Ever since its inception a few years ago I’ve been aware of the “Red Rock Challenge”, a weekend-long event in October that offers a multitude of different trail run and mountain bike races; near my home in the south of Luxembourg. After I covered part …
Driving your car for 35 minutes just to get to a spot where you then ride your bike for 2 hours seems a bit redundant; or maybe even wasteful because why not just start biking at home? But that would mean I’d always be hitting …
The days are getting shorter and I’m spending precious daylight minutes in traffic jams to and from work. Fortunately, we do have showers at work and I can take flexible lunch breaks, so the obvious solution is to exercise at noon, when temperatures are at …
Once again, I was spared the rain that was forecasted; so I set out on the mountain bike again to give the left achilles tendon another break. I ended up covering 17.05km with 318m elevation gain in 1h01; for an average speed of 16.7km/h. I …
It rained on and off most of the morning and afternoon, and my left achilles was feeling a little worse than average; so despite having most of Saturday off I decided not to do any big training session on foot; and instead just headed out …
I didn’t mention it on this blog so far, but earlier this month I bought a mountain bike. I’d been toying with the idea for quite a few years, but my runner’s mindset always prevented me from taking the plunge. But before the easter holidays …