On Healthy Living

Eco-running is something I had never thought of, and now I really wonder why, because it is good for the health, and good for the environment as well.

So what is eco-running? That’s simple! Put on your running shoes, take a couple of empty trash bags with you, start running, and whenever you see some trash lying on the road, the pavement or wherever you are, pick it up and put it in your bag. At the end of your run, not only will you have done some more exercise (picking up stuff while running IS a stride-breaking challenge when you’re not used to it), but you will also have helped keeping your area cleaner–or less dirty, depending on whether we want to see that glass half-full or half-empty.

Eco-running is nothing new in itself, but this movement doesn’t seem to be very well-known yet, and I think it’s a shame (Wikipedia didn’t even have an article about it until recently!). Of course, it also implies that you have to throw your trash bags in an appropriate place once you’re done, but that is sort of an evidence, isn’t it?

In any case, it is something I definitely want to try out. I’m already adding a little bit of my share to the spheres of ‘daily exercise’ and ‘keeping my planet clean’ by using a bike rather than the bus or a car, so why not push it just a little further? After all, a healthy living doesn’t have to include only ourselves–we can help in other areas by paying attention to what we do.

Yzabel wrote this on August 6th, 2007 and filed it under Healthy Living, Diet & Exercise, Fitness Web Sites |