Phedippidations
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Fdip295: Dr. George Sheehan – Facing the Future
Its been almost two years since I produced an episode of this goofy little podcast featuring the thoughts and words of a man I admire a great deal: Dr. George Sheehan. Theres no specific reason for thatepisode 258 titled Dr. George Sheehan: Seeing was my reading of the final chapter of his book Running and Being The Total Experience, probably his best known work. Cardiologist, Philosopher, author and record setting marathoner, Dr. George Sheehan was diagnosed, in 1986, with inoperable...
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Fdip294: The Walkers of Prince Edward Island
Who are you? When we contemplate those elements of our origins, personality and physical beingwe have to consider our genetic history, the environment in which we were raised and live and, the behavior and stories of those who influenced our lives. I come from a long line of farmers and fishermen, hard working people who worked the land and sea.growing potatoes, milking cows and living off the natural resources of a picturesque island named after the fourth son of King George the third, the...
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Fdip293: The Ghost of Phedippidations
This episode celebrates the 7th anniversary of this podcast, the first episode of which was published on Independence Day, July 4th of the year 2005. As youd expect, my life is very different today than it was back then, in many ways better, in other waysdifferent; but Im not complaining. This is Life 2.0; the world has moved on, and so have we all. One major point of improvement in my life is the many friends I have been so fortunate to make, as a direct result of this goofy little podcast....
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Fdip292: Running in Time
The universe is different for runners, because we have a far more personal relationship with it. Non-runners can jump on a bike, in a car, on a boat, strap themselves into a plane or a rocket, and discuss the many miles theyll travel in shorter periods of time: but a runner has to work at it. A runner has to take her or his own body, with only the fuel pumping through our own blood streams across the distances of miles and many mileswe are creatures who move under our own power across...
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Fdip291: Running in Space
Youre out on a five mile run, the sun is setting and the stars are beginning to shine. You are traveling a measureable distance across a tiny blue bubble in space that has been in existence for 4.5 billion years within a universe that was created out of nothing 13.7 billion years ago. It would be easy to feel small. If you took the time to contemplate your short life and insignificant sizeyou could easily ask yourself the questions Why am I here? What is the point of my existence? Would the...
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Fdip290: Road Race au Groton
Running the Groton Road Race was like running with an old friend I had never actually met, with one friend I had met before and another Ive known for years through the running community of which I am a part. This was our pack. Not in the lead, nor all the way at the backbut a pack of three friends running 6.2 miles through a beautiful colonial New England town. Alett, John and I could have run at our own pace; we could have run with the goal of setting our own PRs and attacking the course to...
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Fdip289: Pride and Pronation
We should be proud of we are, and act as a positive examples for others: but at the same time remain wary of vanity because while we are certainly worthy of having pride in our actions and through our running: were not all that, and a bag of chips.
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Fdip286: The Rationality of Fear and Road Races
The guy who said it was a miracle that he had the courage to start is full of crap. Courage has nothing to do with starting a road race, and hes a fool to push that slogan on new runners. Today I want to talk to you about the rationality of fear. Specifically, with regards to the fear of running a road race, and perhaps especially the fear of running your FIRST road race, IS IT RATIONAL FOR US TO BE AFRAID?
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Fdip285: The Problem with Treadmilling
Treadmilling is not a bad thing. But I think everyone listening to me understands that given the choice between running in place for an hour within your home, or at a gym and moving outside, under the sky, within the elements and across the ever-changing terrain of your place: the more significant way to exercise is the one that lets you better experience the world around you.
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Fdip284: My First Time
Today well hear from six fellow runners (including myself) who will relate to you their personal stories about Their First Times.
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Fdip283: Life 2.0
Today is my 50th birthday. I was born at exactly 7:48 PM Eastern Standard Time in the maternity ward of Milton Hospital on Reedsdale Road and Highland Street in the town of Milton, Massachusetts on January 19th, 1962. Turning 50 feels good, because its good to be alive. The milestone reminds me to take a walk break in this race, and turn to look behind me to see how far Ive come. The past 50 years of life included great joy, terrible sadness, and the agony and ecstasy of blood, sweat and...
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Fdip282: The Runner and Doctor Shoe
We're traveling back in time on this episode; through six and a half years in PodCasting AND BEYOND!
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Fdip280: Summer of the Shark
In the summer of 1975 I was a 13 year old skinny, big eared, pimply-faced teenager with a frown full of braces and a head filled with big ideas. This was the first time I had ever been able to express my creativity to an audience greater than my immediate family, it was the first time I took a thought and converted it into something for others to experience. My words, my story, my imagines, my voice and that of my friends Andy and Jameswe created a movie that entertained our family, friends...
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Fdip279: For Love of Wine and Pizza Part 2
Part two of a series of episode where we prepare ourselves to win an argument with a non-runner!
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Fdip278: For Love of Wine and Pizza Part 1
In order to start the conversation that plants the seed of an idea into someones head that they might want to begin the process to adopt the running life style, you need the right ammunition: you need to commit to memory at least a handful of logical arguments that will make your proposal effective and produce results.
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Fdip277: Existence and the Running Man
To be or not to be?, that is only the second question we have to ask ourselves: the first is: Are we? or Are we not? Do we exist or is this all just a dream? Descartes had something to say about all this, and its to Descartes that we will go, as we begin to contemplate that one thing that makes us appreciate the way it feels to run across the Earth, to feel the sweat, effort and joy of getting our miles in and moving these bodies that we either are or inhabit. Descarte can help us begin the...
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Fdip276: Henry David Thoreau Walker
In this episode I present for you an abridged for podcast version of Henry David Thoreaus essay A Walk to Wachusett. As you listen to these words, think about the excursion you might make wherever you live; knowing that you could cover the distance on a long run, but instead taking the time to walk and explore the world around you. This is one of the great lessons of Thoreau: that we should savor the journey and experience our environment. Its as Professor Nancy Etcoff said in my episode 274...
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Fdip275: In Vino Veritas
Philosophers have been asking the question What is Truth for thousands of years, as they try to determine if truth is subjective, objective, relative or absolute. I think that we, as runners: have a special opportunity to both ask and, in some specific way, at least, answer the question for ourselves. Truth can be found in the hard work and determination we put into every mile; truth can be understood based on our personal experiences about what we can achieve and the goals we can...
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Fdip274: The Pursuit of Happiness
I propose to you that running can bring you great happiness, and since I know that Im preaching to the choir here, Ill ask you to consider how running can bring happiness to those in your family, friends and acquaintances whom youll meet in your lifeand that no matter how sad or broken they and we may sometimes feel: we have an obligation and a certain unalienable right to engage in the pursuit of happiness.
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Fdip273: The Morality of Quitting
In this episode we tackle the philosophical question Is it morally right to quit a road race?. For help in understanding the question en route to an answer, we call about the great minds of Professor Richard Dawkins, Immanuel Kant, Socrates, and Aristotle.
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Fdip272: The Iron and Candy Anniversary Show
The 6th Anniversay of Phedippidations.
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Fdip271: Team Poco Loco
This episode of Phedippidations is intended to recreate for you the experience of running with fellow runners and friends. On April 30th Team Poco Loco gathered in Boston Massachusetts to run a half marathon distance around the mighty Charles River.
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Fdip270: When There’s Nothing Left to Burn, You Have to...
This is the story of a fellow runner by the name of Katie who fought a good fight in that all too familiar way where all options are gone and the only thing left to do was to make a terrible agonizing choice: When you have nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire
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Fdip269: el Poco Loco Curso
A tour of the Poco Loco Course
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Fdip268: Duncan Rises
From where he tottered before the couch, on muscles immune to elongation and contraction, Duncan contemplated his next move. Opposite the lavatory, on the northern end of this dwelling, was his bedroom: unkempt and festooned with the discarded wrappings of many cakes, candies and snack treats; necessary supplements to his ongoing carbohydrate loading. This is the story of Duncan, a man without ambition or purpose who stumbles upon an idea that challenges his very existence and forces him to...
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Fdip267: Running Varietals
The term varietal describes an elementary form of something. With wine, its the fermented product of a single grape. With running, the word varietal describes the specific practice of a training element. With running as with wine its important to understand the differences between the fundamental elements that go into the final product, so that when the harvest is released: be it after bottling or on race day: the end result can be savored over time; with rich expressive notes and a fine...
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Fdip266: Running Builds Bigger Brains
We all know how running can improve our lives, our health and our disposition with the universe around us. We know that running is part of a healthy lifestyle and that it can improve the condition of our cardiovascular systems, and that we have evolved as homo sapien sapiens from Australopithecus Africanus to run across the savanna in search of the meat from fallen animals. The benefits of running are clear, and new evidence is being found that further supports this idea that we should be...
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Fdip265: An Interval of Persistence
You and I are out on a run together. As were getting our miles in we start to talk to each other to pass the time. This is where we get to know each other, where we start to open up a little and reveal ourselves as the persons we really are. You and I are different, with different backgrounds, different beliefs and different understandings of the universe around us. I want to know what youre all about, and you might want to know whats going on in my teenie tiny little head. So today, lets...
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Fdip264: Running Blogcast: Pre-Race Jitters
Today I present the second in a series of episodes that Im calling Running Blogcasts featuring the writing of fellow runners in our community who have a talent for the written word. The author of todays episode is Kim Cowart. (Kow-ahrt). Kim is one of the writers for the Reasons to Run blog over at Deseretnews.com. Shes a 35 year old mother of two from West Jordan, Utah. Kim spent much of her childhood living in Eugene, Oregon where running is as common as breathing. In her teens, she moved...
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Fdip263: Outrunning Celebrity
Celebrities are people too. They wake up in the morning, just as we do, they brush their teeth, they log onto their computers, they lace their own shoes, and they have to put in the same amount of effort as the rest of us in training for their marathons. You could outrun Will Ferrell, Kim Alexis and President Bush if you dedicated yourself to the task. Theres nothing special about someone who is famous. Their bodies undergo the same physics and chemistry that we are prone to experienceand...
