Magdalena Sznigir is a 30-year-old Polish endurance sports fan (triathlon, mountaineering and ultra running).

She lives both in Armenia and Sao Miguel (one of the Azores Islands) because this way she's close to her beloved Caucasus mountains and the ocean.

She speaks a bunch of languages: Polish, English, Russian, French and Armenian and in 2023 she wants to get fluent in Portuguese as well.

In July 2022 she set a Fastest Known Time record (FKT), the very first one in Armenia. She ran-walked 200 kilometres around Lake Sevan in 1 day, 11 hours and 29 minutes.

It was a huge challenge, but worth it.

Extremely tough, but life-changing.

What we talk about:

* How she manages to live in two different parts of the world

* Languages and some great language learning tips

* Her Fastest Known Time (FKT) Record

* How friends and beers were all she needed when things got complicated 😉

* The lessons she learned from those 200 km running around Lake Sevan

Some of her recommendations:

Races:

MIUT Madeira (Trail running)

IronKing (Triathlon around Lake Sevan)

Epic 110 (Trail Run Azores Sao Miguel)

Running books:

Can't Hurt Me and Never Finished by David Goggins

Eat & Run by Scott Jurek

Any book written by Kilian Jornet or Emelie Forstberg

Podcast she mentions:

Freetrail with host Dylan Bowman

You can follow Magdalena on Instagram (The Magdalorian) and, of course, on Strava.

Huge thank you to Magdalena for sharing her passion for ultra running and endurance sports with me. 😍

If you want to find out how you can improve your English, listening or reading about running stories, visit my web page and hit the subscribe button: https://englishforthelongrun.com

Bye for now, and enjoy English for the long run!

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