Hi 👋! This is The Running Ginger: Marta, a runner, writer and literature junkie, software engineer and passionate traveller! 🏃♀️ 👩🦰 📚 🤓 🌎
I started running with my father when I was little. Since then I have finished the Seven World Marathon Majors (some of them under 4 hours), a Half Marathon in every Continent, and multiple distances in 76 countries, having set foot in 111 countries and counting.
I have run along very special places like the River Congo in DRC, the deserts in Petra and Saudi Arabia, the ice cap in Greenland, Lake Tanganika in Burundi, a Frozen lake in Norway, Lake Abbe in Djibouti, a Volcano´s crater in Iceland, the least visited country in the world, Tuvalu, in the ancients ruins of Nan Madol…
Also in Ivalo National Park in Madagascar, in Santa Claus Village in Lapland or in King George Island in Antarctica.
In these last three races I crossed the finish line as first female overall in the Half Marathon 🥇🥇🥇!
In this blog I post about my running experiences when travelling, and combine it with my love for literature (with one special book 📙 for every special run), as well as travel tips and trip recommendations based on my experience.
When I am not running somewhere around the world, I love to write and read. From Agatha Christie to Paul Bowles, from Arturo Pérez Reverte to Merçè Rodoreda, from Karen Blixen to James Clavell.
Marta’s numbers:
- 🏅 Marathon PB: 3h 46m (Barcelona 2015)
- 🏅 Half Marathon PB: 1h 47m (London 2014)
- 🏅 10K PB: 48m 48sg (London 2015)
- 🌍 Set foot in 111 countries, in all continents, and visited the 7 wonders of the world.
- 🏃♀️ Ran in 76 countries, in all continents.
I have enjoyed visiting the 7 Wonders of the World, running in some of them:
More posts coming!
Running with me it’s my partner-in-crime Roger, also a software engineer, who describes himself as somebody who is “running against his will”.
Despite what the argues, Roger has also completed all the seven World Marathon Majors, a Half Marathon in every Continent, and multiple distances in 75 countries.
He is bound to keep asking: “Do we need to go, really?”
Roger’s numbers:
- 🏅 Marathon PB: 4h 08m (Barcelona Marathon 2015)
- 🏅 Half Marathon PB: 1h 47m (London 2014)
- 🏅 10K PB: 48m 48sg (London Hyde Park Run 2014)
- 🌍 Set foot in 110 countries, in all continents, and has visited the 7 wonders of the world.
- 🏃♀️ Ran in 76 countries, in all continents
SIX STAR FINISHERS
London✅ Chicago✅ Berlin✅ New York✅ Tokyo✅ Boston✅
7 CONTINENTS CHALLENGE FINISHERS Europe✅ Asia✅ Antartica✅ Africa✅ North America✅ South America✅ Oceania✅