About me!

One of my favourite teachers, Alejandro Jodorowsky, says that it’s impossible to define yourself, while you’re still alive, only dead people can be defined. How can you put a galaxy of endless possibilities into words? I started this blog as a Vege Athlete, but it may be difficult to put into such frames everything that I’m going to share, as long as I want to do it in a honest and authentic way. It’s a pretty good starting point though, as this name contains two things that are really close to my heart: plants and sport.

"Vege" for Vegetal. Plants are medicines.

Fruit medicine, never enough!

I truly believe that everyone of us should find a unique diet for themselves. It’s extremely important, as we become, what we nourish our souls and bodies with. What’s more, everybody's different, so what's good for me, is not necessarily good for others. However I believe, that plants have everything that human body and soul need, if one’s open and ready enough to take what they offer. When I decided a year ago that I don’t want to eat meat anymore, I wasn’t sure if it’s for good. Before that I had some periods of vegetarian diet (even to 6 months), but somehow I started eating meat again. This time the calling of plants was too intensive though. I started working with vegetarian and vegan food, I learnt what to do with different fruits, vegetables, cereals and spices, I spent more and more time in nature, running on trails, studying also the shamanic medicine plants, surrounding myself with different kinds of them all the time. I realised that plants are powerful medicines for human body and soul and I was the one, who desperately needed a cure...

"Athletes" for Sports. Working with body through run.

Looks like somebody has stolen my kilos :)

My romance with sports started about 6 years ago, in 2009. After pregnancy I was 85kg, with 162cm height. In deep depression, with auto destructive behaviours, blinded by really nasty, bad habits, I hated myself and my body. With help of some unhealthy diets I reduced my weight to 70kg quite fast. Then I started going to the gym and learning more and more about health, food and well-being. I discovered running in autumn 2012 and in short time I completely fell in love with it. 

Straight from the very beginning I knew my goal: marathons and ultras. After a year since my first 15-minute jogging, I run a full marathon in October 2013 and a couple of months later, in June 2014, my first 100km mountain ultra.

Tuusulanjärven Maraton - Finish, April 2014

Meanwhile my weight was still dropping and my figure was changing, but it wasn’t that important for me anymore. The most important thing is that I found a deep connection with my body, stopped treating it as something separated from me, but started seeing it as a wonderful, integral part of my true self. I learnt to consider it a spiritual manifestation in a physical unique form of mine and to treat it with love and respect, for the first time in my life. Running is my beloved discipline, as it involves me in a total way: spiritually and physically. I even replaced meditation, that I had practiced for 2 years, with running, when I discovered how purifying it works for my soul. It’s a beautiful way to make body and soul resonate as one, with every single breath.

Besides that, I’m a 30 year old mom and wife. I came from Poland to Finland about 8 years ago. I speak Finnish fluently, but I want to run this blog in English, so that all of my old, new and future friends can understand. I work as a cook in a kindergarten, but I’m almost done with my Master Degree in Tourism and recreation (specialisation in Sports management) and soon I’ll desperately need a new job :) I love nature, arts, tattoos, music and my freaky life is throughout spiritual in the strangest, most fascinating ways. 

For runners: my PB in 10K is 50:35, half marathon 1:48, marathon 3:55, longest ultra 100km in 16hours :)

15K race in Poland, February 2014