Every week we highlight one of our members from the TRU TRIBE Run Team. Meet Rocio, our first international member! I met her while assisting Danny Dreyer at Kripalu in 2016 and trained her for her first 50K last year!  I was able to do her video analysis over Zoom while she was in an Uber in Mexico City (in 2019 before Zoom was a thing 🤣).  If we can do it, so can you!

Why did you start running?
I had an accident doing mountain bike; it was kind of hard, not only for the rehabilitation, but to gain confidence on biking again. So, in order of not losing conditioning I start doing 10K’s

What age did you start running?
37 years old more or less

How old are you now?
52 years old

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned so far from your running journey?
I passed all the cycles in running; wow period, technical period / perfectionism; obsess period / competition to others ( vanity ); and now I’m – I think – in a more matured relationship with running, I want to enjoy it and for example, help blind people to run ( running can serve others ).

What advice would you give a beginner runner? 
Don’t be so hard with your self, that doesn’t help. If you are gentle and patient, this back to your running better

What would you do differently knowing what you know now?
Never forget enjoy doing this. Make friends doing this,  consider this a privilege and take pictures !  .

What is your longest race distance and why?
50k it took me time understand that I’m not a speed person. I’m more endurance person. That’s why I ran my first 50k in 2019

Do you have a bucket list race or distance?
Bhutan and India marathon; Sidney and New Zealand; Tokio and Stockholm. I have this crazy idea of doing half marathon in Antarctic ( the full race scare me )

What has been your favorite race and/or distance so far?
All of I have done have something special. I would repeat every single race I have done

What is your favorite color?
Primary colors

What is your favorite post race food and drink?
Hot cakes or pan cakes / waffle with scramble eggs and coffee

Anything else you want to share with the TRU TRIBE Run Team 
Everybody or the most part of runners I have met especially in Mexico (we are teens with the sport), are crazy about the speed. I like to have found a tribe that has more transcend view about the sport and more purposes as well.

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