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Fdip262: The Poetry of Running
IF YOU COULD, SOMEHOW, SEND A MESSAGE TO SOMEONE WHO WILL BE ALIVE ONE THOUSAND YEARS FROM NOW: WHAT WOULD YOU TELL THEM? The universe has come together to create the unique and special life form that you are, with your hopes and fears, dreams and concerns. The thoughts you form and the words you write and say constitute information, never to be duplicated information born of your mind that goes out into the world and has the potential, however remote the possibility, to outlive you and be...
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Fdip261: Running Terroir
As a runner, you have to discover and understand your own running Terroir. You need to know how your environment, personality, geography and local climate influences your ability to perform. In this sport, we are taught to listen to our bodies and the symptoms of over-use injuries: but before we can hear and feel these signals from our bodies: we have to know who we are as runners.not in relation to others of similar age, weight, sex and shapebut relative to where and how we train. Dr....
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Fdip260: Steve at SteveRunner dot Com
Im starting off the new year right by answering all of my email (or at least trying to). In this episode of a goofy little podcast I respond to some of the messages I was unable to get to last year with hopes that Ill be able to answer ALL of my email in the year of our Lord 2011. Also, join me for a swim in the FROZEN Atlantic with friends on New Years Day, and I get to chat with friend and Mojo Loco Founder Adam Tinkoff as we discuss his vision for el Mojo Loco! LINKS: Whiskey in the Jar...
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Fdip259: What I Did Last Year
This is our time. With the changing of the calendar year its common for us to take the time to look back on the previous solar orbit, or look forward to our future. This is a great exercise, to look forward without dwelling on the past: as we make our way through this adventure called life. But, it think its even more important to consider our present.the now that we are existing intoday, right now. This is our time. The who, that we are has grown and become in such a way that we can...
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Fdip258: Dr. George Sheehan: Seeing
Today Im going to read for you the final chapter of Dr. George Sheehans book Running and Being The Total Experience. Im doing this in hopes that you might buy and read his book, and as a way of presenting you with an alternate special holiday episode of Phedippidationsa gift you dont have to unwrap. This chapter is very special to me, as I hope it will be for you. It was the conclusion to a book that so inspired me, so enthralled me when I first picked it up, that I literally could not put...
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Fdip257: The Mojo Loco
The friends who I ran the Mojo Loco with are listening to this right now, Chris and Chris, Eddie, Nik, Dan, Mat, Susan, Steve, Samantha, Norm, Adam and Maddy. Theyre wondering to themselves: How is Steve going to tell this story? How will be express the narrative? What imagery will he call upon? What great message will he send forth throughout the tubes of the Interwebs to tell the world about this Mojo Loco? So this is for my fellow teams mates; dedicated runners all; who accepted the...
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Fdip256: A Brief History of Wine
The history of wine is the history of civilization. Its a story that dates back to the earliest days of agriculture and encompasses the life and times of our ancestors who consumed wine for both pleasure and ceremony. When we raise a glass today, we are tasting more than just a fermented grape juice which technology has perfected into a form of liquid art; we are tasting the product of history; an ancient beverage that friends have shared over the millennium at the end of their long and...
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Fdip255: Anatomy of a Running Shoe
Get to know the parts and materials that make up your running shoes, and youll be a better consumer of the one critical tool needed to reach your goals as a runner. Whether youre looking to run your first marathon, set a PR or BQ or just want to run at your own pace for the joy of itwearing the right running shoes will make the difference between surviving through the miles, or savoring every moment youll have, on the road. Links: http://twitter.com/steverunner...
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Fdip254: Running Blogcast: A Runners Guide to Balance...
Todays episode, being my first Running Blogcast features the writing of Neil Bearse, a fellow runner Ive never had the honor of meeting in person: but I feel like were old friends. Neil is the one who first introduced me to my all time favorite musical band: Black Labas well as others. Neil is the manager of web based marketing for Queens School of Business in Canada. Hes responsible for the web presence of 5 MBA programs as well as executive education initiatives in Canada, the Gulf Region...
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Fdip253: New Media and the Art of Running Evangelism
You have the same ability to produce content in an artful way that will, no doubt, convince someone you care about to join us on the road as runnersand, if in the course of those public new media conversations, you convince one or two others to rise up of THE COUCH OF DOOM, then all the better! You and I have an opportunity, today: through the use of blogs and podcasts to write and speak the words that will inspire the people who read or listen to become runners themselvesand by virtue of...
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Fdip252: Running in my Sleep
The American statesman Ben Franklin once wrote Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. There may be something to that with respect to our running performance. We sleep, on average a full one third of our lives. So, as a middle aged, middle of the pack, slightly asthmatic 48 year old runner: Ive already slept 16 years of my life away. It seems like an unfair trade off: 16 years of my life that I could have spent in a conscious state of productivitybut when we...
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Fdip251: Running Legend Abebe Bikila
Today I will tell you about an amazing person who lived his life to the top. Its an interesting life with high and low points, with obstacles which were overcome leading towards an eventual spiral into disasterbut in the end, redemption and glory. Abebe Bikila was the first black African to win a gold medal at the Olympics, winning the Mens Marathon in Rome which he completed barefoot! The headlines in the Newspapers and on the radio proclaimed the fact that it had taken an entire Italian...
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Fdip250: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
How many of us have trained over many months for a race only to perform terribly in the event itself, or how many of us have crossed that finish line in say, ohI dont knowa minute and 31 seconds slower than we had hoped. It happensa lot. But we know that the sun will rise in the morning, well put the pain behind us, and go forward. Some days we win, some days we lose, some days we dont even have the opportunity. Todays episode is somewhat long over due, the last show I did featuring your...
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Fdip249: The Running Gene
In the area of genetics and with respect to athletics, we are trying to understand what construction instructions are required to build the perfect runner. It would seem that certain attributes exist which we can use to measure the influence of our genetic blue prints to create faster humansand that our ethnic origins might predict who of us will be able to run faster and farther. But the fact is that we are an infant species, descended from the same Mitochondrial Eve who ran across the...
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Fdip248: The 5th Annual World Wide Festival of Races
They ran all over the world. They ran in warm places, cold places, rainy places, dry places. They ran alone and with friends; they ran fast and slow, in an organized race and in their back yards. They ran with the sound of each other in their ears and the spirit of each other in their hearts. The World Wide Festival of Races is a celebration, but this social networking movement does not end on race weekend. We run together every day, all around the surface of a little blue bubble in space:...
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Fdip247: As the World Cheers
In a Universe that is thirteen point seven billion years old, on a planet that has only existed for four and a half billion years; our species: homo sapiens sapien, has only been around for two hundred thousand years, in fact modern day homo sapiens with our language, culture, use of tools, barter between groups, art, game playing, music, and reliance on symbolic thought only began to arise 50,000 years ago. Civilization, as we know the word, started to arise around 10,000 years ago in the...
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Fdip246: Running Through PodCamp Boston 5
PodCamp is all about podcasting, and using this medium to reach out to a community. Since you and I are runners, and since we all listen to podcasts, you and I are a part of this thingand since Im eager to encourage everyone listening to my podcast to start up their own podcast, I thought it would be useful to dedicate todays episode to what I learned at PodCamp. PodCamp is first and foremost about community. Its not about selling a service or a product, its all about focusing on building...
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Fdip245: Life Should be Long Enough
The Stanford University study titled Reduced Disability and Mortality among aging runners was published in the August 11th, 2008 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. At the time that the study was conducted: the assumption was that vigorous exercise would cause older people more harm than good. The expectation was that running would lead to an excess in orthopedic injuries and lead to earlier disability with runners over 50. But the researches found that regular exercise would...
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Fdip244: History of the Running Shoe
The modern day running shoe is a perfect example of technology and science working to build upon the advances made through history to help human beings walk and run for longer distances and faster speeds in comfort and without injury. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, the Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer, once wrote: that "the foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of...
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Fdip243: Pregnantly Running
While the first part of this episode is dedicated to the precautions a pregnant mother should take with regards to athletic endeavors, there are many benefits to running while pregnant including the prevention of excessive weight gain. Running while youre pregnant can keep you mood off and help to prevent pregnancy induced hypertension. If youre healthy, and youre having a healthy pregnancy there is no reason not to run. Listen to your body, and check with your doctor. Its probably best not...
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Fdip242: Following Thoreau and the West Branch of the...
From Saturday April 14th through the 18th, 2010 my Dad, son, nephew and I traveled up the West Branch of the Penobscot River and across the northern end of Chesuncook Lake in the Northern Maine Wilderness. Through our journey we gained a better appreciation of Henry David Thoreaus adventure of 1853. While logging in the Northern Woods of Maine continues, the river that we paddled on remains mostly unchanged. You can imagine the sites and sounds that Thoreau experienced as he journeyed up...
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Fdip241: Dr. George Sheehan and Growing
I am a disciple of Dr. George Sheehan, Im not ashamed to tell you that, Ive read and re-read everything the man has writtenand Ive come to know him in a comfortable, familiar way. A man of science and medicine; a man filled with great passion for this sport and a devoted Roman CatholicDr. Sheehan and I have a lot in common; but while I yearn to be a writer and use this podcast as a creative outlet: I will never come close to the writer that he wasI will never approach the level of...
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Fdip240: Caffeinated Running
As it is with most things in life, taken in moderation: Caffeine can be good for you and improve youre your health and your performance on race day. But too much of a good thing can lead to disaster. In living our lives to the top we have to learn to savor, with small sips, those things which bring us pleasure and improve our health. Show Links: http://www.jsams.org/article/S1440-2440(07)00076-X/abstract http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1478936/?page=1...
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Fdip239: Cruising to the Music
This is my annual music show; recorded (as always) while Im on vacation. This time Im on the Norwegian Cruise Ship Spirit traveling from Boston to Bermuda with my family as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of my parents wedding! In addition to listening to podcasts, I love to run to music! It helps me keep my cadence in check and fills my head with positive images as I get my miles in. The songs on this episode are all from previous Phedippidations shows; so I hope you enjoy them! Please...
