Ana Peleteiro: “I love being a mother, I enjoy it and I think I am a better version”

Ana Peleteiro Brión (Ribeira, 1995) is delighted to be a mother and is enjoying the first months of her daughter Lúa, but at the same time she is already on the starting ramp to compete again, because after the specific work she did during her pregnancy she has now continued to train like a shot final placement to re-emerge in May. She has no doubts that she will go to the World Championships in Budapest in August at 100 percent and announces that she will return to athletics in a better version after her maternity leave. More mature, calm and self-sacrificing. On Monday, she was in Vigo, as an ambassador of Lu, the first Galician electronic sports club.

— How does the return to training look like?

— The fact that I worked during pregnancy meant that after nine months outside and a caesarean section, two months after giving birth, I was already in top shape. In training, I feel the same as the rest of my teammates. I am very surprised at how good I feel.

“Does he practice the same type of training as before?”

-Equal. I adapted to the group without any problems, but apart from that I continue to work with Crys (Dyaz) on the whole pelvic floor and core issue, because the part that costs the most to get back in place is the stomach, which was gigantic. In this sense, we continue to work and even strengthen to be better than we were before. It seems important to me, since there has been a change. We have to come back better than we were.

— How do you feel when you do a certain job?

— I feel fulfilled, because I notice that I do something more than others and I know that when something else is done, it brings results. I’ve always done invisible work, outside of training with Iván Pedrosa, but now I’m doing even more.

— What does Pedroso tell you?

“He’s surprised how well I’m doing. He sees that I have a greater sense of sacrifice, as before I gave up, and now I manage to suffer more. It is true that I did not like to suffer much and, when I began to suffer, I already ran away. And not now, because since I trained for nine months with a huge belly, now being a figure makes me happy and I complain less.

—Do you have a specific date of return to the competition?

We don’t have a date. We know where we would like to go out, but the place is not exactly determined. Everything will now depend on the three-week concentration that we will do in Barcelona, ​​where we are already working on specific work. So far, we have been working on the pre-season and depending on the concentration, I decide where I will go. I wanted to do it in the Diamond League test, but it’s still a masochistic goal to fight all the big ones and I’m still betting on a mid-level match in Spain.

“Will it be inevitable?”

– I think it will be at the beginning or middle of May.

— What is the change between Ana before and Ana now?

—I think I am more reasonable and mature; After all, I have a girlfriend and everything I do is for her, I notice that. But, at the same time, I’m still the same adventurous Ana, a little crazy, fun… I like to show myself like that. It’s clear that motherhood changes us, but it shouldn’t mutate you, because you’re still the same person. I love being a mother and I really enjoy it. I think I’m a better version of what I was, because I fight less, get angry less, don’t waste time on stupid things, focus on my own and appreciate my family even more, especially my parents, seeing them as grandparents was one of the the most beautiful things that happened in my life.

— Do you think you will reach 100 percent at the World Championship in Budapest?

— Of course, now I will be 100% Anin at the World Cup, which is not the same 100% as at the Games, one does not know. This is a project and the goal is to be 200 percent in Paris, but if I get to the World Cup at 100 percent, that’s a sign that I made a project and it went well. Above all, I want to see myself competitive again, because when you’re off the tracks, that’s what you lose the most and sometimes it’s hard to recover, but I have my mental coach, who will put me in my place and I know everything will turn out well. I’m going to the World Cup. Me, without limits.

He filed a report because of racist insults on the networks

Ana Peleteiro condemned the racist insults on her Instagram account last Sunday, and on Monday she filed a complaint with the police station in Ribeira. He did this to show that not everything works in the virtual world.

Why did you decide to file a complaint?

— The person in question committed three criminal acts: racism, insults and defamation and presented himself as a different person because he said he was my relative; So I thought about it and left. I’m tired of people on social media who think they can do whatever they want and decided to leave to at least scare him, but the police told me he’s in big trouble. It doesn’t affect me at all, but it affects someone else. Maybe this complaint will help someone think before doing it.

—Have you experienced any other episode of racism, either on the networks or on a personal level?

— Not so much on social networks, and on a personal level occasionally, but there are fools everywhere.