DiVin Nosiola Trail Half Marathon

I'll be honest, I under-estimated this race. That might sound a bit unlikely given it is a half marathon with around 700m of ascent and descent (why does the English have no equivalent for the concept of "dislivello"?) and I am a fat bloke from North Lincolnshire. However, over the last few months I've got …

La Scarponada

When is a race not a race? If it isn't timed and there is no mass start, perhaps? If so, then the Scarponada is not really a race. As I have previously written about, official races in Italy are something of a bureaucratic labyrinth. One way of getting around that seems to be to run …

Spring

There are all sorts of signs of the springing of spring at the moment. The fields are full of blossoming apple trees. There are the first green shoots sprouting on the vines. The mercury has been rising sharply. The snow line is slowly retreating back up the mountains, exposing the rock faces and pastures of …