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a BIG Favor
Why Cook Well. We eat because we have to. Civilization is nothing more than a ten thousand year old human experiment to test the freakish theory that mankind could eat without being eaten. Four million years earlier, our australopithecine ancestors crawled down from some God-forsaken trees to run with sweaty persistence after the meaty goodness left for scavenger animals. This, they called a meal. The world we have inherited is only a savannah away from that prehistoric reality. We have to...
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Fdip238: Five Years and Running PodCast Goodness
Podcasting is a media so perfectly suited for the running lifestyle. Just as we schedule our runs in advance, we can schedule what we listen to ON those runs, in advance. We can multi-task the time we spend out on the roads and by listening to a podcast, exercise our brains and feel a camaraderie with the podcast host or producer: especially hosts and producers who are fellow runners like the podcasters you just heard: real people with a shared passion for this sport we love so well. When I...
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Fdip237: The 33rd Milton 10K Road Race
I had come to the town of Milton Massachusetts to run a 10K road race that I had run three times before, with a 48:18 finish in 2002, a 52:30 finish in 2003 and a 53:40 finish in 2004. Today I was hoping to finish in an hour and five minutes, although secretly a sub one hour would make me feel better. I’ve been injured, I’ve gained weight, and I’ve not felt as in shape as I have in the past: but today’s effort might serve to remind me that there was still hope within me to shed these pounds...
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Fdip236: Love of Running
Today’s episode is not about my love of this sport; it’s about how to help others to fall in love with this sport. Running is an activity that fellow runners, like you and I, gather pleasure from. We look forward to these feelings of pleasure every day when we lace up our shoes. To the non-runner, or someone who finds any physical activity abhorrent, this love of running is an alien emotion. These sufferers on THE COUCH OF DOOM consider the act of running as equivalent to the act of smashing...
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Fdip235: Behind the Swoosh
The story behind the swoosh is much bigger than that of just Nike and its corporate policy of treating it’s workers as slaves: it’s a story that speaks to the working conditions of many of the products that you and I use every day, from iPhones to Droids, from large screen TV’s to these new tablet computers Steve Jobs keeps whining about. What is the morally correct thing to do when we learn the truth about the working conditions for the people who make all this stuff we carry and use? I...
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Fdip234: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Play
Greetings fellow canines; my name is Indiana Jones; I am NOT the fictional American Adventurer and Archeologist Dr. Henry Walton Jones Junior created by film maker George Lucas and portrayed by Harrison Ford and River Phoenix; I am the REAL Indiana Jones, a pure bred lemon beagle puppy born one year ago on March 28th, 2009. My full name, in fact, is Indiana Jones Walker…of the human family Walker; they being the creatures who serve me in every way and are the best-est family a dog could ever...
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Fdip233: Can Marathon’s Kill You?
In this episode I review the abstract of a study released last March by Dr. Depina Kardara and his team at theAthensMedicalSchool,HippokrationHospitaltitled “Marathon Runners Have Increased Aortic Stiffness”. It is important to note that my skepticism with this study is related to the implied suggestion that training for and running a marathon is considered extreme exercise.Maybe it is, or maybe after having run 21 of them…the last not much more than a controlled crawl, I see the marathon as...
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Fdip232: The 114th Boston Marathon
I had come to Hopkinton Massachusetts to run the 114th Boston Marathon, and found myself in the early miles facing the eventual breakdown of my body. From the joyful celebration of a New England town, I ran myself into the unchartered land of exhaustion and pain…and through modern technology I broadcasted my suffering live through my blog and social networking sites. I wasn’t doing that to show off or incite pity, I did it because I wanted to share my experience with you in hopes that you...
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Fdip231: The Qualifying Standards of Boston
The Czech Locomotive, Emil Zatopek, 3 time gold medalist in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki once said “If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.”The qualifying times of the Boston Marathon call us to experience a different life. It is not so important that we can meet the standards and run a BQ; it’s the whole idea that there is this threshold for excellence out there: a target by which we can measure our own performance. I stand by the...
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Fdip230: Boston and the 2010 State of the Course
In this episode of The Goofy Little Podcast, I run the first 18 miles of the Boston Marathon course and I’ll let you know if there’s anything new to look for on the road before you arrive to run this thing. If you’ve traveled from afar, you might want to find other things to do with your time in Boston besides driving out to the suburbs to check out the course. That’s where this episode comes in, as I’ll do my best to describe what I’m seeing: and what you’ll see as you run the Boston...
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Fdip229: Running Legend Tarzan Brown
Tarzan Brown was an amazing athlete who lived a hard, impoverished life but faced the world with dignity and strength. There are so many legendary and half-true mysteries about the man and his career as a runner that his many accomplishments might seem less interesting: but above all know this: that Tarzan Brown was a free spirit, a man who loved to run and his very life honored his brave tribal ancestors; the Narragansett people, one of the leading tribes of New England with a culture that...
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Phedippidations Relaunch Promo
April 4th, 2010.
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Fdip228: Dispatches from the Road
I like eggs. Show Links: http://www.fdiplive.blogspot.com http://qik.com/steverunner/videos http://feeds.feedburner.com/IntervalsAudio http://runningpodcasts.org Final Broadcast by the Statistics http://musicalley.com
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Fdip227: Barefoot Patterns and Forces
Professor Daniel Leibermans (and his team) paper Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners looks into how and why human beings can and did run comfortably without modern running shoes. In it, he proves that experienced, habitual barefoot runners tend to avoid landing on our heels and land with a forefoot or midfoot strike. Most of their research looks into the mechanics of different kinds of foot strikes. He shows that most forefoot and some midfoot...
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Fdip226: GI Distance Running Problems
When you run, youre body is under stress, and that causes your body to increase the levels of certain chemicals to kinda even things out. These chemicals, in turn, may lead to an increase in gastrointestinal problems in distance running. Our bodies are incredible machines, but while evolution has done a wonderful job of allow up to go forth and multiply; there are some sniggly little issues which come up from time to time to prevent us from going forth at our full potential. Gastrointestinal...
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Fdip225: The Key Note Ill Never Get to Give
Im never going to be asked to give a speech in front of a crowd of fellow runners. Its not going to happen; and by saying that Im not implying that the absent request is a travesty; theres a good reason why Ill never be asked: because while you and I are friends and there are at least ten of you listening right now: generally speaking I am not what you call: popular. Im not very well known, and never expect to be burdened with famenot enough at least to be asked to speak to a crowd of...
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Fdip224: The Call of the Miles
Todays episode is the first to talk about the phenomenon of Ultra Marathons. There is obviously a lot more to this topic than I can fit in a single goofy little podcast, and as a homework assignment to you and myself, I recommend that we pick up a copy of the book Ultra-Marathoning: The Next Challenge by Tom Osler and Ed Dodd published by World Publications. The book appears to be out of print, but you can still pick up a few used copies over at Amazon.com. Im intrigued about training for...
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Fdip223: Dr. George Sheehan and the Church of Running
In his essay, IS RUNNING A RELIGION, Dr. George Sheehan makes that point that running is a place, not a system of belief. Running gives us an opportunity to renew ourselves while were out there on the road: both psychologically and spiritually. Ive heard that phrase before: Running is your religion and it makes about as much sense as the phrases cooking is your politics or singing is your manifesto. Every time you go out for a run, you are given an opportunity to commune with yourself, with...
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Fdip222: Ive Got Mail
I know Ive said this before, but I want you to understand that I read all of your email. This problem I have with answering email is somewhat embarrassing for me; and when I starting having these problemsI considered not saying anything about it here on the show. I thought that for me to tell you that my inbox was overflowing, and that I couldnt possibly answer every email I received would be a fairly vain, narcissistic thing to do. But then, I realized that for me NOT to say anything about...
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Fdip221: The 2010 Spring Marathon Guide
This episode begins with another ice cold swim in Boston Harbor with friends, and a stated theory that will become my law of thermodynamic refreshment. Because athletes prefer to run distance races in more comfortable temperatures; the Spring and Fall are often preferred seasons for marathons. Today, in January, were getting a couple of inches of snow, and the air temperature wind chill is 10 degrees below zero F, or minutes 23 degrees C; making it a bad day to schedule 114th running of the...
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Fdip220: Four Hour Marathon Part 2 - Endurance
This is my first podcast episode of 2010, and my second episode regarding my intentions for running a sub Four Hour Marathon in the Autumn of this year. Endurance training and Aerobic development are critical elements in good marathon training program. You have to put in the time without worried about the mileage, and you have to develop a base from which to launch yourself at your goal. This is the year Im going to break 4 hours in a marathon NOT because Ill be physically fit to do so, but...
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Fdip219: A Year in Motion and Review
Personally, Ive never really needed the changing of the calendar year as a reason to set and keep a resolution: so any promises Im going to make are probably a continuation of what Ive been working towards for the past few years; although I do have a few running-specific resolutions that Ive set and intend to see through.2009 is finally over and 2010 is upon us. The phrase Out with the old, in with the new creates images of hope for a new year, where war and violence come to an end, where...
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Fdip218: The 2009 Phedippidations Holiday PodCast...
In the spirit of all those old cheesy classic television holiday variety show specials by the Osmond Brothers, Bob Hope, Donny and Marie, and the Smothers Brothers: I present for you my first Holiday PodCast Variety Show Special complete with special guests, a musical act, and comedy sketches created to make your season merry and bright. I dont expect this episode to become a holiday classic, but it will keep you company as you get a long run in on a cold winters day! Special appearances by:...
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Fdip217: Running Legend: Browning Ross
Browning Ross was a talented runner, coach, spokesman, leader and proponent of distance running; at a time when there werent too many runners in the world who could actually finish a marathon. It was through his hard work and passion, that road races in the United States are so popular today. He made it his mission to spread the word about long distance running, and create the buzz which would lead to the Great Running Boom of the 1970s. Also, rest in peace Larry Legend Olsen: coach, leader,...
