Alan Fortuny Sicart

Sport and adventure, is the ultimate conquest of the useless . The exploration of our body and mental capabililities to perform well on a game, or the capacity to travel into the unknown, has captured my heart and energy in the last 10 years, and the fire is stronger than ever . Sport has the power of change lives (Adidas moto) , I do beleive it so deeply, that for me, working in the sports industry, is a dream come true, despite many discrepancies in my vision with the mainstream approach to sport, adventure and competition. For thousands of millions of humans in the world, physical activity is not a necessity to aquire the means for living. The division of labor and specialization, moved most labor from agriculture to the industry and services sectors. Keeping aside the unfair, innacurate and missmanaged notion of agriculture as a small and almost irrelevant part of our system, less and less people are needed, given our temporal abundance of dense forms of energy, for that purpose. ...

Doing sports have shaped my life in multiple aspects: my body form, my overall health, my mental strength, my connection to other living things (specially not human ones) …I only have grateful words for the experiences and people that the journey is bringing me so far… We are all aging, some better than others, but decay and death is inevitable, are injuries are getting more frequent and likely. How many knee injured friends do you have when you where in your earlier 20’s? How is it now at your 30’s,40’s…? How many days you recall with little pains here and there in the university or high school? What about now? Training has commonly the goal of development and improvement. For many runners, speed is the main kpi, together with endurance. We all want to run longer and faster, forever…but even the best training plans, and in the best circumstances, the future comes with unexpected, and sometimes tough surprises. Injury A not so random day, something breaks. It is a str...

Cities and towns are places were we found opportunity, cultural enrichment and social constrasts. In wild places we seek to enrich our soul, have adventures and see those monuments of life that are out of stock in the cities. Runners, climbers, hikers, skiers... dream in the comfort of their house, what will come next, what will be the next trip to mountains, forests or beautiful coast spots. We train during the week in gyms, crowded areas or even sorruounded by cars to get fit to hit our next place to play. The truth is, that those places are in profound danger. Our ancient forest have been cut and replaced by young monotonous forest crops, with the only purpose of growing fast wood, loosing truly monuments of ancient time, the gatheres of our health and the most rich biodiversity. Our coast has been devastated with superfluous, unregulated, and excessive construction, not being used most of the year, and constructed without considering environmental regulations and recommendat...

Today I would like to write about the importance of having mental reslience. As life, running  comes with unexpected ups and downs, and especially for the latter, we need to be prepared. Physical training is what occupies most if not all our training plan:  speed, uphills, strength, endurance, tempo, mobility... all make our body fitter and hence more resilient for what our adventures and races will bring. But how do we make our minds ready too? First, let's take the time to review the meaning of the word resilience: " the  ability  to be  happy ,  successful , etc. again after something  difficult  or  bad  has  happened Such a pretty word! that's why mental resilience, together with physical reslience, makes a person and a athlete in general well rounded! Notice that no matter how well we sleep, eat and train, bad luck can place in, and the unexpected could put us out of the path we were willing to hold. Hard and good...

 After knowing your why and setting your goals for this year, it is time to plan your trainings. Although the details of your training blocks will change a lot depending of your history, capacities and ambitions, there are some general principles that should apply to most of us. Let’s go through them! Setting the calendar… Define a calendar that is realistic with your experience, condition, availability and ambition. Many people register to the races just because others do or increase the difficulty too quick or at times where work of life commitments are very demanding. Take a holistic view of your life when you set a calendar that is not too stressful yet exciting. Prioritize your goals and segment them. Make sure there are not more than 3-5 big goals per year.   Give time for other things in your life that require space and are equally or more important Make sure the “big days” related to personal or work events are far from your key goals. Space at least ...

It is fairly early in the year, so our to do list for 2020 are quite full of  fresh wishes. Before going mercilessly toward achieving them all, take a tea, and revise your why's . I promise is just worth. Maybe you are one of the few who manage get all done and not lossing your health, partner, job, friends while achieving everything you aim for. Maybe you have achieve peace and nirvana, and there is no emptiness or to business in the busy. In that case, please skip that post, you got it! For the rest of the mortals it is possible than even in the unlikely case of checking all the boxes, we will find empty. The reason being, to my opinion, is a superficial evaluation of our why. Here I would like to explore with you the different dimensions of the why in sport, and how can we come with a journey in sport that is fullfilling and exciting. Very few of us can explain why we start running or climbing mountains. It just happen.  A random day with a random person we moved fast...

Running and moving fast in the mountains seems to the outsiders such a simple and unproductive way to spend our free time. The reality is that taking the decision to become a sky runner (a person who wants to move fast in all types of terrain and climate) is not only fascinating, but also can add a lot of meaning and joy to our lives. If you are reading this, I assume you are a runner, mountaineer or just a curious person wanting to know more about how those apparently crazy, yet happy people find time and resources to become goats while living in almost flat cities. Before I step into the how or even the why, I would like to share my own definition of sky running and what I put into this concept. As in road running, where there are many different fields, distances and courses, there is also into the concept of sky running.   Sky running is the most agile and light way to move into natural terrain, searching for challenging ways to arrive to the submit of a mountain or j...