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The Green Runners
The Green Runners is a climate activism-focused running club based in the United Kingdom. History Discussions between ultrarunners Dan Lawson and Damian Hall led to protests at COP26 in Glasgow 2021. They, along with Jasmin Paris, officially launched The Green Runners on 22 April 2022 (Earth Day) with as the first member. In 2023, they launched a partnership with England Athletics. The Green Runners was nominated for Grassroots Organisation of the Year at the BBC Green Sport Awards in 2023 and 2024. Club member Innes FitzGerald Innes FitzGerald (born 6 April 2006) is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner. She is the 2023 and 2024 European U20 Cross Country champion. Early life FitzGerald hails from Beer, Devon and attended Axe Valley Academy. He ... won Young Athlete of the Year in 2023. References External links * Climate change Running clubs in the United Kingdom {{climate-change-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Running Club
A running club, is an eclectic institution specialising in running and oriented towards the sport and recreation of running or track and field. The club may train for and compete in cross country, road running, fell running, track and field some clubs even branch out into multi discipline sports such as triathlon. Clubs by country International * Achilles International *HSI Australia , - !Region !Club , - , Australia , 440 Run Club Unfit Run Club , - , Bondi Beach , Bondi Beach Run Club , - , Coburg, Victoria , Coburg Harriers , - , Coogee, New South Wales , Coogee Run Club , - , North Hobart , Knockoffs Run Club , - , Melbourne , Malvern Harriers Athletic Club , - , Melbourne , Melbourne University Athletics Club , - , Sandy Bay, Tasmania , Sandy Bay Harrier Club , - , Brisbane , SoSo's Run Club , - , Sydney , Sydney University Athletic Club , - , Melbourne , Old Melburnians Athletics Club , - , Brisbane , Thompson Estate and Eastern Suburbs Athletics German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Runner's World
''Runner's World'' is a global magazine and website for runners of all abilities. It has additionally developed experiential formats, including a digital membership program, called Runner's World+. It is published by Hearst in Easton, Pennsylvania and was formerly published by Rodale, Inc. Outside the United States, the magazine is published in France, Germany, Italy, Norway, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. History ''Runner's World'' was originally launched in 1966 by Bob Anderson as a mimeographed newsletter ''Distance Running News, ''and Anderson published it by himself for several years from his home in Manhattan, Kansas. Runner and writer Hal Higdon had been writing for the magazine since the beginning (2nd edition). In 1969, Anderson changed the name of the magazine to ''Runner's World''. He brought on Joe Henderson as chief editor and moved the editorial offices, now named World Publications, to Mountain View, California. ''Runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultrarunner
An ultramarathon is a footrace longer than the traditional marathon distance of . The sport of running ultramarathons is called ultra running or ultra distance running. Various distances, surfaces, and formats are raced competitively, from the shortest common ultramarathon of and up to 3100 miles. Around is typically the longest course distance raced in under 24 hours, but there are also longer multiday races commonly held as 48 hours, , or more, sometimes raced in stages with breaks for sleep. The oldest and largest ultramarathons are on road, including the Comrades Marathon (more than 10,000 finishers annually) and Two Oceans Marathon (more than 6,000 finishers annually). The world's longest certified footrace is the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race. Many ultras have historical significance, including the Spartathlon, based on the 246 km run of Greek messenger Pheidippides from Athens to Sparta during the Battle of Marathon in a day and a half to seek aid against the Persi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Lawson
Dan Lawson (born 13 February 1973) is a British ultra runner and charity worker from Brighton. Lawson also does charity work in India for OSCAR India and Skillshare International. He holds the course record for the Grand Union Canal Race and in 2016, he won the European 24 Hour Championships, and in 2020 set one of the fastest known times for Land's End to John o' Groats (LEJOG). Running career In 2009, Lawson entered his first ultramarathon, the London to Brighton run, and placed second. He ran the Brighton Marathon 4 times back-to-back in 2011 and 8 times back-to-back in 2012 to raise money for Albion in the Community's Oscar programme in India. In 2014, Lawson placed first in the Nilgiris Ultra, 100 km, India, the Bangalore Ultra 24 hour, 226 km which created a new Ultra distance record on Indian soil. The same year, he also placed first at the Gloucester 24 hour track race in the UK, covering a distance of 242.88 km. In 2015, he placed first in the Grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damian Hall
