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Triada Paltinis

2 Jul

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Triada Paltinis is arguably the most prestigious mountain bike race in Romania. The XCO course is renowned for its complexity, and the marathon is one of the most challenging. This year, instead of participating in the marathon, I opted for the eBike race to finish what I started last year, when my engine gave out. […]

European Championship Test Event

7 May

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I am a bit late on this post but: we are into the European Championship week. But before this we had a test event. Romania is holding for the first time such an important mountain bike race and I am honored that I had the chance to race on this nice course just before the […]

Dorna CX – a frozen fairytale

25 Jan

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It’s been a while since I’ve raced in Vatra Dornei, when actually I was on the both sides of the tape: as an organizer and a racer at Dorna XCO, a great event back in 2016 that I’ve put up with Petru Grigoras two years in a row. Times have changed and a new generation […]

First race of the season

17 Jan

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This blog post took me two days of Filip napping as I am still doing everything I can around job/training/family stuff. I saw everywhere the “new year, new me” bulls**t. Well, it’s still the old me trying to do something new and trying to be fast even though it gets harder everyday. The very first […]

Cluj Winter Race, for the 14th time

18 Dec

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I think I can talk and write about this 14th edition of CWR a whole novel. This was by far the hardest to organize. Being a stage in the Romanian Cyclocross Cup was a must to be raced no matter what too. Even though I started to put everything together since September because I knew […]