How does "de fondo" translate please.

Question

Please can someone tell me how "de fondo" translates. I keep coming across the word "fondo", and when I look up the meaning, (funds, background, bottom), it doesn't make sense in context. The latest sentence I am stuck on is "..... corre 10 km en 30 minutos, lo que convierte en un corredor de fondo", which I take to translate as " ... he runs 10 km in 30 minutes which makes him a ........ runner".

Thanks very much.

Answer 1

http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/fondo

1. (ejercicio)

a. push-up, press-up

de fondo long-distance

de medio fondo middle-distance

and

8 (Dep)

carrera de fondo long-distance race

esquí de fondo cross-country skiing

http://www.wordreference.com/es/en/translation.asp?spen=corredor+de+fondo

corredor de fondo grupo nom (el de larga distancia) long-distance runner n

Thanks very much. I also read that it means funds/background/bottom! At least the sentence now makes semse. - ukali, Jun 18, 2017

De nada. The 1. that became that way automatically was actually definition #14. It is not top of the list. :) - bosquederoble, Jun 18, 2017