ABOUT RIO RUNNING TOUR

Our history (words of the founder)

 

My name is Cláudia Melo. I am a Specialist in Psychomotricity (Education and Clinical) by the Brazilian Institute of Medicine and Rehabilitation (IBMR), Teacher of Physical Education licensed by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Tour Guide by the Integrated Center for Study in Tourism and Hospitality (CIETH) and founder of the Rio Running Tour.

 

I met and fell in love with running long before I went to school in my childhood. I lived running all the time! The pleasure of playing running was so great that I began to run for other reasons. In this way, I experienced the movement of running from the natural movement, through the childhood games, to the sports technique, experiencing serious training routines to participate in competitions and also initiating students and coaching amateur athletes.

 

At a certain point in my history, the heavy training routines and medals I won just after crossing the finish line have stopped satisfying me. Reflecting on my experiences with the spontaneous run from my childhood, I understood that my horizon was limited by a finish line, uncreative and that did not motivate me as much as before. I then decided to move away from the routines I was having with the run (I moved away from professional routines too) and went to live a sabbatical year, exploring some places: running.

 

I really enjoyed that experience: running, meeting people, different cultures, adding new knowledge and values, but ... I had to go back to work! The desire to keep the travel and freedom to run like that made me think a lot: how to add the experience of traveling with work? I decided to go back to my studies and qualify as a tour guide.

 

Today, I practice running as a means of getting people to discover a new world and I discover a new world with them as well. It goes beyond simply showing the places I already know. This is because I see and live the run.

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Mission Statement

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To promote a pleasant tourism experience, leading you to know Rio de Janeiro in the most fun way that every runner likes: running, valuing and respecting natural and cultural monuments, encouraging tourism practices that aim at preserving and respecting the city and nature.

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Vision

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Develop the practice of the Running Tour in Rio de Janeiro, stimulating people to reflect on the importance of valuing and maintaining cultural and natural heritage for social development and preservation of national identity.

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Values

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Act with focus on the client, serving with pleasure; Acting with security management; Exercising Ethics and Respect; Practicing and stimulating socio-environmental responsibility.

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Social Responsibility Actions

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To stimulate healthy practices and practices of conscious consumption; and

Promote programs that aim social development

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Our Social Responsibility Program

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To promote practices that contribute to effective behavior change to develop good behavior is a challenge for all of us. We've developed a program that runs in this direction and invites you to run as well. Know more about it by clicking here!