The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-390 – Pam Rickard – Ultras, addictions and recovery
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MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks – http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/
Hello and welcome to the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-390. This is Chris your friend and host.
Today we continue with our ultra-training themes. I’ve got a long write up of my last hard week of training before my race. I’ve also got an interview with Pam who is an ultra-runner and the director of the Herren project. She’s a talker! But I think you’ll get some good thoughts out of it.
Again, this week since the interview is long and the write up is long I’ll just air the two segments.
I’m in my taper for my 100-miler at the end of the month. Today it actually that rarest of animals, a rest day.
Last weekend I knocked out an all-night-long 50 miler and a follow up 20 milers that you will hear all about today. Now I’m in my taper and trying top do some race prep.
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Episode 390… 390 is another good year to talk about on the Julian and Gregorian calendars. There was the Thessalonica Massacre where the Roman governor killed a bunch of people who were rioting over a sporting event. See? This stuff never changes. Some popular chariot driver got killed and it kicked off a little revolt.
But, more importantly a Goth named Alaric was starting to make trouble up in Thrace. A Roman general named Stilicho, who was half Vandal spent the next 20 years pushing these Goths around. You may recognize Alaric. He ended up sacking Rome with an army of Visigoths in 410, which many historians consider the end for the Roman Empire.
And you know why the Goths were migrating West from the Steppes? Because they were being pushed on by the Huns. It’s all interrelated.
But, let’s set all this talk of barbarian hordes aside and talk about some ultra-running stuff.
On with the show!
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Section one – Ultra Training Update the last big week – https://runrunlive.com/100-miler-training-the-last-big-week
Voices of reason – the conversation
Pam Rickard
Over the 30+ years of her running career, Pam Rickard has completed countless races, including more than 75 marathons and ultra-marathons. During the past 10 years, her races have included a 7-day adventure across China’s Gobi Desert and a 100k trek through the Alps from Italy to France.
In 2008, her journey from addiction to recovery and redemption was featured in the book “A Race Like No Other,” New York Times writer Liz Robbins’ chronicle of the 2007 New York City Marathon. She was also a member of the 2016 6-person Icebreaker Run team, running across the US to bring awareness to mental health issues.
Pam lives in Rocky Mount, VA and serves as the Director of THP RUNS, an initiative of former NBA basketball player Chris Herren’s foundation, The Herren Project (THP). THP RUNS engages people to run, walk, and participate in healthy activities, helping each other, and others, live stronger, healthier lives. The initiative raises awareness and funding for THP’s mission, which includes providing addiction recovery resources, education and prevention initiatives across the country.
Links:
For help:
https://theherrenproject.org/treatment/
To join our movement/run with us:
https://theherrenproject.org/thp-runs/
https://www.endurancesportsandfitness.com/pam-rickard-a-voice-for-recovery/
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2016/06/health/mental-health-runners/
https://www.runnersworld.com/women/a20797568/she-runs-pam-rickard/
https://theherrenproject.org/thp-runs/
Outro
OK my friends, you have trotted through the woods listening to one note of binaural audio to the end of episode 4-390 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Good job. You are fit and ready to race.
My training is going great. I’m ready for my race. Anything can happen of course but I’ve done the bits that I can control.
Looking at the calendar I can see that the next episode is scheduled to fall on the weekend of the race. That’s probably not going to happen. I’ll figure something out.
As is my habit I tend to focus on running the race, not on social media or taking pictures. Don’t expect me to do a running commentary. I don’t see any facility for athlete updates either. I would suggest following Mike Croy and Kevin Green on the social media feeds because they will be with me and lucid.
I could give my phone to my wife but she is fairly useless with social media.
If anyone wants to say ‘hi’ at the race I’ll be driving out from Massachusetts the morning of the 27th so I can make check in Friday night. If you DM me or shoot me an email at cyktrussell at Gmail I’ll give you my contact info.
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I found a couple odd things on Netflix this past week. One is a documentary by Werner Hertzog called Cave of Forgotten Dreams. Werner Hertzog is a German director. Every time you see a movie that caricatures German directors they are talking about Werner.
They let him bring cameras inside the Chauvet Cave. This is a cave that contains the oldest human paintings on earth (as far as we know). The paintings are pristine because a landslide sealed them off in antiquity. These are beautiful works of art from our ancestors of 30,000 years ago.
There’s also a pretty good documentary on Bob Weir called “the Other One”.
There’s a new podcast I’m listening to which is called The Cascadia Podcast about the history of the Northwest.
All the links are in the show notes.
That’s it for me this week. I appreciate all your support and encouragement. There is a membership option on my website if you feel motivated to help me pay my bills.
I wanted to take a moment to thank my coach for getting me to this point. I, frankly, wasn’t sure I had this kind of training in me, but, here we are. Once more into the breach.
Also wanted to thank a couple other folks for reaching out with their notes on the Burning River. Local Sheila and runner Rick. And my team mate Dane for the encouragement.
It’s been an epic training cycle.
and I’ll see you out there!
MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks – http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/