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29 Mar
7:17pm, 29 Mar 2024
16,770 posts
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jda
I don’t expect anyone to be perfect and maybe I’m being a bit harsh but it seems to me there’s quite some chutzpah in preaching about green credentials in an article that is specifically focussed on people taking a long haul flight for a running holiday.
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29 Mar
7:22pm, 29 Mar 2024
24,111 posts
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Dave A
Can anyone please post a link to this article about a running holiday? I’d love to read it. All I can see is an article about 2 elite runners, one a professional runner, travelling to take part in one of the hardest races in the world.
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29 Mar
7:23pm, 29 Mar 2024
4,748 posts
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phal
Barkley a ‘running holiday’?
That’s a new one.
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29 Mar
7:33pm, 29 Mar 2024
16,771 posts
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jda
There were three runners mentioned, which one is a professional? They seem to be a vet, a running coach and a data scientist from what I can tell, who run (admittedly at a high level) as a hobby. In what sense wasn’t it a holiday? They did it because they wanted to, not because it was their job. I sometimes go on cycling tour, if I pedal hard enough is that not a holiday either?
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29 Mar
7:45pm, 29 Mar 2024
24,112 posts
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Dave A
I see your point with JP, but the other two are sponsored athletes. They will get a benefit from their sponsors.
But I wouldn’t consider it a holiday. But if you’re into that kind of thing and self destruction and consider putting yourself through stuff like that a holiday then that’s your own personal choice. Who am I to question it?
At the end of the day, you don’t like what they are saying, you think it’s hypocritical.That’s fair enough, I can see the hypocrisy in what they were saying/ doing. But they are trying to get a good message out. What’s wrong with that?
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29 Mar
8:52pm, 29 Mar 2024
1,375 posts
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stilldreaming
Interesting! I do my best but accept that it's not enough (eg happy to wear charity shop/Vinted clothing, walk rather than car where I can but do eat meat ... worked on livestock farm, so maybe see things from a different angle 🤔). My pet peeve is parkrun! The number of people I know who travel miles to run at different venues is something I personally struggle to understand but each to their own 😉 And I've only been in an aeroplane twice in my life!
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25 Apr
9:44pm, 25 Apr 2024
4,775 posts
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phal
I’ve just been on the zoom Q&A arranged for this evening with Jasmin called ‘Breaking the Barkley’
Really interesting to listen to her and her advice about running and things to do with being a Green Runner too.
(As a member it was free - there’s more coming up with different Green Runners throughout the year…)
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Reusable/collapsible water cups
Oct 2024