HEROES & VILLAINS
Michelle Knight was spotted dropping a sachet into the bin at the finish line of the FNB Cape Town ONERUN, having carried it all the way to the finish instead of dropping it on the road between the last water table and finish. As it is says on her shirt, Don’ t be tired, be awesome. Well, we think she is awesome for not littering on the route.
Here we have Ghairo Allie being presented with a special prize at the KFC Brackenfell 10km night race, because she picked up countless sachets while running at the back of the pack. The driver of the sweep vehicle, Leon Visser, watched her cleaning effort as he tailed her around the course, and when he told his clubmates about her efforts, they decided to reward her with one of the lucky draw prizes. Apparently, Ghairo does this at most of the races she participates in. What an example!
This photo was taken by Estelle Kock the morning after the mid-week Metropolitan 10km race, showing that one of the water table crews had not done a thorough job of cleaning up their area once the runners had passed through. To the great credit of the organising club, as soon as they heard about this litter they sent somebody out to go clean it up, but once again it shows how the littering by runners can leave a really bad impression on non-runners.
ANTI-LITTER LETTER TO THE EDITOR
In the January edition of your mag an article was posted around the initiative of Kempton Road Runners with their electronic declaration and thoughts around a runclean badge. Allow the small club of De Rust Striders in the Klein Karoo to claim some bragging rights around just such an initiative.
As the organisers of the extremely popular Meiringspoort 21.1km and 12.5km run held in October each year – our 3500 entries sell out within days – we took on the RunClean initiative in 2016, the first club in our South Western Districts running region to do so, and because Meiringspoort is a pristine area.
The team working at registration then had the RunClean logo embroidered onto the golf shirts as per the photo attached, because we believe that this worthy cause needs all the support that can be given. A badge will surely be a further boost to this campaign. Also, how about T-shirts sold at events also bearing the logo? Let’ s keep encouraging one another as we strive to keep our beautiful country clean. – Des Harris
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