Hi! I'm a recent graduate of Cornell who took the past two years to go after my dream of running in the Olympic Games instead of start working the typical 9-5 job. My dream came true a couple weeks ago when I represented my home country of Spain in Rio 2016. Now I'm taking some time to explore the world, visit friends, and do all the things that I was forced to sacrifice to achieve my goal.

Por qué estoy en Couchsurfing

Basically for two reasons : First, athletics doesn't pay very much and I can't afford luxurious travel arrangements. Second, and probably more importantly, I simply wouldn't want to travel luxuriously. I want to meet new people and make friends, getting to know not just the place but also the people. It's my preferred way of travel.

Intereses

• reading
• music
• track and field
• medicine
• film

Música, películas y libros

Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, Cat Stevens, The Tallest Man on Earth, The War on Drugs

1940's John Huston, 1950's Akira Kurosawa, 1960's Sergio Leone, 1970's Francis Ford Coppola, and much more... anything that makes me think or feel or learn

John Steinbeck, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Jack Kerouac, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Nikolai Gogol, Paulo Coelho, Joseph Heller, Alexandre Dumas

Algo increíble que he hecho

I am a Rio 2016 Olympian, ranked 10th in the world in my discipline. I am proud to say I made my childhood dream come true this year.

Países en los que he vivido

Canada, Spain, United States