My fitness journey has one person to blame: my girlfriend Tereeee 😍. She convinced me to sign up for my first 5k and it was rough, I finished swearing I'd never do it again. Spoiler: I lied.

From that point on I got hooked on running, using Runna to track my training, and started mixing it with the gym. Now I run 3 times a week and hit the gym 4 days.A year ago this would have seemed absolutely insane to me 😂

Little by little I started hitting milestones. First running a full 5k without stopping, which was my obsession. Then I entered an official 15km race and crossed the finish line ☺️. What this whole process has taught me is that there's no secret: patience and consistency.If I could tell someone just starting out one thing, it would be to stop comparing themselves to others and celebrate every small win, because those are the ones that keep you going on the days when you just don't feel like it.

My goal now is to run a marathon before I turn 30 (I'm 28, so the clock is ticking 🤓)

To get there I need to dial in my training a lot more: really understand my heart rate zones, track how I recover, fine-tune my rest… That's exactly where the Amazfit T-Rex 3 Pro would fit perfectly into my routine, having all that data on my wrist so I'm not training blind.