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Fdip216: Running Through a New England Town
Running a race with a friend is always a good thing because the friendly rivalry will tend to push you past your own comfortable limits. When I first started running back in December of 1998, I would run every day with a good friend at work; and we would push each other to finish as fast and as strong as we possibly could. I averaged a 9:10 pace back in those days for my daily and long runsguess what that pace run over 26.2 miles would get me? If I had run the race on my own today, I most...
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Fdip215: Inspiring Off the Couch
When you inspire someone to take to the road, to join us as runners: you are filling them with the same passion that you have for this sport, you are influencing their behavior by showing them what it means to live this lifestyle. Its not about looking thin and healthy; although that is a cool consequence of running: its feeling good, having a sense of pride in being able to run for a certain distance: and if you can inspire even just one other human being to lace up their shoes and become a...
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Fdip214: Email to my Droid
Ive said before that a podcast is better than a radio show because it embraces communication through social media; in fact: better than thatit IS social media, independent podcast producers can honestly call those who subscribe to their content: Friends; and really mean it. Despite the commercial advertisements on this show; Im not really going overboard in trying to sell you somethingI might recommend some products or services that I think are pretty cool, but the unspoken truth is that its...
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Fdip213: Sports Medical Quackery
Human beings have always feared the unknown and unknowable. Desperate for cures to our everyday ailments and those conditions and illnesses which cause pain and death, we are willing to try anything that we can justify as a reasonable remedy. Runners, who are often prone to injury, are especially vulnerable to medical quackery. Take a walk around the Health and Fitness Expo of the Boston Marathon, and youll find all sorts of samples of alternative medicines, with products and services that...
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Fdip212: Four Hour Marathon Part 1: Why?
This is the first part in a series Ill produce over the next year, regarding my efforts to run a sub four hour marathon. For me, the goal of running a Marathon in less than 4 hours is important to accomplish for many reasons including self confidence, a feeling that Ive reached a new level in my running, reclamation of my inner youth, setting an example for my son, earning the respect of those who understand what a sub four means, and being able to look back at my trials and tribulations on...
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Fdip211: Gifts, Gadgets and Gizmos for Runners
I present for you another one of my annual gadgets and gizmos review shows for some ideas on running gear and Apparatus that you might give your fellow runners for the holidays. But I also ask you to think about the idea of giving the gift of yourself this holiday season. Maybe, instead of heading to the shopping malls this year, you should head to your calendar and start picking out a day or two a week where youll make a point of going out to dinner or have a few beers or cup of coffee with...
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Fdip210: The 4th Annual World Wide Festival of Races
I live in a world Where everyone runs With this one thing in common We love to run together Although we live apart On a tiny blue bubble in space Where borders are meaningless Where friendships are cherished And our experiences are shared I live in a world. Where everyone runs together. ...and on this 4th Annual World Wide Festival of Races, it was indeed: an honor to have run these miles with you. Show Links: http://www.worldwidefestivalofraces.com http://runtodream.web-log.nl/runtodream...
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Fdip209: The 2009 Valley Harvest Half Marathon
In the course of a long weekend, my friend Joe and I would explore the coastline and harbors of the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. Wed check out rock formations and earthen cliffs, lighthouses and small finishing villages; tidal plains and earthen dykes. We have lunch at a local German caf, wed investigate an outcropping of Devonian limestone in a place called Morden and taste locally created wine in vineyards around the Valleyin short, wed see the sites, run the course, and race the race...
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Intervals208B: Twenty Questions
In this special episode of Phedippidations Intervals, Joe Steindl interviews podcast host and Run Net Community member: Steve Runner, asking him 20 of the most mind numbing, heart revealing questions that listeners to his goofy little podcast have always NEEDED to know.
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Fdip208: Cheers from the Third Planet
Nothing lasts forever in this physical universe of ours. We can talk about the eternal world to come, the kingdom of Heaven, Nirvana, Tian, the Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial kingdoms, the six heavenly planes of Hinduism and the 8 levels of heaven in Islambut this planet that we ran upon today, this place: will not last. The Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and in 7.59 billion years from today, it will be dragged from our solar orbit by our sun which will have grown to be 256 times as...
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Fdip207: Chi-Running
ChiRunning is a new technique that incorporates traditional Lydiard style training with moving more efficiently, more in tune to the way our bodies were intended to run. It requires and provides a special sense of self awareness of our environment, our bodies and our movement through space. To practice ChiRunning is to embrace a style of running that gives more emphasis to running form and less focus on speed. ChiRunning makes many promises about your health, freedom from running injury,...
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Fdip206: TO: Steve Runner FROM: You
I read every one of your emails, although Im sorry to admit that I cant always respond. I want to, I really dowere this production my full time job; email responding would be a welcome addition to my weekly task list; but like you: I have a family to feed, a career to attend to, a sick dog to worry about, my training to embark in, injury to overcome and this podcast that I feel called to produce (however scary that notion might sound). So Ill respond as best I can, right here on the show.and...
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Fdip205: A Radical Plan for Health Care
Health Care is a system of rules and services, offered to help individuals become and remain healthy. Here in the United States, the term Health Care has caused a lot of stress and anger about how our government is going to provide these services and how much each of us will have to pay. Im here today, offering a different, more effective and certainly more personal solution to whats been called the American Health Care Crisisit might seem a bit revolutionary, possibly radical for me to...
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Fdip204: Team Sweat
There is a discrimination in this world and slavery and slaughter and starvation. Governments repress their people; and millions are trapped in poverty while the nation grows rich; and wealth is lavished on armaments everywhere. These are differing evils, but they are common works of man. They reflect the imperfection of human justice, the inadequacy of human compassion, our lack of sensibility toward the sufferings of our fellows. But we can perhaps remember - even if only for a tirne -...
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Fdip203: The Pose Running Method
The Pose Method of running incorporates some interesting concepts that may be worth your consideration. Its a biomechanical model that has you landing on your mid-foot with your supporting joints flexed at impact and hamstrings used to pull your foot from the ground, using gravity to move you forward. Its a method that takes a lot of practice, some say it can take years to perfect: but the promises are impressive: stronger, faster and injury free running. Like any running technique, this is...
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Fdip202: Running Legend Paavo Nurmi
Some called him Suuri Vaikenija A Great Silent One but to the world he was known as The Flying Finn. During the 1920s, he was the best middle and long distance runner in the world, setting world records at distances between 1500 m and 20 km. He is often considered the greatest Track Field athlete of all time: This is Paavo Nurmi. From Paavo we learn the importance of complete dedication; while most of us seek to lead a balanced life as a way to achieve happiness, Paavo Nurmi was all about...
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Fdip201: The Dysevolutional Runner
We need to recognize the fact that, through cultural changes, we have evolved. It is through modern humanities incompatibility with our natural environment that we are beginning to dysevolve. The Dysevolutional Runner is one who lives in this environment of fast food non-pedestrian and embraces her or his inner hunter gatherer. Professor Daniel Lieberman, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University, says that Dysevolution is a positive feedback loop. When we work to treat the symptoms of...
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Fdip200: A Goofy Little PodCast
In a way, the reason I produce Phedippidations is so I can make the world just a tiny bit better than it was before I started to produce this podcast. I understand that this is something Ill most likely fail at and that my efforts here might be considered a colossal waste of time, however noble and altruistic this might seem. BUT: theres always that small conditional word IF. As in: IF I can inspire just one human being, who might by accident listen to this goofy little podcast and become...
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Fdip199: Producing Phedippidations
A podcast should be an expression of yourself, with a deep and open honesty that reveals all of the good things in your heart, as well as your weaknesses. A podcast should not be a show per se, it should be a conversation: it should have as many audible elements that fit your personality and the truth of who you are. Fear of being honest is perceived by the listenersand if youre doing it right: youll not think of those who subscribe to your podcast as mere listeners, theyre fellow...
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Fdip198: Walking by Henry David Thoreau
Today, Im going to read you an abridged version of another book by Thoreau, this one titled Walking, which Thoreau written in 1861. This was an essay that was presented as a lecture and published after his death in 1862, this essay, lecture and book has become one of THE most important written works in the environmental movement. So why am I reading this on a podcast about running? Is it because I canoed up the Allagash River Waterway in the Maine North Woods where Thoreau himself spent time...
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Fdip197: The Second Question and Answer Show
A conversation is an informal talk with someone about opinions, ideas, feelings or everyday matters. A good conversation is an interaction between two or more people, where questions are either explicitly asked or implied. For many of you, over the past four years you have been having a conversation with a middle aged, middle of the pack, slightly asthmatic fellow runner, but I assure you that that conversation was not one way. And while I admit Im not able to answer my emails as much as Id...
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Fdip196: Acclimatization and Performance
When summer rears its oppressive head of high humidity and heat, fellow runners must take to the road with the solar conditions in mind and heed the warnings to ensure a safe and comfortable run. Acclimatization is an important precursor to taking to the hotter than usual roads, and the better our bodies can adapt to the heat, the greater our performance will be once we put these bodies to the test in a race. There will come a day when, here in the Northeast, the days will shorten, the...
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Fdip195: The Bunion Derby
The Bunion Derby was an event like no other, and there will never be another like it. While there have been many cross continental races since 1928, none were organized in the way that C.C. Pyle had organized the event: it was an endurance race, a circus and a harsh and unforgiving competition. In his book C. C. Pyles Amazing Foot Race: the true story of the 1928 coast to coast run across America, by Geoff Williams, published by Rodale Pressthe author writes As difficult as his amazing foot...
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Fdip194: Athletic Arthritic?
Theres this rumor going around that distance runners are more prone to developing arthritis, a medical condition from by the Greek word arthro meaning joint and itis meaning inflammation. Many non-runners and medical laypersons have assumed that the constant repetitive pounding forces on our joints, especially in the knees, as we run are too much for our bodies to absorb. In this weeks episode Ill go through some of the scientific medical research on the subject and present an answer to the...
