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Ara chats with Robert Wolfe, co-founder and CEO of Zeck. Robert is a serial entrepreneur who's no stranger to innovation, having previously co-founded Crowdrise and Moosejaw. Now, with Zeck, he's rethinking how boards and leadership teams operate—transforming clunky, outdated processes into streamlined, digital experiences.Michigan VCtalk is a podcast series produced by Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) and hosted by Ara Topouzian, Executive Director of MVCA.This episode is sponsored by Michigan Rise, Pre-Seed Fund III.
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin ✓ Claim Key Takeaways Acting is seeking a deep understanding of another person's experience Do not let self-consciousness and ego take you out of the present moment Your strength – taken to excess – can become your weaknessIt is difficult to wrangle the ideas that circulate in your head; they become what they becomeThe challenge in life is recovering simplicity After exhausting your wave of creative work, you have two choices: either repeat that work, or you can stop, refill yourself with life, and be willing to start an entirely new adventure It takes courage to step away from an identity that has served youEven if you think that you have liberated yourself from certain things, you still hold onto the DNA memory of the way you were taught to view the world “I always think of the work as solving a puzzle.” – Rick Rubin If the art is opaque, it tends to be narcissistic; if the art is transparent, it tends to be mythological Creating art is not a zero-sum game Bad ideas on paper can still result in masterpieces Read the full notes @ podcastnotes.orgEdward Norton is one of the great actors of his generation. He has gained acclaim for his roles in movies like Fight Club, American History X, and Primal Fear. In all, he has written, directed, produced, or starred in over 50 movies. His off-screen interests and achievements in environmental activism and social entrepreneurship are just as substantial: he serves as the president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, an award-winning environmental conservation organization. Additionally, he was appointed the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity. In 2010, he founded Crowdrise (acquired by GoFundMe), a platform fostering grassroots fundraising to champion various social and environmental initiatives. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra
Edward Norton is one of the great actors of his generation. He has gained acclaim for his roles in movies like Fight Club, American History X, and Primal Fear. In all, he has written, directed, produced, or starred in over 50 movies. His off-screen interests and achievements in environmental activism and social entrepreneurship are just as substantial: he serves as the president of the American branch of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, an award-winning environmental conservation organization. Additionally, he was appointed the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity. In 2010, he founded Crowdrise (acquired by GoFundMe), a platform fostering grassroots fundraising to champion various social and environmental initiatives. ------ Thank you to the sponsors that fuel our podcast and our team: LMNT Electrolytes https://drinklmnt.com/tetra ------ House of Macadamias https://www.houseofmacadamias.com/tetra ------ Squarespace https://squarespace.com/tetra
By the time I signed up with Patreon, I'd had about thirteen years of fundraising experience. Having started a theatre company in 2001, I'd explored all kinds of ways to fund our work. In the beginning, it was just writing letters and asking for help. (Weirdly, still the most successful method.) Then, as the internet became more integrated into our lives, we watched Charity Donor Portals come and go out of business and then crowdfunding kicked in. We ran campaigns on CrowdRise and Indiegogo and probably a few others I've already forgotten about. These were all for my non-profit theatre, not for me personally. These were funds which only rarely benefited me in a financial way. But in those days, there was not yet a reliable way to get support for me, as an individual artist. I could raise funds for projects but not for my ongoing support, not for my writing, for example. Patreon came along as a way for folks who were making things on the internet to get paid for the things. To keep reading Can Businesses Do the Business They Do, Please? visit the Songs for the Struggling Artist blog. This is Episode 373 Song: Mind Your Own Business Image by David Ring via WikiCommons To support this podcast: Give it 5 stars in Apple Podcasts. Write a nice review! Rate it wherever you listen or via: https://ratethispodcast.com/strugglingartist Join my mailing list: www.emilyrainbowdavis.com/ Like the blog/show on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SongsfortheStrugglingArtist/ Support me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/emilyrdavis Or help me pay off my tickets to and from Crete on Kofi: http://ko-fi.com/emilyrainbowdavis or PayPal me: https://www.paypal.me/strugglingartist Join my Substack: https://emilyrainbowdavis.substack.com/ Follow me on Twitter @erainbowd Me on Mastodon - @erainbowd@podvibes.co Me on Hive - @erainbowd Instagram and Pinterest Tell a friend! Listen to The Dragoning here (it's my audio drama) and support via Ko-fi here: https://ko-fi.com/messengertheatrecompany As ever, I am yours, Emily Rainbow Davis
"What gets made gets affected by the quality of the insights." Edward Norton is an actor, filmmaker, and activist. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in Primal Fear, American History X, and Birdman and has starred in several other acclaimed films including Fight Club, The Illusionist, and Moonrise Kingdom. Edward is also a UN Ambassador for Biodiversity, a successful investor (Uber, CrowdRise, and Kensho — acquired by SAP for $550 million), and deeply involved in wilderness conservation. In 2015, Edward co-founded EDO with PhD economist, poet, and entrepreneur Daniel Nadler. EDO is a leading TV outcomes company that works with top brands, networks, and Hollywood studios — from AT&T and Disney, to Univision, and of course P&G — using cutting edge data science to predictively power the success of marketing, research, and creative professionals. In a candid conversation ranging from David Bowie to data science, you'll enjoy hearing about stretching your limits beyond what's expected of you — across many paths of creativity, business, and entrepreneurship. If you're ever driven to do something more than your day job, or what the world expects of you - AND you happen to be a bit of a nerd about marketing and tech - this is the podcast episode for you. But Edward Norton is not exactly a P&G Alumni, so what's the deal? Alongside our partners at P&G, we're thrilled to share another episode of P&G's “More Than Soap” podcast - available exclusively each week to P&G Employees at GetMoreThanSoap.com. On “More Than Soap,” P&G shares weekly conversations with Inspiring guests, unique perspectives, and unconventional ideas. “More Than Soap” is P&G's official internal podcast - available to all 100,000 P&G employees worldwide, and hosted by Dorion Positano, P&G's Director of New Business and Content Innovation. Interested in learning more about P&G's “More Than Soap” podcast, or P&G Studios, can reach out directly to Dorion on LinkedIn. GetMoreThanSoap.com
Bryan Lively shares how his experience at Moosejaw, Crowdrise (now GoFundMe) and a national franchise company taught him about the importance of being in the people business
“I think ego is the deepest addiction there is.”Edward NortonOne of the most acclaimed actors of his generation, today Edward Norton graces the podcast to discuss his fascinating life and perspective on filmmaking, culture, politics and the nature of power.Over the course of his extraordinary career, Edward has reaped 3 Academy Award nominations starring in some of the greatest films of our era — Primal Fear, American History X, Fight Club, Birdman, and 25th Hour among them.The occasion for this conversation is Motherless Brooklyn — a long-gestating passion project Edward wrote, directed, produced and headlines. A period crime noir that confronts the shadowy malevolence of power in 1950's New York City, Edward stars as a twitchy tourettic detective determined to find his boss' killer. Evocative of Chinatown, it’s a towering achievement and terrific watch I implore all of you to immediately see in the theatre.Unfamiliar to most are Edward’s many off-screen interests and achievements as an entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and environmentalist.In 2010, he co-founded CrowdRise, a crowdfunding platform which has raised over $500M for non-profits which later sold to GoFundMe. He is the co-founder of an advanced data science company called EDO which provides audience analytics to media companies. In addition, Edward is an avid pilot and founding board president of the Masai Wilderness Conservation Trust, a Kenyan conservation and community development organization. To raise awareness for the organization, in 2009 he ran the New York Marathon alongside a group of Masai, completing the race in 3:28.And that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this hyper-intelligent polymath.A famously private person, Edward has been uncharacteristically public as of late — making the mainstream media and podcast rounds to promote Motherless Brooklyn.If you caught his appearance on Marc Maron, Ezra Klein, Preet Bharara, Joe Rogan, Dax Shepard or Alec Baldwin’s respective podcasts (all great in their own right) — this conversation is a bit different.Today we dive into the role of ego in his profession. We dissect disenfranchisement and the implications of weaponized social media in our politically divided culture. And we talk about the state of environmental activism.On the subject of creativity, we explore the importance of gestation — distancing yourself from the noise to reboot artistic originality. We discuss balancing art against other life priorities. And how his deep interest in the nature of power underscores his latest work.Motherless Brooklyn is now playing in theaters nationwide. If you enjoy this conversation, desire to support Edward — and dig smart, mature, entertaining cinema — please make a priority of seeing this movie in the cinema pronto.They say never meet your heroes. I disagree. A pinch me moment, it was an absolute pleasure and honor to talk with a man I respect and admire tremendously.You can watch it all go down on YouTube. And as always, the conversation streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.I sincerely hope you enjoy the exchange.Peace + Plants,Listen, Watch & SubscribeApple Podcasts | YouTube | See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
“It's nice to be reminded that it's been hard for other people when they were getting things done that you admired, because it maybe gives you that extra little bit of determination or patience to persevere a little more." — Edward NortonEdward Norton (@EdwardNorton) is one of the most celebrated actors of his generation. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his performances and has starred in, produced, written, or directed more than 30 films. His most recent film, Motherless Brooklyn, which he wrote, directed, produced, and stars in, will be released on November 1st.People mostly know Edward for his acting, but he has a substantial parallel career as an entrepreneur, investor, and activist in both technology and environmental sustainability ventures.In 2010 Norton co-founded and was chairman of CrowdRise, a charitable crowdfunding platform which raised more than $500M for U.S. nonprofit organizations before being acquired by GoFundMe, the largest social fundraising platform in the world, which Norton now serves on the board of. He also co-founded EDO, which applies advanced data science and machine learning to the analysis of audience engagement signals for the media and advertising industries. EDO's data and software are used by every major film studio in their media rotation planning, and virtually every major television network now includes EDO data alongside Nielsen data within their pricing metrics.He is the founding board president of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, an award-winning Kenyan conservation and community development organization, and in 2010 he was appointed the first United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity.Edward seems to do it all. In this wide-ranging conversation, we go deep into his creative process and creative struggles, both inside and outside of film.If you'd like more Edward after this episode, you can listen to my 2016 interview with him at tim.blog/edward. And take my word for it and go see Motherless Brooklyn in theaters. It's absolutely outstanding.This episode is brought to you by Zapier. If you run your own business, think about all of the hours you spend moving information from one software program to another, or one window to another, one social media platform to another, copy and pasting, all because those things don't easily work together. With Zapier, now they do, automatically. Zapier is one of the best pieces of automation software I've ever come across, and it supports more than fifteen hundred business applications, so the possibilities are virtually endless. It is the easiest way to automate your work. Best of all, it's easy to build the exact solution you need in minutes, without writing code or asking a developer for help. Join more than 4.5 million people who are saving an average of 40 hours per month by using Zapier. Go to Zapier.com/tim and try Zapier for a free, 14-day trial.This episode is also brought to you by SuperFat Nut Butters. These little beauties are great. I’ve been using them as quick mini-breakfasts and on-the-go fuel for a few months now. They’re 200–300 calories each, depending on which ingredient cocktail you eat (MCT, protein, macadamia, caffeine, etc.); 3–5g of net carbs per pouch; keto- and Paleo-friendly; and easy to throw in a backpack or pocket. The first time I tried SuperFat, I finished the entire box in a few days, so watch your portion control.I suggest ordering the Variety Box and you can try all 5 SuperFat flavors in one box, and it has 2 pouches of each flavor. Get 15% off your order by going to SuperFat.com/tim.***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Please fill out the form at tim.blog/sponsor.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferrissIf you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!
