The day was born as a race day. Martinslauf 2015 has been an event I’ve joined ever since I came to Düsseldorf and today would be no exception. The day didn’t feel like race day however. The demons? They were many: Business travel the whole week in Dublin, joining the Web Summit 2015 tech conference and keeping up with work at the same time… Read more →
The running community around me keeps positively growing 😀 Colleagues at work join our lunch break runs more often, colleagues become friends, more friends join runs on weekdays or weekends, small family members start joining a few sessions… the numbers just keep growing. I ask myself the question what is it about? Is it really about the numbers? Is it about… Read more →
In the past years I’ve had the opportunity of participating in B2Run, a company run taking place in several major cities in Germany. This year I made it to the 5 fastest athletes of the Vodafone Runners community, which won the team run in Düsseldorf on June 23rd! This basically meant that we were invited to participate in the B2Run Final in Berlin this month, to… Read more →
Summer holidays are around! This is a fantastic time of the year where I seek to enjoy family and friends, spend some time doing absolutely nothing (or whatever comes to mind in the spur of the moment) and ultimately… relax. Pleasure comes from the most simple things in life. The Algarve still feels like home. My family is there, my longest friends… Read more →
Two weeks ago I decided to surprise my older son by asking him if he’d like to join me for a run. We had a few times in the past where I’d run and he’d cycle along. Following my recent adventure on Ultra Trail Lamer Winkel (“König vom Bayerwald”) with a long distance on the trail, I had decided to have a… Read more →
I subscribed to the Ultra Trail Lamer Winkel early this year as a way to continue pursuing the motto “do epic shit!”. Let’s face it: life is short! Looking into my quotidian life, recent health challenges and the ones from people around me, I’ve been pursuing a few dreams that make me feel that life matters, that there is meaning,… Read more →
There are occasions in life where I feel my family is inevitably the core of my soul, the constant guiding light which influenced so many paths taken through my life all the way to who I am today. A couple of weeks ago I travelled to Portugal to be close to my parents in a moment where that just made sense. While… Read more →
I come across a motivational video a few months back which captured my immediate attention. The video is all about passing a powerful message about sport, the reason you go for it and why your motivation should keep strong to face the challenges you put yourself up to. The spot has been produced by Red Productions for the TCU Baseball team and published in… Read more →
We all have busy lives, both at work or at home. We live to fulfil the expectations our professional life demands from us and seek to have all time we can get for our family, for our friends and for us. Together we have a plethora of different schedules which influence the time of the day we can do the… Read more →
The alarm clock went off at 5:30 AM…. on a Sunday…. My brain awakes as in any other day, numb, craving for bed after a bad night’s sleep. I get up and start the usual routine, like a week day, until I realise that there won’t be any work today. Gear is waiting for me in the living room and a… Read more →