Support Land Preservation

Despite the fact that iRunFar is headquartered a mere four miles from the political limelight that is DC… or perhaps in spite of it, we generally avoid discussing politics and the political process. However, as previously noted, iRunFar is passionate about land conservation and preservation. There are many reasons for this, not the least of [...]

No More Free Gu Energy Gel with Stash Your Trash

6/26/08 Update: iRunFar reader Mr. Gump has informed us that returning 50 empty gel packets to Gu Sports‘ Stash Your Trash program no longer results in the company sending you 5 free gu energy gel packets. Instead, for every 50 empty gel packets you submit to Gu Sports, they will submit $5 to their designated [...]

Running, Diet, and the Environment

The final installment in iRunFar’s Earth Week series is a simple plea to consider what you eat. There will be no call for you to become a raw food vegan. No preaching that you steak lovers must forsake meat of the hoof forever in favor of tofu and tempeh filled life. Nope, just read on [...]

Trail Running Gear Going Green

Installment four in iRunFar’s Earth Week series focuses on trail runners’ gear consumption and the greening of the gear industry. Below we consider the amount of gear we use, the life span of that gear, the environmental consequences of individual pieces of gear, and industry action. Buy Less GearThe first and most effective way to [...]

weRunFar: Runners Seeing Green

In the weRunFar contribution to iRunFar Earth Week series, we’ll share the blogs of a few individuals who espouse their environmental efforts or beliefs in their posts or actions. Read on to find out out about the Eco-Runner and Race Green blogs, as well as Farther Faster’s sustainable running post. Eco-RunnerFirst up is Sam Huber [...]

Green Races: Trail Races and the Environment

When you trail race, do you leave skid marks and a cloud of noxious fumes in your wake? This post, the second in iRunFar’s Earth Week series, considers the environmental effects of our racing and what can be done to lessen them. More specifically, the focus will be on ways race directors (RDs) have been [...]

Environmentally Sustainable Running

Do you think about how your trail running affects the world around you and that of generations to come? You should, right? Sustainable running is the topic of this, the first post in iRunFar’s Earth Week series dedicated to discussing trail running and the environment. The post is primarily meant to get all of us [...]

Trail Running and the Environment

As trail runners, we get to see the gifts of nature more often than most. Indeed, our sport necessarily integrates us with the natural world. Therefore, it only seems appropriate for us to consider the impact our actions have on that which we enjoy. Accordingly, iRunFar has featured posts investigating the places where trail running [...]

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