https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/Stories from the starting line to the family table – by Nia and her father, grandpa Bubi.enhttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/maraton-varshava/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/maraton-varshava/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 17:05:00 GMTOn 27.09.2026, within the space of 5 minutes, the universe tilted at a very particular angle, a black hole began to swirl in it, and out of it tumbled the following two theoretically impossible things: 1.I posted a photo of myself on Facebook, dressed head to toe in Nike 2.Straight after that, Asen Lilov phoned me and said “well done!”…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/vitosha-100/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/vitosha-100/Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:54:00 GMTI'm at the start. It's 23:50. There are an awful lot of people this year. The race keeps getting more popular, and the announcement of a 5000 € prize pot for a broken record has lined up the strongest athletes right at the front. Everyone on the start line wants to be part of “that year the record fell”. Me too. As luck would have it (or not), this…Guest authorshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/tova-koeto-stana-dnes/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/tova-koeto-stana-dnes/Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:33:00 GMT“Now, what happened today, that's what you should write a blog about,” says Andro, leaning on the railing that marks the relay changeover zone while he generates ideas for my future creative projects. He adds: “It's easy to write blogs about good performances, it's harder to write about…” He thinks carefully before settling…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/boteva-i-jotova/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/boteva-i-jotova/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:13:00 GMTOn my first day at Encorp.ai, Martin told me: “You’ll be working with Kori. Hand her all the admin tasks that would otherwise eat up your time.” If we were living 40 years ago, I’d describe Kori as my secretary. If we were living 20 years ago, I’d describe her as my office manager. In fact, Kori is…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/the-floor-veliki-zheni/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/the-floor-veliki-zheni/Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:00:00 GMTGreat Women. That's my category on The Floor. By chance or not, “Great Women” was placed between the categories “Office” and “Cuisine (International)”. Hang on a minute, what category, what placement, what women, you'll rightly be wondering – and anyway – what is this The Floor thing. The Floor is a TV format new to Bulgaria, with a hundred contestants.…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/bergova-i-jotovi/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/bergova-i-jotovi/Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:28:00 GMTMy family may not be a model of harmony, but it enjoys complete transparency and openness on certain matters that are taboo in probably 95% of couples. One of those matters is my husband’s taste in women. Maybe because he sees me as his closest friend, he feels obliged…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/kipar/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/kipar/Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:36:00 GMTNot every race story has a happy ending. And some of them are so incredible they'd fit a film plot better than real life. Mine, it turns out, is one of those. And we're talking about just a marathon. In Cyprus. A short backstory After a good season of mountains, triathlons and a thousand other bits of madness, I gave more than…Guest authorshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/blagodarya-kataniya/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/blagodarya-kataniya/Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:41:00 GMTThe Italians say the South begins where the timetables end. Having visited Catania, one of the bigger cities in Sicily, I can confirm the truth of this folk wisdom, and to “timetables” I confidently add “rules”, “arrangements” and “logic”. We're in Catania, of course, to run. Apparently there was a perfectly flat half marathon there – that one piece of information, laid before us…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/nie-s-berlinskata-stena/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/nie-s-berlinskata-stena/Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:53:00 GMTAs a kid, for a certain stretch of time, I got completely hooked on those gamebooks that were all the rage in the early 90s. You probably know the ones I mean – they gave you a choice to carry on one way or another, as predetermined by the Creator of the book. Depending on what we decided, we were sent off to the corresponding next section. At first I was thrilled with them,…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/golemite-chudesa-na-golyamoto-lavsko/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/golemite-chudesa-na-golyamoto-lavsko/Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:12:00 GMTThis year one of my all-time favourite home-grown races, the Lionheart cross triathlon, celebrated its 10th anniversary, which is why it drew loads of strong competitors, especially in the three-person