Uncover your inner athlete!

Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten.. Each morning in Africa a lion awakes - it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve.


No matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up you had better be running!



Saturday, August 25, 2012

Increasing participation for success

For a number of years I have been advocating that the way to increase activity in athletics amongst all of society is to provide increase access to good facilities. What do I mean by this?

Quite simply each time we build a stadium we should be also laying a track around it. This is common practice in Europe and North America and hence you find even the most obscure stadiums in residential areas that have tracks around them. This means that all of society has access to these facilities and are not stuck for areas to exercise. It provides a safe environment for all and something different for those for whom the gym is a place they get intimidated by.

Ron Clarke and John Landy have been campaigning for this for many years and even costed it up for the Government some time ago and the overall cost is not that much more than merely building the stadium.

Perhaps something to consider in the push to increase the medal tally in the track and field at the next Olympics. Grassroots access to build interest and convert it into success.

Running together (while building grassroots interest) - stride for stride on a life changing ride! -- Sean Muller

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