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Ultra-Trail Małopolska (177km / 9200m+), Mszana Dolna, 23.-25.5.2025

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  My First 100-Miler Ultra-Trail Małopolska – a place where time flows like in a parallel universe. Where memories become the present. Where if it’s not raining, it’s snowing, and you hallucinate even without magic mushrooms. This is where mud was invented. Slimy mud, slippery mud, black mud, brown mud, sticky mud, wet mud, semi-dry mud, mud with rocks, mud with branches, mud with water, mud without water, innocent-looking mud and backstabbing mud, mud with snow, mud with rain. Mud uphill and mud downhill. Meadow mud, road mud, stream mud, forest mud. A place where even downhills somehow feel like uphills, where you're always going either straight up or straight down (up). The place where I ran my first ever 100-miler. Pre-Race Chaos, Panic, and Mild Electronics Crisis On the way to the race, I realize I’ve packed the wrong cables for charging my phone and watch (USC connector, but my power bank only has USB inputs). Cue the scavenger hunt for an electronics store whil...

Ultra Kras 55 2025 (55km / 2400m+), Turňa nad Bodvou, 26.4.2025

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 Škrapy, a church, a gorge and other ultra beauties of the Ultra Karst Late April rolled in and I decided to test if I can still run — six months after my last race ( BBU100+ ), and now I'm about to find out if I can still write 😅 I'm getting pretty good at reels already 😁 so let's see if finger placement and some coherent thoughts are still present too. I managed to trade a ticket for UK55 at the Slovak Ultra Trail closing party in a raffle with Lenka Kluska, in exchange for a ticket to BBU100+ 2025 — to our mutual satisfaction. Thank you, Leni — and yes, you’re welcome too 😊 Huge thanks to Slovak Ultra Trail 💖. In the meantime, I've actually been training for real with a real coach - the wild dream challenges (and unfinished business) I’ve lined up for 2025 aren't something I can just YOLO through with random online plans or my own “creative flair.” On Friday afternoon, there I was drivng to Turňa in heavy rain, the windshield wiper working like crazy trying t...