Learn Hardcore Spanish (Spain): Venimos trotando juntos desde marzo para la carrera popular. - We have been jogging together since March for the community road race.

Venimos + gerund is a common Spanish structure that suggests an action has been happening over a period of time up to now. Here, venimos trotando desde marzo means something like we’ve been jogging since March or we’ve been coming along jogging since March.

By contrast, estamos trotando usually focuses on what is happening right now, at this moment: we are jogging.

So in this sentence, venimos trotando highlights an ongoing activity that started earlier and continues into the present.

What exactly does venimos trotando mean?

Literally, it looks like we come jogging, but that is not how it works in natural English.

In this kind of structure, venir + gerund often means:

to have been doing something
to be doing something over time
to have been gradually carrying on an activity

So Venimos trotando juntos desde marzo means We’ve been jogging together since March.

Why is it desde marzo and not something else?