The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-419 – Dawn’s Wisdom
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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 episode 4-419 of the RunRunLive Podcast.
So – I’m a week late with this one, but it’s great show. Think about it this way – we gave it an additional week to marinate, to grow, to rise like rustic bread or age like fine wine.
Last week I was all lined up to get the show out for Friday. Thursday was my birthday. I took Thursday and Friday off from work to recuperate a bit and was working on the show. Then, ironically as I was writing the hero’s journey piece that is in section two, that talks about how life is not a straight line, and it seldom goes as you expect it to, my old computer ceased to turn on.
I’ve had this Microsoft surface since at least 2015 and it’s been the best computer I ever. It was powerful enough to do all the audio editing for the show, it has a great form factor for traveling. Just a great machine that matches my need.
End of this story is that I spent all day Friday in the Microsoft store and ended up buying a new surface that I am happily tapping away on now. I didn’t loose any data, just some time – and oh by the way – I’m about $2,000 lighter so you might want to consider becoming a member of the RunRunLive Podcast to help defray unexpected expenses.
So with that excuse out of the way let me take you back to the primordial jungles of North America where strange and dangerous beasts roam dark, dank forests….
(Fade in Jungle music)
Our old friend Peter Herridge everyone with that excellent dramatic reading.
That piece of writing has been kicking around in my head or a few years. Probably since I first heard the word ‘piriformis’ and thought, that sounds like the name of a nasty dinosaur. I immediately thought of Peter who has such a great voice. Peter was a good runner in his day and one of the original podcasters from a decade ago when we all got online and met each other.
Peter does a podcast every once in a while called ‘spikes’.
Today we have a really good, timely chat with Dawn. I have been following Dawn for a few years but never had her on the show. She is a heavy social media poster and for some reason I see her posts on LinkedIn a lot. I have always treated LinkedIn as a professional network and haven’t let this ‘hobby’ side of my life bleed over into it. She stands out, because you’ve got all these businesspeople talking about business stuff and then there’s Dawn talking about empowerment and Joy.
This time of year, in the northern hemisphere anyhow, we all get stressed out. The weather turns. The days get shorter. If you have kids their schedule ramps up. It’s budget-setting time and trade show season at your work. The end of the year is approaching with holidays and deadlines and sales quotas. It tends to push people into anxiety and depression.
I was there myself this month. With my work having challenges, me getting older and an unruly puppy to train. Things just felt awful and closed in and trapped. My mind started repeating a scarcity narrative of how much I don’t have and how much I’ve lost. Which, I know is ridiculous, because I’m one of the most blessed and lucky people you’ll ever meet, but that’s how your brain works, especially this time of year.
Then I stumbled across one of Dawn’s posts talking about gratitude and abundance. By the way, one of the symptoms of this downward-spiraling mental malaise is you start trying to distract yourself online. Whether it’s FB scrolling or too much news or video games. That’s a bad way to avoid life. Anyhow, I took a deep breath and declared November a month of gratitude.
In section one I’m going to suggest two useful ways you can use your off-season training to learn some new skills and add to your running assets.
In section two we are going to take the hero’s journey together. Because one of the most effective way to contextualize your experience in this world is to see it as a journey. Tell your narrative as a journey.
And that is what we are going to talk about today. Gratitude and journeys.
Because, my friends, no matter how low or shitty it gets the hero in you always knows the way. Without the shitty parts there can be no hero. I saw a great post this week that said ‘failure is like stepping in manure, it stinks when you do it but it makes for great fertilizer!”
On with the show.
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Section one – Using your in-between time – https://runrunlive.com/what-to-do-when-you-have-some-time-between-races
Voices of reason – the conversation
Dawn Ciccone
Make your day a new & exciting adventure! Discover your incredible life.
Dawn Ciccone
http://www.attainyourbestlife.com
A marathoner, writer, personal trainer, nutrition and running coach, Dawn offers methodologies learned from experience! Her passion is to help people face challenges, dIscover the gifts they bring and trust themselves as the beautifully powerful person you’re meant to be.
Dawn has conquered abusive relationships, addiction, disordered eating and came through a tragic accident that left her helpless. Dawn has been where you’re at and knows how to turn challenges into opportunities!
Credentials
Certified RRCA &
USTAF coach
American Red Cross Health & Safety Instructor
Certified Nutritional Health Educator and Personal Fitness Trainer
Certified Master Reiki Practitioner, intuitive, empath, lightworker, transformational speak.
Section two – Your Hero’s Journey– https://runrunlive.com/your-heros-journey
Outro
Well, my friends, you have Made it with gratitude to the end of the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-419.
Okey – Dokey – I’m in a down phase in my training. Which is another, kinder way of saying I’m not training much. Much for me that is. I’m just doing 3 days a week in the trails with Ollie the Collie and then a longer run with the boys on Sundays – somewhere in the 20-30 miles a week. I’ve fattened myself back up with some poor nutritional choices as well, but I think we need to take these breaks to rebalance the humors every once in a while.
I know discipline is power but that can burn you out and I’ve got a lot going on right now. I’m noticing that I’m starting to get the bug again to do something epic. Got any suggestions? I’m not sure if I’ll get into Boston this year. If I don’t that opens up the spring for something.
Coming up is our traditional Thanksgiving 5k. But, Teresa hurt her foot, so I’m going to walk it with her. Maybe we’ll start early and take the dog.
After that the first week of December is the Mill Cities Relay. I was running with my buddies Brian and Frank and we came up with a the bright idea of entering our own team. You only need 5 people and we already had 3 so how hard could it be? As I started reaching out to some of our old running friends, (in our age group), I found that many of them were no longer running at all due to age-related injuries.
In a weird Schadenfreude way they made me feel pretty good about the fact that I’m still getting out there. It also reminded me to be kinder to myself.
Finally, I am planning to run the Groton Marathon, and organize it, for the 7th edition on December 29th this year – please come up and run with us. It’s fun.
What about Ollie the collie?
We were asked not to come back to puppy training.
It started as we were sitting patiently, waiting for class to start. Ollie the border collie puppy and myself in the big box pet store. It was our 3rd class. Ollie was doing well, learning quickly. The dopey brown doodle came in with it’s handler all stupid and goofy, doh do doh. The dopy doodle’s exuberance overruled the owners’ ability to control it and it pulled its way over into our space to check out Ollie.
Ollie was not happy about this.
He turned to look at me and said “Dad, what is this madness? These doodles and snoodles and snickerdoodle caboodles? What right do they have to play with the canine DNA of pure breeds for their own amusement? These freaks! These aberrations! This cannot stand! I draw the line here! I must stop this madness! Foul abomination I strike at thee! I will blot your aberration from this world!”
At least that’s what I thought he said, because it was at this point he went berserk and tried to murder the doodle. But, since I was holding him by the collar he turned and sunk his teeth into my hand. As I was bleeding and shaking with fear, that’s when the nice lady said maybe we should leave and not come back.
On the one hand Ollie is mental and that has its challenges. But, on the other hand, I’m kinda jealous because that’s exactly the kind of punk-rock, hard core mental many of us tried to be as teenagers!
He’s just coming up on 6 months old and he’s already 31 pounds of muscular athlete with a big brain to boot. He’s running 20 – 30 miles with me off leash in the woods each week and he’s scary fast and strong. He’s not much on cuddling, but as they say, he’s someone you’d want to share a fox-hole with.
I just have to train him up. He’s going to be a great dog.
And remember, as Ollie says, Death to Doodles!
I will 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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