Hanoi, my first time moving out of Europe, my last semester as a student, and one of the weirdest but best experience I had, in the middle of the covid pandemic. Hanoi, also probably the least running-friendly city I ever lived in, bustling, sometimes extremely hot, and highly polluted. This article will be relatively short…
If I had to summarise my life, and particularly my years as a student, it was a continuous succession of packing/moving/unpacking/packing/moving/unpacking… After moving here and there several times, sometimes just for three or four months, I ended up identifying and building a list of essential items for running and sports. I learned to streamline the…
Coming back from Vienna in June still stuck with my injury, I was determined to use my two months in France to get treated and recover properly before leaving again in September. Summer programme: physio twice a week, swimming and cycling waiting to hopefully go back to running again one day or another. But it…
Turin, Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Hanoï, Kampala, Casablanca… All those cities I moved to and those I visited in my host countries and around. And every time, these same questions: where can I go running around here? How to get to the nearest park? Where can I safely plan an interval training session? Where can…
Quite a special blog, since I have (almost) not been able to enjoy Vienna as a runner myself. Indeed, that was a tricky time for me as I was stuck with a long running injury for months. This tendonitis (I understood what it was months later) started at the end of January. I moved to…
First, I understand that my title can be misleading. Let’s start by a short clarification. It is true that in the end, you can feel unsafe in your own country or your home city. To be honest, I would feel more confident to run at night in Berlin, Vienna or even Hanoi than in Grenoble….
An article a bit special today, as Grenoble is (somehow) my home city. I’ll try to be as unbiased as I can, even if the city itself is definitely not my favourite one for running… But definitively my favourite in France to live in, especially as a student (okay, I’m biased now). As usual, here…
This is the eternal question I’ve been facing for a few years. Okay, air quality is bad. Should I postpone my running session, will it be better in the next hours, in the next days, should I run indoors, should I wear a mask? Is it worse not exercising at all or exercising when it’s…
Yes, I know, that’s a bit provocative and chauvinistic. I’m actually far from loving Paris (it’s quite the contrary!). At the time in moved there, I was thinking that Paris was not a running-friendly city (“but I’m not going to take the metro to go running?!”), but that was before moving to Hanoi and Kampala…
Berlin, my second “expat” destination, this time quite far from home but also a running-friendly capital city. Where to run in Berlin? Here is a selection of tested running spots. City profile Geography: Well, I guess I don’t need to spend too much time on this one. Capital city of Germany, North East of the…