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Fdip193: Running with Ear Candy
From a small island in the middle of southern Maines Sebago Lake, I present for you my annual review of some of my favorite songs from the past year of Phedippidation episodes. This week, Im on vacation: giving my ankle a chance to heal and my soul a break from stress as I enjoy my family, lapping waves, a few good books and delicious wine. Veni, Vidi, Vici Show Links:Terra Nova by Jim Fidler at jimfidler.com.Be Okay by Ingrid Michelson at http://www.ingridmichaelson.com Pizza Day by...
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Fdip192: Theseuss Paradox and Other Thoughts
Beware the contents of this episode, ye who come here to listen to the runner boy run! In this episode, I go out for a run and just let my mind flow, talking about a few things that may or may not have to do with running. Of particular interest (to me at least) is the contemplation of the ship of Theseuss, the discussion of which might may you say Huh? We are made of stuff that has a limited shelf-life, but most of the atoms in your body will be completely replaced in just 10 years time, and...
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Fdip191: Me Heart Takes a Beating
This episode is a review of a study published last month in the American Journal of Cardiology titled Relation of Biomarkers and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging After Marathon Running. We use terms and phrases such as youve got to have heart and dont go breakin my heart as a reference to the symbolic vessel we have within us to harbor our capacity to love. In reality the heart is an important organ, strategically located in the center of our bodies to provide oxygen rich blood throughout...
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Fdip190: A Longer Life with Purpose
As simple and exhausting as it sounds: running can be your purpose in life; and if youre already a runner as I suspect you are: then running can be a purpose you can give to others, by asking them to join us: by making this sport a game, by thinking of it as play and by embracing a lifestyle that helps you to improve the duration and quality of your life. Its short fellow runners, this life of ours is far too shortbut it should be long enough; and when you find yourself with a purpose to...
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Fdip189: The Other Newtons Laws
They called him Arthur Greatheart Newton. He had been a runner in his twenties, but gave it up after a time, taking to the road again 12 years later when, at the age of 38, he ran his first Comrades Marathon. His contribution to distance running is great in that he chose to use common sense to guide his training methods, rather than formulas found in books on the subject of running. Dr. Tim Noakes, in his book Lore of Running outlines 9 of his principles of training that helped to guide...
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Fdip188: John Michaels Puppy
This is one of those strange podcast episodes that merges a little of my personal life (youll hear us picking up our new Dog Indiana and bringing him home) along with some practical tips about exercising your dog and this history of the beagle. It goes without saying that I have a lot to learn about dogs; and puppies specifically. While my wife has always owned a dog, growing up: this experience is new to the rest of us in my household. Will I make mistakes: count on it: hell end up chewing...
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Fdip187: The Running Evolution
In this episode I present for you the major findings of Professor Daniel Lieberman of the Biological Anthropology department at Harvard University and Professor Dennis Bramble from the University of Utah in their 2004 paper published in the journal Nature titled Endurance running and the evolution of Homo. In this paper, they make the powerful case that The fossil evidence suggests that endurance running is a derived capability of the genus Homo, originating about 2 million years ago, and...
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Fdip186: A Life of Present Defense
A runner lives for the moment, and can rise to call of her or his own character to do what we know we have to do, for our bodies, for our training, for the promise we made to ourselves some time ago. We will have bad days, we will be haunted by the memories of a 4:01:31 finish in Philadelphia back in November of 2007, and well look to our next marathons where we dream of running a sub fourbut still, on those icy, rainy, blisteringly hot and humid days when work was a nightmare and everyone...
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Fdip185: The Run-Net Community
Ours is a social network of fellow runners who are using new media and the power of what has become known as Web 2.0 a second generation of web development and design that facilitates communication, collaboration and above all: sharing of thoughts, opinions, observations and yes, even rambling diatribes. Theres this question that philosophers and scientists, artists, writers and dreamers have asked for many centuries when they looked above into the heavens. That question is this: ARE WE...
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Fdip184: The 113th Boston Marathon
In this episode I will be completely honest and open up a little to tell you some things Ive not previously revealed about me, and will run the 113th Boston Marathon with you. A marathon is a very open, public and sincere physical event that puts you out there: for better or worse, revealing all of your weaknesses, as well as physical and mental pressure points. A marathon forces you to face yourself in a very public and very introspective way. I wasnt supposed to run this race, and when I...
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Fdip183: Boston = The Worlds Greatest Marathon
I do not make my case here with an elitist attitude. I make my case with sound facts which, from my perspective, lends evidence to the fact that the Boston Marathon is, without a doubt and lacking hesitation from my lips to your ears: THE WORLDS GREATEST MARATHON.I made a statement on this podcast, three years or so ago regarding why it is that Im a runner. Many reasons come to mind; but the one that always rises first and foremost in my thinking might not be one that others would expect...
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Fdip182: Running Legend: Jacqueline Gareau
Theres something special that marks an elite athlete as a true running legend. Its more than just their athletic appearance, their healthy bodies and the way they carry themselves when they enter a room. A running legend is someone who has a very humble confidence. Their eyes, voices and motions speak of having worked harder than most of us could ever imagine to reach a brief moment in their lives where they understood that they were experiencing something that only the very dedicated and...
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Fdip181: The 2009 State of the Course
Two key messages about the Boston Marathon Course: Hopkinton, Ashland, Framingham, Natick, Wellesley, Newton, Brookline, Boston.Head Away From Nature West Near Ballpark Boston. and Only 17% of the course climbs at a rate of greater than 1%.Ive learned many lessons from this course. The Boston Marathon has taught me to conserve on the downhills, and pace myself on the uphills. Its taught me to have humility amid the cheering crowds, to smile despite the pain gastronomical discomfort, to savor...
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Fdip180: From Maintenance Miles to Marathon
To run the 113th Boston Marathon with minimal preparation I have to condition my body for constant and repetitive motion for at least five hours. Whats more, I must be able to carry the weight of my body on a gradual 16 mile course into Newton Lower Falls, up the hills of Newton and over a goofy little speed-bump, and finally down the other side past mile 22 with as much strength as I have left. Traditional marathon training programs begin with a base and gradually work up to build strength...
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Fdip179: Morning Runs
Despite the scientific rational to the contrary, running in the morning as opposed to other times in the day has many personal benefits which may not seem obvious. We are human beings, called to embrace each day with a vigor and enthusiasm that demands hard work and strenuous effort. We are good animals, moving across the planets surface with purpose and power from the moment the sun rises over the horizon to enlighten our day. We are runners, and the world is our race course: and once they...
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Fdip178: All in Stride
The phrase Taking it all in stride means to get all you can get within a single step. As runners, we have a special appreciation for longer, stronger strides in that they ensure faster speeds on the open road, and combined with more frequent strides, can turn our back and middle of the pack efforts into something closer to the front. When we train, we are already prepared and pre-conditioned to expect speed work and strength work, long runs and the building on endurance: but within those...
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Fdip177: The Winning Bug by Jackson Scholz
This week I present for you the short story The Winning Bug written by Jackson Volney Scholz also known as the New York Thunderbolt. Jackson Scholz was an American track and field athlete who specialized in the sprint, was born in 1897 and died on October 26th, 1986. In the 1920s, he became the first person to appear in an Olympic sprint final in three different Olympic Games. He won the gold in Antwerp for the American 4x100 meter relay, he won the silver in the 100m race in the 1924 Paris...
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Fdip176: Mailbox Review
The greatest reward for producing a podcast like Phedippidations is the electronic messages that you are kind enough to send me, but theres an old Scottish proverb that reads What may be done at any time will be done at no time. Today Im making an effort to find some time to go through my email inbox to answer some of the messages youve been kind enough to send me over the past three months. Despite good reason and a stressfully increasing workload, Ive felt guilty for not answering your...
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Fdip175: Running on the Road Again
There are so many beautiful places on this planet that you can find to go for a run which are beautiful, interesting, and memorable. If you are traveling for pleasure, business or any purpose: pack your running shoes, a pair of shorts and a tee-shirt; youll see the places you visit from a more interesting and intimate perspective and will be able not only to say you visited that place, but can boast quite proudly that youve run there. In this episode of Phedippidations, I go on vacation to...
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Fdip174: A Lecture From Arthur Lydiard
In April of 1990, Arthur Lydiard gave a lecture in Osaka Japan as part of a clinic he conducted in Tokyo and Osaka. From that trip, numerous articles were written in running magazines all over the world, and the material he covered led to his publishing a book titled Running With Lydiard. He is without a doubt one of the greatest athletic coaches of all time, and is credited with popularizing and inventing the sport of recreational running and jogging for health. His training methods were...
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Fdip173: The 1st Questions and Answers Show
As runners, we all have questions; questions about our experiences on the road, questions about best practices as outlined by the experts, questions about the human body and the science regarding motion and our bodies, and even just questions about each other. How are you doing? How are you feeling? Hows your running going? Have any big races planned in the near future? Whats up? Whats going on? Did John Michael get his puppy yet? As friends and fellow runners we have plenty of questions as...
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Fdip172: George Sheehan on Running to Win
The book George Sheehan on Running to Win, is a book of wisdom, sage advise and clinical recommendations from a well versed authority on health and fitness. Dr. Sheehan was someone who was passionate about our sport, and cited many reasons why all should join us on the road. Most of all, he promised us that the act of running is fun. In his book Running to Win Dr. George Sheehan perfectly articulated what many of us have been thinking all along. Were all winners when it comes to this sport,...
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Fdip171: Why Runners Break
There are plenty of reasons why runners break. The human body is a fantastically robust and adaptable organism, but it has its physical limits that, despite our good intentions through hard and long runscan often lead to injury. The problem is that our willpower is often far stronger than our bodies power to absorb stress. You have within you the power to accomplish great things, and run impressive raceswhile at the same time you have the power to run yourself into the ground, and break that...
