Vlad Sabau

In this blog post, I want to share my experience at the Blajel XCO 2023 event. It was a memorable race, filled with unexpected challenges and remarkable moments. Join me as I recount my journey through rain-soaked trails, technical obstacles, and the triumph of perseverance. Race Day: Arriving at Blajel, with Sebi, I couldn’t help […]

Or my very first XCO race after last year’s XCC and XCO National Championships. It has been a while but it was such a good reminder about how much I love spitting out my lungs during a race can be. Medias is pretty close to Cluj so I went with Cristi S., Cristi N. and […]

Steve McQueen said that “Racing is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting” and I was waiting to race for more than 10 month now. My last race was the National XCO Championship back in the summer of 2022. The rest is history. I had difficult times and I am fighting to get […]

A good friend told me, right after the race: sometimes you win, sometimes you build your character. Last Saturday I’ve built some character indeed. It all started a couple of weeks ago when I got sick. It wasn’t covid or common flu, but I had to keep away from the bike for almost a week. […]

In 2006, from the idea of a good friend Gabi, I’ve organized the first edition of Cluj Winter Race. Now 16 years apart CWR is one of the oldest races that are still alive in Romania and I am proud and humble to be able to make it. First I would like to thank each […]