We catch up with David and Nicole Millar ahead of David's attempt at the New York City Marathon in support of their friend Marya, Robby and their son, Wyatt. David is a retired pro cyclist, although it's Nicole who's the real runner of the household. We're also joined by tech guru Kieran Alger to debate the benefits of running without a watch and Rick and Ben perform their Eliud Kipchoge song.Here's a link to David's Crowdrise page - https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/wyatt-321 detailing the cause that he and Robby are running for. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Today’s episode is sponsored by Outlander Stars Hello and welcome to Film Pro Productivity, the podcast which helps film professionals and other creative people to live a more focused, effective and HAPPY life. My name is Carter Ferguson and this is EPISODE 36 – Crowdfunding: Lessons Learned Intro “If you launch your campaign with zero audience, you are launching to crickets.” — Khierstyn Ross “Crowdfunding Uncut” UNQUOTE Today, I’m talking about crowdfunding - If you have ever considered running a campaign of your own then there’s a few things which I’ve picked up along the way that you might find useful. As it’s still fresh in my memory and I’ve had a few messages about how I approach a campaign I thought it worth an episode. I see campaigns launched every week by filmmakers and artists and I’ve even seen a few film pros run them to get equipment or develop ideas. Running them efficiently and effectively and achieving success with them, however, is easier said than done. But first things first - What is crowdfunding? According to Wikipedia, it is the practice of funding a project or venture by raising small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet. It goes on to say that in 2015, over US$34 billion – yes you heard me right BILLION) was raised worldwide by crowdfunding. The modern crowdfunding model is generally based on three types of actors: the project initiator who PROPOSES THE IDEA OR PROJECT to be funded, individuals or groups who SUPPORT THE IDEA, and a moderating organization (or "platform") that BRINGS THE PARTIES TOGETHER to launch the idea. It has been used to fund a wide range of for-profit, entrepreneurial ventures such as artistic and creative projects, medical expenses, travel, and community-oriented social entrepreneurship projects. My experiences of crowdfunding are entirely based on the use of the platform IndieGoGo, but there are a myriad of well-known crowdfunding platforms with good to middling reputations. Some are perhaps better for business campaigns, others for creative purposes. The one I hear about most often is Kickstarter but the 10 most popular crowdfunding platforms in 2018 according to INC.com also included Patreon, GoFundMe, CrowdRise, PledgeMusic, Razoo, RocketHub and finally Give. “Before you even start building your crowdfunding page, Start building a crowd first.” — Roy Morejon of Command Partners UNQUOTE So, just last week as I start this episode, I ran a crowdfunding campaign to raise finance for THIS season, but before I did so, as you may have heard in earlier shows, I thought long and hard about what I was getting myself into. I’ve done all this before, you see, and it’s a hell of an undertaking. I’ve run 4 successful campaigns using the crowdfunding platform IndieGoGo, but with each campaign has come a great commitment of time and energy and a genuine commitment to delivering what I promise to those that have backed me. If you run a crowdfunding campaign and fail to deliver that which you promise, you will have a hell of a time getting anyone to trust you again. Even with my positive experiences in raising finance through crowdfunding in the past I was extremely cautious about running a new one now. One reason for this is that I believe you can only “drink so many times from the same well” and I have a rule about never running more than one in a year. I’d also say that with so many people at the same proverbial well, it can become muddied and make people less likely to back you. The other big reason that I really wasn’t keen was that it is a MASSIVE undertaking. By tackling a fundraiser I was committing a vast amount of my time and energy to promoting and managing it and the cost, in loss of those valuable resources felt too great. I did run it though, successfully, and the primary thing that swayed me was this – By the very act of running the campaign, I would be promoting the show. Raising finance to support my endeavour was a very powerful second reason, but finding new ways to positively promote this show is really difficult and the peripheral promotional benefits which go with a crowdfunding campaign finally won me over. Lesson So let me get into some basics. There are some elements they say you should always do with a crowdfunding campaign - A Catchy Title, A Compelling Video, An Explicit Goal and Timeline, A good explanation of "Why" you are running it, A List of Costs, Great perks and regular Progress Updates. If you think you can just roll up and put your hand out then you’re going to be disappointed. There are a few good examples that prove that a bad idea or even an improperly presented good one, will not hit its target. For example: Corey Feldman's 'Elev8or 2 Ascension' album only got 15% of its $100,000 target. The reboot of TV show Good Times which only hit 1% of its $1,000,000 target figure. And the sequel to the 2014 Nicolas Cage fiasco “Left Behind”. The original film scores 1% on rotten tomatoes, so you can imagine the powerful feeling that lay behind NOT FUNDING that Kickstarter. Chris Muscarella of Field Company says about crowdfunding “Do your Homework. Trying to throw together a campaign in a few days and thinking that you will shoot the moon is highly unlikely.” Crowdfunding is not an easy way to free money so if you are serious about raising capital in this way, you’re going to have to work hard for it. Asking a bunch of people you do and don’t know to help you fund your dreams is far tougher and more time consuming than it sounds. It’s also a landscape which is changing all the time, so you can’t always, as I found out with my latest campaign, utilise the same techniques to get results. I’ll talk about that a little later. Mihail Klenov of Half Bikes says “You must always be honest with your backers about what you do and why you do it.” Each campaign or product is unique, but there are some things you can do to get closer to crowdfunding success. TRUST is probably the biggest issue when it comes to crowdfunding: When you have no prior record, you have to consider how you can generate credibility with backers. Simply stated - without TRUST you might not generate enough interest in your campaign and fail to meet your targets. CHOOSE THE RIGHT PLATFORM: This is essential and as I listed earlier, you have plenty of legitimate platforms to choose from. If you’re raising money for a film, then go to the platform where people who might want to back it go - Don’t go for a small local platform if there’s no interest in what you are pushing there already. Crowdfunding has an internet-driven worldwide audience, so go where the audience for your product or project is would be my advice. SET REALISTIC TARGETS AND A DEADLINE. Setting up the right targets and the time to achieve them is essential. If the target seems too outrageous, the backers simply won’t support you. And not only should you decide beforehand what your fund-raising goal is, but you should also specify timeline goals, production goals and any others needed to keep your project moving forward. This information proves you know what you are talking about and will allow your backers to get behind you. BUILDING INTEREST. This is a common fail in crowdfunding campaigns. Nine times out of ten you need to build interest in your campaign a good bit prior to it starting. This will help you to get an initial large boost to your goal. I kinda trailed that I was going to do this on the show here, but due to time constraints, I only got specific about it a few weeks before. I was aiming for the lowest amount that IndieGoGo allows though, so my target was as achievable as it could be and I didn’t feel too bad about it. One thing I must add is that most platforms will NOT put any effort into promoting your campaign for you. Generating interest in your specific campaign is entirely up to you, although occasionally you may get a random backer passing through on the platform. Just don’t rely on it. Fulfilment. This is one area that is so important. It’s also far trickier than it sounds. Your reputation hangs on your ability to not just deliver the crowdfunding goal, but also to provide your contributors with their rewards, perks or whatever you want to call them, in a timely manner. Some problems that can be associated with fulfilment include: Not budgeting for it. Not budgeting for postage and packaging. Communication problems: I have had quite a few issues with the delivery of perks for my campaign. I get email addresses from IndieGoGo as a download, but I made a rod for my own back by communicating with backers via Twitter and Facebook direct messaging, through the platform itself and via two different email addresses. My situation was further complicated by receiving three messages through my website’s contact page. Trying to collate and verify information from so many different sources was and still is a nightmare, so if you can, encourage all your backers to communicate to you through one email address. If you do that, life will be a lot easier, believe me. DO YOUR RESEARCH. Before you even start your crowdfunding campaign, do your research. Find out everything you need to know about crowdfunding - mine for success strategies. Not only should you know how to run a successful campaign, but you should also be aware of all the rules and regulations surrounding this funding source. This was an area on which I fell down a little on the last run. I had calculated just 5% in costs going to IndieGoGo, but the reality was that I was losing percentages of committed monies to credit card companies and even a £25 surcharge at the end to cover the disbursement of funds. Rather than the percentage of running costs for the campaign totalling 5% of the total it ended up at 14% through my not following the fine print. CREATE MARKETING MATERIALS. Once you know who your target audience is and, create high-quality marketing materials. Personalize materials to yourself and your message and if you are wondering what is most effective here. Its video. You must create video content, with you right out there on camera, if you are to be successful in raising finance. Your face will gain a backers trust. If you don’t appear on camera it makes backers uneasy. Get over your fear of cameras and get in front of one, or you will fail. MAKE THE REWARDS WORTHWHILE. While you're not REQUIRED to reward your backers, offering something in return for their support makes for a more successful campaign. Make sure that any reward you offer is worthwhile, as well. Some will be happy with just a thank you but try and ensure that at least one of your perks has value. I tried not to offer perks that involved postage and packing so my most valuable perk was the opportunity to sponsor an episode, and it worked. Without that perk, I’d never have hit the target. Clay Herbert of Fund Your Dream says “The best campaigns I have worked with tell a specific story to a specific group of people.” So with that in mind, my next tip is GET PERSONAL… That’s why I say get in front of the camera and talk - When people feel that they know you, they'll feel more comfortable with, and trust in, your goals. Opening up about yourself and your situation is a great way to help your campaign see more success. PROMOTE IT. Once you've published your crowdfunding campaign, start spreading the word. Share your campaign on social media, with family and friends, on blogs and anywhere else where you can get it out there. The wider your reach, the more potential you have for investors to see it. It’s essential to talk to your backers throughout the entire process. This also helps to build trust. While you don't need to tell them every detail, be as open and transparent as possible. Don't just pitch them or try to sell to them either. With all that advice given, here are a few tips on what NOT to do too. E-BEGGING. This is something I detest and another reason that I think long and hard before running any crowd funder: According to