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00:00Although formally founded a year ago, her first official training, Ljubljana Athletic Club Runners, was held on Wednesday, June 22nd at the Ljubljana City Stadium in Zgona.
00:10The club was founded on the initiative of Dijana Mandžeralo, a Ljubljana runner who has been one of the best semi-marathons and marathons in the BIH for years.
00:18She has been running for other cities and clubs for years, so the idea was to gather all Ljubljana runners into one club.
00:24Ljubljana has always had good runners, so there are a lot of talented runners, but Ljubljana has never had an athletic club.
00:32So, a year ago, we founded the Athletic Club Runners Ljubljana.
00:37So, our runners are already competing in numerous races, often winning medals.
00:43Although we are a young club, we are already recognizable in these races.
00:47Although some of the club members have already competed in races and won medals, the goal through the training is to gather the youngest, children, but also older men and women, attracting to athletics and the world of running.
00:57There are a lot of runners who run from children and adults, who run from 4 to 13 kilometers.
01:04I mean, you can no longer consider them recreational runners.
01:08I consider recreational runners and amateurs to be people who run up to 2 kilometers, purely recreational.
01:16Now, there are children who are not, and women, adults who have never run for them and would like to try.
01:25So, everyone is invited, everyone is welcome to come, so we will see how many, who can, what are the physical capabilities of each of them.
01:34One of those in the club who have already achieved very good results and the best runner in her age in BiH, Mladana Umimadžeralo.
01:43The last time I was there was Široki Brijeg, their race to stop the tanks.
01:48Mostar was a little further away, a long time ago, but I'm still a runner.
01:53Third place, my mom first, and so on.
01:57The goal in the club is to attract young people who, like Naomi, could achieve in athletics.
02:01There are a lot of them, my generation is a little smaller, because there is a lot of pressure from school and everything, so you need to set up training.
02:08But a lot of young people are interested in those little adults, it's interesting to me, and I really like how it looks.
02:17The Albanian Athletics Club has attracted a number of amateur runners who, with the help of the club, ran their first serious races.
02:25It was the first running semi-marathon, for which there is already a long-standing desire.
02:32However, I did not realize it before, mostly because I spend my energy on the first 5-6 kilometers.
02:41With the help of Diana and the help of another friend, in a short period of a month, I prepared my first semi-marathon.
02:51The club is not strictly related to the athletic path or running through the city.
02:54It also has trail runners who already achieve very good results.
02:58It is a completely different sport from road running.
03:01Of course, when we prepare for a trail race, we also prepare on the road, but it is a completely different sport.
03:08We have unified it as we love mountaineering, we love to run, so why not run on the mountains.
03:15What I love about trail running is that at any time when it's hard for you, you can get up, you can rest.
03:21Somehow on the road, it's not like you run 10 kilometers, so you walk a little bit.
03:27On trail running, you constantly change your vision, you're a little in the woods, you're a little on the rocks, you're a little on the ridge, and that's the charm that trail running gives.
03:38There is certainly beautiful nature for running, but what is not there is the athletic path.
03:43We miss the athletic path, the stadium, you see, we have a little water there, we can swim.
03:50But still, there are cities that do not have an athletic path, that run on the road, that have nothing, I mean, they don't even have a path like this.
03:58So I hope in the near future, because in all cities running has now become very popular and those athletic paths are being done.
04:06It's a big expense, but it also pays off to invest in it.
04:12It certainly pays off to invest the city of Livno in the athletic path, but also in the young Livonian Athletic Club Runners.
04:17They have just started, and they are already very good, and most importantly, very fast.