The story goes back to two years ago when a friend of mine did this race and posted about it on her blog, showing the huge horseshoe-medal she brought home. Given my inclination for anything badass and hardcore especially military-style, I was sure to go next year. We planned the trip, but life got in the way and we didn't make it to the race. ( Read more... )

Oh my....I haven't posted here for ages....

Hubby and kids came back from Italy safe. Kids had great fun and hubby also got to relax a bit. Son got to try glassblowing in Murano! He said he blew a balloon :)

I did the hike I mentioned in my previous post. I planned to run most of it, which I did, but ended up spending an incredible amount of time at ( Read more... )

Last weekend  I worked at Margaret Island advertising a running event.  The organizer wanted to hire runners so that we could really talk to the joggers there and not just hand out flyers that end up in wastebins. I liked the job and enjoyed talking to other runners, especially foreigners. It turned out my English was really needed as both the girl ( Read more... )

 I've been doing barefoot runs for a while now and they have always felt great, but during the winter months pounding the trails with bare feet wasn't especially comfortable.

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 So I did run in the mountains, but that meant more walking and hiking than real running.  I enjoyed rushing downhill, though :)

Luckily (or sadly?) the Pina Colada we wanted to drink Friday night had a weird aftertaste (it was old I guess) , so we ended up having just a couple glasses of pineapple juice with a dash of Blue Curacao liquor. However, ( Read more... )

 I did an absolutely awesome, very tiring, but very moving trail event Saturday night. It's organized annually in memory of the Hungarian and German soldiers who tried to break through the Soviet forces to end the longish siege of Buda castle in February, 1945. They had no choice, but surrender or die in battle. Out of several tens of thousands of ( Read more... )

 Hoping Frank will not eat this one.....

So, Saturday's trail event was a typical hiking event not a race. There was a cut-off, but for a fairly comfortable walking pace and all finishers received a certificate and a badge. That said, I wanted to run as much as I comfortably could, but did not intend to race it.  There were 3 distances, 18km, 28km ( Read more... )

As the wise say, on the first day of the year, you should do the things you would want to do often during the year. So I knew I was to go for a run today!

It didn't happen until well in the afternoon, but it was great. I decided to head to the woods and not the one right by our backyard, but the other end of our tiny town. That's much lovelier as ( Read more... )

Hi everyone

I'm back from a cool trail race (yeah, the feminist thingy, although still no woman entered the longer distance)

I decided to do the medium distance trail run, which according to the race info was 20 air kilometers, so definitely more than that actually ( Read more... )

The finisher medal for the trail run came in the mail yesterday. I love it, so pretty! (the pattern is engraved)


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