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Fdip170: Thoughts from the Road
I dont want to make a big deal out of it, but the anniversary of my first breath on this planets ocean of oxygen takes place on the 19th of this month, just a few days after this show is available for download. It was of course 9 full months prior that I first came to be; and have been growing into a more complex organism ever since. As my complexity increases, so do the ideas that get formed in my admittedly teeny tiny little brainand like a balloon in the state of inflation, if I dont get...
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Fdip169: Massaging the Trigger Points
Pain is the bodys way of telling us that something is wrong, and when we ignore those messages we are risking further and more permanent injury. Myofascial trigger point pain syndrome is problematic because of the nature of referred pain, where a defect in the muscle can cause soreness elsewhere in the body. To resolve this kind of pain, you have to identify its true source, and apply massage as a preventive measure to overcome it. It takes patience and consistency to perform the stretches,...
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Fdip168: Exercise Induced Asthma
If you find yourself struggling to catch your breath during a race or on a particularly cold or humid day, you may have exercise induced asthma. Dont let it prevent you from taking to the road and reaching your goals. I have every intention of running and finishing future marathons, and I wont let my exercise induced asthma keep me from running. There are treatments available to all of us who suffer with E.I.A. which can make our enjoyment of this sport continue through our lives. Show...
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Fdip167: Around We Go Again
This episode is a review of the leap year 2008, MMVIII of the Gregorian calendar, Anno Domini of the Common Era. Like any other year, 2008 had its accomplishments and failures, its successes and disasters, its good moments and instances of sadness and terror. We lived through it all and each in our own way did our best, wished the best for others and helped to make the world just a little bit better than it was last year. This week we listen to some of the skits, sketches and audio bits that...
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Fdip166: Its Not About Courage
This week your goofy little host goes off the deep end again with a podcast filled with critical thinking, loud enunciation and a very un-holiday-like disposition. This episode is a statement of my opinion. Not all will agree with that opinion, and all are invited to consider and challenge what I have to say here. I suspect many will consider my premise faulty and my conclusion to be wrong; but this is just MY OPINION, and if I sound angry and passionate in my argument its because it bothers...
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Fdip165: Running Legend: Ted Corbitt
Ted Corbitt was without a doubt the father of long distance running. He was a pioneer in ultramarathons and a big part of the running revolution of the 1960s and 70s. He was once called a spiritual elder of the modern running clan. We will remember him in many ways: as the quiet guy in the background working to establish rules for age groups and course measurements. As a promoter of distance running who worked behind the scenes. He was an amazing athlete who was able to cover distances that...
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Fdip164: A New England Five Miler
In this episode I run the 20th Annual Whiten Five Thanksgiving Day Road Race in Whitensville, Massachusetts; a village in Northbridge. It wasnt my fastest five miler, but I had fun running it never the less. I came to celebrate the holiday of Thanksgiving, to enjoy the morning with fellow runners, to compete against those around me and most of all, to run. Old New England towns remain preserved while merging with the modern world and new technologies. You can see that most clearly when you...
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Fdip163: Running Clubs
Running clubs are local organizations that you can join to gain the support of fellow runners as a way to motivate, inspire, invigorate and improve your performance on the road. But for all the great benefits that joining a running club will give you, theres something else you should consider in deciding whether or not you should join such an organization. When you join a running club you are not doing it only for yourself but as an opportunity to help others improve as runners: you are...
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Fdip162: Catching Up
When you are out there, running a race, and you find yourself (point A) behind another runner (point B) whom you are working to catch up tothere is a relative velocity between the two of you that is much smaller than you can imagineand today, I want to help you imagine itbecause once youve come to realize how small that difference is, then youll be better able to summon the energy required to exceed that speed and close the gap between you and that runner ahead of you to the point where...
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Fdip161: Gifts for the Holiday Runner
So what is the point of giving gifts to each other during the holiday? It is to express our feelings of appreciation, care and fondness for one anotherand the best way to do that, with respect to gift giving, is to make the gift a personal reflection of what you know the person youre giving to would appreciate. Runners appreciate the little things; a good book on our favorite subjects, or something simple like a pair of gloves, socks or a water bottleitems which help to protect and comfort...
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Fdip160: Strong to the Core
Our core is our center; it is where our arms, legs and head meet to create the human body we inhabit and control. It is where, just a few inches or centimeters above, resides the all important heart, pumping oxygen rich blood to all of our extremities. In an anthropological sense, the heart is the focused center of our emotional and mental character.it is the mystical source of our kindness, charity, and love. In this same way, our corethe very central characteristic of who and what we are...
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Fdip159: Responsible Shoes
This episode will serve as proof that Im an totally independent new media producer, and will guarantee that I never get that huge contract with a major running shoe label. But when running shoe companies enable their outsourced suppliers to treat their workers poorly, in unhealthy working conditions for long hours with wages that hardly allow them to feed and shelter their familiesthey are being evileither by direction or failure. You and I can support the fight for human rights and the...
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Fdip158: The 2008 Bay State Marathon
Life is all about making choices. Choices between whats right and wrong, choices between whats good and evil, choices between altruism and egotism, of giving and taking, of sharing and selfishness and choices between whats smart and whats dumb. I chose to run the 2008 Bay State Marathon just as 25 years ago this month I chose to take part in a project to help etch my college radio stations name in the history of a Northern Massachusetts city. Sometimes we do things without thinking it...
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Fdip157: The Third Annual World Wide Festival of Races
Over 1,100 runners from more than 40 countries took part in the 3rd annual World Wide Festival of Races. This really was a festival; it was a celebration of life, of community, of doing something of importance, endurance and strength. It was a day where we took to the roads and ran together although we were apart. There were many reasons why we all took part in this event: to celebrate, to share, to make friends and to inspire others. We did it to prove that national and territorial...
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Fdip156: Cheers from a Little Blue Bubble
It's hard to appreciate the Earth when you're down right upon it because it's so huge. It gives you in an instant, just at a position 240,000 miles away from it, (an idea of) how insignificant we are, how fragile we are, and how fortunate we are to have a body that will allow us to enjoy the sky and the trees and the water ... It's something that many people take for granted when they're born and they grow up within the environment. But they don't realize what they have. And I didn't till I...
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Fdip155: Pondering as I Pronate
These are some of the things that have been on my mind latelyrandom thoughts that I dwell upon while Im getting my miles inand thats one of the great things about runningit can sometimes be a time for you to reconnect with yourself, to dedicate the duration of your run to thinking about politics, hate, wine and endurance.so lets go for a run together, and indulge me the privilege of telling you what Im pondering today.Show Links:http://www.worldwidefestivalofraces.comLeave a message: +1...
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Fdip154: Running Legend: Sir Roger Bannister
It was once thought to be impossible for any human being to run the distance of a single mile in less than four minutes. Roger Bannister knew that if he focused on the task, if he used both his medical knowledge and physical abilities in a good and effective training program he could break the four minute barrier, and accomplish the impossible. This is his story. Show Links:http://www.worldwidefestivalofraces.comPLEASE SEND IN YOUR WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT FOR FDIP156 Audio Messages needed by...
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Fdip153: Running Over Cancer
Running will not prevent you from developing cancer, but it may save your life by retarding its growth and by increasing your bodies natural resistance. Life is worth fighting forand moderate exercise such as a 2 to 3 mile easy run every day is something that can both ease the stress from dealing with cancer as well as help us to fight against its uncontrolled growth. Researchers arent sure how much exercise is needed to help prevent cancer, but they all agree that consistency is the most...
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Fdip152: Running PodCasts
A podcast is so much more interesting, entertaining, informative and intimate than a radio show. When you subscribe to a podcast, youre really joining a social club of like minded enthusiasts for whatever the topic of conversation may be. Running podcasts are special in that they can be listened to while you, yourself, are out on your runsor on a treadmill, or in the car on your way to or from work, or after your run as you do chores around the house. A podcast is better than a radio show...
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Fdip151: Starting a Beatless Heart
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is a procedure that can postpone the condition of clinical death, where the heart has stopped beating and the victim is not breathing. There is no guarantee of successful resuscitation, but you can act as the heart and lungs of a victim to provide the body and brain with life sustaining oxygenated blood while waiting for a trained emergency responder or doctor to arrive on scene. The person you save through something like CPR may be a person who helps make the...
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Fdip150: Running for the Bases
Running is a universally important skill to have in life; no longer solely for the purpose of hunting, gathering and chasing down wild animals that lack the endurance we possessbut as a way to keep our bodies in shape, to help strengthen our muscles and cardiovascular system and to become the good animals we were meant to be. In baseball, its onetwothree strikes youre out; but in life you only have this one chance to live your life to the fullest, to rise off the couch of doom and to run the...
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Fdip149: The Mens Marathon of the 29th Olympiad
The mens marathon of the 29th Olympiad will feature the fastest and most prestigious distance runners in the world today. Those few hours and some minutes will mark the greatest race of their lives, and we will witness inspirational feats of athleticism as they run through an ancient city which is being transformed into a modern world. While these are the best runners on an elite level which many of us will never reach, do not forget that they are also our fellow runners.they have the same...
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RRT01: Some Time with the Good Doctor
This is episode one of a new podcast, created and presented by fellow runners around the world. The Runners Round Table! http://www.runnersroundtable.com Episode 1 - Join us at the table as we share some time with our good friend Dr. Monte from the great podcast, Fitness Rocks. He shares insight he gained from an interview with Dr. Eliza Chakravarty of Stanford Medical School about how exercise (namely running) can play a major role in reducing your disability and even morbidity as you get...
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Fdip148: The Womans Marathon of the 29th Olympiad
The athletes who will run in the woman's marathon of the 29th Olympiad in Beijing China are some of the very best distance athletes in the world. Each of them have worked incredibly hard to reach this level of competition, and to qualify to stand at the starting line in Tian'an Men Square. What happens during this race will be historic; the moments of the event will be forever seared in the memories of those who participate and those of us who will watch the race. We will witness the...
