Month: October 2018

In November 2012, on my way to get the registration pack for the Athens marathon, I bumped into a group of other runners from the UK sharing the excitement about Athens and mentioning the Snowdonia Marathon in Wales they had done the week before and how great it was.  That left me with the following thoughts: What freaks, how can you run marathons on two consecutive weekends? And: I want to do the Snowdonia one next year! Well, it took…

Not long ago, it was the first time in my running career that I ran across a country border, passing guards and everything. Of course I had no passport on me, so it felt weird just to jog pass the border control from Switzerland to Italy, wondering about it being one thing to get out of Switzerland and another to get back in. But my leap of faith got rewarded with no issues (thank you Mr Schengen) and one running…