Yesterday, the world celebrated Global Running Day. Here in New York, runners turned out in their numbers and laced up for every reason under the sun. While we love to run this city, we were especially excited to be part of this momentous day to showcase the sport of running and encourage others to get moving. The idea was to get out; run, jog, speed walk, or walk, only get active and have some fun doing it, and inspire others to do the same.
Global Running Day was first celebrated in 2016 and was formerly known as National Running Day here in the United States. It’s usually celebrated on the first Wednesday of June every year since 2009. Runners from all over the world pledge via the Global Running Day website to take part in some type of running activity and gain support from like-minded individuals. Lots of runners also use this opportunity to just run amongst themselves and post their miles and motivational pics online.
Runners, like myself, took to the city streets, the parks, tracks, treadmills; wherever and however we could, to run in celebration of the gift of running. And while many teamed up, as is the custom on this occasion, whether through physical run groups or virtually, there were others still who went at it solo because of varying constraints. Regardless, it mattered only that everyone showed up and earned their bragging rights and shared their miles and reason for running. Hopefully this inspired the heck out of the curious, ambivalent, disinterested, discouraged, newbie, or sporadic runner to get running.
We encourage you to join a club, find a group, tag along with someone, or just lace up and hit the road and you will find that there are many others, just like you, all with a reason to run.
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