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State of the Sport – PTRA Environmental Ethical Boundaries
This week, the Pro Trail Runners Association (PTRA) published Environmental Ethical Boundaries for Trail Running Competitions. The boundaries and guidelines address the need for environmental consideration by events as the sport of trail running grows. The document sets out both “redline” boundaries, which are “musts” for events, and recommendations. If events do not abide by Read more
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Big Picture – What’s Wrong with Fast Fashion
If, like me, you went to college in the early 2000s in the US, you may have spent more than a few Saturdays at Forever 21 picking out the perfect outfit for a party. But did you think anything of it when you wore that outfit one time and then dumped it because, let’s be Read more
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Destroy Returned Clothing? Not in the EU You Won’t!
Have you ever ordered clothing online and, not knowing your size, just ordered two and returned the one that didn’t work? Some retailers, like Running Warehouse in the US, even encourage this practice by including a free return label with all purchases. Sounds great and, but for the back and forth transportation, not at all Read more
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“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” and the Myths We Learned in School
When I was a kid, we were taught to “reduce, reuse, recycle.” As I recall, we sang about it in school and made posters with pictures of the recycling arrows and smiling recycling bins. In fact, recycling was the only “R” that ever got any real attention. This is a huge problem. We now have Read more
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There is No Climate Justice Without Racial Justice
Two years ago, I ran 4x4x48 (4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours) to raise money for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and to honor the all too many Black lives taken by police and vigilante violence in the United States. My community (locally and nationwide) came together at a time when meeting up Read more
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Will New Clothes Make You Faster if You’re Chasing a World Record?
When I was in high school, I ran a local 5K over the summer. I rolled up to the start line in old yellow and blue Umbro soccer shorts and an oversized cotton t-shirt – it was the ‘90s. Next to me on the start line, another girl my age was dressed in a super Read more
The Green Ostrich 