It is not my job and I do not organise my life around training. It is something I enjoy doing in my free time, fitting it around everything else.
I played tennis as a boy. Then, from around my twenties, sport practically disappeared from my life. There was work, studying programming and a family to build. And for more than twenty years, that was perfectly fine.
In 2015 I started running again. No memorable results: I mostly liked combining a half marathon with a trip. Stockholm, Amsterdam, Glasgow, Dublin and several races in Italy.
Then came padel. I got into it enough to become an instructor and reach the Italian second category.
Not my first serious road bike. Literally the first time I started cycling.
Three months later, in October 2022, I was in Lignano at the start of my first Olympic-distance triathlon.
From there, things got a little out of hand.
There was no original plan to get here. First Olympic races, then my first 70.3 in Cervia, and finally the Full distance.
I am a CTO at a company developing software, CRM and Customer Experience solutions within a large Italian group. I mainly work on artificial intelligence and CRM.
Most importantly, I like my work. A lot. Enough to spend part of my free time studying, reading and keeping up to date.
That is why I do not build my day around triathlon. I try to do the opposite.
I train early in the morning, sometimes at lunch and sometimes in the evening. Long rides and runs mostly end up on weekends.
The schedule does not always work. And when something has to be skipped, it gets skipped.
Because there are Serena and Giulia. My mother Renata and my father Vito. Friends. I like cooking. I like my work.
And I also like doing triathlon.
Not necessarily in that order.
I like training. I like preparing for a race. I like travelling to race. I like seeing whether I can do something a little better than the previous time.
And, evidently, I keep signing up.
My races