relays. Not wanting to be outdone by the men, I put together an epic little team too. Its members were me on the run, Andrian Karparov on the bike and my mate Leo on the swim. Andro needs no…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/emo-i-drakon-svalyat-ukrainki-na-plazha/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/emo-i-drakon-svalyat-ukrainki-na-plazha/Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:53:00 GMTOnly people who have a dog know what a great love this is – the love between a dog and a human. The savviest of them are also aware of some additional benefits of four-legged pets. Namely – that they could use the dog to score points with attractive individuals of the opposite sex. There's hope of crawling out of…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/vitosha-100-dotam-i-obratno/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/vitosha-100-dotam-i-obratno/Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:42:00 GMTThe year is 2020, and I have no idea what I'm getting myself into. Vaseto talks me into signing up for his favourite race – Vitosha 100 km. And with nothing but the odd jog in the park and not an ounce of sense, I do it. I buy poles, a backpack, seamless socks, I make sandwiches as if I'm going to spend the winter up the mountain, 2 bottles of water, chocolate, nuts…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/perdah-v-otkriti-vodi/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/perdah-v-otkriti-vodi/Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:28:00 GMTTwo years ago I took part in my first relay triathlon – “Utopia Lionheart”, covering two legs – the swim and the run. For those unfamiliar with triathlon – it’s a sport made up of three disciplines in the following order: swimming, cycling and running. Normally all three are done by one athlete, but at amateur races it can…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/izgoryal-ti-e-farat-nijo/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/izgoryal-ti-e-farat-nijo/Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:42:00 GMTOn the whole I'm not a fan of us gesturing at each other on the roads. My theory is that because I'm a woman in a rather neglected car, I soak up more than my fair share of negativity, while my little Hyundai and I are driving along in all innocence and goodwill. This belief of mine is confirmed by the fact that when I get behind the wheel of the nice car…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/otnovo-frontrunner-drama-tozi-pat-naistina-golyama/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/otnovo-frontrunner-drama-tozi-pat-naistina-golyama/Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:08:00 GMTThe grapes aren't always sour Another intake of new applicants for FrontRunner. This period has always been an unpleasant one for me, but this year it's an outright nightmare. Because this time the campaign to recruit new members ( and, with it, the announcement of the chosen few and the creation of many, many disappointed people) coincides with a new dramatic element.…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/namirane-na-uteha-na-pistata-kak-byaganeto-stana-moj-bezmalven-lechitel/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/namirane-na-uteha-na-pistata-kak-byaganeto-stana-moj-bezmalven-lechitel/Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:29:00 GMTThere are moments in life when helplessness swallows you whole and despair hits you like a storm that leaves everything in ruins. The trauma that comes afterwards isn't just a memory, it's a weight that holds you captive and makes every step forward harder. This is a story about the struggle to cope with those moments of helplessness and…Guest authorshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/gergana/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/gergana/Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:41:00 GMTJust before the photo shoot for the MILF 2024 calendar, I'm on the phone with Geri, the September girl in my MILF calendar. I know the basics about her: she's my teammate at ASICS, she runs the marketing department of a big home-appliance chain, and she looks terribly, and I mean terribly, good. Those facts are…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/sydney-i-love-you-chast-2-maratonat/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/sydney-i-love-you-chast-2-maratonat/Sat, 21 Sep 2024 18:36:00 GMTMy alarm goes off at 4:00, but I've already woken up a few minutes before it. Half asleep, I'm jolted by the thought that my Imodium – without which, at that point, I imagined I couldn't run so much as a single XL – has probably been left behind in my sports bag in Bulgaria. I don't have much time to look for it and I never do…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/sydney-i-love-you-chast-1/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/sydney-i-love-you-chast-1/Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:15:00 GMTWhen, in March 2006, I got on a plane from Sydney to Manila, the Philippines, on my way to Sofia, I was certain that Sydney and I had wrapped up our 6-year relationship. Not that there was anything wrong with Australia – quite the opposite. I love it with all my heart! I've always said it and I'll always say it again – it is the…Nia's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/hristina/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/hristina/Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:50:00 