Damian Hall (born 1975) is a British ultrarunner, author and activist. Career Hall grew up in the Cotswolds. Though he was competitive at cross-country at school, he didn't start running as an adult until 2011, aged 36. The following year, he completed his first marathon (dressed as a toilet). In 2016, Hall represented Great Britain in the IAU Trail World Championships in Gerês, Portugal. Hall has held the Fastest Known Times (FKTs) for a number of British long-distance trails, including the South West Coast Path, Cape Wrath Trail (with Beth Pascall), Paddy Buckley Round, Pennine Way, South Wales Traverse and Wainwright's Coast to Coast. Hall won the 2019 Ultra Tour Monte Rosa and the 2023 Spine Race. He was 4th at the 2023 Tor des Géants and 5th at the 2018 Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc. He has attempted the Barkley Marathons twice, reaching the final loop on both occasions. Various documentaries have been made about Hall. ''Wrath'' followed his 2018 run with Beth Pasc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmin Paris
Jasmin Karina Paris (born November 1983) is a British runner who has been a national fell running champion and who has set records for the Bob Graham Round and the Ramsay Round. In 2024, she became the first woman to successfully complete the Barkley Marathons. She won the 2016 Skyrunner World Series Sky Extreme category, and a bronze medal at the 2016 Skyrunning World Championships in the Sky Ultra category. She received significant media attention for beating the all-time men's course record by 12 hours at the 2019 Spine Race. She is a senior lecturer in the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Early life and education Paris was born in Manchester and grew up in the Peak District. She attended Manchester High School for Girls. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Liverpool (2008) and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (2020). Her doctoral thesis was "Novel regulators of cancer stem cell biology in acute myelo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally through earthday.org (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. In 1969 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell (peace activist), John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the Spring (season)#Astronomical and solar reckoning, first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later, United States senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on April 22, 1970, and hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the national coordinator. The name "Earth Day" wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England Athletics
England Athletics is the governing body for the sport of athletics in England. It was set up as a limited company in 2005, taking over the role of the Amateur Athletic Association of England. England Athletics works closely with UK Athletics, the national governing body for the sport in the United Kingdom. After a review of athletics in the United Kingdom by Sir Andrew Foster, Sport England demanded radical changes to the governing structure. England Athletics was set up to take responsibility for regional development, whilst its parent organisation, UK Athletics was to maintain oversight of elite performance. Peter Radcliffe, the father of the athlete Paula Radcliffe, was appointed as the chair of England Athletics 2005, the interim organisation set up to establish England Athletics. Although England Athletics took over the role of the Amateur Athletic Association of England (formerly the AAA) it has maintained that Association as a vehicle for the development of young athletes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innes FitzGerald
Innes FitzGerald (born 6 April 2006) is a British track and field athlete and cross country runner. She is the 2023 and 2024 European U20 Cross Country champion. Early life FitzGerald hails from Beer, Devon and attended Axe Valley Academy. Her parents own a smallholding on which FitzGerald has worked. In 2024, she began to attend the University of Exeter. Career 2022 She runs for the Exeter Harriers and is trained by Gavin Pavey, the husband of runner Jo Pavey. She won the Mini London Marathon in October 2022. FitzGerald set a new under-17 record for 3,000 metres, and in December 2022 finished fourth in the under-20s European Cross Country Championships in Turin, competing as a seventeen year-old. To avoid flying to the competition, FitzGerald had taken a 20-hour coach and train journey from Exeter to Italy. 2023 In January 2023, FitzGerald turned down the opportunity to compete at the 2023 World Athletics Cross Country Championships in Bathurst, Australia because of conce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
