Running Green at the Nike Women’s Marathon

I started road racing about four years ago in Nashville, TN at the Rock n’ Roll 1/2 marathon. Along the way I was awestruck at the people cheering, the volunteers, the music, and of course, the amount of waste thousands of runners can generate. There were gu packets, plastic cups, emergency blankets, tossed aside clothing, etc., everywhere I looked. The common practice is to ingest your gu, and throw the wrapper on the ground. Do you think about what happens to the wrapper... Read More

Go Green on Your Run Today!

Happy St. Patrick’s day! Today is certainly all about the celebration, but I decided to be a little less traditional and go green in a different way. This year I cleaned out my running closet and found nearly ten pairs of retired asics, many expired cliff bars, shots, gels, etc., socks that are long overdue for mending, and water bottles with the dreaded BPA mark of chemical death. As I sifted through, trying to recycle what I could, I decided to read up a bit about how... Read More