The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-318 – Barefoot Traveler Jake Brown

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Intro Bumper:

Hello my good friends. I’m grateful for you. Even though I don’t know you. Sometimes I wonder who you are. My voice, tired and somnambulant drips wearily into your semi-circular canal every fortnight, and yet we have never met. It’s like that old saying, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there does it hear Chris’ voice?” Am I making a noise?

My avatar and I have been pushing out the RunRunLive podcast for over 7 years. Do you and I have the 7-year itch? My computers tell me that some thousands of you download these episodes. I don’t know if that means my slippery words are actually worming their way in, around and past your tympanum.

It could be some wrinkle, some fold, some chaotic echo in the interwebs – a ghost protocol in the machine and maybe I’m just talking to me. You know what? I’m ok with that.

I’m grateful for the opportunity, the breath and the energy to spew forth this endurance sports manifesto every couple weeks. Boo rah! Hooray for us, you and I the ghosts of the roads and the tracks and the forest trails. The echoes of the footfalls in the dim mornings.

We live!

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How much fun are we having? If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right!

On today’s show we have an interesting chat with Jake Brown who is running around the US barefoot meeting people, having adventures and promoting the universal good.

In section one I’m going to revisit Fartlek runs because, let’s face it after 7 years of podcasts I’m out of running topics to talk about!

In section two I’ll share some thought on the role of travel in formulating your life.

My training has been interesting over the last two weeks. When I last talked to you coach had thrown me into a high-mileage week and I did not respond well. I was over-tired and all my runs were awful. Classic over training symptoms. The hot and sticky weather didn’t help either.

But we rectified that by backing off for the last two weeks and I’ve bounced back. This week has been good and my energy level is back up.

The warning signs are very obvious. My runs were a struggle. My heart rate was elevated. My sleep patterns were off. My old injuries started flaring up.

The Buddha said ‘when the universe wants your attention it throws a pebble, if you don’t listen it throws a rock, if you still don’t listen it throws a brick and if you still don’t listen it throws a wall’ Your body is very good at telling you when you’ve done too much. You just have to listen.

I also was trying to work the Miracle Morning routine into my life at the same time. This meant getting up early to practice a morning routine of meditation, affirmations, reading and writing – but when combined with the heavy workout schedule it just led to sleep deprivation – which made me stupid.

I couldn’t remember anything. I was cranky and short tempered. I had weird food craving and lack of will power. I ended up eating some Cheetos at work that messed up my digestion for two days. (Shouldn’t Cheetos have the same dire warnings as the pills they peddle on TV?)

I’m back in balance now. One thing I realized is that the powerful part of the Miracle Morning routine is not the getting up early part. It is the daily practice part. No matter what time you get started just make sure you give yourself the gift of the first hour before you check your email or log into facebook.

I asked a serious question in the Miracle Morning community on facebook. I said, my wife likes to stay up late watching TV in bed and I can’t sleep with the TV on. I need to get to sleep so I can get up. What do I do?

Many people said TV’s should not be in the bedroom and I should throw it out the window. Others, hilariously said I should trade sex for TV. But an excellent suggestion was to get earplugs.

The problem with earplugs is how do you hear the alarm? The solution is to get a Fitbit with a vibration alarm. Yes, I ordered a Fitbit because I can’t sleep with the TV on. I bought the Fitbit HR. I’ll get my daily HR too which is good for someone like me who has the dodgy heart.

On with the show!

Section one – Running Tips

Fartlek revisited – > https://runrunlive.com/lets-talk-about-fartlek

Voices of reason – the conversation

Jake Brown – http://www.thebaresoleproject.com/the-story.html

I believe we can affect great change in small ways, do a little more with a lot less, and that everything we do is significant and so should be done consciously. I also think it is important to realize that everything we’re conditioned to think we “have to” do is actually a personal choice. My goal isn’t for everyone to kick off their shoes and go live in the wilderness; rather, it is to help others appreciate what they have for what it is, and what it’s really worth.

