Venimos trotando juntos desde marzo para la carrera popular.

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.

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.

Desde marzo means since March.

Spanish uses desde to mark the starting point of an action that is still continuing.

Examples:

• Vivo aquí desde 2020. = I’ve lived here since 2020.
• Estudia español desde enero. = He/She has been studying Spanish since January.

So desde marzo tells you when the jogging started.

This is very normal in Spanish. Spanish often uses the present tense for actions that:

• started in the past
• are still continuing now

That is why you get:

• Vivimos aquí desde 2022.
• Trabajo aquí desde junio.
• Venimos trotando desde marzo.

In English, we usually prefer the present perfect or present perfect continuous:

• We have lived here since 2022
• I have worked here since June
• We have been jogging since March

So the Spanish present here does not mean only the immediate present.

Trotando comes from trotar, which usually means to jog or to trot.

It is generally lighter and slower than correr (to run). So:

• trotar = to jog
• correr = to run

In this sentence, trotando suggests jogging, probably as training.

Yes, it could, but the meaning would change slightly.

• Venimos trotando juntos desde marzo... = We’ve been jogging together since March...
• Venimos corriendo juntos desde marzo... = We’ve been running together since March...

Trotando sounds more like steady, moderate exercise. Corriendo can sound more intense or more general.

Juntos means together.

It is plural because it refers to we, that is, more than one person. In Spanish, words like this often agree in number, and sometimes gender, with the people involved.

Examples:

• Voy solo. = I’m going alone.
• Vamos solos. = We’re going alone.
• Vamos juntas. = We’re going together, if the group is all female.
• Vamos juntos. = We’re going together, or the group is mixed / gender not specified.

So juntos matches the implied subject nosotros/nosotras.

Because Spanish often omits subject pronouns when the verb already makes the subject clear.

Venimos already tells you we come / we have been coming, so nosotros is unnecessary unless the speaker wants emphasis or contrast.

Compare:

• Venimos trotando... = normal
• Nosotros venimos trotando... = more emphasis, like we have been jogging...

Here para means for in the sense of for the purpose of or in preparation for.

So para la carrera popular means:

• for the community race
• for the fun run
• for the local public race

The idea is that they have been jogging together since March in order to prepare for that race.

In Spain, carrera popular usually refers to a public race open to ordinary participants, not just elite athletes.

Depending on context, it could be translated as:

• fun run
• community race
• local road race
• popular race (less natural in English, though closer literally)

So this phrase is culturally common in Spain for local running events.

Not normally. In this sentence, para is most naturally understood as for / in preparation for the race.

If you wanted to say they are jogging toward the race location, Spanish would normally use something else, such as:

• hacia la carrera
• wording that clearly indicates movement toward a place

So here the meaning is about purpose, not destination.

Yes, it is fairly common, especially when the speaker wants to express an action that has been developing over time.

It often gives a sense of:

• continuity
• gradual progression
• something building up until now

Examples:

• Vengo pensando en eso desde ayer. = I’ve been thinking about that since yesterday.
• Venimos trabajando juntos muchos años. = We’ve been working together for many years.

So the structure in your sentence is natural and useful to learn.

Yes. A simpler and very natural version would be:

Llevamos trotando juntos desde marzo para la carrera popular.

This is another extremely common Spanish way to say We’ve been jogging together since March for the race.

In fact, many learners first learn llevar + gerund for this idea:

• Llevo estudiando dos horas. = I’ve been studying for two hours.

Both versions are correct, but venimos trotando adds a slight sense of activity continuing over time up to now.