Category Archives: Adventure

The Marathon

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: July 20, 2009
It started as a challenge to myself, though challenge is too strong a word. I wanted to know if it was possible, even though I had no reference of what that would mean. 26.2 miles is an abstract number that told me nothing. It did not seem like a short or a long distance. It [...]
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Second Week Of Training

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: February 13, 2009
I was in Bucharest during the second week of training. My schedule was different than the routine I had in London. I barely realized that because of this, I skipped a run. S: 3mi M: 4mi S: - L: 6mi The 6mi run seemed incredibly easy. On the last mile, I felt as if I could continue running for at least a [...]
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The First Week Of Training

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: February 6, 2009
Everything started Friday, the 23rd of January. Vladimir and I went for a run. One lap of the Greenland Docks seemed like such a long distance. We started at a pretty fast pace that, by the end of the run, had got even faster. I never paid any attention to the distance or the time [...]
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Reykjavik, Day 1

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 25, 2008
8am and so much for sleep. We had to pick up our rental car from SIXT at 10 am. I remember being so excited about that a few months ago…to cover the whole of Iceland’s Ring Road in just a week. Now I felt like an idiot for committing to pick the car up so [...]
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First Night in Reykjavik

By Dragos ILINCA | Published: September 24, 2008
It was 22:30 in London. I was making my way to a train that would take me to Stanstead Airport. From there, RyanAir would get me to Berlin by 9am the following day. A full day of walking around Berlin, feeling sleep deprived and a 3 and a half hour flight later, we touched down [...]
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