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PhedippidationsFdip330: Thus Spake ZarathustraAnd now it’s October: we’re more than 80% through the end of the year "getting back to where we once belonged”, and for me…I’ve come upon a bit of a road block.
To best understand this road block, we have to talk about the philosophy of Nietzsche…and I know, I know…I said I wasn’t going to talk about philosophy on Phedippidations…but there’s just no other way, and I promise you that this is related to running.
In order to understand the nature of this “road block”, we have to spend some time talking about Friedrich, s...
2015-10-1630 min
PhedippidationsFdip329: Ten Years a Man of Constant PodcastingI’m humbled. What can I say? I’m totally humbled here, reeling in fact from the kind words from so many friends and fellow runners, people whom I admire a great deal.
I’ll be honest with you…I’ve always been honest with you (for better or worse) …I’m not someone who thinks very highly of myself…and so, what you’re about to hear are some really special people saying some very incredible things about..well…me.
I’m not sure that I deserve the kindness, but you must…I beg you, you MUST understand how much I appreciate the kind w...
2015-07-0550 min
PhedippidationsFdip328: The Mojo au GrotonIt was a perfect day for a run in New England. Presented by the Squannacook River Runners, this is the 24th running of the Groton Road Race.
Being a runner feels different for me now. The universe is undergoing entropy…and I’m a part of that universe. I can’t go home again, but I can get back to where I once belonged…even if, when I get there…I’m not the same runner I used to be. That’s okay, that’s a good thing.
These people, this race, that feeling of being a participant in something great and fun… it’s...
2015-06-1931 minPhedippidationsFdip328: The Mojo au GrotonIt was a perfect day for a run in New England. Presented by the Squannacook River Runners, this is the 24th running of the Groton Road Race.
Being a runner feels different for me now. The universe is undergoing entropy…and I’m a part of that universe. I can’t go home again, but I can get back to where I once belonged…even if, when I get there…I’m not the same runner I used to be. That’s okay, that’s a good thing.
These people, this race, that feeling of being a participant in something great and fun… it’s...
2015-06-1931 min
PhedippidationsFdip327: Exploratory RunningMost runners could go out, right now and run a few miles under the morning sun. We often do so without considering the power of the act. We take for granted the incredible advantage this gives us as situations arise which requires it. We forget that running can sometimes be a means to an end and that aside from it’s impressive list of benefits, running and self ambulation gives us the means to explore.
Training is important and I’m not suggesting that we abandon our training…I’m just putting the idea out there that as runners we have a gift...
2015-05-2131 minPhedippidationsFdip327: Exploratory RunningMost runners could go out, right now and run a few miles under the morning sun. We often do so without considering the power of the act. We take for granted the incredible advantage this gives us as situations arise which requires it. We forget that running can sometimes be a means to an end and that aside from it’s impressive list of benefits, running and self ambulation gives us the means to explore.
Training is important and I’m not suggesting that we abandon our training…I’m just putting the idea out there that as runners we have a gift...
2015-05-2131 min
PhedippidationsFdip326: The Ten Percent Rule“The Young Man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Coaches, Experts, Friends and Fellow Runners all seem to agree that “slowly and carefully ramping up your mileage” is a reasonable approach for our training. Just as the mighty oak begins it’s life as a weak and tiny acorn, my return to the road has to be rooted a slow and cautious increase in miles and duration.
A tree isn’t ruled by a ten percent growth rate.
I’m not trying to convince you to follow or ignore any rules
but I do think that...
2015-04-1140 minPhedippidationsFdip326: The Ten Percent Rule“The Young Man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Coaches, Experts, Friends and Fellow Runners all seem to agree that “slowly and carefully ramping up your mileage” is a reasonable approach for our training. Just as the mighty oak begins it’s life as a weak and tiny acorn, my return to the road has to be rooted a slow and cautious increase in miles and duration.
A tree isn’t ruled by a ten percent growth rate.
I’m not trying to convince you to follow or ignore any rules
but I do think that...
2015-04-1140 min
PhedippidationsFdip325: Running New EnglandThis is a transformative journey that we’re taking together, so it might help you to understand the context of this journey if you could understood a bit more about where I’ll be running.
In better understanding the mindset of the host and location of this podcast, you’ll better understand how your own terroir, or sense of place, affects your own journey.
You live where you do for reasons beyond mere choice or accident. Maybe you’re there because of work, or family, or because you like the temperature of the Mojitos, but at some level you are where you ar...
