The Oversized Footprint of Ultrarunning

A discussion of the environmental impacts of ultrarunning and tips for lowering your environmental footprint.

Trail Gear ReUseAPalooza 2010 Winners!

iRunFar announces the winners of its 2010 Earth Week Trail Gear ReUseAPalooza!

Earth Week Trail Gear ReUseAPalooza 2010!

iRunFar aims to reuse lots of new and lightly used trail running gear by giving the gear to readers.

Atayne Earth Week Contest Winners

Ok, with added suspense here are the winners of the 5 $50 gift certificates in that Atayne/iRunFar Earth Week contest. If you are among the following, please contact iRunFar with your mailing address: Will Thomas (4/20 1:25 pm) Solly Ferreira (4/20 2:15 pm) Gretchen (4/20 5:07 pm) PinkCorker (4/21 12:13 am) Shane “Crash” Jones (4/23 [...]

Atayne Earth Week Contest on iRunFar.com

We’re excited to announce that Atayne is sponsoring an Earth Week contest here on iRunFar.com. We’ve previously written about Atanye and their sweet POV shirts. As for performance, Bryon just ran 125 miles across the Sahara in five days in his green Atayne 4Rs shirt (pictured below) and it smelled a whole lot better than [...]

GreenLaces

What happens when you combine an environmentally-conscious running blog, an overworked editor, and the holidays – a post about GreenLaces! GreenLaces is simple, yet commendable environmental commitment program in which you (or someone else) makes a promise to the planet, donates $5 for a pair of green laces, and then wear a pair of green [...]

END Footwear: The Beginning of Sustainable Footwear (Part 2)

Back in July, iRunFar featured Part 1 of its profile of End Footwear nee Outdoor. At the time we thought we’d post Part 2 a mere week later…. but that didn’t happen. The upside to the delay is that we’ve since had a chance to meet with the key players at END in person, got [...]

Atayne POV Shirt Review and Company Discussion

Here at iRunFar headquarters we like a good “green” story almost as much as we like gear. So you can imagine we’re pretty jazzed when a story like that of Atayne crosses our path. Atayne is an Arlington, Virginia based start up that makes technical shirts using recycled plastic and non-toxic chemicals. The Atayne story [...]

Sardines – A Sustainable Meat for the Trailhead?

This summer, I was given the opportunity to try BELA-Olhão sardines. While my first through was…. um, no, I’m vegetarian… two other points quickly came to mind. My first thought was that when I travel for running it is often hard for me to find good sources of protein outside of dairy products or highly [...]

END Footwear: The Beginning of Sustainable Footwear (Part 1)

Back in April, iRunFar noted that we were interested to what would come out of END Footwear (nee Outdoor) – a company committed to sustainable footwear from its founding. Four months later END is on the verge of releasing its first lineup of shoes on August 1. In this busy and exciting time for END, [...]

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