I run exclusively in Five Fingers, or bare-foot, which has kept me injury-free for years. I ran my 5K in 19:23 and got second place, which I’m super happy with, considering my injury. I was desperately trying to run another sub-19, but I was running on a bruised foot that hurt like hell. The second Vegan Global Run in October was amazingly amazing, as it was Day 363, the third-to-last run of my one-year streak. I’ve got four years to shave off 4 minutes. My ultimate dream is to eventually run a sub-15, which I’m planning to do when I’m 40. I was ultra-mega pumped after that, and it motivated me to go for a sub-19, which I achieved a few months later in June, with a time of 18:41. Running a sub-20 has been a dream of mine for years, and it finally came true on the 4th of April 2015. Yeah I know, I’m a freak, right? What sane runner enjoys hill sprints? Anyhoo, enough about my mental state, ha ha! So, the first Vegan Global Run was deeply meaningful for me, as not only did I win the 5K race, but it was my first ever sub-20. I get bored if I don’t run full-throttle, which is why I look forward to my weekly hill sprint session. Quick side note, I grew up running 100m sprints, so 5000m is a long-ass way for me! I live for running fast. I recently finished a one-year 5K-A-Day run streak, and both of the 2015 Vegan Global Runs were part of my running streak. When I ran both of the Vegan Global Runs last year, I was actually living on a tiny island with no vegan community, so it meant the world to me to connect with our global family of vegan runners. What a genius idea! The way you’ve united vegans from all over the planet is truly inspirational. Ray: Firstly, thank you from the bottom of my vegan heart, Brenda (VHF’s Editor in Chief), for being such a brave trailblazer and creating the Vegan Global Run. VHF: Tell us about your experience with the Vegan Global Run? Being vegan is an acknowledgement of our connection to all living things and a conscious choice to act compassionately towards sentient beings. I believe ahimsa is not fully realized until one commits to a vegan lifestyle. One of those principles is that of ahimsa, or nonviolence. Also, as a practitioner of yoga, I do my best to follow the ethical tenets of the tradition. For the last seven years I have eaten a mostly vegan diet, until a year ago when Ray and I had a heart-to-heart about the horrors mamma cows and their babies face in the dairy industry.įor the past year, I have read books and watched documentaries exploring the relentless abuse and misuse of sentient beings for our own pleasure. These books opened my eyes to the pain and suffering experienced by animals who become food. Kate: I went vegetarian nine years ago after reading Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé and Diet for a New America by John Robbins. I wasn’t planning on going vegan, but the facts were suddenly in front of me, and it was a no-brainer. How you choose to live after seeing devastating cruelty, directly reflects your selflessness, or selfishness. When you witness this degree of unimaginable pain, you’re faced with a choice, whether you were prepared for it or not. In fact, our last single “A Hymn” is a lament for all the mothers in the dairy industry. It completely and utterly broke my heart. Then, exactly the same thing happened six years later, when I watched a PETA video of a mummy and baby cow being separated so the farmer could steal her milk. How you choose to move forward says everything about you. When you see the suffering inside a slaughter-house, your life is divided into before and after that event. I hadn’t ever thought about being a vegetarian before that. I haven’t eaten any meat or fish since that night. I got up, dumped my dinner in the bin, and threw out all the meat in the fridge. During the interview, they showed footage from inside a slaughterhouse-and that was it for me. If I remember correctly, it was with Eric Schlosser. I turned the telly on, flicked through some channels, and landed on an interesting interview. Ray: I’m coming up to a decade now, wooohooo!!! Before I went vegan in 2006, I was vegetarian for six years.īack in 2000, when I was a music student in Los Angeles, I sat down one evening to eat my meat dinner.
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