Nearly a week has passed since I joined up to the Nike Human Race. Training is coming along nicely. My biggest hurdle is being able to run for a long distance without getting too bored. Luckily my iPod helps me out, giving me a little swing to each step.
I’ve been very impressed with the Nike+ program on my iPod. I love how you can set targets (time or distance) and it provides updates on the speed you are travelling and how much further you have left to go. It’s also really cool how you can plug your iPod into your computer, connect it with your Nike+ account and see a visual graph of how you did in the run. You can then see when you slow down, or if you do at all!

As part of training for this race I decided to look at what climate change means. For my first step, I took a look at my carbon footprint using WWF’s footprint calculator. I was astonished that my current lifestyle uses 2 earths! The footprint calculator allows you to pledge certain reductions in your lifestyle and shows the impact these pledges will have.
My pledge for the coming weeks is to purchase products that use less packaging or are made out of 100% (PCR) recycled material. This will lower my impact to 1.7 earths. In the week of the Nike Human Race (31st of August) I’ll re-do my footprint calculation and see if I was able to reduce my impact to 1.7 earths.
Good luck to everyone else who is training. Today I will be trying my first 10km run.
Kasia @ WWF