The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-363 – Lauren Fern Watt – for the love of dogs!

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Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-363 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Come on over here and let me pet you. Wait, no that’s inappropriate, what I mean is today we are talking dogs and running and books with Lauren Fern Watts, whose book “Gizelle’s Bucket List” I had the pleasure of reading recently.

As is my habit I called her up and asked for an interview. Great story. Starving artist who went viral and got a book deal.

As we speak I am two days out from the my 19^th Boston Marathon. I am healthy and well trained and I’ve managed to hold my…shtuff together during the taper. I’ll head into the expo tomorrow. To pick up my stuff. It’s funny, I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even opened the race material they sent me a couple weeks ago!

Imagine that. Some day you may become so jaded with your marathoning that you don’t even look at the race packet! Yikes! I used to be like a kid at Christmas when that showed up!

In section one I’ve got a piece on tapering. In section two I’ll talk about algorithms . Yeah, algorithms. What can I say, I have a diverse set of interests.

Haven’t been doing much except working over the last couple weeks since we last talked. I nailed that last long workout. 22+ miles with 90 minutes of it at race pace minus 20 seconds. A real monster. Hopefully I didn’t leave my race out there!

Since we’re on the dog topic…my old friend Buddy is doing well. He’ll still join me out in the woods for a 20 minute trot if I take it super slow. His back hips bother him. He’s got the classic collie dysplasia and arthritis. And he’s got lumps. Lots of lumps. Lovely Buddy lumps.

He loves to cuddle and hug and have his butt rubbed. He has this brief moment of activitiy in the morning where he’s up and wants to go out at 6:00AM and then it quite ornery for a couple hours. In and out, barking at the woods, barking at the walkers, barking at nothing in particular.

Sometimes he’ll just stand in the front yard and bark at the door until I come out. Like he’s saying “What’s wrong with you man? Can’t you see it’s a beautiful day? Let’s go!” But, he doesn’t have to pay the bills!

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It’s spring. The tress are getting ready to explode. I’ll have to get out and clean the yard and get my garden going soon. I always start the year with such grand aspirations. Then I give up on weeding by August.

I went into Boston this week to see a gathering of robotics startups. There were a couple of industrial robots that were cool. There were robotic bicycles. There was a thing like a segue but you sat down on it. There was a mouse-sized robot that scooted around under your furniture to clean the hardwood floors.

And there was a gardening robot to kill weeds! I’m not sure if it would handle the weeds in my garden but they are heading in the right direction!

On with the show!

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I’ll also remind you that I have started raising money for team Hoyt for my 2017 Boston Marathon. I would appreciate any help you can give. The fundraiser is on Crowdrise (so I don’t have to touch any of the money) it goes straight to the Hoyts and supports acquiring equipment and supporting others who want to participate like the Hoyts do.

https://www.crowdrise.com/teamhoytboston2017/fundraiser/christopherrussell

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Section one –

Practical Taper Tips – https://runrunlive.com/practical-taper-tips

Voices of reason – the conversation

Lauren Fern Watt – Gizelle’s Bucket List

http://laurenfernwatt.com/

Hi, I’m Lauren! I’m an author and travel journalist splitting my time between Nashville and Los Angeles. My first book, Gizelle’s Bucket List, comes out March 7, 2017 with Simon & Schuster. To learn more about the book click here, or to meet me on tour click here.

I was born March 6,1989 in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in the suburbs of Nashville, Tennessee. Traveling is one of my greatest passions, and my travel travails have included riding a camel named Booboo through the Sahara desert, bungee jumping off the tallest bridge in South Africa, exploring the colorful streets of Varanasi, and finding the most magical bookstore in Paris. But perhaps my biggest adventure of all happened when I was twenty-three, and packed up my life in Tennessee to move to the middle Times Square with my big English Mastiff, Gizelle. You can read all about that here.

I worked in fashion and travel PR in New York City, where I represented a number of hotel and travel-industry clients by day, and took writing classes at night. I’ve been a student at MatadorU, school for Travel Journalism, Photography, and Filmmaking, as well as Gotham Writers’ Workshop. When I’m not writing, I’m training for her next marathon or adventuring around California with my rescue dog named Bette. I’m an ambassador for Shatterproof, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping families who struggle with addiction, and I currently reside in Los Angeles.

You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, or send me a message here.

https://www.shatterproof.org

Shatterproof is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the devastation that addiction causes families.

Section two

Algorithms to live by – https://runrunlive.com/algorithms-to-live-by

Outro

All right my friends you have trotted on your four feet, with your tail between your legs to the end of Episode 40363 of the RunRunLive podcast. Don’t forget to sniff the flowers and mark the trees.

You won’t hear from me again until after Boston. Looks like the weather is going to be decent. We’ll see what I can come up with.

I don’t lose much sleep over it anymore but I have been sporting a rather attractive cold sore for the last two weeks so there is some sort of stress I’m sublimating. Will be nice to have the pressure off and get back to some casual, enjoyful running.

I’ve watched a few movies over the last month or so. Some odd ones. As I get older I’m more interested in odd movies. I watched Swiss Army Man with Harry Potter playing a farting, magical corpse. Quite a fun and interesting movie. It all makes sense at the end.

I watched half of The Lobster which is a bizarre, deadpan, UK art project that is just on the edge of being hilariously funny, but never goes there.

On the serious side I watched half of Manchester by the Sea with Casey Affleck. I thought the portrayal of Massachusetts Townie culture was spot on. It’s a bit depressing though.

My wife and I watched HackSaw Ridge. Very good movie. Very long movie. Typical Mel Gibson fare – he wasn’t in it but he made the movie. Similar to “When we were Soldiers” in tone and morality.

My daughter and I watched Moana – the animated Disney movie about Polynesian adventure and demi-gods. The Rock plays the comic relief demi-god Maui and he does a great job. Classic Disney. They must be running out of cultures to exploit…

Finally I watched “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” and I really enjoyed it. Very well acted and the visuals were great.

See – I do other things besides training!

You still have time to contribute to my Team Hoyt fund for this year’s race. I just dropped a video with the links to my social media – cold sore and all!

I went by Starbucks today on the way into my office. There’s one in the next town over that I used to be a regular at. They built one in my town so I don’t go one town over much anymore. There’s a lady who works there who remembers me and my order. She hasn’t seen me more than 2 times in the last 6 months and she remembers me.

That’s great. She makes me feel great.

Go ahead and remember someone.

And I’ll see you out there.