Runners Story - Carolina

Today, we are sharing a story from Carolina.She is sharing how she has started running, the running experience during the pandemic, and much more! Let’s get started!My name is Carolina Corcuera Figueras and I am 33 years old. I am from Catalunya, in Spain (around 200km from Barcelona) and I’ve been living in Brussels for the past 10 years. After unfortunately losing my mum and ending my marriage...

Runners in Spotlight - Virginia

Today we are interviewing Virginia from the United States!She is sharing her experience around running and how she and her daughter Pibby went forward with their plans to run for an event that they couldn’t attend due to the COVID-19 restrictions. Do you want to have a smile on your face and positive energy in your mind? Then let’s start hearing their story!!...

Inspirational People in the Running Community

Not everyone is a born runner. But even those who were born to run can continue to amaze us. Some runners push the limits of impossible and inspire us to want to do more, just because they pushed harder, ran longer, or just overcame their own demons and obstacles. Not only do we admire their accomplishments; their actions makes us believe that if we really put our minds to something, we can, likew...

For blind runners in Beirut, a vision of glory awaits

Running a marathon is difficult enough as it is, but doing so as a blind person, less than five months after taking up the sport, is an extraordinary task. But as the days count down to the 2018 BLOM Bank Beirut Marathon on November 11, that’s exactly what Ghina Achkar, a 26-year-old Lebanese woman, is preparing to do. Achkar turned blind during high school but when she takes to the line next mont...

Hassan Dia's story - BLOM Bank Beirut Marathon

Every race is special in its own way, but this year’s BLOM Bank Beirut Marathon will carry extra meaning for Hassan Dia, a 22-year-old Lebanese hand cyclist. Not only will the November 11 race wind its way around the streets of his home city, but it will also offer the rising star a golden opportunity to boost his qualification hopes for the 2020 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. “It’s the most beautiful...

Prologue - I love to hate running

Running sucks! - at least that is what probably went through my mind when I started running on a regular basis after a life of playing football. It was 2011 and I had just started University in Gothenburg. My time was limited and I had to find something to keep myself in relatively good shape. I tried a few sports, looking to find a new hobby but everywhere I went I felt like an outsider coming in...

The Big Five or Major Six

One ultimate goal, the Big Five or eventually the Major Six.September 2015, I just finished the 10EM, which is the same as 16km, at the DamtotDam in Amsterdam.It went smooth, even without proper training and that makes me courageous. A bit overconfident maybe, but well that has taken me to some awesome places. 'If I can run 10EM like this, then I can actually try and run a half marathon with some ...

ÜBER LIMASSOL AUF DEN ROTEN TEPPICH: MEIN TRAINING FÜR DEN HAMBURG MARATHON

 Eins meiner liebsten Motivationslieder (egal, ob Wettkampf oder Training), dass ich gedanklich singe, wenn´s mir schwer fällt. Und gerade in der Marathonvorbereitung und natürlich dann im Wettkampf kommt immer wieder der Punkt, an dem der Kopf lieber aufhören möchte und versucht, den Körper davon zu überzeugen, dass er auch aufhört. Trotzdem (oder doch eher genau deshalb?) laufe ich dieses Jahr i...

Reason to keep going

In 2013 I was walking at the beautifull city of Cádiz, Spain, where I was to learn Spanish. I saw people running and thought: “What can it be that those people keep on running, isn’t that boring? At that time, I lost approximately twenty kilograms and had some problems loosing the last five, to get to a healthy weight. So I told myself: “let’s try running for 5 times. If I don’t like it, I can cho...