URBAN DICTIONARY.com, this is when some pretentious asshole (usually on Youtube) decides to solicit "donations" from his or her audience. Sometimes they try to hide their e-begging under the guise of elaborate "movie projects" on sites like indiegogo.com with laughable incentives like "Donate 100.00 and get your name in the credits" ... The irony is that most of these youtube "movies" cost only a fraction of the donations received. The e-beggar then pockets the rest as profit and then laughs all the way to the bank. E-begging preys on stupid people but if you aren't a complete sheep, you won't be fooled by e-beggars. EXCEEDING YOUR TARGET. Yes, it happens. I had considered what would happen if I exceeded the campaign total, and I implemented it - My stretch goal was unspecific though. I just said any additional money would go into promotion for the show. I didn’t mess about with it as I had already met my target and I was happy with that. One thing to be cautious of - is not being able to deliver your promised rewards so be cautious and have a plan for this eventuality. IF YOUR CAMPAIGN GOES VIRAL, YOU BETTER HAVE A BIT OF AN IDEA HOW YOU ARE GOING TO PROCEED. ALL OR NOTHING. Some great projects fail simply because their fundraising goal is just too high and the fundraising platforms will not distribute any funds if you don’t hit your target. Many campaigns raise a sizeable amount but get nothing because they didn’t meet the funding goal. Be prepared. Do your research. Don’t fall on this really obvious detail. NOT ENOUGH TIME. New Crowd funders fail to understand the process involved in crowdfunding and the need to build excitement and a community before launch. There is just not enough time during a campaign to do the outreach necessary for success. You need to build an audience and then launch a campaign. You will never have enough time to do it all at once. And I’m going to end this list of mistakes with one just as problematic. TOO MUCH TIME. Yes, you heard me right. As I said earlier, running these campaigns is massively time-consuming. Epically energy absorbing in fact, and your promotional content will be swallowed up with each and every day that you are committed to it. Just as damaging to your efforts will be finding yourself chained 24/7 to a campaign that goes on forever. When I planned the campaign for this season, I set it at 7 days, and even knowing I was setting myself up for a tight deadline, I went with it as I knew I could create and deliver the publicity and social media interaction required for that period. If I'd run it for a month I’d have needed a month of marketing materials and ideas. Running a shorter campaign for a realistic amount was for me the only option. Peter Dering of the founder of Peak Design says “Something we have done really well with our campaigns is that we are extremely transparent. We go to great lengths and to create and justify our designs.” Earlier I mentioned that some things have changed as I’ve run several campaigns. On this last campaign I realised that the social networks are hobbling our ability to use them for promotion – for example, Twitter no longer previews YOUTUBE. Instagram only shows its own content and Facebook is hit and miss with its 3rd party previews. You may have to create content to be hosted Separately on each platform now. For the record, Instagram is limited to 60 seconds but you can kinda get around this with Instagram TV. Facebook limits its own videos to 15 minutes which is quite healthy, and Twitter allows videos of up to 2 minutes and 20 seconds. If you are putting out video content therefor, perhaps put out short 60 second videos so that the same content can be hosted on all three platforms… I’m going to wrap this up now but here’s a great bit of productivity advice to add to all that I’ve said already – I used a really simple hack with my first campaign which ended up at 156% of my target. That hack was that I didn’t start from scratch. I found similar campaigns which had done well and worked up my content to be based on those samples. It’s a hack that only goes so far but one that works. Use someone else’s successful campaign as a blueprint to build a new one of your own. One example that I include now in every campaign is the use of a pie chart to show where the funds will go. It’s helpful to potential backers and it’s helpful for you in planning how you will place the funds when you raise them, but it wasn’t my idea. If you plan to run a campaign, spy out a few that you like and which you think really work and use them to inspire you. Summing Up Thanks for listening to this longer episode than usual. I just want to remind you once again that the primary reason that I eventually bit the bullet and ran a campaign for this season was, NOT financial, but to raise the profile of this podcast. Crowdfunding is a powerful force and for creative people, it’s one which you should learn to harness and embrace. It’s not however just about the money. Call To Action Your call to action this week is not to run a campaign, but to consider how it could help you achieve your dreams. Let it open your mind to possibilities you had not previously considered. Ending I’ll end today's show with the words of Anne Frank, who said: “No one has ever become poor by giving.” Thanks to all of you who helped spread the word or backed my campaign for this season – and thank you all for listening here today – now take control of your own destiny, keep on shootin’, and join me next time on Film Pro Productivity. The music you can hear right now is Adventures by A Himitsu You can view the show notes for this episode on the official website filmproproductivity.com You can follow my personal account on Twitter and Instagram @fight_director or follow the show on Twitter @filmproprodpod or on Facebook @Filmproproductivity Please support the show by subscribing, spreading the word and leaving an AWESOME review. 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One quarter of women who are released from prison are arrested again within six months of release. Like these women, Susan Burton, founder of A New Way of Life, was in and out of prison throughout her early adulthood. She joins host Piper Kerman to talk about the cycle of incarceration, a cycle Danielle Brooks’ character Taystee also experienced throughout the seven seasons of Orange is the New Black. Danielle and Piper talk this out in the final episode of From Where She Stands. Learn more about the Poussey Washington Fund and get involved at www.Crowdrise.com/PWF
In this episode we explore the bond between a mother and child in the context of one of the most constructed and unnatural experiences in modern America: incarceration. We travel back to Minnesota’s Shakopee Correctional Facility to see how women experience birth and motherhood from inside the facility - something Dascha Polanco’s character, Dayanara Diaz, navigates in Orange is the New Black. Dasha and Piper are in conversation to dig deeper into Dascha’s role and her personal story. Learn more about the Poussey Washington Fund and get involved at www.Crowdrise.com/PWF
The prison system wasn’t created to allow non-conformity in any way. This week, we visit San Quentin State Prison, a men’s facility in California, where among the almost 4,000 incarcerated men live a small group of incarcerated women. We later talk with Laverne Cox about her role as Sophia and lessons learned along the way.Learn more about the Poussey Washington Fund and get involved at www.Crowdrise.com/PWF
What does it mean to be undocumented in today’s America? In this episode we speak to this question and more. Listen in as Orange is the New Black’s Diane Guerrero talks about her personal experiences with the many challenges faced by undocumented families. Her parents were detained when she was 14 and this is her story. Join Diane and host Piper Kerman as they discuss what that experience can mean for a family trying to make it in America today.Learn more about the Poussey Washington Fund and get involved at www.Crowdrise.com/PWF
In this first episode of From Where She Stands we explore the importance of touch for incarcerated women at Shakopee Correctional Facility in Minnesota. Until recently, the prison has prevented any sort of touching between inmates: no handshakes, no fist bumps, definitely no hugs. We also look at activity where there is touch inside Shakopee, through hair braiding. This episode is an exploration of the ways incarcerated women try to regain a sense of themselves. Join Piper Kerman in conversation with Uzo Aduba who plays Suzanne "Crazy Eyes" Warren.Learn more about the Poussey Washington Fund and get involved at www.Crowdrise.com/PWF
Hello Runners! I am pleased to have Bart Yasso, the "Mayor of Running" as my guest this episode. Recently retired from (https://www.runnersworld.com/) after 31 years with the title of Chief Running Officer, he has inspired runners all over the globe. I've know Bart for several years and I will say that he is one of the most genuine persons that I know. He loves running and the running community. It doesn't matter if you are Meb Keflezighi, 2004 Olympic silver medalist in the marathon, or Judy Smith, beginner runner from North Dakota, you are welcomed by Bart with open arms. And Bart has an amazing resume: Ran races in all 7 continents Biked Across the USA twice with no support! Mt. Kilimanjaro Marathon Badwater Ultramarathon 135 (when it was 145 miles) 5 time Iron Man finisher Comrades 56-mile event Inventor of the “Yasso 800’s” marathon predictor workout Inducted into the Running USA Hall of Champions Inducted into the Road Runners Club of America Distance Running Hall of Fame And on and on and on! Be sure to pick up a copy of Bart's book, (https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Run-Wisdom-Insights/dp/1605298271/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=My+life+on+the+run&qid=1567387931&s=gateway&sr=8-1) a fabulous read. It is also available as a download and in audio books. Every single chapter is a great story! So, as you may know, I am the Co-Race Director for the (https://mauimarathon.com/) which will be held on Sunday, October 13th. It has taken me away from producing my Podcast so there has been a gap. I hope you won't bail on me and hang in there since it appears I am back on track. My goal is to bring you two quality episodes per month. So stick with me! And if you every have any comments, I want to hear them. Send a note to jim@feelgoodrunning.com. Oh yea, I would be humbled if you could share this podcast with your running friends and on your social media. Without you, the show won't grow Wow! We are now heading into the fall race season. Where did this year go? For those of you that are doing a fall race regardless of the distance, I hope your summer training has gone well, you have stayed injury free and are fired up and ready for your race! I'm proud of you! We have a great sport that enhances all of us, physically, mentally and spiritually. Enjoy this episode and remember to just show up and always, ALWAYS feel good about your running! ~Jim Jim's Opening & News Segment Jim's Maui News Article (https://www.mauinews.com/opinion/columns/2019/08/running-the-show/) - Thank you Sarah Ruppenthal! Ashley Schneider (https://www.milwaukeemag.com/ashley-schneider-ms-run-the-us-decided-to-run-across-country/) in support of the cure for Multiple Sclerosis. (https://www.essence.com/feature/the-nike-joyride-run-flyknit-gave-me-the-guts-to-finally-embrace-running-review/) (https://abc7ny.com/society/exclusive-homeless-man-grateful-to-jogger-who-gave-shoes-off-feet-/5477476/) Bart Yasso BUY IT TODAY! (https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Run-Wisdom-Insights/dp/1605298271/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=My+life+on+the+run&qid=1567388287&s=gateway&sr=8-1) Excellent Read Bart's Social Media Links - (https://twitter.com/BartYasso) (https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/bart-yasso/bartyasso1) - Bart is running the Rocky steps in Philadelphia for this charity. Bart's CrowdRise fundraising page. Article's - (https://www.verywellfit.com/christine-luff-2910803) ) (https://www.today.com/news/survivor-stories-okc-bombing-survivor-amy-downs-how-she-pushed-t137011) - Bart mentioned her story during the interview. She survived the Oklahoma City Bombing (bonnie-vanderaa/) - We talked about Bonnie. I interviewed her in Episode #12. Take a listen to this incredible story! Inspirational Running Quote "When the gun goes...
