorry, but take […]
This weekend there was an ultra trail running race in Grenoble (Ut4M = Ultra Tour des 4 Massifs). It crossed four mountain ranges around the town: Vercors, Oisans, Belledonne, and Chartreuse. Runners from over 20 nationalities took part. There were several race categories with different distances and different positive vertical […]
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 […]