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 all the World Marathon Majors (some of them under 4 hours), a Half Marathon in every Continent, and multiple distances in 63 countries.
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, Ivalo National Park in Madagascar, Santa Claus Village in Lapland or 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 98 countries, in all continents, and visited the 7 wonders of the world.
- 🏃♀️ Ran in 63 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 World Marathon Majors, a Half Marathon in every Continent, and multiple distances in 63 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 97 countries, in all continents, and has visited the 7 wonders of the world.
- 🏃♀️ Ran in 63 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✅