Inspired by a former Olympic athlete living in her childhood village, Laura Luengo was 10 when she took up running. There was never any turning back. Constantly chasing her next goal, she made her way through the ranks and, in 2023, earned a sports scholarship at the High Performance Center in Madrid. The same year, in Valencia, she made Spain’s best-ever Marathon debut. Now, running is everything. “First it was a game,” she says. “Then it became a lifestyle.”