Alan Fortuny Sicart

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 training is necessary but far from suffi