How it all started

While Santi has been into sports basically all his life, I have not. Or not really. I did do some team sports in High School (Basket Ball and Crew) and I was also into different kinds of adventure sports all through my youth (Skiing and Wakeboarding mostly), however I was never really any good at it and never obtained any capacity for endurance sports.

Santi and I married when I was 29 and our two children were born soon after. I remember my thirties as the decade of diapers, vaccines, playdates - and being a full time working executive with lots of travel for work. Over those years, I put on some extra weight and always felt tired and worn out.

A few months before my 40th birthday, I realised that basically all I did everyday was get up, go to work, come home, solve family logistics and go to bed. I was starting to have health problems (with my blood sugar) and while I was the youngest, and only female, member of the Sales Director team in my company - all the others were in better shape than me. All in all, I felt unhealthy and unhappy but didn’t know how to change it.

One evening, Santi asked if there was anything special I wanted for my birthday. I was unable to come up with an answer at first. Until, some days later, I was sitting in my day-to-day traffic jam and an idea popped up:

What if I hired a personal trainer to help me break out of my sedentary, inactive life style?

From personal experience, I knew it was not the same to go on a self-controlled diet, as compared to having a professional nutritionist give you tips and guidance - and follow up on how well you are sticking to the plan. So I thought that having a trainer would increase my chances of breaking the vicious circle of “I am tired so I don´t feel like working out - I don´t work out so I always feel tired”.

Being that I travelled a lot for work, I made the practical decision that my goal would be to learn how to run. I could take the running shoes along on my travels and run around the hotel’s neighbourhood. My thought was that, once I was able to run 5k at a decent pace (say, in 30 minutes), I would be able to pick up any other sport which would be more fun than running.

After work, when I came home, I shared my thoughts with my husband…

Would you pay a 25 year-old to bring your wife into shape? My hubby did!

So, one week after my 40th birthday, on April 4, 2016, my new life began.

On my 40th at Le Comptoir in Marrakech after a 1-week road trip through Morocco y my parents and family