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Fdip147: Low Impact Living
When you make a stand and decide to change the amount of natural resources you use, such as the oil and gas used by generators to produce electricity to run your water heaters, and lights, and when you install insulation in your home to keep the heat generated from escaping into the cold and low water use shower heads to reduce the amount of clean water used in the bathroomyou are reducing your dependency on the fuel and water needed by others and the next generation who will run across this...
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Fdip146: Running in the Ancient Olympics
The Ancient Olympic Games where part of a festival, where fairness and athleticism where considered sacred. For over twelve hundred years the games were played in the Athenian city of Olympia and served as a cultural event to promote trade, commerce and diplomacy. The athlete was respected and set powerful examples for all who came to watch them compete. Their stories became the part of an ancient legend that inspired the modern games to revive the Olympic Spirit. We owe this spirit, this...
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Fdip145: Running Legend Frank Shorter
Frank Shorter is one of those rare living legends whose legacy is seen in every runner who seeks to better him or herself, and who runs with an infectious joy and passionand sincerity. There are legends in our sport, as there should bebut Frank Shorter is much more than a legend, he is an Olympian, a leader, a teacher, a good person and above all: a fellow runner. Show Links: http://rosaryarmy.com http://catholiccitywithzina.blogspot.com http://catholicfamilypodcast.com http://sqpn.com...
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Fdip144: Moving to the Music
This episode of Fdip is much different than all the others, and for those of you who dislike the musical selections that I include in each episode, this one is probably not for you.But music marks our life and times.Its more than just the poetry or melody: its the soundtrack that touches us; it expresses and reflects our feelings, it captures our emotions and it gives voice to our hearts.In this show youll hear ten independent artists (nine musical) and songs from previous episodes as we...
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Fdip143: The 2008 Fall Marathon Guide
Planning your Fall Marathon is all about setting a goal, with many months ahead of you within which to prepare. What marathoners learn as we engage in this preparation is that the joy, passion and discovery takes place during our training: in many ways the marathon itself is merely a celebration of what we have been able to achieve through the hours and miles that weve spent in training to get us to that starting line. Now is the time to pick our races, now is the time to make our...
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Fdip142: Dr. George Sheehan - Personal Best
Today, I'm going to tell you a little bit about a book written by Dr. George Sheehan titled Personal Best: The foremost philosopher of fitness shares techniques and tactics for success and self liberation, published in 1989 by Rodale Press. Its a book of 37 chapters, each one an essay and study into an physical of cerebral aspect of running. For anyone looking to read a sample of the right brain/left brain writings of Dr. Sheehan, this book gives you a good sense of his style. He challenges...
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Intervals141B: Vino Corrispondenza
Have a glass of wine with me while I catch up on some emails from fellow runners. Wine is one of my many passions. In order to appreciate wine you have to come into it with a clear head, a clear palate and a clear nose. Wine making dates back to 6000 BC and is a major part of the culture of many societies and religions. Wine is also a social beverage, something to share with friends and enjoy with a good meal. Its good for you as well, consumed in moderation wine has been found to have both...
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Fdip141: Running Barefoot
Today Id like to point out something thats really obvious; so obvious in fact, that we tend not to think about it much. In this episode I present for you a very basic, truthful, scientific and historical bit of trivia that both describes and explains the premise which propose, and that piece of trivia is this: Fred Flintstone never wore running shoes. Running shoes are not evil: youll have to pry my NB 426s off my hot sweaty feet if you ever want me to give up my running shoes: but we should...
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Intervals140B: Pacing Kathy
I have known my friend Kathy for many years, through many life adventures and glasses of quality wine. In this short format episode of Phedippidations, we run the Long Island Marathon Festival of Races 10K road race in New York, with the goal of finishing in an hour or less. This is also the story of how I met my wife and the contentious angry beginnings of a friendship that will last a lifetime, and about my incredible victory in a epic battle which took place during an all night drive to...
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Fdip140: Remembering Boston
In this episode we'll hear the stories of others who ran the 112th Boston Marathon. When you write up a race report youre not just doing it for yourself to memorialize the even, you're doing it for others; passing on your observations so that they can incorporate it into their own form of opinion as a way to better understand the event so that we can improve our performance on race day. Its not enough to just run the race, or even run it well, you have to tell others about your race. Race...
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Fdip139: The 112th Boston Marathon
This is a race report and audio recording of my 7th time running the Boston Marathon. This year was different in that I approached the starting line unprepared for the task ahead of me. Suffering from a case of peroneal tendonitis, my training was minimal throughout the winter months. On April 21st, 2008 I made the decision to ignore common sense setting a bad example to friends, family and fellow runners by ignoring my pain and pushing myself through a 26.2 mile race. What you'll hear in...
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Intervals138B: Race Day
It really means a lot to me that youd come out to have a beer with me, send me such kind words, good wishes, hopeful prayers, emails, blog posts, and voice messages to the Extra Mile PodCastand for being with me, in spirit, on race day. This is a short episode of Intervals, produced for race day of the 112th Boston Marathon, with thanks to everyone who have been so thoughtful to a middle aged, middle of the pack, slightly asthmatic, curiously injured fellow runner.
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Fdip138: The Great Race of 1983
The Boston Marathon is a race that challenges an athlete in a way that most courses do not, neither buy design or intent. It is not a fast course. It is not a race where any runner, elite or back of the pack, will set a marathon PR, but it is a race for which all other marathons seek to enable athletes to arrive in a small New England town for the eastward run into the heart of bean town. This is the story of the 87th running of this event, where the last American male runner won the day,...
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Fdip137: The 2008 State of the Course
What happens in Boston, starts in Hopkinton. In this episode I take my last 16 miler from the starting line of the Boston Marathon through the bottom of Newton Lower Falls. For those of us who will run the race, youll eventually come to Hereford Street where crowds will block your forward progress and urge you to turn right. Youll run this short block with the screams of spectators echoing off the buildings and will finally make your left hand turn onto Boylston Street, with the finish line...
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Fdip136: Running Legend Kathrine Switzer
It takes courage to stand up to authority. It requires an act of bravery to break the unfair rules so as to start the discussion. K.V. Switzer, Kathrinedidn't lace up her shoes on a cold and snowy April day in Hopkinton Massachusetts to prove a point, or to make a statementshe lined up because she had and has a passion in her heart to run. Show Links: http://www.katherineswitzer.com http://www.spencerusvi.blogspot.com Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports Fdip Blog...
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Intervals135B: Invitation
I have been invited to run the 112th Boston Marathon, and today Id like to invite you to join me through this goofy little podcast. In this short format episode of Phedippidations Intervals I extend to you an invitation to follow my progress on Patriots Day, April 21st, 2008. Also, I talk about my gratitude for the thoughtful gift of an invitational entry to this race from a good friend and the Massachusetts Wing of the Civil Air Patrol. http://mawg.cap.gov http://www.bostonmarathon.org...
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Fdip135: Who do you run for?
We run for ourselves, for our health, for our family and friends, we run to honor, to celebrate, to achieve, and to accomplish. We run because we canbecause at a very basic level we are good animals who were meant to move with purpose. We are runners; no better or worse than those who chose to practice an alternate motion of sport, or dance, or actionbut we all have good reasons for being out thereand while we might not always be self aware of why were doing it: when someone asks you the...
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Intervals134B: Living with Steve Runner
My name is John. Today I am going to take to the microphone and, on this special episode of Intervals, give you a sense of what its really like to live under the brutal and maniacal dictatorship of my Dad: Steve Runner. For today I hope to uncover the truth for you: that my father is a warped, twisted old man who refuses to buy me a puppy. As you listen to this episode, I hope youll come to appreciate my plight and do everything you can to rescue me from a life with Steve Runner.
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Fdip134: Online Training Logs
Because of my new intermittent schedule, this episode of Fdip has the distinction (and curse) of being the longest Ive produced thus far. The internet has created a way for runners to find and use resources for research, community, asking questions, sharing ideas, and for tracking our running performance. Free online training logs are available for us to use to help us reach our running goals. You should consider using an online training log to share your running log and upcoming schedule...
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Fdip133: Pushing Past Exhaustion
To push yourself past your zone of comfort you need to smile, think positively, focus on something other than the pain and weakness and dedicate yourself to a higher purpose other than just finishing. Most of all, you have to have the insatiable desire to reach your goal by making your efforts on the road more important than just yourself. If you can do this you will find that you can accomplish great things through your running, and be the runner and human being youve always known you could...
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Fdip132: Marathoning FIRST
The Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training stands by their philosophy of training as being the best scientifically proven method to improve as a runner, and gain fitness as an athlete. By limiting your time on the road to three intense workouts each week, and supplementing your training with cross training, they insist that you will become a better, more efficient runnerable to meet and exceed all of your running goals. Show Links: www.furman.edu http://www.worldwidehalf.com...
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Fdip131: The Big Boom
Running was adopted by a society who had been lulled into a false sense of security within the confines of their all too comfortable, technology empowered life of sedentary doom. In America, as in other countriestechnological advances negated our need to rise off the couch and hunt, gather and endure physical labor. But as the population grew unhealthy and overweight, they turned to both the sports and medical experts for an answerand that answer was so basic, simple and pure that the appeal...
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Fdip130: The Benefits of Running
When confronted with all of the positive advantages associated with becoming a runner, it helps to consider all of the reasons why running can help you to become a better person, both physically and, in a sense even spiritually. Because its all about living a happier life; a life filled with personal satisfaction along with the physical ability to participate in the world around you. Show Links: http://petraruns.blogspot.com/ http://www.savetherhino.org...
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Fdip129: The Hazards of Running
ust about everything in this life offers hazards and benefits. We balance comfort with pain, satisfaction with disappointment, and safety with danger every time we lace up our shoes and take to the road. Its quite obvious, to those of us who call ourselves runners, that the benefits of our sport far outweighs the dangers, it is important for us to be conscious of those hazards not only for our personal safety, but to allow us to logically counter the arguments that the non-runner might offer...