News of recent updates to Flint's Water Crisis and much more in today's episode. Share or recommend this podcast episode to someone who has been impacted by Flint's Water Crisis ALSO share the song, "City of Lead" by Bootleg of the Dayton Family feat. Mikki Wade to raise awareness and support surrounding the Flint Water Crisis issue :) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtfv2mF8pEo #flint #flintlivesmatter #michigan #flintwatercrisis #greenerthoughtspodcast 1. Donate/Help Flint, MI Water Crisis Residents: - United Way of Genesee County - Flint Water Fund > The United Way of Genesee County will use all funds raised through its Flint Water Fund are for the purchase and distribution of bottled water; filtration devices not supplied by the State of Michigan; and, health access for children affected by lead. United Way will use 100% of the funds for this purpose with no Administrative Fee assessed. Address: 111 E. Court Street, Suite 3A Flint, MI 48502 Phone Number: 810-232-8121 https://www.unitedwaygenesee.org/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=5 - Community Foundation: Greater Flint > Donating to the Flint Kids Fund is the single-most important action you can take to ensure long-term change for the better in response to our water crisis. Address: Foundation for Flint Community Foundation Building 500 S. Saginaw St., Suite 200 Flint, MI 48502 https://www.cfgf.org/cfgf/GoodWork/FlintArea/WaterCrisis/tabid/855/Default.aspx 2. Additional resources/links: > (City of Flint) https://www.cityofflint.com/how-can-i-help/ > (Click on Detroit) https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/how-to-donate-water-volunteer-to-help-flint-residents > (CrowdRise by GoFundMe) Campaign by Big Sean: https://www.crowdrise.com/BigSean > (GoFundMe) https://www.gofundme.com/search/us/flint-mi-fundraising > (Flint Cares) https://flintcares.com/ > (Flint Water Info) https://flintwaterinfo.com/help/ NRDC & Flint https://www.nrdc.org/Flint Desktop/Mobile: Podcast page (main): https://anchor.fm/greenerthoughtspodcast Supporting Greener Thoughts: https://anchor.fm/greenerthoughtspodcast/support Voice Message Greener Thoughts: https://anchor.fm/greenerthoughtspodcast/message --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/greenerthoughtspodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/greenerthoughtspodcast/support
When we started this podcast, one of our goals was to highlight what motivates UNICEF supporters to go above and beyond to fundraise for children. And it's hard to imagine someone going to greater heights than Ashley Cobile from Hawaii, who recently fundraised through Crowdrise in advance of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. She talks with Sarah Ferguson, UNICEF USA contributing writer, about reaching the summit, fighting to end child trafficking, and what it takes to create a successful online fundraiser. Check out Ashley's fundraiser: https://bit.ly/2Hzbadq Create your own on behalf of UNICEF USA: https://www.crowdrise.com/unicefusa You can fundraise through Facebook, too: https://www.facebook.com/pg/UNICEF-USA/fundraisers/ Register a fundraiser on our website: https://www.unicefusa.org/submit-your-event-application Learn how you can get active with UNICEF in your community: https://www.unicefusa.org/unite
Julia Deaver is the Co-Founder & Executive Director, Impact Summit Author, Event Designer & Producer Julia has 12+ years experience directing and producing high impact events that empower, inspire and connect. Including large-scale conferences with Jumping Turtle, LLC, The Women of Light Convention, and Hello Lovely Events. Former PR Non-Profit Director at IMNO.com. Julia partnered with UNICEF, Operation Underground Railroad, Crowdrise, and other charities for International Fundraising events. As a consultant, Julia increases sales, marketing, and media campaigns, directs social media promotions, enhances companies brand and image. This year the Impact Summit is in SLC on Oct. 13th at the Marriott Downtown-City Creek from 8am-6pm. [I'll Be There presenting!!]] Join Us for this One Day Business Conference designed to help you find the power to Lead, Influence and Inspire. We have a huge lineup of presenters that are sure to help any business professional find their personal brand, take their career to the next level and have an impact in their organization and life. We would love to offer a special discount just for the listeners of the podcast, please use discount code "UNLEASHED" all caps for an extra 15% off, but hurry, tickets are going fast and we want to see you there! Contact Julia@influencerinc.co if you're interested in sponsorship or vendor opportunities.
First things first: Meta Station is raising money for RAICES Texas to help reunite and free immigrant detainee families! We started with a goal of raising $2500, which we BLEW OUT OF THE WATER in less than 24 hour thanks to the enormous generosity of Lola Flanery (Madi), Marie Avgeropoulos (Octavia), and 49 other amazing fans, so now we are just going to see how much money we can raise between now and August 7, when the season finale airs! You can donate to our fundraiser here: https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/meta-station-supports-refugee-kids/ Or, if you're outside North America, you can donate directly to RAICES here: https://www.paypal.com/fundraiser/charity/2086450 If you donate to RAICES directly and still want to be included in our fundraiser, you can DM us a screencap of your donation receipt (here or on Twitter or Tumblr). Crowdrise accepts offline donations, so we can still add you to our total and send you lots of love! ----------- We had LOOOOOOTS to say about this episode!! (*laughs nervously and looks an runtime*) Jasper and Monty! Clarke and Monty! Octavia and Indra! Kara Cooper going full-on war criminal! Blodreina using everyone else's hypocrisy to excuse her own amoral strategic choices! Kabby and Recho breaking ALL our hearts! SHAW AND DIYOZA BACKSTORY THAT WE WOULD TOTALLY WATCH AN ENTIRE TV SHOW EXPLORE SAY HOW'S THAT PREQUEL COMING JASON ROTHENBERG?!?! This was a fun one, fam! 3:00 - Make It Mean Something: Jasper, Monty, & The Letter (TW: lots of suicide mentions) 21:00 - How Jasper Breaks the Cycle of War 28:00 - Jonty and the Struggle to See Outside the Cycle 34:00 - Madi Kom Clarkekru, the One True Breaker of Cycles? 46:00 - Could Madi Save Octavia from Blodreina? 50:30 - Bellamy, Clarke, Blodreina, and Interrogating "I Do It For 'My People'" 54:30 - The Return of Heart Over Head Bellamy (Your Plans Suck, But We Still Love You) 1:00 - Power Vs Powerlessness and Inevitability Vs Choice 1:04 - Ecosystems Are Another Cycle Being Broken, Which Is...Probably Not Great? 1:07 - Chekhov's Algae: Is Monty the Key to Salvation This Season? 1:16:30 - "Let's talk about WOOORMMMSSS!" Claire Sings Through Her Nausea (But We Quickly Segue to Octavia and Indra Because Ewwwww Worms) 1:30 - The Myth of Skairipa Vs. the Myth of Blodreina: Pluralism Vs. Totalitarianism 1:37:15 - RAVEN AND ECHO ARE FRANDS ...Until They're Not And Our Hearts Get BROKEN 1:52 - We Are LIVING for This Shaw and Diyoza Backstory 2:01 - Speculation-palooza: The Many Exciting Ways the Show Could Shuffle the Decks, Loyalty-Wise 2:10:30 - STOP! Kabby Time! 2:40 - Baby, You're a Game Changer
Find the full show notes at jurassicparkpodcast.com Welcome to The Jurassic Park Podcast! In Episode 149, we relay news regarding a Crowdrise campaign to win a trip to the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom red carpet, a Fallen Kingdom VR experience, a choose your own LEGO adventure and Fallen Kingdom clarifications from Colin Trevorrow! After that, we dive straight into the Jurassic Mailbag with Jennifer Terek! This May, we received a ton of voicemails and emails, so hold on as we dive into the mailbag! After that, we jump into the Audio Lab and hear the first two behind the scenes installments of Jurassic Journals from the set of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom! We'll also hear a Jurassic World themed skit from Saturday Night Live with Donald Glover. We round out the episode with some more spoilery elements from the set of Fallen kingdom, via Rooster Teeth's Eric Vespe! NEWS: Red Carpet Crowdrise Jurassic World VR Eric Vespe's Fallen Kingdom Set Visit This Week's Contributors: Jennifer Terek Find her information on our team pages! Don't forget to give our voicemail line a call at 732-825-7763! Share this post and comment below! Enjoy.
Everyone Hates Marketers | No-Fluff, Actionable Marketing Podcast
This episode I’m talking to Dan McGaw, former Head of Marketing at Kissmetrics behavioral analytics solution company. Dan is now the CMO of Effin Amazing, an analytics and growth consultancy company. Dan is an analytics expert and has consulted for companies such as Wistia, Contactually, CrowdRise, and many more. If you are overwhelmed by the amount of data you need to track and don’t know where to start, then this episode is for you. Listen in as Dan walks us through a step-by-step actionable methodology on how to track the right metrics and KPIs for new and existing businesses. *** Tap on this link to access show notes+transcripts, join our private community of mavericks, or sign up to the newsletter: EveryoneHatesMarketers.com/links
Social fundraising (sometimes called crowdfunding… but it is more) is becoming more sophicated and more useful. It is more than just a way to raise money. It is a way to connect with supporters, garner new donations, build relationships with your community and increase awareness of your organization. In this podcast, we talk with Gary Wohlfeill from CrowdRise.com. Gary describes […]
Kanata's Castle continues their 'Pathway to The Last Jedi' series and this time they turn to the dark side. Who is Supreme Leader Snoke? How does he know the Skywalkers? Well, join Becca and Devon on this next episode and find out. So grab your favorite beverage and get ready to fulfill your destiny! Snoke, the man behind the curtain. The Hologram. Who is he? He's a mystery, an enigma. And he prides himself on being Kylo Ren's sculptor. Snoke is indeed powerful. So powerful in the dark side of the Force that he managed to seduce the heir to the Jedi, Ben Solo, now known as Kylo Ren into leaving his Jedi path behind and becoming his apprentice. But why Ben, Leia's son? What is it that Snoke knows? And, how well does he know the Skywalker legacy? The Force is strong in their family, each of them has equal potential for good or evil. But how did he know this? Who was he before he took on the alias of Snoke? Is it even an alias? Leia knew that Snoke could have a strong influence on her son, and so, it was her responsibility to keep Ben away from the darkness. Unfortunately, the shadow doused the light and Ben became Kylo Ren. Kanata's Castle #18: Snoke: "Fulfill Your Destiny!" Current News: Star Wars releases a 2 minute and 15 second video with Rian Johnson behind the scenes of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Star Wars Rebels is back for their Final Season. Mentions: Follow our own Bala Tik sounding voice artist, Liam Howie @LunaticGrung Give a hospitalized child a Starlight Brave Gown — and a huge smile — TODAY Shoutout to Neil Lowery who is always supportive and positive and eager to share and comment on our podcast. Crowdrise donation Mando name podcast listener Cas Hollingsworth gave a generous donation and she now has a Mando name and clan. Cas's Mandalorian name is: Chase of The Clan Holling Who Are You - The Who cover - Eddie 629 on YouTube at https://youtu.be/sWAmJq-2eMI Sources: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Guide Star Wars Official Site: The Databanks Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer The Aftermath Trilogy by Chuck Wendig Star Wars: Thrawn by Timothy Zahn A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words:
The Mo'Kelly Shows Presents – A deeper look into President Trump's latest Twitter outburst on the first Mueller Indictment with regular guest commentator Johnny Wendell AND the Crowdrise campaign to raise funds for a kitten in need of a butthole on KFI AM 640 – More Stimulating Talk.