2015-03-1442 minPhedippidationsFdip325: Running New EnglandThis is a transformative journey that we’re taking together, so it might help you to understand the context of this journey if you could understood a bit more about where I’ll be running.
In better understanding the mindset of the host and location of this podcast, you’ll better understand how your own terroir, or sense of place, affects your own journey.
You live where you do for reasons beyond mere choice or accident. Maybe you’re there because of work, or family, or because you like the temperature of the Mojitos, but at some level you are where you ar...
2015-03-1442 min
PhedippidationsFdip324: A Measure of Health Part OneThis is part one of a two part episode. I’ll publish the second part at the end of the year.
In the last episode of Phedippidations I talked about getting back to a metaphysical place where I once belonged: a "home" where I was once happy and healthy. For lack of a better term I called this a “transformative journey” and said that I wasn’t doing this to specifically lose weight or get healthier, but to regain that passion I once had for this sport and to feel like a member of the running community again. In returning to the road...
2015-02-1434 minPhedippidationsFdip324: A Measure of Health Part OneThis is part one of a two part episode. I’ll publish the second part at the end of the year.
In the last episode of Phedippidations I talked about getting back to a metaphysical place where I once belonged: a "home" where I was once happy and healthy. For lack of a better term I called this a “transformative journey” and said that I wasn’t doing this to specifically lose weight or get healthier, but to regain that passion I once had for this sport and to feel like a member of the running community again. In returning to the road...
2015-02-1434 min
PhedippidationsFdip323: Getting Back to Where You Once BelongedI “once belonged” to a community of fellow runners. I understand that many of you and this association have always considered me to be a member of the “run local, think global” team, but I haven’t felt that way for some time. That’s my problem, and it’s okay, that’s going to change.
I “once belonged” out on twelve mile long run around my town, through the hills of an Old New England farm trail, past the birthplace of the “Angel of the American Civil War Battlefield”, Clara Barton, past St. Roch’s Church and the Roman Catholic congregation that...
2015-01-1733 minPhedippidationsFdip323: Getting Back to Where You Once BelongedI “once belonged” to a community of fellow runners. I understand that many of you and this association have always considered me to be a member of the “run local, think global” team, but I haven’t felt that way for some time. That’s my problem, and it’s okay, that’s going to change.
I “once belonged” out on twelve mile long run around my town, through the hills of an Old New England farm trail, past the birthplace of the “Angel of the American Civil War Battlefield”, Clara Barton, past St. Roch’s Church and the Roman Catholic congregation that...
2015-01-1733 min
PhedippidationsFdip322: Running Across the Frozen White WastelandEpisode twenty-three of Phedippidations, which was published on December 18th, Anno domini 2005 was titled “Cold Weather Running”.
I guess you could consider this a bit of an update to that recording. While some of the information I covered back then was useful, I think I my have missed some Key (West) points that should be made more clear...and furthermore, I think that the way that show was produced...specifically …WHERE it was recorded, could be improved upon.
Thus I can think of no better place to record an episode about running across the Frozen White Wasteland than from this barren, re...
2014-12-2536 minPhedippidationsFdip322: Running Across the Frozen White WastelandEpisode twenty-three of Phedippidations, which was published on December 18th, Anno domini 2005 was titled “Cold Weather Running”.
I guess you could consider this a bit of an update to that recording. While some of the information I covered back then was useful, I think I my have missed some Key (West) points that should be made more clear...and furthermore, I think that the way that show was produced...specifically …WHERE it was recorded, could be improved upon.
Thus I can think of no better place to record an episode about running across the Frozen White Wasteland than from this barren, re...
2014-12-2536 min
PhedippidationsFdip305: Running Words from the Last DecadeIt was on April 19th, in the year of our Lord 2000, that I first registered the domain name of SteveRunner.com.
It wasn’t my idea. It was that of a good friend of mine, Jim, who I had attended the University of Lowell with in the early 1980’s, and worked with for over 20 years.
It was on that 19th day of April, 13 years ago that he suggested I reserve a domain name for my running blog.
I had been posting my running related essays on a website hosted at CompuServe, but the only way you could read my running words w...
2013-06-071h 10PhedippidationsFdip305: Running Words from the Last DecadeIt was on April 19th, in the year of our Lord 2000, that I first registered the domain name of SteveRunner.com.