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Fdip128: Another Loop Around the Sun
In a very real sense, you and I are the hope of the world. We had some fun last year and some good times. We made new friends, we enjoyed successes on the road, we had some amazing experiences both together and apart. The lesson to be learned from last year, and the year before thatis that next year, and the year after nexthas the opportunity to be the best year of our life and the best year in the life of those around us. There were some terrible things that happened last year as well, but...
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Fdip127: The In Box Special
Handwritten letters and cards, email messages and our written words written throughout the year and especially during the holidays are a way to keep in touch, to maintain that fellowship that we have with each other. Its the stories that are contained in those messages that help to educate and inform us, they help us to relate to each other and put our own experiences into perspective. In this weeks episode, Ill read to you some of the email messages that I have in my in box, and invite you...
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Fdip126: Base Training
How can running slowly help us to achieve better performances later? It is particularly challenging to go from the relative intensity of pre-race workouts to a speed and pace that is much, much slower. However, if you come to the realization that many runners stagnate on a plateau of performances because they run too few miles, and these miles that they do run are are run too fast, then you open yourself up to the possibility of significant running improvement. Proper base training requires...
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Fdip125: Running Legend Billy Mills
Today I will tell you the story of a great and compassionate warrior from the Oglala Latoka tribe named 'Makata Taka Hela'. Billy Mills bravely faced loneliness and isolation in his college years, and went on to serve the country he loved in the United States Marines. He is a warrior for justice, an advocate for the young, and a person of character and honor who respects the earth and speaks on the virtues of understanding across all nations, both those defined by governments, and those...
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Fdip124: The 2007 Philadelphia Marathon
The Philadelphia Marathon is a fantastic race, run through and about an incredible city. This was the best marathon performance of my life where my dreams for a sub four hour finish were possible and within my reach. I have run 16 marathons prior to Philly, but was able to accomplish something on this day that has eluded me before. In running through the streets of Philadelphia I gained a new confidence, increased my stamina and improved my endurance to ensure that I would never hit the wall...
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Intervals 123B: Giving Thanks
On Thanksgiving Day here in the United States, and in holidays around the world, we feel compelled to offer thanks for the receipt of our good fortune. Its a uniquely human need that we have to offer thanks for the good things which occurred to us in the previous solar orbit. Im taking a break from my podcast this week, but wanted to thank you for your thoughts, prayers, kind words of congratulations and encouragement. Thank you for being a fellow runner and a friend, and thank you for...
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Fdip123: Holiday Gifts for Runners
Consider using this holiday season as a way to invite someone to become a runner. If to show appreciation or admiration you want to give someone a gift, consider giving them the gift of running by means of some item that is related to our sport. There are many products out there perfect for holiday giving, and they need not be all that expensive or difficult to find. To give someone a gift that encourages them to run, you are showing a special kind of caring through your actionand as we wind...
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Fdip122: Performance Eating
You wouldnt fill the fuel tank of an airplane with half the fuel needed to land it safely on the ground. You wouldnt lift off in a spaceship that had a leak in its main propulsion rocket, and you certainly wouldnt fill the gas tank of your car with chocolate pudding if you ever expected to successfully drive our of your parking lot. You need to fuel your body with the correct balance of carbs, fat and protein at a time prior to your race event that benefits your performance without leading...
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Fdip121: Things to do Before You Die
There is just so much to do in this world, so much to experience, and it would be so terribly wrong of us not to do so. As runners, we have an opportunity, every day, to rise above the tedium and experience life to the fullest; and having a list of things to do before you run your last mile is a way to keep yourself focused not on the finish line of your life: but on the joy of your lifes race, while youre in it.
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Fdip120: The 2007 Bay State Marathon
With three solid hours of sleep, the depressing notion that my beloved Boston Red Sox had lost a crucial game in extra innings, and the understanding that I was about to run my 16th marathon, fellow runner John Ellis and I crossed the chip mat at the starting line of the Bay State Marathon in Lowell Massachusetts, and I ran the best marathon of my life. What happened next was not magic. It wasnt some kind of impossible stroke of luck, and it wasnt completely unexpected: to be a runner is to...
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Fdip119: Results from Beyond the Couch of Doom
Over 12 hundred fellow runners ran the second annual Phedippidations World Wide Half Marathon and Kick the Couch 5K. It was an event that demonstrated the fraternity and fidelity of athletes all over the world, of widely different physical condition and abilities. When we accepted the challenge to run in this event, we accepted the role of becoming a runner. We ran in official events, back country roads, in parks with friends, on military bases, quiet places, and organized races. We ran...
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Fdip118: Cheers from the World
Today we run all over the world, at the very same time and encourage each other to push ourselves past our physical limitations. We are living for the moment, and nothing else matters. Each of us has an unstoppable power within us, earned through dedicated training, determination and the friendship of fellow runners near and far. Over a thousand of us will run today across 45 countries, 6 continents and one small blue bubble in a lonely vast, cold and empty universe, but we are not alone:...
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Fdip117: The Perfect Pace
There is a pace you can run which will get you to the finish line of your race totally spent and with nothing left. There is a pace you are able to run that will have you crossing the finish line knowing that you ran as fast and strong as you possibly could. You need to find that measure of minutes and seconds per mile or kilometer, by testing yourself, reviewing your most recent past performance and making a best guess at what will be your perfect pace.
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Fdip116: Where Are We Going?
So where are we going when we lace up our shoes? Where are we going when we head out that door? Where are we running, not why or howbut where? There has to be a purpose to all thisand its only logical that that purpose is our direction, and that direction has a name, and that name is Joy.
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Fdip115: Running Legend Fred Lebow
Fred Lebow was a showman and a promoter who was one of the main reasons why distance running and marathons became so popular as the running boom exploded. He transformed the NYC Marathon from a local event in Central Park with 55 finishers to one of the worlds largest running events with over 25,000 finishers running through all five boroughs of New York City. He lived his life to the fullest, against the dangers and odds of both the Nazi and Soviet occupations of Romania, and although fate...
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Fdip114: Hard Days
You need to incorporate hard workouts into your training program if youre looking to extend the duration of your runs, and improve the speed at which you compete. Hard runs are the key to your adaptation as a faster, more efficient runner.they are the only way you can achieve your goals on the road. As a runner you need to experience physical stress with the understanding that when it comes getting your miles in: The harder they come, the harder they fall.
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Fdip113: Periodization
Periodization is a way to incorporate different phases of training through out your athletic life. Its a system custom fit for you and your running goals, and is a way to remain fresh, focused and motivated throughout the year. You build a base, you prepare for your race, you taper well and youll find that on race day, its easier to run.
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Fdip112: The Mile
The human body is a remarkable vessel capable of impressive action, best displayed within the course of running a statute mile. A milerembraces a style of running that demands all of her or his faculties: physically, mentally and spiritually. To watch a mile race is to watch an extreme form of performance art, but it is also to behold the beauty and wonder of the human body, in motion, as it was meant to be: running fast, and hard, moving smoothly with purpose and a searing determination...
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Fdip111: Climate Change and the State of the World Wide...
The state of the World Wide Half Marathon race course is in jeopardy if the projected global temperatures increase as they are expected to do. We owe it to our fellow runners, and future generations to use the natural resources of our planet with care, respect and intelligence. Ignorance of the truth is not an option, and it does not matter who or what is to blame for Global Warming: what matters is that we be responsible and take action, today, right now, not later; today, not tomorrow,...
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Fdip110: The 2007 Falmouth Road Race
For the 35 th Annual Falmouth Road Race, Im once again running with my friend Joe. Its summertime on Cape Cod, with the promise of an ice cold beer waiting at the finish line, and what better way to share such a delicious frosty beverage than with an old friend.
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Fdip109: Dr. George Sheehan: This Running Life
Dr. Sheehan taught us that this running life sets us apart from the sedentary, but not necessarily above them. There is a runner in all of us, even for those who sit on the Couch of Doom because the body is willing, but it is our spirit that needs ignition. As runners, we are required to live a life of work, and a life of play, but above all, a life less ordinary.
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Fdip108:Running Without the Hurt
We all understand the concept behind the phrase no pain, no gain. As runners, we can accept some level of aches and injuries for our efforts on the road; but we must not invite pain as an expected and acceptable consequence for hard trainingwe must prepare our bodies for the pressure and force that well put upon it by taking preventative measures that will help us to run without the hurt.
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Fdip107: The Joy of Junk Miles
Junk miles and recovery runs are important elements of a good training program as they can help you run faster and longer. They allow you to enjoy slow easy runs while your body is healing from the stress forced upon it in the hours before you hit the road and they allow you to reach some whole number goal of daily or weekly mileage to appease the guilt you might carry for running below a self made threshold of distance that you consider significant and a source of pride.
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Fdip106: Run Walking
As runners, our intent in a race is to meet and exceed our goals by moving as fast as possible towards the finishbut while the motion of running is always going to be our primary method of locomotion, you should not ignore the benefits of incorporating walk breaks as a means towards finishing fast and strong, as well as to ensure a faster recovery.
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Fdip105: Running Over Fifty
When you get to an age where the world tells you that youre quote old, when society begins to classify you as a senior and treats you with the respect that the elderly deserve: dont reject the kindness or attention; but neither should you act your age. If you are a runner, training and taking part in a road races: then you are NOT old.
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Fdip104: Run, Blog and Share
You owe it to yourself, and to the rest of the running community, to start writing a blog, or producing a podcast. Write about your thoughts, your opinions and share your rambling diatribesbecause at some point youre going to write or record something that will touch another fellow runner, somewhere in this world, in such as way that it will have an important and positive influence in their life.
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Fdip103: Running Around the World
This year, the Phedippidations World Wide Half marathon will take place on the third planet from the sun, 26,000 light-years from the galactic center. Its a tiny blue bubble of life swarming with fellow runners who will be thinking of this global community while running on their local portion of the planet. As we travel around the globe, or look to imagine those places where our fellow runners take to the roads and paths, we should consider that at only 25,000 miles in circumference the...
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