TITE TOGNI
( yoga )

A certified IYENGAR® Yoga instructor in Italy since 2008, is also a strong ultra trail runner who 'runs long and hard in the mountains thanks to yoga' that keeps her fit and mentally focused .

In her 40s her Marathon PB was 3:26 and she won her age group in the 2012 Mumbai Marathon .

At 50 , she just got 3rd at a Vertical Kilometer race in the Dolomites, won a 3hr endurance trail race and finished 3rd woman at the gruelling Mustang Trail Race in Nepal while she is training for her 5th Ultra Trail Mont Blanc, a 100km race around the massif with more than 6000m elevation gain. 

She is devoted to spread the yoga practice among the runners' world with her YOGAXRUNNERS project of a comprehensive pre and post run practice aimed at both preventing injuries and enhancing the performance,  by teaching regularly in Milano,Brescia Vicenza and in the Dolomites village of Valle di Cadore, taking workshops even in remotest places in the mountains, writing articles on Yoga Journal Mag, Correre, Runners World Italia.

She regularly contributes to an online mag, Distanceplus.com and Soul Running Mag.

She contributed with a chapter into the newly released 'Trail Running' manual by Fulvio Massa.

As a pro athlete for Patagonia she scouts for new remote and wild trails, opens and closes the running and trekking days in the multiple days tours in the Alps,Appenines and Dolomites with yoga,working with Soul Running, Mandala Trail and Holimites travel and sport agencies. 

Find more on: http://www.tite.it