Running As A Form Of Active Leisure - Running Paths As A Substantial Element Of Local Society Development Strategies

Stodolka Weronika, Filipowski Damian, Michalik Kamil, Palkiewicz Krzysztof, Stodolka Jacek. Running as a form of active leisure - running paths as a substantial element of local society development strategies. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2017;7(12):280-287. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi. org/10.5281/zenodo.1133284 http://ojs.ukw. edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5170 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2017; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.12. 2017. Revised: 15.12. 2017. Accepted: 27.12. 2017. RUNNING AS A FORM OF ACTIVE LEISURE - RUNNING PATHS AS A SUBSTANTIAL ELEMENT OF LOCAL SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES Weronika Stodolka1, Damian Filipowski1, Kamil Michalik1, Krzysztof Palkiewicz2, Jacek Stodolka1 1University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw 2Graduate University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw Abstract The civilizational progress has brought many conveniences that allowed us to choose leisure and recreation as the preferred way of spending our free time. The interest in the advantages of open-air activities keeps growing, together with the number of needs emerging with the constant improvement of the economic status of our society. The more fashionable running becomes, the higher amount of people get interested in it and start running. The dynamic development of tourism related to running is a challenge for the tourism market. The astonishing popularity of this form of sport is especially visible in the number of people taking part in official runs and the growing number of the runs themselves. Promoting the region through active tourism is more than desirable. The goal is to show the right direction in creating the local society development strategies in fields such as health and active leisure for local governments. This direction is the proposition to create more running paths. The way of creating them has been described on the example of Świdnica city in Lower Silesian region of Poland. The project should perfectly match the development strategy of the city and become helpful for the municipality. Having the area of the city and the number of its inhabitants in mind one could apply the guidelines written above to other cities with similar conditions without hesitation. Keywords: running, health, recreation, leisure, municipalities