The Basics:

http://www.thebaresoleproject.com/transcon-2015.html
The Bare Sole Project is my private initiative to promote a Global Community and Conscious Lifestyle. My expeditions and sub-projects are funded by my awesome sponsors and generous donors. I raise money for charities and donate up to 51% of my personal income to 501(c)(3) organizations which were introduced and recommended to me by the people they’ve helped. In my travels I encounter artists, writers, craftsmen, activists, and such; many of whom have a platform here to share ideas, sell products, display and sell art, share ideas, and be heard; some I am helping to kick-start and others are partners who give me a commission – we’re all here to help each other.
As a foundation for this work and to provide examples of the real connection between us and our neighbors thousands of miles away, and to show the benefits of living consciously, I have spent over two years living on the road, beginning in Fall ’12, and (though this could change) estimate I have another two years to go. I travel the United States on foot and by hitchhiking; meeting, engaging, changing and being changed by thousands of people from all places and walks of life. I’ve spent most of the last two years in a tent, though since Fall ’14, it seems the BSP network has increasingly fewer holes and I often am within reach of friends and fans (who are friends, waiting to be met).

So basically, the “Bare Sole Project” is my way of saying: This is your story too and I’m proud to be a part of it. I hope you like it, but more importantly I hope you will learn something from each other; even if you’re only entertained, just remember that what you see here, read in my posts or in the news, is all a product of the countless individuals who have met and influenced me over the years and miles.

Section two – Life Lessons

The Traveling attitude – > https://runrunlive.com/vagabonding

Outro

https://finishcancer2015.everydayhero.com/us/chris-russell-hood-to-coast-for-cancer-research

Great job my friends. You are accomplished citizens of the RunRUnLive communal congregaqtion. You have made it to the outer reaches of Episode 4-318 of the RunRunLive podcast. How do you do it? I’m impressed, I really am.

I supposed to go up to Vt to do the Bike and beer weekend with my Buddy Dan. Who we have interviewed here before – way back in the dawn of time. He was in my wedding party and my freshman dorm in undergrad. It’s amazing that our trajectories have synched over so many years. He’s the one who got me into Mountain bike ultras.

But, alas, my darling wife has other plans for this weekend that involve new toilets at our Cape house. I’m ok with that. Installing toilets is like a sprint triathlon, it sounds hard but it’s actually quite simple.

So it looks like my next race will be my Hood-to Coast Adventure at the end of the month. I can still take donations if you’d like to help me fight cancer. The links are on my website at RunRunLive and in the show notes.

After that we’re running the Wapack Trail Race. Come up and join me. 18 miles of beautiful trails. 4 mountains twice. But they’re small mountains. It’s very friendly.

To take you out I’ll share with you a short piece I penned one morning while deep in the trance of the Miracle Morning.

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” – Lao Tzu

I have said it often and I will say it again. You cannot hope to influence others unless you know yourself. This is what holds us back through most of our lives. Our ability, not to ignore our inner demons, but to invite them in and make peace with them.

Nagging wives, busy politicians and invasive bosses all lack the ability to lead people. They have not learned to lead themselves and instead manifest their weakness in their attacks on others. If you are centered you can surf above the tumults of this tacky world and see it from a position of strength.

They world won’t teach you this. You have to seek self-knowledge on your own. The world doesn’t want you to live at peace with yourself because there is no profit in that. The best way to control people is to let them be filled with fear and unsettled. Then they will mindlessly take any answer and buy any product and give away any liberty for a chance at inner peace.

You don’t have to. Inner peace is inside you. Your true power is waiting for you to walk naked through the doors of perception.

Look inward. Make peace with yourself. Understand what your strengths and weaknesses are. Understand what makes your happy and what troubles you.

Start to think. Start to absorb. Start to review and communicate what makes you powerful. Start to believe. Build that strength every day by stacking one rock on top of another until you have a castle of self-power.

That is the power of daily practice. Practice in the discovery of self and then the affirmation of that self and THEN the projection of that self out into the world, out into the universe.

This is not a project that has a completion point. This is a lifetime of effort and practice. This is the process of wearing away the messy dirt of the world and scrubbing clean the windows to your soul.

Begin today.

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And I’ll see you out there.

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