The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-402 – Duane Interviews Some Guy
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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, my friends and welcome to the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-402.
First of all let me apologize for causing so much mid-workout vision issues last week for many of you. I got multiple letters that many of you had some dust in your eyes when I talked about the passing of my friend Buddy. Or as my sister put it, “Thanks for making me ugly-cry in the gym!”
Twas no my intention. I just wrote what came to me in that moment on that day when I knew we were going to have to make that last trip to the vet and my old friend would need to bring some change to pay the ferryman.
Let’s not be all sack cloth and ashes here, rolling in the mud, tearing at our hair and wailing. Let’s celebrate today, this moment and the friends we have to share it with. If a dog teaches you anything it is how to live in and enjoy the moment.
The sun came up today. The reaper hasn’t caught us yet and we, you and I, are going to fight that asshole all the way down. We are not going to sit around and wait to be caught. We are going to get out there and live and love and have adventures and make that sonnabitch work hard to catch us.
Right?
Sorry for the shows being a bit less predictable in cadence recently. Life happens. Even to me!
Today we interview some narcissistic knucklehead about pretty much nothing. In section one I’ll talk about committing, really committing to this marathon cycle. And in section two I’ll give you the draft introduction to a new book I’m writing on startup sales.
I’ll give you a couple useful tips for the season. First, this time of year we end up having to hit the gym a lot. One of the things I do during my warm up, because whether you’re running or lifting or whatever you should do a little 5 minute warm up, what I do is get on the treadmill in my socks for 5 minutes. I set it at a slow pace, (for me), like 12-15 min miles and just let my feet relax and spread out a bit. Really helps get everything warm and relaxed.
Second tip is about consistency. One of the things I’ve been challenged with over the last couple cycles, especially since the 100 miler, is my legs are super tight. What I’ve done is to work a simple 5-6 minute stretching routine into every day regardless of what my workout is. It’s not the stretching per se but the consistency of doing it every day that makes a difference. It has really helped my running this cycle. Small things done consistently have a huge impact.
I’ve got a new podcast for you. The History of The English Language. If you love words and language like me, you will find this fascinating. This is for all you closet Philologists and Lexicologists. If you don’t like these things it’s going to be like a freshman English lecture.
For example, I learned that there is a root language known as Indo-European that influenced Latin, Greek and Germanic. Those languages borrowed from each other, but were all decedents of the Indo European.
And, today I learned that the original Indo-European word for ‘host’ had a dual meaning of both the host and the guest. Same word. This root word gives us both ‘host’ and ‘guest’ as well as house, hospital, hospitality, etc. It also means that the word Ghost is literally a guest in your house.
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Ok. Get your hankies out. One last Buddy story from last week. I stayed home with him Thursday and even though we had a rough night he rallied during the day and was up tottering around the house. At some point in the afternoon my wife came home so I took the opportunity to jump out the door for a run in the woods.
As I’m standing in the open doorway in my running kit talking to me wife the old dog stumbles over and sticks his head between me and the door. The dog can barely stand but he’s decided he’s ready to head out into the woods with me on a run.
A gamer and a wonder dog to the very end.
On with the show.
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Section one – A new training cycle- https://runrunlive.com/hitting-the-training-again
Voices of reason – the conversation
Chris Russell
Chris is the product of suburban entitlement and over-education. I promise I’ll find real guests in the future. 😊
Section two – Startup Sales – https://runrunlive.com/startup-sales
Outro
Well, my friends you have looked at your reflection and fallen in love through to the end of the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-402. Wake up. We’ve got work to do. And miles to go before we sleep.
My training is going very well. My strategy of losing weight and eating clean is paying off with some great workouts. I feel lean and strong. At least this week.
I’ve been holding steady at around 173 pounds, which is somewhere around 10 pounds lighter than I normally would be at this point. The first 10 are easy. I want to see if I can get down to 165ish and go into Boston at 170ish. My paces ae better and my staying power in my legs is better. We’ll see how it goes.
I don’t have any races planned for the spring besides Boston. This is good and bad. It’s good because I won’t waste energy and risk over-training by racing too hard. It’s bad because I like to use those races as practice runs to give me confidence. So much of racing well is confidence.
I’m in the midst of thinking thorough what I want to do with the podcast going forward. I think this current format has run its course. I like the format but I want to bring the quality up and be more consistent on the cadence and the themes.
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Went out into the trails today. It was Sunny and just below the freezing mark. We had a deep freeze, followed by a heavy rain, followed by another freeze. The trails are nice and firm but there is a lot of ice. It’s slow going. Buddy would not have liked it. He didn’t like the ice.
I ran into a guy ‘walking’ some sort of cattle dog cross that was wildly exuberant, running in circles and giving me friendly full-body hip checks. Fun times. Nice to see the people using those trails. Buddy and I made those trails.
It’s good for the soul. Getting out in the woods. Wending your way through the ice and snow. Splitting the horizon where winter sun meets frozen ground. That’s life.
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/
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