GMTApril 2023. I walk into the salon where Hris, or Tushi as I call her, has only just started working as a manicurist. While she, despite still learning, does a cracking job of painting my nails in the orange shades I'd picked, we get the gossip mill of the running community turning. “Hang on, let me tell you the biggest news. Pregnant…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/anna-h/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/anna-h/Tue, 20 Aug 2024 09:50:00 GMTAni is the girl in my calendar I have known the longest (not counting my childhood friends from the previous month). At the same time, she is also the girl I know least in person of all my “models”. Since we live in different cities, our acquaintance is more of a long-distance one. My main impressions of her have been gathered through social media.…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/nikolina-i-rositsa/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/nikolina-i-rositsa/Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:16:00 GMTThere is one single exception to the format of my MILF calendar of runners, and that's the month of June. Not only because there are two MILFs on it, but also because they aren't runners. Yes, I couldn't resist playing with the idea of putting twins on the month of Gemini. After all, last year I was much…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/zornitsa/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/zornitsa/Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:47:00 GMTA conversation between me and Zornitsa, early 2020: ( A bit of context: she has formally invited me to lunch via LinkedIn, without us really knowing each other. I, as excited as if I were having lunch with Elon Musk, have put on my best dress for the occasion, and my heart rate while I wait for her at Largo for lunch is 120…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/zlatka/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/zlatka/Fri, 10 May 2024 15:16:00 GMTSometime in 2020, a chat between me and Sasho Nakov: Me: Hey, who is this Zlatka Karadzhova? It really gets on my nerves the way she shows off in the Running for Health group. Nakov: Oh, some random from Plovdiv that Mitakisa has taken under his wing. She’s not even that fast. (The subsistence minimum for female attractiveness in Sasho’s head…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/anna/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/anna/Thu, 07 Mar 2024 16:36:00 GMTThere isn't a single person in our running community who doesn't know Anna Vancheva. Every photo of hers sets off an avalanche of likes, hearts and comments. Which in itself is no big deal – any photograph of a female creature can reach such heights. But most manage it under certain conditions and with certain manipulations, which…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/greta/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/greta/Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:18:00 GMTMy first impression of Greta was online and purely visual. I formed it at the Running Community’s Annual Awards for 2019. It was my debut taking part in them. Shame or no shame, I admit that I threw myself into them with the passion of a housewife whose fulfilment comes mainly from Facebook, and whose only chance of real success in life is to be named…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/dilajla/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/dilajla/Thu, 01 Feb 2024 09:18:00 GMTTom Jones’s song “Delilah” was a hit in 1968. What could the name Delilah mean? Maybe Liliya, or Lili. Not knowing English gave my imagination free rein. Perhaps it was about Tom’s love, a lad from a poor family, while Lili had chosen to marry a better-off man. Years later I learnt English and discovered that…Bubi's storieshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/karolina/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/karolina/Tue, 23 Jan 2024 12:07:00 GMTIn my calendar I gathered 13 women in 12 months. My idea was to pay tribute to the remarkable women I know. I invited into it only and exclusively ladies who had made an impression on me. An impression, especially with women, let's not kid ourselves, starts with looks. But it only starts there. Because of this, however, many of us,…Runners of the MILF calendar 2024https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/tri-sme-mu-malko/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/tri-sme-mu-malko/Tue, 19 Dec 2023 14:36:00 GMTLies have short legs. Or at least that's what they taught me when I was little. But in this story, the lie has long legs and its nose doesn't grow like Pinocchio's. The story holds plenty of lessons for people like me who believe in unicorns and other mythical creatures. Or, in plain language, who believe that love exists and that it doesn't…Guest authorshttps://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/otnosno-hraneneto/https://zabavnotosemeistvo.com/en/otnosno-hraneneto/Wed, 20 Sep 2023 05:22:00 GMTI remember how my grandfather, around lunchtime, would take out his pocket watch and shout: “Anke, woman, it's quarter to 12!” Grandma would start scurrying about and lunch began at 12 sharp. My father also used to spur my mum on, though sometimes she only made it by 12.10. Eating “by the clock” is typical of the army. There you march to the mess hall in formation, with…Bubi's stories