María: "I love running, it's what I enjoy the most"

We interviewed Maria prior to her debut at Santander Triathlon Series Madrid "I love to run, it's what I enjoy the most"

 

 

Maria, thanks to Skechers, will face the next June 18 to his first Sprint Triathlon in Santander Triathlon Series, together with her companions Monica  and Cristina and after the test we will share in TriatlonNoticias.com a summary of this shared "adventure".

Cheerful, sportsman, hardworking but above all a person committed to their goals. Multidisciplinary and Multisport, alone or accompanied, just consider an objective opens your mind to find the way and fight for it until you achieve it. Any time is good to put on shoes and go for a run.

At the 15 years started this adventure and today with only 26 years has already completed 3 half marathons and several popular races. He combines his work as a beautician while he prepares his oppositions of Physical Education Teaching.

The next June 18 will face his first triathlon in Madrid, a test that we are sure will always do with that exceptional smile and good energy that he transmits wherever he goes.

How and when did you start in the sport?

I have always liked sports, perhaps because I have lived in my family environment.

I started running in Baccalaureate…. 8-9 years ago. One day I put on my shoes and went for a run! At the beginning my greatest challenge was to run 3 complete laps of the park, just over 4 km and so… I continued to add kilometers to this day that I have done several popular races, including 3 half marathons.

When did you meet triathlon?

I started swimming last year ... and one day I said to myself, and why not triathlon? Then I joined the Tribe River Triathlon Club in my town and started training with them this 2016 and ... I was hooked ... Today I am already enrolled in my first sprint triathlon that will be the next June 18.

With whom do you share this hobby?

Apart from the people of the club with whom we went out to train 3 days in the week with my boyfriend Antonio, who besides being one of the coaches of the club, other days we went out to do sports together or ... to put the number together to run a career!

How is your day?

Studying all the time! This month of June I will also have the oppositions of Teaching. Then I combine it with work in an aesthetic center and of course, training triathlon (smiles).

"Going out alone or with Antonio, or sharing training sessions with my colleagues in the club is perfect to disconnect from studies and work"

How would you define yourself in three words?

Cheerful, constant and ... sportsman (smiles). They also tell me that I am a "demanding" person, maybe it is because when I set a goal I work with perseverance until I get it. It could be that if it is like that (smiles)

Is there anything that scares you for the day of the test?

Maybe swimming, I've never swum in open water. As if I was afraid of "not seeing" ... getting lost in the water. On the other hand I think that, in the end, I will even enjoy more of this segment for this very reason, for this uncertainty, an adventure !!!

And if I tell you, swim, bike or run?

"Run ... I LOVE"

(Think ...) I'd tell you to run, no doubt.

Do you have any "mania" or "custom" before a competition?

The truth is yes. One of my older brothers also runs, before the socks had more seams and my brother told me: "Put them backwards so they do not hurt you". Now the socks are more "sophisticated" and it is not necessary ... but I keep doing it !. I do not know .......... It's like it gives me luck (smiles)

What is the moment you remember as more exciting in the sport?

Emotional moment ... (thinks) ... My first duathlon.

That day it was raining and cold. January in the province of Burgos ... it did not seem like a good day to debut alone in this test. But I had to do it! and had to do it alone.

Antonio came to look for me at home ...... ... he gave me the last push, I left with doubts, fear ... but I left! ... and finally everything happened ...

“I was entering the finish line. I had done it! and there was Antonio waiting for me to give me a hug…. "

María, thanks to Skechers, will face her first Triathlon Sprint in Santander Triathlon Series on June 18, along with her companions Mónica and Cristina and after the test we will share a summary of this shared “adventure” on TriatlonNoticias.com.

 Good luck Maria, we are sure that your perseverance and passion for sport will take you to your goal!

Photo: Iván Sastre

SKECHERS, THE OFFICIAL SNEAKERS OF SANTANDER TRIATHLON SERIES 2016