We just observed the 16 year anniversary of the horrible attacks of 9/11, and the nation is still recovering. One of the ways we're doing that is through events such as the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run. The event raises money for families of fallen first responders, as well as money to build smart homes for catastrophically injured American service members. Gary Pinkerton, a US military veteran of 26 years hosting his first ever podcast, talks to Kathy Cunningham about her team, Team Shamrock, the #1 team fundraiser for the Tunnel to Towers Run. Key Takeaways: [1:01] The story that Gary heard and had to tell for his first episode of Heroic Investing [4:54] What Gary's learned about inspirational people during his 26 years in the military Kathy Cunningham Interview: [10:02] How long Team Shamrock has been around [13:37] The story of the home Team Shamrock was able to give to a disabled veteran [17:18] The story of Kathy's brother's final day on 9/11 [21:36] The biggest surprise Kathy's experienced on her Team Shamrock fundraising journey [25:24] How listeners can help Website: www.CrowdRise.com/TeamShamrock www.Tunnel2Tower.org
In today's episode of Tarkin's Top Shelf, Becca, and Mark sit down and chat over a different kind of Star Wars book. Star Wars 'Super Graphic' by Tim Leong. As your hosts flip through these colorful pages of Star Wars fun, they do their best to connect the galaxy far, far away with Star Wars 'Super Graphic!' News: Target commercial: “Bring your Rey Game” #ForceFriday2 Luke comic: Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie go to Jedha City Mentions: Shoutout to April Whitney from Chronicle Books Publishing and author Tim Leong Winner of Inferno Squad Giveaway! Tarkin’s Top Shelf Starlight Fun Center Fund via Crowdrise Topic: Connecting the saga continuity with Tim Leong’s distractingly fun ‘Super Graphic’ book Force Abilities that connect throughout the saga Lightsaber Lore and Mythology Size Matters when it comes to galaxy far, far away There are other Jedi Councils? From Naboo, with Love Happily Ever After or Tragic Endings? Dis-members Only R2D2 Odyssey Mind Tricks Luke’s dialogue in the films Chronological Clone Wars Breakdown of Rey’s Force Back (Vision) Help us spread the word about the show Click here to subscribe via iTunes Click here to subscribe via RSS Click here to subscribe via Stitcher Click here to subscribe via Google Play Music Feedback and Promotion Send feedback and comments to TTSPodFeedback@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter@TarkinsTopShelf Like us on Facebook: Tarkin's Top Shel
Fundraising Contest! Go to our social media posts for details! Whining, biting, hitting, kicking, and screaming? What to do and how to discipline? Author, expert, and mom of 4, Sarah Ockwell-Smith is here to help.Y'all, the newborn honeymoon stage is wearing off, and we’re figuring out how to be this new and improved version of our family while juggling life and not completely losing our marbles. No surprise. I'm exhausted and a tad overwhelmed. Almost 4 year-old Big Sis is incredibly loving and patient with her baby sister's needs and colic wails. (Seriously. She's crushing it). But I’m having hard time mustering up the energy to parent my eldest as patiently as I have in the past. Parent coach, author, and mother of 4 Sarah Ockwell-Smith gives me skills to make home life easier, a reality check about my expectations, and advice from her brand new book GENTLE DISCIPLINE: Using Emotional Connection – Not Punishment – to Raise Confident, Capable Kids (August 29, 2017). After listening to this episode, you better believe I'm marking my calendar for 2030. Listen to the episode to find out why.Join Atomic Moms in supporting the youngest affected by Hurricane Harvey. Go to: Crowdrise.com/atomicmoms. Your gift will go directly to Save the Children's work there. I promise I did my homework.Show Notes: AtomicMoms.comLove hearing from you on social media!
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-368 – Julia and the Endurance Epiphany (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4368.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-368 the new summer, of the RunRunLive Podcast. Happy 4th of July to all my patriotic American friends. Today we have a chat with Julia who has a great story. She had that moment in her life where she almost lost everything that led her to endurance sports. We get some many of these stories and it makes me wonder why people seem to need to get knocked up side of the head to make big changes in their lives? Maybe it’s just that we need to be shown that anything is possible. I’m dropping this show on June 30th. I am finishing up my 30-day 5 at 5 project where I simply got up and ran 5 miles at 5 AM every morning in the woods. I’ll give you my report out on that in one of the sections. How are you doing? If you’re an ultra-marathoner you’re in the thick of your summer racing season. Likewise if you’re a triathlete or a biker you may be racing or training for a late summer race. If you’re one of those crazy marathon runners you probably need to start getting serious about your training plans for a fall race. Such is the cycle of our lives. I do love this time of year. I know many of you in Europe and in the great sun-beaten swaths of the Western US and in the densely humid jungles of the southern US, have been having some hot, hot, hot weather. But I, up here in New England have had a mild start to summer. We’ve had lots of rain and cooler temps. The plants are happy and the little animals are thriving. Buddy the old wonder dog ran my 5 at 5 project with me. I took him for a first loop and then went out again to get my miles. That seems to be a good fit for him and he loves the cooler weather. How are your gardens doing? Mine was slow to get started due to the cool entrance of summer, but now my tomatoes, squash and cucumbers are coming on. My beans didn’t come up, but I was using seeds from 3-4 years ago, so no surprise really. My berries are starting to come in and I am going to have a boatload of berries. Like I told you before I’ve got a bevy of apples on my trees as well so we might get some apples this year. How about you? How’s your running? Your Swimming? Your biking? Your gardening? What’s your next big race? … I watched a couple new movies since we last talked. The first one was John Wick 2, which I thought would be just another terrible action movie. I had low expectations. But it was good, for an action movie. They could have mailed it in and just done the typical guy with guns and cars Van Dame, Schwarzenegger, Stalone movie. But they did more. They put in this Noir affectation that made the character less cartoonish and more likable. They did this thing with the fight scenes that included a lot of judo which was interesting. Not wire fighting like the Matrix or Bruce Lee type, but Olympic wrestling type moves. And of course, lots of car crashes, explosions a high body count. The other movie I watched was . This is a sort of bio pic with Brian Cranston of Breaking Bad fame playing Dalton Trumbo. I’ll give you a quick plot summary. Trumbo was one of the most famous, richest screen writes in Hollywood in 1947, but he also was a member of the Communist Party, which wasn’t a bad thing in 1944 when we were friends with Stalin, but was a very bad thing in 1947, as the beginning of the cold war kicked off a red scare. Some wankers in the congress decided Hollywood was being run by communists and they were 5th columnist set on infecting the population with their commie ideas. They proceeded to create this extra-legal body called the House UnAmerican Activities committee, with subpoena power to weed out the commies. Now, technically, the constitution says we can believe in anything we want and the government can go suck it. But, in times of hysteria, power hungry politicians always find some boogieman to whip up that allows them to set those rules aside. The committee subpoenaed 10, mostly screen writers, who became known as ‘the Hollywood 10’ to question. These guys thinking they had rights decided to not answer the questions, and the times being what they were, they went to jail for a couple years for contempt or obstruction or something. Trumbo was one of those. Meanwhile, at the start of this, Hollywood banded together and tried to turn the tide and tell middle America how ridiculous all this witch hunting was. They totally over estimated their star power and totally misread the sentiment of working class Americans. Joe-sixpack didn’t have any love for these lefty, pinko, coastal elitists and wanted the commies weeded out! Thus started the blacklist. The studio heads were basically arm twisted into committing to not employ anyone who was on the blacklist. The blacklist did what it was intended to and put people out of work and ruined or even ended their lives. There is a great series that goes through this in detail that I would highly recommend you listen to before watching Trumbo. It’s on the “” podcast by Karina Longworth. She did a whole season on the blacklist. I won’t belabor the politics in Trumbo. Sometimes when you look back on the blacklist people are incredulous that this happened. It did. These guys were actually communists, but mostly armchair communists not Stalinist. There was a fair amount of anti-Semitism in this as well. It’s a good move and knowing the history of the era makes it a better movie. Cranston is great. The thing I really took away from it, more than the political parallels, was how Trumbo just kept working. They took his job and made him persona non grata, but he just kept writing. He did what he was good at and eventually Hollywood came back around. He won two Oscars for screenplays that were attributed to other writers, in one case a made up name. That’s the lesson here for me. Just keep your fire burning. Keep using your gift. Keep doing what you’re good at and the rest doesn’t really matter, does it? On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Long Run Pacing in a marathon plan - Voices of reason – the conversation Julia Khvasechko, LMT Hi Chris I don't have a blog I'm too busy living my life I'll give you some background A bit about me I have run 183 marathons in all 50 states twice and am half way thru round 3 I'm working on the continent, sept is AUS, aka continent #4 I completed Four 100 milers so far and many races of varying distances in between All of this is remarkable to me since I only started running 12 years ago But it gets better, 19 years ago I was on deaths door with an inoperable brain tumor Also I used to work in finance but switched careers to do what I love Empower other runners & helping them feel good in their bodies I pace races all over the country and own my own business, I'm a RYT, LMT, Running coach & am living the dream Also through running I found the love of my life & got married on my course of my 50th state There are a few articles out there about me My best Chris, Many thanks for the book, I can't wait to read it I am so very impressed I would also love to hear the finished product, kindly send it to me. i am deathly shy and marathons gives me an opportunity to be social I love pacing races and talking to people about running and one on one i'm okay but having to give a speech in front of an audience is too scary for me to even think about. again, i'm so very honored to have been chose to be a guest on your show. thank you for allowing me to share my story. if i can inspire one person, one person to push their limits and leave their comfort zone, then I have done my job. I read somewhere once that you life should have meaning; so I want to become an inspiration to others so they can try to do more and become more than they are today. the most powerful weapon is the human soul on fire. and if you fire up people to run more, to run faster, to do more, then you are the true inspiration. thank you for your time and i look forward to reading your book. my best, Julia … Section two – 5 at 5 - Outro OK my friends, have you been proposed to and married during this marathon of episode 4-368 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Things are cooking. I’m busy. I’m working on a bunch of cool stuff. One of the startups I’m working with in Boston is this smart garment company I told you about last time. They are going into a testing phase before they launch and are looking for runners so if you’re local and want to try some new tech and you’re training for a fall race let me know and I can introduce you. Even if you’re not local and you want to