I say goodbye to 2016 traditionally – with running. Yet again I participated in the Cracow Run New Year’s Eve Run. Besides the regular competition, every year there’s a competition for the best costume and runners’ imagination truly knows no limits there! SHORT REPORT 13th edition of the run gave me additional joy, beside the obvious competition, […]
BLOOD! PAIN! TEARS! The essence of a good race report! Well, sorry – this one will be weak then! My biggest challenge this year, the longest distance and the greatest total elevation gain. It was supposed to be hard … to knock down… chew and spit out … was supposed to … RACE IN A NUTSHELL […]
… Click… I feel as if someone turned off the light. I walk a few steps up and I have to rest. My head is buzzing, cold sweat dotted my forehead and I feel everything moving around in my stomach. Each step requires maximum effort – as if someone had put a 100-kg menhir on my back […]
CHUDY WAWRZYNIEC 2016 …Slippery, icy slush poured into my shoe, and I felt it (along with the foot inside) slide over the mud in a completely uncontrolled way. I could only think one word (starting with „F”) before I fell into the big, brown puddle in the middle of the road… it’s cold, wet and pours […]
You’ve been running for some time now and you have colected a bunch of kilometers. At the beginning, each additional kilometer gave you great satisfaction – the lengthening distance you could cover, running was easier and easier. At certain point, however, a boredom appeared, hasn’t it? Each workout seemed identical to the previous one, week after week the same thing and […]
PLANS, PLANS, PLANS… What to do now? 2015 running season has come to an end. Off season recovery is over and I’m slowly getting back to normal training. I need to plan next challenges or otherwise I’ll won’t do any progress. While participating in recent events and talking to other runners, a draft of a plan slowly built up in […]
My nose runs and gusts of wind throw me off balance every so often. I’m trying to bite into the frozen energy bar while running, freezing water doesn’t help washing it down… Golden Autumn You say… yeah, right! BUT FROM THE BEGINNING… Maraton Bieszczadzki was my last goal to accomplish this year. In August (08.08.2015) I […]
Last year, when I finished my running season by completing „Crown of Polish Marathons„, I was fed up with street running and in my head, for some time now, a new idea was growing up – trail mountain running. I needed a news running goal for the upcoming year… nad I discovered „Chudy Wawrzyniec„. The trail […]
Elemental Tri Series is a series of triathlons organized between May and August 2015 (Olsztyn, Strawczyn i Białystok). The organizer of the race is LaboSport Poland, and it all happened thanks to sponsors: Elemental Holding (naming rights sponsor), Beko, Etixx oraz Giant. I had the opportunity to participate in Elemental Triathlon Strawczyn, on August 2, 2015, at the Olympic distance (1.5km swim, […]
… Time to get back to reality and gather strength for new challenges. However, I will soon post a commentary on this fantastic triathlon. Elemental Tri Series in Strawczyn was a very interesting race. The route was very demanding, but organized in a very spectacular way. There will surely be a multitude of pictures and interesting […]
Before the last triathlon (Group Azoty Triathlon Radłów) I wrote about how I prepare for a race in terms of training and diet. Today, two days before the Elemental Tri Series in Strawczyn (Sunday, 02.08.2015), I decided to describe exactly how to prepare for a competition in terms of equipment and how to deal with Transition Zone. […]
Grupa Azoty Triathlon Radłów is a race organized in Radłów near Tarnow (Małopolskie voivodeship). It was held for the first time this year and I must admit that it was undoubtedly a success. Not without a few minor mishaps, but as for the first time, the organizers did great. The weather was great as well, although it was questionable […]
It finally happened! On 08.08.2015, thanks to the trail mountain race „Chudy Wawrzyniec” I became an ultramarathon man! The run was organized in Rajcza, in Żywiec Beskids, leading through red and green hiking trail over six peaks: Rachowiec, Kikula, Wielka Racza, Jaworzyna, Wielka Rycerzowa and Muńcuł. The finish line was set in Ujsoły. The whole race measured approx. 53 km and over 2,000 meters […]
