Fat Ass in Asterix' land: white and solo

108F (42C) in Gara Dima and Metehara over the "winter" Holidays. A few days later, back in France, 24F (-4C) and snow, what a cont...

Gara Dima 30K: flat and dusty!

As I mentioned in my previous post ( Running in Addis Ababa: Meskel Square ), we did not go to Ethiopia for the running but for the humanita...

Running in Addis Ababa: Meskel Square

I already mentioned last month that I ran at Meskel Square but, now that I am back to the Internet civilization, I wanted to tell you more a...

The business of giving

In this Advent time and a couple of days before Christmas, you would rather expect a title such as "the joy of giving," wouldn...

Connecting with a distance running incarnation

As announced in my previous post, I did woke up early to get to Meskal Square by 5:45 am. My hotel is only 3 kilometers away from the city l...

Ethiopia: false start and switch to ultra!

Not for me, I did manage to reach Addis Ababa 2 hours only after the scheduled time. 3 am instead of 1 am, plus 1 hour to get the visa, 15 m...

En route to... Ethiopia!

You might have already gotten the scoop if you read our 11th issue of our yearly newsletter, Le Cupertino . That is if your read French... O...