My guest is Super mom Luisa Rivas, she is 56, mother of two amazing boys Max 26 and Marky 22. She was born in El Salvador and lived there for 19 years. In 1983 she migrated to US and has been happily living here since then.
When She was a kid she was always involved in sports, mostly playing basketball, but in 1978 when she was 13 her older brother died in a tragedy, her heart and soul were broken, she desperately wanted to grieve and she began running in the morning, She didn’t have a clue what she was doing. Every time when she used to run some miles in the streets people would teased her. In 1991 she ran her first LA Marathon, that was the day she felt she belonged to this country, running was her language, her culture, her identity.
She hasn’t stopped running since 1978, in the almost 43 years of her running journey she is always looking for ways to keep getting strong. She has become her kids running trainer, an ultra runner, she’s completed back to back races.
Hasn’t been easy? Not all, being the mother of two boys with special needs is very demanding, making time to train is really difficult, but always possible. Learning how to manage her time wisely is a priority, injuries are almost inevitable, but she always looks for ways to train.
Her running story is about never giving up, it’s about empowering women of all ages to give their best, it’s to unlabeled a disability because disability is just a word and not a lifestyle, her story is for everyone, her story is to remind us that age is just a number, there’s always room to grow, no matter how young or old we are!
