I started running in 2013, looking to get back to nature.

Everything else came from there. Trail races, open water, a half Ironman, swimming in lakes in winter with friends. Many of those events I share with my family. I still train almost every day.

Over these years I have met dozens of organisers, teachers and instructors. People who put together an outing on a Sunday morning, who keep a group going for years, who wait for you at the last kilometre. Trail and open water taught me a way of moving where the one in front waits for the one behind. No app invents that. They build it.

I have been building software for twenty-five years, and it is still my favourite pastime. Putting together platforms that solve something is what I know how to do. JOUNA is that, put to work for what sport has given me.

I made it for them. So that publishing a class costs nothing, so that their schedule reaches beyond their WhatsApp group, so that getting paid is not the problem. If it saves one of them time and brings them new people, it was worth it.

It is my way of giving something back.