learn more I can introduce you for future stuff as they roll it out. Yeah, I don’t know what I’m doing for a fall target race. I think I’ll look for a Maine race in October or November. Maybe I’ll target MDI, I know Gary Allen, we’ve interviewed him at least twice, he’s the race director, I’ve always wanted to run that race and I need a Maine race. I’m toying with doing a version of my own MarathonBQ plan to see if I can get some speed back. I’d have to modify it to have less volume, more cross training and more recovery days. I’d never survive it as written. Not sue how Buddy is going to react now that we’re finishing up the 5 at 5. He may revolt. He’ll be waking me up at 5 in the morning and demanding to hit the trails! There are worse things. Next week I’ve got a couple interviews lined up. I’ve got an Irish author who’s book I’m reading, sort of a literary mashup of and . (Editorial note: When I throw out authors or movies or other factoids like that I usually provide a link to an explanation of just what the fine day I’m talking about in the show notes and the accompanying blog post) I’m also talking with Tim the anxiety guy. We’ll getone of those up for the next show or maybe I’ll pull Arnar from the smart garment company in to talk about robo-running. I curated two old episodes up onto the members feed. Consider being a member, it keeps the lights on over here at the RunRunLive HQ. It’s fun for me to go back and listen to myself and what I was doing 5 or 6 years ago. By the way, this episode is more than likely the 10 year anniversary of RunRunLive as a podcast. How about that? Here we are. Who would have thought it was possible? Over a million downloads later. Don’t be a stranger. Reach out and say ‘hi’. I’m entirely approachable but not so terribly interesting in person. It’s funny how time moves around us and floats us and sometimes sinks us. Makes you think about what you are doing today and how it will change the flow of time for your tomorrows. One of my more philosophical answers that frustrates my business partners is that I don’t know what the outcome is, but I can tell you that I’m doing the things today that will put me in a position to change those outcomes. And that’s the message for you. You can’t get off your raft that is being pushed along in the river of time. You can’t change the past. You can’t change the future. You can only choose what you do with your great personal fire, your gift today. And that can be enough to not only change your life but also change the lives of others. It’s not set. You can do whatever you want. You just have to decide to do it. Today I choose to talk to you. About running. And thinking. And experimenting with the fabric of the universe in my small dusty corner of it. I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-368 – Julia and the Endurance Epiphany (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4368.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-368 the new summer, of the RunRunLive Podcast. Happy 4th of July to all my patriotic American friends. Today we have a chat with Julia who has a great story. She had that moment in her life where she almost lost everything that led her to endurance sports. We get some many of these stories and it makes me wonder why people seem to need to get knocked up side of the head to make big changes in their lives? Maybe it's just that we need to be shown that anything is possible. I'm dropping this show on June 30th. I am finishing up my 30-day 5 at 5 project where I simply got up and ran 5 miles at 5 AM every morning in the woods. I'll give you my report out on that in one of the sections. How are you doing? If you're an ultra-marathoner you're in the thick of your summer racing season. Likewise if you're a triathlete or a biker you may be racing or training for a late summer race. If you're one of those crazy marathon runners you probably need to start getting serious about your training plans for a fall race. Such is the cycle of our lives. I do love this time of year. I know many of you in Europe and in the great sun-beaten swaths of the Western US and in the densely humid jungles of the southern US, have been having some hot, hot, hot weather. But I, up here in New England have had a mild start to summer. We've had lots of rain and cooler temps. The plants are happy and the little animals are thriving. Buddy the old wonder dog ran my 5 at 5 project with me. I took him for a first loop and then went out again to get my miles. That seems to be a good fit for him and he loves the cooler weather. How are your gardens doing? Mine was slow to get started due to the cool entrance of summer, but now my tomatoes, squash and cucumbers are coming on. My beans didn't come up, but I was using seeds from 3-4 years ago, so no surprise really. My berries are starting to come in and I am going to have a boatload of berries. Like I told you before I've got a bevy of apples on my trees as well so we might get some apples this year. How about you? How's your running? Your Swimming? Your biking? Your gardening? What's your next big race? … I watched a couple new movies since we last talked. The first one was John Wick 2, which I thought would be just another terrible action movie. I had low expectations. But it was good, for an action movie. They could have mailed it in and just done the typical guy with guns and cars Van Dame, Schwarzenegger, Stalone movie. But they did more. They put in this Noir affectation that made the character less cartoonish and more likable. They did this thing with the fight scenes that included a lot of judo which was interesting. Not wire fighting like the Matrix or Bruce Lee type, but Olympic wrestling type moves. And of course, lots of car crashes, explosions a high body count. The other movie I watched was . This is a sort of bio pic with Brian Cranston of Breaking Bad fame playing Dalton Trumbo. I'll give you a quick plot summary. Trumbo was one of the most famous, richest screen writes in Hollywood in 1947, but he also was a member of the Communist Party, which wasn't a bad thing in 1944 when we were friends with Stalin, but was a very bad thing in 1947, as the beginning of the cold war kicked off a red scare. Some wankers in the congress decided Hollywood was being run by communists and they were 5th columnist set on infecting the population with their commie ideas. They proceeded to create this extra-legal body called the House UnAmerican Activities committee, with subpoena power to weed out the commies. Now, technically, the constitution says we can believe in anything we want and the government can go suck it. But, in times of hysteria, power hungry politicians always find some boogieman to whip up that allows them to set those rules aside. The committee subpoenaed 10, mostly screen writers, who became known as ‘the Hollywood 10' to question. These guys thinking they had rights decided to not answer the questions, and the times being what they were, they went to jail for a couple years for contempt or obstruction or something. Trumbo was one of those. Meanwhile, at the start of this, Hollywood banded together and tried to turn the tide and tell middle America how ridiculous all this witch hunting was. They totally over estimated their star power and totally misread the sentiment of working class Americans. Joe-sixpack didn't have any love for these lefty, pinko, coastal elitists and wanted the commies weeded out! Thus started the blacklist. The studio heads were basically arm twisted into committing to not employ anyone who was on the blacklist. The blacklist did what it was intended to and put people out of work and ruined or even ended their lives. There is a great series that goes through this in detail that I would highly recommend you listen to before watching Trumbo. It's on the “” podcast by Karina Longworth. She did a whole season on the blacklist. I won't belabor the politics in Trumbo. Sometimes when you look back on the blacklist people are incredulous that this happened. It did. These guys were actually communists, but mostly armchair communists not Stalinist. There was a fair amount of anti-Semitism in this as well. It's a good move and knowing the history of the era makes it a better movie. Cranston is great. The thing I really took away from it, more than the political parallels, was how Trumbo just kept working. They took his job and made him persona non grata, but he just kept writing. He did what he was good at and eventually Hollywood came back around. He won two Oscars for screenplays that were attributed to other writers, in one case a made up name. That's the lesson here for me. Just keep your fire burning. Keep using your gift. Keep doing what you're good at and the rest doesn't really matter, does it? On with the show! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Long Run Pacing in a marathon plan - Voices of reason – the conversation Julia Khvasechko, LMT Hi Chris I don't have a blog I'm too busy living my life I'll give you some background A bit about me I have run 183 marathons in all 50 states twice and am half way thru round 3 I'm working on the continent, sept is AUS, aka continent #4 I completed Four 100 milers so far and many races of varying distances in between All of this is remarkable to me since I only started running 12 years ago But it gets better, 19 years ago I was on deaths door with an inoperable brain tumor Also I used to work in finance but switched careers to do what I love Empower other runners & helping them feel good in their bodies I pace races all over the country and own my own business, I'm a RYT, LMT, Running coach & am living the dream Also through running I found the love of my life & got married on my course of my 50th state There are a few articles out there about me My best Chris, Many thanks for the book, I can't wait to read it I am so very impressed I would also love to hear the finished product, kindly send it to me. i am deathly shy and marathons gives me an opportunity to be social I love pacing races and talking to people about running and one on one i'm okay but having to give a speech in front of an audience is too scary for me to even think about. again, i'm so very honored to have been chose to be a guest on your show. thank you for allowing me to share my story. if i can inspire one person, one person to push their limits and leave their comfort zone, then I have done my job. I read somewhere once that you life should have meaning; so I want to become an inspiration to others so they can try to do more and become more than they are today. the most powerful weapon is the human soul on fire. and if you fire up people to run more, to run faster, to do more, then you are the true inspiration. thank you for your time and i look forward to reading your book. my best, Julia … Section two – 5 at 5 - Outro OK my friends, have you been proposed to and married during this marathon of episode 4-368 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Things are cooking. I'm busy. I'm working on a bunch of cool stuff. One of the startups I'm working with in Boston is this smart garment company I told you about last time. They are going into a testing phase before they launch and are looking for runners so if you're local and want to try some new tech and you're training for a fall race let me know and I can introduce you. Even if you're not local and you want to learn more I can introduce you for future stuff as they roll it out. Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing for a fall target race. I think I'll look for a Maine race in October or November. Maybe I'll target MDI, I know Gary Allen, we've interviewed him at least twice, he's the race director, I've always wanted to run that race and I need a Maine race. I'm toying with doing a version of my own MarathonBQ plan to see if I can get some speed back. I'd have to modify it to have less volume, more cross training and more recovery days. I'd never survive it as written. Not sue how Buddy is going to react now that we're finishing up the 5 at 5. He may revolt. He'll be waking me up at 5 in the morning and demanding to hit the trails! There are worse things. Next week I've got a couple interviews lined up. I've got an Irish author who's book I'm reading, sort of a literary mashup of and . (Editorial note: When I throw out authors or movies or other factoids like that I usually provide a link to an explanation of just what the fine day I'm talking about in the show notes and the accompanying blog post) I'm also talking with Tim the anxiety guy. We'll getone of those up for the next show or maybe I'll pull Arnar from the smart garment company in to talk about robo-running. I curated two old episodes up onto the members feed. Consider being a member, it keeps the lights on over here at the RunRunLive HQ. It's fun for me to go back and listen to myself and what I was doing 5 or 6 years ago. By the way, this episode is more than likely the 10 year anniversary of RunRunLive as a podcast. How about that? Here we are. Who would have thought it was possible? Over a million downloads later. Don't be a stranger. Reach out and say ‘hi'. I'm entirely approachable but not so terribly interesting in person. It's funny how time moves around us and floats us and sometimes sinks us. Makes you think about what you are doing today and how it will change the flow of time for your tomorrows. One of my more philosophical answers that frustrates my business partners is that I don't know what the outcome is, but I can tell you that I'm doing the things today that will put me in a position to change those outcomes. And that's the message for you. You can't get off your raft that is being pushed along in the river of time. You can't change the past. You can't change the future. You can only choose what you do with your great personal fire, your gift today. And that can be enough to not only change your life but also change the lives of others. It's not set. You can do whatever you want. You just have to decide to do it. Today I choose to talk to you. About running. And thinking. And experimenting with the fabric of the universe in my small dusty corner of it. I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-367 – Matt Dunlap – BQ (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4367.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-367 th3e new summer, of the RunRunLive Podcast. Here we are in June. Today we are going to chat with Matt who qualified for Boston recently. Not to be entirely self-promotional, but he used the Marathon BQ plan from my book, “Marathon BQ – how to qualify for Boston in 14 weeks with a full time job and a family” that recounts my own journey to a Boston qualifier. It fascinates me to listen to these folks who have run the plan and qualified. It’s wonderful to me that it actually works for them. When you write down something like that there is always the worry that it has nothing to do with the plan. Somehow it is just you and your genetics or your work ethic or pure chance tipping those scales. So – congratulations to Matt for putting in the work and reaping the rewards. Welcome to Boston. This book continues to have legs, especially in April for obvious reasons, in both the e-book and audio book form. I’m thrilled to help people direct their energy and strength in a way that enables their goals. It’s very fulfilling. I am going to look into spinning up a webinar course version of it where I would step through the chapters over 12 or 13 weeks in a live webinar. If that’s something you’re interested in let me know. I’ll try to put the registration up on – which I own shortly. Should be fun and I’ll learn something and help some folks. I’m not a webinar rookie. I do them for work many times. If you’ve listened to this for a awhile you might have heard me talking about giving presentations, or presentation skills or such. It’s one of the things I’ve worked on my entire career. I think I’m up to a B+ level now. I gave a presentation this week in Boston this week at a startup conference. It was a room with maybe 100 souls in it. It was a blast! I had a 5-minute slot to give a pitch and demo. It used to be that I would be flop sweating having to stand up in front of a room but I love it now. If you prepare well and practice your craft you can turn that nervous energy into performance energy. I met a bunch of cool startups too. At least one I’m going to get on the podcast. It’s a sensor garment that you wear and it tracks all your vitals and your haptic response. I’m definitely going to wear test that thing. I’m 16 days into my 5 at 5 project. This project is where I get up at 5 AM and run 5 miles every day. I write a quick blog about it, daily, with a photo, if you want to follow along and see what’s rattling around in my brain. It’s over at my website. It’s fun. I take Buddy the old wonder dog with me for the first 2 miles on the trails then I go back out for another loop to make up the 5. He seems to be handling it well. On the weekends I still get out but I freelance a bit, throwing in some longer runs with Ryan on Sunday. I’m doing as much trails as possible. For Section one and section two today we are going to give you my Kettletown 50K race report. It was, of course, close to 20 minutes long, so I spilt it into two pieces and bookended the interview with it. Like a serial, right? Build some tension and anticipation, right? I read too much. Really. When you read too much the words start to seep out of your brain like coffee through the seams of a carboard cup. They find their way out. On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Kettletown 50K race report part one - Voices of reason – the conversation Matt Dunlap Matt Dunlap Age 44 from St. Peters, Missouri. Husband and father of two. I completed the marathonBQ plan while working full time for the Boeing Co. in St. Louis. My background as an athlete: Never did run in school. I was a baseball kid. Started running in my 30s to lose weight picked up over the years. Started running long distance in 2016 and completed the BQ plan in May of 2017 (2nd marathon). Looking forward to my first trip to Bean Town and running the Boston Marathon in 2018! Here’s the first email I got from Matt when he crashed in his first Marathon try… Chris! Just finished listening to your Marathon BQ book today. I am SO motivated right now, and ready to start training, but unfortunately it's not time... yet... A little more background about myself: I'm 44 (as of yesterday) I've been a casual runner for over ten years. Ran my first race (10k) last 4th of July and been wanting "more" ever since... Ran a couple more 10k's this year, then decided to "try" a marathon which took place 8 days ago. My intention when I first committed to it was to just be able to say I did it. I had been listening to your podcast all the while (for over a year). I used a marathon plan that came with my runkeeper app. I had no intention of qualifying for Boston; it was never on my radar. But when I got several weeks into my training, and only had trouble hitting my workout goals when it was 90+ degrees out there, I started to think "maybe I could actually qualify for Boston?" I worked my butt off, never missed a workout for the last 10 weeks of that plan (plan goal was a 3:30 marathon). I knew that my gps was cutting a lot of my corners off as a ran my routes and wondered exactly how much better my "real" pace was than what I was reading on my phone (and/or watch). I told myself on race day, I would just settle into a comfortable effort level and see what happens... I am sending you three images that will basically tell you the story of the race. When you see the pics, from mile three and from mile 25, I'm sure you'll get the big picture, along with the image that shows my split times. In order for me to get a BQ, I had to finish in less than 3:15. I had it in my grasp but it slipped away in the last 10k. That's a bit of irony because for years I have always topped out at 6 miles or so on my workouts. But this last 10k of the marathon kicked my ass (last 3 miles were 9+ min/mi). Now I'm on a mission and I can't wait to get to the track! I just need to decide if I'm going to try a spring or a fall race next year. I love this book! -matt dunlap in St. Peters, MO … Here is the facebook chatter on the MArathonBQ group from Matt. BQ attempt down the drain. Race cancelled due to weather. … Finished 3:20:50 ish... more details to come. Everyone ran extra 4/10 mile because the first turn wasn't marked! Hopefully 4 minutes is enough to get into Boston. … Matt did you stick to the plan note for note? Referring specifically to the three weekly 5 mile recovery runs ... Matt N Kim Dunlap Yes, I followed it almost exactly as written. I did improvise some workouts though during the extra four weeks after the first race was cancelled. I lost about 8 lbs during the process too. Matt N Kim Dunlap When I got into the 20 plus mile runs, I started around 8 min miles for 5 or 6 miles then gradually increased to my goal pace of 7:2x. One day I felt really good and kept going to 26.2 and averaged 7:33. That was three weeks before the race … Section two – More Kettletown Outro Ok my beautiful, fit and fast friends. Do you have the grit to get through a training plan, stay healthy and hit that staring line with gusto? Maybe, maybe not, but you have hung in there through the end of episode 4-367 of the RunRunLive podcast. Congratulations. Did you see that lady from Oklahoma who won Comrades? Great article. She says she has 2 craft beers during every race. Not 3, not 1, 2. That’s enough to get her head and body in the zone. I wonder why that’s not considered doping? I tagged a brief audio at the end of the show from Duane who is looking for people to go run an eclipse run with him. Once in a lifetime event. Next week I’m going to have a chat with Julia who has a very interesting story of how life changed for her and she ended up finding herself in endurance running. I also am in conversations with the anxiety guy, Tim, to do an interview about the interconnection between exercise and anxiety. I’m going to keep curating older episodes onto the members feed as well. Avocados. Do you like avocados? Avocados are interesting. They are native to the Americas. They are actually considered a berry with a single seed botanically. I like avocados. I have one in my salad most days. Healthy fat. A couple interesting things. First, avocados should not exist. They evolved the way they are to be eaten whole by megafauna. Wooly mammoths, giant sloths and wooly rhinos. The megafauna would eat the avocado in one big gulp, swallow them and drop them with a bit of fertilizer some distance off. That was the avocado survival strategy. Doesn’t work well when all the megafauna are gone. But along came humans and took a fancy to the poor avocado. We cultivated them and developed them into the current smaller seed, lots of meat form they currently have. Did you know there is now an injury called ‘avocado hand’ that is so common among millennials that it is an official medical term? It’s when you cut your hand trying to open an avocado with a knife. You can see how to open an avocado on YouTube. I use a modified approach where I cut it into 4 sections, then separate, then the skin just peels off like a ripe banana. Avocados have a perfect ripeness you have to catch them at. You want them to be ripe but not mushy. When you buy them leave 1 or 2 out on the counter to ripen, leave the rest in the fridge. They ripen fast. If it gets ripe and you’re not ready to use it, stick it in the fridge. Also, if you don’t want to eat the whole think you can put lemon juice on the exposed flesh of the leftovers to keep them from going brown in the fridge. That’s it. From mammoths to you. Everything is connected. I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-367 – Matt Dunlap – BQ (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4367.