Hi 👋! This is The Running Ginger: Marta, a runner, writer and literature junkie, software engineer and passionate traveller! 🏃♀️ 👩🦰 📚 🤓 🌎
She started running with her father when she was little. Since then she has finished all the World Marathon Majors (some of them under 4 hours), a Half Marathon in every Continent, and multiple distances in 56 countries.
She has run along very special places like the River Congo in DRC, the deserts in Petra and Saudi Arabia, the ice cap in Greenland, a Frozen lake in Norway, 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 she crossed the finish line as first female overall in the Half Marathon 🥇🥇🥇!
In this blog she posts about her running experiences when travelling, and combines it with her love for literature (with one special book 📙 for every special run), as well as travel tips and trip recommendations based on her experience, art and history.
When she is not running somewhere around the world, she loves 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 91 countries, in all continents, and visited the 7 wonders of the world.
- 🏃♀️ Ran in 56 countries, in all continents.
She has enjoyed visiting the 7 Wonders of the World, running in some of them:
More posts coming!
Running with Marta it’s her partner-in-crime Roger, also a software engineer, who describes himself as somebody who is “running against his will”.
Despite this, Roger has also completed all the World Marathon Majors, a Half Marathon in every Continent, and multiple distances in 55 countries.
He is bound to keep asking: “do we need to, 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 90 countries, in all continents, and has visited the 7 wonders of the world.
- 🏃♀️ Ran in 56 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✅