A strong choice.
Logically selected with Great Britain for the world trail running championships for his record (winner of the Lavaredo ultratrail 2016, the Ventoux trail 2013 or the Templars in 2011), Andy Symonds will not make the trip to Thailand, where will be organized the event from November 1st to 7th.
The reason ?
Its carbon footprint.
“
My footprint in 2022 should reach 6.3 tonnes of CO2.
Which is already too much
, ”he wrote on
Instagram.
Supporting diagram, the 41-year-old athlete details the share of these 6.3 tons of CO2, three times higher than the recommendations of 2 tons per year and per person.
33% are thus devoted to his travels, whether they concern his vacations as well as his international shopping, where he is often forced to take the plane.
"
The few races in which I took part away from home are at the origin of the majority of my personal emissions, in particular as soon as I had to go there by plane
", recognizes the person concerned, who invites everyone to calculate their own carbon footprint.
"
I don't want to lecture anyone, I'm a bit of a hypocrite myself about it, I have a swimming pool and I eat a burger once in a while,
continues Symonds, of which 23% of carbon footprint comes of his diet.
But it would be particularly incoherent to publicly champion sustainability and board a plane to Thailand for an eight-hour ride.
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