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Maex Ament

Feb 28, 20212 min read

Montserrat Trail Run ⛪️

A few weeks ago, I got lucky enough to have to work for a couple of days in Barcelona. I obviously took advantage of this by squeezing in...

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Jan 22, 20212 min read

While being not able to run this week, I thought that sharing my experience of running in El Pardo. It's an area and neighborhood...

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Jan 12, 20212 min read

Well, it didn't happen in the last 50 years they say. We had more snow than most people can remember in Madrid, and somewhat predictably,...

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Jan 3, 20214 min read

Madrid's Casa de Campo - the default for runners in Spain's capital.

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Dec 30, 20202 min read

Whenever I drove north from Madrid, on highway A1, direction Burgos or the Basque Country, I saw a cool mountain range on my left side,...

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Dec 23, 20203 min read

Over the past years, I heard a few times that Comporta, a village, and peninsula about 1.5hrs south of Lisbon, is a bit of a hidden gem....

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Dec 15, 20204 min read

It's only a ~4-hour drive from Madrid to the coast of the Basque Country, so I made a short trip up North. I stayed in Plentzia, 20...

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Dec 12, 20203 min read

I decided that today should be the day for my first proper trail run. Proper in the sense of right shoes, right vest, and right mountain....

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Dec 11, 20203 min read

La Ciudad Financiera, that's the humble name that Santander gave the village of Boadilla del Monte. And since half of Spain seems to work...

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Dec 10, 20203 min read

I have this obsession with this tiny river called Rio Guadarrama...I started exploring this creek around Torrelodones first (and will...

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Dec 10, 20201 min read

I will confess, I always wanted to play around with affiliate links and see how this works. I totally know that I won't make any money on...

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Oct 1, 20201 min read

A few months ago, I had a few hours to kill while being stuck around Porto's airport. I just picked a spot 15 minutes drive at the coast...