This isn’t quite Helsinki beach, although if we continue with our efforts to drive up global warming and down prioritize it over “we need oil now” issues, then we’ll get there some day soon.
Anyway, this is Bob who ran track and field already in the 50’s. He won the GnL raffle and will be the [...]
Allison Janse, the Editor of “The Ultimate Runner”, approached 400days. She’s looking for your running story + photos. If your story or photo is chosen, you will receive $200.00 and a free book. The book is looking for non-exclusive rights, i.e. you can use the story elsewhere as well (e.g. on your own blog). The [...]
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Rotterdam Coolsingel, the main street in the city center, 9:45am, there are already hundreds of people walking around here and there in the starting area of the marathon. Our group, a party of four, Stefano, my “younger brother in arms” and me plus our best supporters just arrived. Everything looked well organized, although finding the [...]
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The run on Monday was quite long, 33,5km, and beyond the legs the whole body felt really tired. Therefore, the replacement of the 10k active recovery run yesterday with an equally long time on the bench while a skilled masseur with healing hands would give the leg muscles a good drill didn’t require to think [...]
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He’s always full of energy and a kind of Speedy Gonzales around here. He’s here in Helsinki, next minute he’s off to Brussels, where he likes to go most. Then some peace building and keeping meetings in Egypt and Etiopia. Some people have claimed to having seen him in two places the same time… (well [...]
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happy new year to all you runners, dads, mums, and other readers out there. it won’t get easy with the financial crisis affecting the real economy resulting in job losses in many industries, with new wars breaking out and old ones not ceasing to exist and even more countries going nuclear, with attention and determination [...]
dangerous times we live in. the headlines after the spring and fall daylight-saving shifts indicate that man came up just with another means to toture its kind. our friends in north america who decide to be part of this fun part of life every other decade (or so) seem to suffer the most. news headlines [...]
