The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-420 – Kicksology
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Hello and welcome to episode 4-420 of the RunRunLive Podcast.
It is the week of Thanksgiving up here in New England. We haven’t gotten any snow yet at my house. The trails are very runnable. Ollie the Collie and I are getting out 2-3 times a week. He’s still a menace. I won’t be able to get away with the ‘Oh, sorry, he’s just a puppy…’ line much longer.
He’ll knock out 8 to 10 miles easy with me in the trails. I like to let him off leash so he can burn some energy. It’s takes about 4 ½ miles for him to settle down. Until that point he’s sprinting up and down the trail. It’s a challenge because he has no manners and won’t come when he’s called and just loves to meet and greet people we run into.
He’s got another gear now and when he goes, I can’t catch him. I’ve started referring to him as the ‘monochrome menace’. But he’s a good runner and he minds well when he’s on leash. He’ll be a good partner but I’m going to have to break him, like a wild stallion. He’ll be my Bucephalus.
(Editor’s note: all classical references will be linked to Wikipedia in the show notes)
Today we have a good show for you. Yeah you. You know who you are.
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Today we chat with Brian Metzler about his new book Kicksology which is all about the evolution and lore of the running shoe. Brian is a veteran running journalist. Chances are you’ve read something that Brian has created or touched. He has been a frequent contributor and started or edited a few of your favorite running publications.
What I liked about the book was that it was a trip down memory lane for me. We love our shoes. We have an irrational passion for a good pair of shoes. Brian does a good job of tapping into that.
In section one we are going to talk about breathing.
In section two we’re going to talk about memory and redemption.
Since we last talked, you and I, I went for my annual check up. Apparently, I’m still healthy. I’ve been working hard on overeating and drinking too much beer for a couple months. I’m up 8-10 pounds, but it’s part of my natural cycle. I can already feel the tug of the pendulum in the other direction.
I have some good news for you men. They have determined that the manual test for prostate problems has no efficacy. No more fingers up the poop chute. My doctor was reflective. He said of all the hundreds of these tests he’s done he only ever found 6 anomalies and none of those turned out to be actual problems.
Thanks again to Peter for reading that piriformis bit into audio last episode. I got some great feedback on that.
I told you I’m trying to make November the month of gratitude. I have so much to be thankful for. I’ve been trying to get my morning routine in line by meditating a bit.
I’m going to share a technique I learned that might help you in this season of thanks giving. This is apropos given that we will be talking about breathing next. Here’s the technique, and you can do this while you’re meditating, or running or sitting in the car.
Inhale gratitude.
Exhale that gratitude out into the world.
On with the show.
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Section one – Breathing and running – https://runrunlive.com/breathing-and-running
Voices of reason – the conversation
Brian Metzler
Kicksology
https://www.velopress.com/books/kicksology/
Brian Metzler is a freelance journalist who covers running, running gear, and related sports.
A running shoe geek since his prepubescent cross-country team days, Metzler has run more than 75,000 miles in his life, tested more than 1,500 pairs of running shoes, run focus groups for several running shoe brands, raced every distance from 50 yards to 100 miles, raced to the top of the Willis (Sears) Tower in Chicago, run a marathon on top of the Great Wall of China, completed two high-altitude 100-mile ultraruns, completed four Ironman triathlons, and regularly races with donkeys in Colorado.
Metzler was the founding editor and associate publisher of Trail Runner and Adventure Sports magazines and was a senior editor at Running Times as well as Editor-in-Chief of Competitor magazine and Competitor.com. He has written about endurance sports for Outside, Runner’s World, Triathlete, Inside Triathlon, Men’s Health, and Men’s Journal. He is the author of Running Colorado’s Front Range and co-author of Natural Running with Danny Abshire and Run Like a Champion with Alan Culpepper.
https://www.velopress.com/velopress-author/brian-metzler/
https://muckrack.com/brianmetzler
Section two – Memories and Redemption – https://runrunlive.com/on-memories-and-redemption
Outro
Well, my friends, you have made it with gratitude to the end of the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-420 in those brand new running shoes that you are thankful for.
Like I said I’m just doing 2-4 runs a week right now with Ollie. Not training for anything specific.
I ran the local Thanksgiving 5k with my running club friend yesterday. I had planned to walk it with Teresa but her foot was too hurt still. That put me in a bit of a bind because I wasn’t planning on running Thursday and I definitely wasn’t planning on racing a 5K. I ran with Ollie in the woods on Monday and Wednesday.
It worked out ok. I just lined up in the 8:00 min mile section and eased into it. I ran easy and got pulled along by the crowd. Ended up being surprised to average a 7:26 pace. Since I wasn’t hammering it I was being chatty with the other runners. I’m a new level of annoying when you are running all out and I pull up beside you and start chatting.
Next up, next weekend is the Mill Cities Relay. I’ve got a good Men’s 50+ team and we’re going to have fun.
Then of course since I choose to live in a world where you can make up your own marathon and just show up without training on the last Sunday of December, we will be holding the 7th edition of the Groton Marathon. I’ve got a handful of loonies signed up. All are welcome.
Like I said earlier I’ve been putting in a lot of miles with Ollie. Thursday was a long day for Ollie. We had a lovely long walk in the Shaker conservation land in the bright, cold morning. I was able to let him off leash so that he could sprint about through the swampy underbrush. We were out for almost 2 hours.
Then we worked all day at Katie’s new house painting the walls and ceilings. Ollie’s role in this is supervisorial. He tests the quality of the painting by licking the freshly painted walls. He enforces a schedule of mandatory puppy wrestling breaks. In this way we all stay limber for the work at hand.
Later in the day he and I managed to beat the setting sun to a nice trail run. We ambled through the soggy leaves for 6.5 more miles.
I was tired too. My body was heavy from the unaccustomed time on my feet all day and the strange angles and dangles of honest work.
We stood there steaming in the winter leaves and watching the sun melt into the trees.
I asked Ollie, “How you feeling? Is this too much work, too much training?”
He turned to me with his sharp brown eyes, considered me for a few long moments and responded, “No, Old-one, it is right that we train long. For we must be prepared. The day is coming when we will need to fight. We will need our aerobic capacity and strength.”
“Really”, I said, “How so?”
He suppressed a small growl and pawed at the soft leaves and continued, “Grey-one, the time is coming soon when all will be ruin. When the last remaining humans will be confined to carpeted cubicles and forced to ‘cuddle’ (here he seemed to sneer the word) and scratch behind ears and speak baby talk…We must be prepared. We few remaining working dogs and humans for the Doodle Apocalypse.”
And with that he trotted off up the trail with a seriousness and purpose no 6 month old dog should be forced to carry.
And…
I will see you out there.
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