Posts Tagged ‘running’

With summer arriving in mere days, we all find ourselves willing to pick up hobbies we let fall to the wayside in the winter. One of my most beloved hobbies, running, always gets put on the back burner as soon as there's a chill in the air. There's something about motivating myself to run on ice-covered sidewalks that doesn't really get me up from the couch. This bad attitude lasts from about December to late February. But now that the weather's warmer (and I have no fear of slipping on the ice and breaking an ankle), I can hardly wait to put on my running gear and pound the pavement a few times a week.

There's also a lot more opportunity to get out hiking in my surrounding areas. And with the days getting longer it's just so easy to find an excuse to wile away the time in the woods.

I also intend to keep up with my gardening, catch up on some reading and do some more cooking.

What hobbies will you pick up this summer? Are you going to revive and old craft project? Learn a new talent? Or simply pass the time relaxing on your back deck?

Don't know what to occupy the time with? Try out one of our favourite eco-friendly craft or hobby ideas.

Also, don't forget to enter my President’s Choice Green Stow Away Shopping Bag contest!

It's that time of year when spring feels like it's just around the corner, and for me, I feel a strong urge it to get back into my running. I try my best to run regularly in the winter, but it just isn't the same, so come spring I'm out the four times a week - rain or shine. In anticipation of the upcoming Green Living Show here in Toronto (it takes place at the end of April), I was browsing around their site and came across information for the Earth Run.

This April, the Green Living Show will host Toronto's first ever Earth Run on Sunday April 26 at the Exhibition Place. Signing up for this race will help you kill two birds with one stone - it's the perfect opportunity for you to help raise funds for local environmental initiatives and for you to get fit just in time for summer. The run is a mellow 5 kilomotres long, so now if the perfect time for you to get outside and get training.

There are also Earth Runs in Vancouver and Ottawa, as well as the United States and Spain, for those of you outside of Toronto.

For more info, or to sign up for the race, visit www.earthrun.com.

Have you been spending more time outdoors in anticipation of spring? How do you plan to get back in shape after the long, cold winter?

Today, web editor Colleen Tully is back to tell you about her race.

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The Nike+ Human Race, Vancouver: 700 calories burned; well over $500,000 into the paws of the WWF worldwide; 1 week into my 30s and I've discovered the elixir I've been seeking my whole life: running for charity.What a sense of community and genuine fellowship. Young parents ran with fresh babies in strollers. Seniors pushed forward with cross-country walking sticks. Kids looking as young as 10 sailed along and one tough-as-nails gal in her late 80s broke into a run at the finish line.Even group of Sudanese runners, who were once "The Lost Boys of Sudan" - boys who escaped the Sudanese civil war in the 1980s walking barefoot across international boundaries - ran in Vancouver to raise funds for ninemillion.org. Though I was far behind, I heard there was nary a dry eye when these men finished.

My most memorable moment was (more...)