Woman "who runs everywhere" hasn't used planes, trains or automobiles for 16 years

There can't be many people with a smaller carbon footprint than Joan Pick - as she hasn't used any form of motorised transport since 1992. In fact since 1973 the "energy economist" has got almost everywhere by running or walking.

The last time she went anywhere by a method other than on foot was when she had to get in a hearse to her mother's funeral.

And the only other times in 35 years she has used motorised transport were when she was taken to hospital by ambulance and a handful of train trips to visit her sick mother before she died.



The 67-year-old, from Turnpike Link, East Croydon, admits she is known locally as "the lady who runs everywhere".

Joan also refuses to cook or heat her home and has not had a holiday in three-and-a-half decades because it would be too far to walk.

She relies on raw foods like vegetables and nuts for her meals and her only excess is boiling a kettle to heat enough water to wash. "I'm a minimal energy user," she explained.

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