You feel more energetic, you have interaction with other people who maybe are on the same path and with the same goals, you make friends, you just start to feel so good that you see life from another perspective.

I started when I was 35, I had only been a mom for two years and my body changed a lot after my son was born. People always say "when you breastfeed sales, hahahaha for me it was the opposite. During pregnancy I did not gain weight, but when the baby was born, my anxieties were triggered, postpartum stress was present, and I ended up gaining a few kilos with it. that he was not satisfied.

So I started training in my brothers' gym (crossfit), they are the athletes of the family, tall and with an athletic body, no matter how much they eat a lot hahahaha. But I can also say that they are the best engine to drive anyone, they are the best coaches, believe me with them it is very difficult to give up.

At the beginning it was not easy at all, I must say, the first weeks I had pain in places where I never thought they could hurt me, muscles that I did not know I had. But my brother told me, "You are just waking up your body and those parts that you have never used of it." But in two weeks she was still ready for more. Surrounded by positive people and motivating each other in each exercise, in each repetition.

Starting from there, I started running motivated by my partner and that in some training routines they demanded it. Then we signed up for our first race, it was only 5 kilometers, but I couldn't complete it. For me it was disappointing, part of being me is that I never leave anything by half, I always finish what I start. So for me it was the beginning of a new challenge.

I had always hated running, what's the point of running? ... as a friend said, why run if no one is chasing you! 😅

Then my challenge began, yes I will. And I started to do better during my workouts.
With other colleagues from the gym we did groups and go running on weekends and to attend races.

Then I began to enroll in races 🤪 and from there, due to the feeling of well-being that crossing the finish line gave me, achieving it over and over again, and determined to do so, I would touch myself at some point. And meeting so many people from different places with the same passion ... is priceless. (I still have good friends that I met at the races)

It became a passion; passion that began to motivate others to want to do it, and that gives much more satisfaction to be an inspiration to others and the commitment to be a constant guide. I ran charity races for many childhood cancer organizations, breast cancer, among other world-ranking races.

But I didn't stop there, I climbed into the world of running and opened up to experience something more difficult like TrailRunning (mountain races), outside day or night, in cold mountains or in deserts. The asphalt became boring after experiencing the trail, being in the middle of nature challenging your mind and body at all times, definitely the best feeling in the world. That motivated me even more to do other things that perhaps at other times in my life I would have been self-conscious about doing them.

In conclusion, everything can start with a little motivation, but it will always depend on the environment and how much it drives you to continue, on the people around you and how much they motivate or support you in your goals. Motivation is the first impulse, discipline is the habit that will lead you to be constant.

Thank you for reading me, I hope you liked it and it motivates you.
Remember that progress, even slow, will always be progress.

Changes are challenges that open doors to new opportunities👍