We spend a week in a lovely old town apartment in Annecy, an idyllic lakeside town, about 100 kilometers north-east of Grenoble in Haute-Savoie department. With the exception of one day, when we went for a whole-day hiking trip to the nearby mountains, we spent most of the daytime working […]
Like I mentioned in the earlier post, I’ve taken the habit of climbing the stairs up to La Bastille a few times a week. I am not the only one. The grenoblois love that hill — it is a their popular exercise/passtime to run, walk, ride, or climb the stairs […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]