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The Philadelphia Marathon is grabbing tons of attention for offering up some prime 26.2 mile real estate for disheveled NYC should-have-been runners. But there’s more attention on the way for the Philadelphia Marathon’s sustainability efforts!
As I pointed out with the Broad Street run, large running events produce a TON of waste. (Find out how the Philadelphia Marathon is becoming more sustainable and how YOU can help!)
Dear Mayor Nutter,
Yesterday was a great day. I woke up at 6 AM to run with 39,999 of my closest friends down Broad Street. It made up for missing the Supermoon thanks to a bunch of clouds on Saturday evening.
Given that this was my fourth time for the Broad Street Run, I was pretty calm awaiting the start gun. But I heard your proclamation that you wanted to make Broad Street the biggest 10 miler in the WORLD. Kudos, Mayor. I appreciate trying to get Philly on the map. I even high-fived you after I crossed the start line in support of your ambition, Greenworks and more.
Yet running yesterday reminded me of how much waste is created from one (average) 1:40 minute run. Especially when 40K people run. Since you’ve already proclaimed we want to make Philadelphia America’s Greenest City by 2015, why can’t we combine the two ideas and make Broad Street Run the Biggest Environmentally-friendly Philly Race?!?
Here are a few observations of the Broad Street Run and suggestions on how we can green-i-fy both the expo & race:
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