Stories

HOW BAD DO I WANT IT?

This time it’s all been so complicated that I don't even know where to begin.

Or maybe I should begin from the reasons why I tried to register for Badwater,...

It's nine o'clock at night, I've just come out of the office, I've got a pair of tattered All-Stars on my feet and I'm wearing a cotton T-shirt so heavy that it feels like lead. I keep looking...

I NEEDED A NEW ADVENTURE

NOTE TO SET THE CONTEXT

These are not excuses or complaints, also because in the meantime I finally created Wild Tee, but a premise to...

The Marathon des Sables is not a race.

That's the first thing Paolo (Zubani, the MdS contact person for Italy, this was his 30th edition) said to me when we arrived at the bivouac: if...

I do not like to know the plot of a film before going to the cinema or read reviews of a book before reading it. The opportunities for me to be surprised are so few that I don't want to miss out...

The right attitude, when running Ultra Trail races, is what makes you carry on, on the edge of exhaustion, for hours on end, while exclusively focusing on the distance between you and your goal...

How to organise a mountain adventure: the best equipment, route planning, nutrition.

The concept behind speed hiking, aka fastpacking is to move quickly: in a nutshell, to cover greater...

"I've been training on the treadmill for more than ten years and so far everyone's been taking the mick. Now they'd sell a relative to get one!"

After having covered more than 50,000 km on trails all over the world and having finished more than 110 ultratrail races in the last 15 years, I could probably, pretentiously,...