Sightsee and Sweat: City Running Tours
If you’re a runner, you probably already know that one of the best ways to explore a new place is on foot, at about a 10-minute per mile pace (give or take a few minutes, depending on your preferences). Running in a new city is fun and offers all sorts of opportunities to see things you might miss on a double-decker bus. But running in a new city is best when you have a friend who knows their way around.
That’s why I love the concept behind City Running Tours, a company that offers guided running tours of Austin, Charleston, Chicago, New York, Washington, DC, and San Francisco. The runs are designed for the casual and hardcore runner alike, and accommodate business travelers and sight-seers.
The guides who lead the runs are serious athletes and experts on their cities. So you get a workout and a tour all in one unique experience. Forget the hotel gym, I’m booking an early morning Central Park run next time I’m in New York City, and then a massage in the afternoon!
—Stephanie Kinnear, web editor
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Do You Ride Your Bike to Work?
Spa’s editorial offices are in San Francisco, so I see a lot of people on bikes as I walk to work. They’re brave, weaving in and out of traffic, racing through the fog.
Biking to work—if you can do it—is good for the environment and it’s great exercise. But, depending on where you live, it might not be so easy to do.
Check out this transparency from GOOD magazine. It lists the cities that have the highest percentage of bike commuters. Is yours on there? Ours is. And it’s inspiring me to dust off my helmet.
If you can’t bike to work we have other ideas about what you can do that’s good for the environment and good for your physical fitness.
Source: GOOD magazine
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Special Delivery – Spud! Grocery Service
I always thought online grocery shopping was a bit ridiculous. How busy do you have to be not to have time to go to the store? Now I am that busy and so I am thrilled to have discovered Spud! a new type of online grocery service.
Specializing in organic, natural, and local products, Spud! has everything I’d ever want to go to the store for and more—from bulk spices to grass-fed beef to natural bathroom cleaner—and they deliver it to my door every Friday, without fail.
The great thing is that I don’t need to be there to let them in and guess what? All that convenience actually costs less (far less) than what I had been paying at the grocery store around the corner from my house.
Spud! has also calculated that, because it buys from local producers, has a warehouse instead of a store, and delivers to multiple people per route, it saves hundreds of tonnes of CO2 every year. The service is currently available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Portland in the U.S., as well as Mainland British Columbia, Greater Victoria, Vancouver Island, and Calgary in Canada, and Spud! plans to continue to add new delivery areas over the next two years.
—Amy Westervelt, senior editor