It wasn’t my idea. It was that of a good friend of mine, Jim, who I had attended the University of Lowell with in the early 1980’s, and worked with for over 20 years.
It was on that 19th day of April, 13 years ago that he suggested I reserve a domain name for my running blog.
I had been posting my running related essays on a website hosted at CompuServe, but the only way you could read my running words w...
2013-06-071h 10
PhedippidationsFdip299: An Honor to Run With YouThe next episode of Phedippidations is a celebration of this podcast and the community of which it is a part...we’re celebrating not because of anything I've ever recorded, presented or produced...but because you stepped up and said you would participate...that you’d jam some ear buds in your head and at least go for a run with me....whether you've been listening since episode one or if this is your first; the honor to run with you is mine.
Thank you for that honor, for being a friend and a fellow runner.
Links:
“Further” by Long-View http://ww...
2012-12-021h 05
PhedippidationsFdip298: The Problem with NSAIDsNonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs are a class of medicine used to reduce fever and treat acute or chronic conditions where pain and inflammation are present. They are used, generally for the relief of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, inflammatory arthropathies, gout, menstrual pain, headaches, post operative pain, and fever.
Side effects include: myocardial infarction, stroke, erectile dysfunction, nausea, vomiting, dyspepsia, gastric ulceration, diarrhea, acute renal failure, tubular necrosis, broncospasm, rash, IBS symptoms, and even photosensitivity.
BUT…NSAID’s are effective for the relief of pain…as runners we know this. As runners many or most of us rely on ibuprofen or naproxen sodium to reco...
2012-11-101h 01
PhedippidationsFdip297: What is this thing called, Love?Love, is a many splendored thing, it’s all that matters, it’s all around, it moves in mysterious ways, it’s the answer, it makes no promises, it’s blind, you can’t buy it, it’s not for sale, it takes it toll, you can’t hurry it, it’s not a game, it’s a battlefield, it will keep us together, you can’t help falling in it, it doesn’t ask why, it hurts, and: “I would do anything for love, but I won’t do that”.
Whatever “that” is.
As runners, we say that we “love to run”, as husbands, wives a...
2012-10-131h 09
PhedippidationsFdip296: Motivational GadgetryI’m going to talk about four specific gadgets on our run today, physical devices that are said to help motivate you to live a healthier life.
Show notes available at SteveRunner.com
2012-09-201h 01
PhedippidationsFdip295: Dr. George Sheehan – Facing the FutureIt’s 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. There’s no specific reason for that…episode 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 prostate cancer. By the time it was discovered, it had already spread to his bones. He fought with the disease for seven y...
2012-09-081h 18
PhedippidationsFdip293: The Ghost of PhedippidationsThis 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 you’d expect, my life is very different today than it was back then, in many ways better, in other ways…different; but I’m 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.
There have been days, sometimes weeks, where I haven’...
2012-07-171h 27
PhedippidationsFdip292: Running in TimeThe 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 they’ll 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 miles…we are creatures who move under our own power across distances that many of our spec...
2012-06-161h 06
PhedippidationsFdip291: Running in SpaceYou’re 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 size…you could easily ask yourself the questions “Why am I here?” “What is the point of my existence?” “Would the Universe miss me if I was suddenly gone”?
The answers will co...
2012-06-011h 12
PhedippidationsFdip290: Road Race au GrotonRunning 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 I’ve 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 back…but 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 PR’s and attacking the course to the very...
2012-05-181h 03
PhedippidationsFdip260: Steve at SteveRunner dot ComI’m 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 I’ll 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...
2011-01-0700 minPhedippidationsFdip260: Steve at SteveRunner dot ComI’m 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 I’ll 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...
2011-01-0700 min
PhedippidationsFdip244: History of the Running ShoeThe 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 art"
Those who conceive manufacture and sell modern day running shoes dare to improve on the use and design of the 200,000 year old evolved hu...
2010-09-191h 11
PhedippidationsFdip206: TO: Steve Runner FROM: YouI read every one of your emails, although I’m sorry to admit that I can’t always respond. I want to, I really do…were 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 I’ll respond as best I can, right here on the show….and if you...
2009-09-251h 23PhedippidationsFdip206: TO: Steve Runner FROM: YouI read every one of your emails, although I’m sorry to admit that I can’t always respond. I want to, I really do…were 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 I’ll respond as best I can, right here on the show….and if you...
2009-09-251h 23