{"id":2,"date":"2010-04-23T17:49:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T17:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marusca.ro\/dev\/mtbtours\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:18:46","slug":"mtb-guides-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/team\/","title":{"rendered":"The mtbtours team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team captain is yours truly, <strong>Horia M\u0103ru\u0219c\u0103<\/strong>. Born in a mountain city, Sibiu, I wandered the Carpathian trails from an early age, on foot and on skis in the beginning, and on the bike later on. The passion for mountain activities lead to a professional mountain guide licence in 1998, being a member of the Romanian Mountain Guides Association (RMGA) ever since.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14295 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220401_142738_1600-450x600.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220401_142738_1600-450x600.webp 450w, https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220401_142738_1600-1152x1536.webp 1152w, https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220401_142738_1600-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220401_142738_1600-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_20220401_142738_1600.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Starting with 2018 I am also a MIAS qualified Level 1 and 2 mtb guide. From 2022 I am involved in the RIMS Initiative, part of the wider <em><strong>EO-MTB ing &#8211; European Organisation of Mountain Bike Instructor-Guides<\/strong><\/em> movement.<\/p>\n<p>Following journalism and communication studies at Bucharest University, I focused initially on video production and anthropology documentary film-making, and also on photography, graphic and web design.<\/p>\n<p>Since early 2000 I am free-lancing, alternating <a title=\"marusca.ro\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marusca.ro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo, video and design projects<\/a> with trekking tours in the Carpathians, while doing a lot of mountain biking as a hobby. <strong>mtbtours.ro<\/strong> started as a biker&#8217;s blog and then gradually changed into a web platform for publishing and promoting our mountain bike tours. I am fluent in English, good at French and I have a basic grasp of German.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12146 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190918_125555_square.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190918_125555_square.jpg 634w, https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190918_125555_square-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190918_125555_square-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG_20190918_125555_square-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mihai Constantenec <\/strong>shares the passion for mountains, mountain activities and specially mountain biking. A licensed mountain guide himself, member of RMGA, Mihai is a main character in our early recky tours published on mtbtours.ro, starring in many of the photos and videos. In the last years he also guided some of our tours and we hope to see him more and more often in that position.<\/p>\n<p>Mihai graduated the sports section of the Transylvania University in Bra\u0219ov, with a degree in skiing and mountain biking. In 2014 he added a mountain bike guide licence obtained in Austria and from 2018 he is MIAS qualified, Level 1 and 2. Mihai is based in Wien, he is fluent in German, and speaks pretty good English.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in a trail running tour in the Romanian mountains, he is the man to talk to. Drop him a message at karpaten.trails@gmail.com.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team captain is yours truly, Horia M\u0103ru\u0219c\u0103. Born in a mountain city, Sibiu, I wandered the Carpathian trails from an early age, on foot and on skis in the beginning, and on the bike later on. 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