The Blue Planet Run Ended in New York Today
I blogged about the Blue Planet Run, a 15,200 mile relay around the world, when it began June 1st. The relay was done to raise awareness for the millions of people worldwide that have no access to clean drinking water, something we sometimes take for granted.
A Michigan native, Shiri Leventhal, from Canton was a runner. Her blogspot about her participation in this historic worldwide relay race is http://shirileventhal.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html.
Check it out. She’s got some great tales to tell and will probably never forget the experience or the people she’s met along the way. Congratulations to her for representing Michigan. It makes me feel a tad inadequate, changing lightbulbs, using a clothesline, not running my AC, while she’s out there running a gruesome race in foreign countries. She’s got to be proud and her parents have got to be proud, and deservingly so.
There is more about the run, the pictures, the highlights, and a map of where the races took place. It is sponsored by Dow Chemical to raise awareness and money to build pipelines and dig wells to get clean drinking water to so many people who spend their entire day in the pursuit of that water. It makes me feel guilty because again tonight I deemed a warm shower to be one of the biggest, greatest, most wonderful privileges on the face of the earth. After picking pears, getting eaten alive by mosquitoes, sweating to death from the humidity, and just plain groady from working in the yard, that shower was gold to me. I can’t imagine hiking miles everyday to bring buckets back just to drink, when we get to slosh around in the stuff. The Blue Planet Run is trying to catch the rest of the world up to standards that every human being should be afforded.
Kudos to each and every runner, and to Dow Chemical as the sponsor for coming up with the idea, it was quite an event if you check out the Blue Planet Run website at: http://blueplanetrun.org/#.