Becoming a Sustainable Runner: A Guide to Running for Life, Community, and Planet (Original PDF from Publisher)

Becoming a Sustainable Runner is not just another running guide on developing the physical attributes to run faster or longer. What it will help you achieve is a newfound purpose that merges your passion for running with your concern for your health, your community, and the environment. It weaves together concepts of internal and external sustainability in a way that will help you run, think, and act in a way that is in line with your values.Divided into three parts, the book begins by giving you the tools to find excitement and joy in your runs and sustain your running for the long term. To reduce the risk of injury, illness, and burnout, these include recognizing stressors, establishing new goals, altering where and with whom you run, and placing a high priority on physical and mental recovery. Next, learn how to use personal relationships to enhance your running. Discover the value of joining or starting a running community that encourages camaraderie among others who value service and meaningful, impacting giving back. Then, use your enthusiasm to protect the environment. Understand what it means to be an eco-aware traveler, choose eco-friendly destinations and products, and employ the three Rs to lessen your carbon footprint: recycling, reusing, and cutting back. You’ll read the authors’ personal accounts of their struggles and victories as runners and environmental stewards throughout the book. The depth and breadth of the problems that we all face are highlighted by the words and observations of well-known runners who are also environmental justice and climate change activists. You have the ability to improve the planet as a runner. You can accomplish it by following the practical instructions in Becoming a Sustainable Runner.