Health & Fitness
Irish Road Bowling is a part of the healthy lifestyle solution in West Virginia. In 2012 we put more than 2,028 people walking, running, laughing down country roads just like their grandparents used to do. We can go back again. Developing this sport is a grassroots initiative, from West Virginia to the rest of the country, an inexpensive rural family sport, developed on our country roads. Few sports, if any, combine moderate exercise, just walking, with such high excitement- shots rolling 200, 250, even 300 yards on a narrow country road. It’s amazing.
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Getting Children Outdoors
Our grandparents and great grandparents lived a more rural lifestyle and often walked on country roads, sometimes for miles to find a baseball field, play a few games and have a Sunday picnic. My uncles used to do that from Green Hill in Ireland, WV, to the baseball field and swimming hole at Falls Mills, and back. Five miles each way, plus the baseball games. That is active living!
Today, digital technology challenges us to reassert our human values.
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Part of The Healthy Lifestyle Solution in WV
In 2012 we put 2028 people walking, running, laughing down country roads just like their grandparents used to do. We can go back again. Developing this sport is a grassroots initiative, from West Virginia to the rest of the country, an inexpensive rural family sport, developed on our country roads. Few sports, if any, combine moderate exercise, just walking, with such high excitement—shots rolling 200, 250, even 300 yards on a narrow country road. It’s amazing.
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A Growing Trend
From the first match in 1995 in Ireland, West Virginia, we have grown. In 2012, the WVIRBA sponsored 19 days of Irish road bowling events free and open to the public. The public was welcomed as spectators to the West Virginia State Championships and the North American Region Finals (national tournament), both also free to everyone. Our road bowling events, at first in north central West Virginia, now are in every region of West Virginia. Anyone living anywhere in the Mountain State can get to a WVIRBA road bowling event in one hour or less.
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