Your form. Your speed. Your breathing. Having fun and enjoying yourself.
There are plenty of things to focus on when you hit the roads for your daily run. Road Runners Club of America wants to make sure you focus on one other important thing when you put in your miles: Safety.
To help educate runners on the dangers they face on the roads, RRCA launched a public-safety awareness campaign with an animated video titled: Run Smart: Run Safe – Pass it On!
“Following the tragic pedestrian fatality of Karen Dubin in 2011, the RRCA has invested memorial contributions into re-launching the Run Smart, Run Safe efforts started by the organization back in 1989,” RRCA executive director Jean Knaack said in a press release. “Changing bad driver behavior is very difficult, so our focus is on improving runner safety awareness, as millions are taking up running as their exercise of choice.”
The video begins by touting the benefits of running, then warns runners about the dangers of running the roads. The video states pedestrians account for about 13 percent of all traffic fatalities and 88 percent of pedestrian fatalities occur in normal weather conditions. It tells runners to be aware of their surroundings and reminds them, “you are not a driver’s top priority.”
What the video below: