Learn Spanish for Running: Race Day Vocab in Mexico City

About this episode

You're at the start line in Mexico City — thousands of runners around you, volunteers calling out instructions in Spanish, the starting gun about to fire — and you can't parse a single word. Pablo fixes that. He took his friend Jake through the full race experience: picking up the bib and chip the day before (el dorsal, el chip de tiempo, los tenis), the start line on Paseo de la Reforma (la salida), managing pace and altitude (el ritmo), the water station at kilometer five (el puesto de agua), and what waits at the end (la meta, la medalla, el récord personal). Every scene plays out in Spanish and English side by side — so next time you stand on a start line in Latin America, you're running with the language, not stumbling behind it.

The full illustrated comic, study guide, transcript, audio & vocab are in the pack.