Sunday September 29th 2024 I ran the Chisinau Marathon in Moldova. Find below my full race coverage from this marathon and a few tourist impressions from Chisinau.
Chisinau City
I enjoyed half a weekend in Chisinau, Moldova, and had some nice walks in the beautiful city parks alongside passing various landmarks, notably the Cathedral, the Triumph Arc and such near the major streets and restaurant areas. However, I will mostly remember Chisinau for the chessplayers at one of the central squares, I spend a lot of time with them, firstly beating them up Saturday night, secondly taking the punches myself Sunday, this to the now 5 time city champion (!), Artiom Ghidicov of Moldova. It is unfortunately rare to find chess in the streets anywhere now, so a very nice asset of Chisinau indeed.
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Chisinau Marathon 2024
The event carried a multitude of distances: marathon, half marathon, 10K, 5K, fun run 1.5K, kids “marathon (400-2000m), roller marathon, the latter causing some concerns of safety on the race day as the rollers were on the route together with everybody else. Anyways, it was a fine event, the full marathon took 4 rounds including a nasty incline on the highway. So despite a principally easy route the course combined with the increasing temperatures throughout the morning the tasks of the day somehow drained your energy, this could be seen on almost all the marathoneers on the final round.
A special congratulations to fellow Marathon Globetrotter Muantawan Pei Arsrairas for completing her marathon country no. 100 this Sunday in Moldova, hats off for an impressive “career”.
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See or relive the Chisinau Marathon 2024 here (and in Romanian and Russian)