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-367 th3e new summer, of the RunRunLive Podcast. Here we are in June. Today we are going to chat with Matt who qualified for Boston recently. Not to be entirely self-promotional, but he used the Marathon BQ plan from my book, “Marathon BQ – how to qualify for Boston in 14 weeks with a full time job and a family” that recounts my own journey to a Boston qualifier. It fascinates me to listen to these folks who have run the plan and qualified. It's wonderful to me that it actually works for them. When you write down something like that there is always the worry that it has nothing to do with the plan. Somehow it is just you and your genetics or your work ethic or pure chance tipping those scales. So – congratulations to Matt for putting in the work and reaping the rewards. Welcome to Boston. This book continues to have legs, especially in April for obvious reasons, in both the e-book and audio book form. I'm thrilled to help people direct their energy and strength in a way that enables their goals. It's very fulfilling. I am going to look into spinning up a webinar course version of it where I would step through the chapters over 12 or 13 weeks in a live webinar. If that's something you're interested in let me know. I'll try to put the registration up on – which I own shortly. Should be fun and I'll learn something and help some folks. I'm not a webinar rookie. I do them for work many times. If you've listened to this for a awhile you might have heard me talking about giving presentations, or presentation skills or such. It's one of the things I've worked on my entire career. I think I'm up to a B+ level now. I gave a presentation this week in Boston this week at a startup conference. It was a room with maybe 100 souls in it. It was a blast! I had a 5-minute slot to give a pitch and demo. It used to be that I would be flop sweating having to stand up in front of a room but I love it now. If you prepare well and practice your craft you can turn that nervous energy into performance energy. I met a bunch of cool startups too. At least one I'm going to get on the podcast. It's a sensor garment that you wear and it tracks all your vitals and your haptic response. I'm definitely going to wear test that thing. I'm 16 days into my 5 at 5 project. This project is where I get up at 5 AM and run 5 miles every day. I write a quick blog about it, daily, with a photo, if you want to follow along and see what's rattling around in my brain. It's over at my website. It's fun. I take Buddy the old wonder dog with me for the first 2 miles on the trails then I go back out for another loop to make up the 5. He seems to be handling it well. On the weekends I still get out but I freelance a bit, throwing in some longer runs with Ryan on Sunday. I'm doing as much trails as possible. For Section one and section two today we are going to give you my Kettletown 50K race report. It was, of course, close to 20 minutes long, so I spilt it into two pieces and bookended the interview with it. Like a serial, right? Build some tension and anticipation, right? I read too much. Really. When you read too much the words start to seep out of your brain like coffee through the seams of a carboard cup. They find their way out. On with the show! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Kettletown 50K race report part one - Voices of reason – the conversation Matt Dunlap Matt Dunlap Age 44 from St. Peters, Missouri. Husband and father of two. I completed the marathonBQ plan while working full time for the Boeing Co. in St. Louis. My background as an athlete: Never did run in school. I was a baseball kid. Started running in my 30s to lose weight picked up over the years. Started running long distance in 2016 and completed the BQ plan in May of 2017 (2nd marathon). Looking forward to my first trip to Bean Town and running the Boston Marathon in 2018! Here's the first email I got from Matt when he crashed in his first Marathon try… Chris! Just finished listening to your Marathon BQ book today. I am SO motivated right now, and ready to start training, but unfortunately it's not time... yet... A little more background about myself: I'm 44 (as of yesterday) I've been a casual runner for over ten years. Ran my first race (10k) last 4th of July and been wanting "more" ever since... Ran a couple more 10k's this year, then decided to "try" a marathon which took place 8 days ago. My intention when I first committed to it was to just be able to say I did it. I had been listening to your podcast all the while (for over a year). I used a marathon plan that came with my runkeeper app. I had no intention of qualifying for Boston; it was never on my radar. But when I got several weeks into my training, and only had trouble hitting my workout goals when it was 90+ degrees out there, I started to think "maybe I could actually qualify for Boston?" I worked my butt off, never missed a workout for the last 10 weeks of that plan (plan goal was a 3:30 marathon). I knew that my gps was cutting a lot of my corners off as a ran my routes and wondered exactly how much better my "real" pace was than what I was reading on my phone (and/or watch). I told myself on race day, I would just settle into a comfortable effort level and see what happens... I am sending you three images that will basically tell you the story of the race. When you see the pics, from mile three and from mile 25, I'm sure you'll get the big picture, along with the image that shows my split times. In order for me to get a BQ, I had to finish in less than 3:15. I had it in my grasp but it slipped away in the last 10k. That's a bit of irony because for years I have always topped out at 6 miles or so on my workouts. But this last 10k of the marathon kicked my ass (last 3 miles were 9+ min/mi). Now I'm on a mission and I can't wait to get to the track! I just need to decide if I'm going to try a spring or a fall race next year. I love this book! -matt dunlap in St. Peters, MO … Here is the facebook chatter on the MArathonBQ group from Matt. BQ attempt down the drain. Race cancelled due to weather. … Finished 3:20:50 ish... more details to come. Everyone ran extra 4/10 mile because the first turn wasn't marked! Hopefully 4 minutes is enough to get into Boston. … Matt did you stick to the plan note for note? Referring specifically to the three weekly 5 mile recovery runs ... Matt N Kim Dunlap Yes, I followed it almost exactly as written. I did improvise some workouts though during the extra four weeks after the first race was cancelled. I lost about 8 lbs during the process too. Matt N Kim Dunlap When I got into the 20 plus mile runs, I started around 8 min miles for 5 or 6 miles then gradually increased to my goal pace of 7:2x. One day I felt really good and kept going to 26.2 and averaged 7:33. That was three weeks before the race … Section two – More Kettletown Outro Ok my beautiful, fit and fast friends. Do you have the grit to get through a training plan, stay healthy and hit that staring line with gusto? Maybe, maybe not, but you have hung in there through the end of episode 4-367 of the RunRunLive podcast. Congratulations. Did you see that lady from Oklahoma who won Comrades? Great article. She says she has 2 craft beers during every race. Not 3, not 1, 2. That's enough to get her head and body in the zone. I wonder why that's not considered doping? I tagged a brief audio at the end of the show from Duane who is looking for people to go run an eclipse run with him. Once in a lifetime event. Next week I'm going to have a chat with Julia who has a very interesting story of how life changed for her and she ended up finding herself in endurance running. I also am in conversations with the anxiety guy, Tim, to do an interview about the interconnection between exercise and anxiety. I'm going to keep curating older episodes onto the members feed as well. Avocados. Do you like avocados? Avocados are interesting. They are native to the Americas. They are actually considered a berry with a single seed botanically. I like avocados. I have one in my salad most days. Healthy fat. A couple interesting things. First, avocados should not exist. They evolved the way they are to be eaten whole by megafauna. Wooly mammoths, giant sloths and wooly rhinos. The megafauna would eat the avocado in one big gulp, swallow them and drop them with a bit of fertilizer some distance off. That was the avocado survival strategy. Doesn't work well when all the megafauna are gone. But along came humans and took a fancy to the poor avocado. We cultivated them and developed them into the current smaller seed, lots of meat form they currently have. Did you know there is now an injury called ‘avocado hand' that is so common among millennials that it is an official medical term? It's when you cut your hand trying to open an avocado with a knife. You can see how to open an avocado on YouTube. I use a modified approach where I cut it into 4 sections, then separate, then the skin just peels off like a ripe banana. Avocados have a perfect ripeness you have to catch them at. You want them to be ripe but not mushy. When you buy them leave 1 or 2 out on the counter to ripen, leave the rest in the fridge. They ripen fast. If it gets ripe and you're not ready to use it, stick it in the fridge. Also, if you don't want to eat the whole think you can put lemon juice on the exposed flesh of the leftovers to keep them from going brown in the fridge. That's it. From mammoths to you. Everything is connected. I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-366 – Nick Kershaw – Impact Marathon Series (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4366.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast. 366 Podcasts. If you're new to the show that means you could listen to one of the old shows every day for a year, even a leap year, to catchup. And, assuming I haven't thrown in the towel, you'll still be 25 episodes behind. It's in our nature as endurance athletes to just keep moving forward. I do believe there is some innate value in that attribute of dogged persistence. What do you think? Are people too quick to ‘Pivot' in these Silicon days? Silicon days. Kinda sounds like Halcyon Days. Do you know what that means? You may have heard that phrase “” used by people whose parents spent too much on a Liberal Arts Degree as referring to a happier time in the past. It really means more of a calm time. It means a time where winds don't blow. It's from Greek mythology. 10 words or less. Alcyone was turned into a sea bird. Aeolus becalmed the waves for 7 days each year so she could make her nest. Ok that was 21 words and a number. ‘Silicon Days' also makes me think of irony. Many classic SciFi stories are about humans being devastated by a silicon-based life form. From where I'm sitting, we may have manifested this already, right? Enough rhyming games. What about endurance sports do we have to share today? Today we talk to Nick about his new enterprise Impact Marathons. He Skype called me from Greece where he was staying with his uncle Nick, his cousins, Nick, Nick and Nicki. Sorry couldn't resist. Nick has an interesting story. He ditched a lucrative banking career at an early age and now sets up these experiential, socially impactful marathons in remote and beautiful places. I wanted to dive into why someone would do that. Why would you give away all your stuff, live out of a couple duffle bags and lead this nomadic lifestyle in pursuit of a big dream? Sounds fulfilling, romantic and terrifying at the same time. In section one I'll address a question people have asked me about what to do when your next training cycle isn't going to start for a couple weeks or months? In section two I'll talk about anxiety. Speaking of the old shows, I've gone back in time and downloaded a few to listen to. Those first 80 shows are rough. I was on a schedule of pushing a show out a week and keeping it under an hour. The early audio is poor. I was using a cheap USB mic. That being said there was a certain hopefulness and creativity to them that is fun to listen to. I'm going to start editing up some of them and curating them into the members feed. I know when I subscribe to a new podcast and see there are 300 shows, I don't go back to the beginning. I may cherry pick by topic. I'm going to do some cherry picking of my own from the archives for my members. Members, I truly appreciate you support. This has never been a commercial endeavor for me. It's a passion project. My favorite thing is when I get a membership notice from someone I've never interacted with before and they say something like ‘I've been listening for years and you've really helped me with my running and my life'. That keeps me moving forward. Even when the days are not so Halcyon. Teresa and I did end up driving down to CT for that trail race last weekend. I've got my notes down but haven't had time to write them up. I will. I'll probably push it as a separate piece because those race reports tend to go long. Summary is, we had a good day. She ran the 20K like a champ and I ran the 50k like a stubborn old guy. Felt fine. No issues. My engine is good and my legs are good, I'm just a bit at loose ends with nothing to train for. … I finished reading a book called “” by Robert Rodriguez. He is a director. He made one of my favorite movies ‘Desperado' with Antonio Banderas. It's a really good story. It is his journals from when he made his first movie El Mariachi for $7,000. He did it with no crew. It ended up making him the toast of Hollywood. The basic story is that as a kid all he ever wanted to do was to make movies. So he made movies with his brothers and sisters as actors and videotape. He didn't get good enough grades to get into film school, because, he spent all his time making movies. He didn't have any money so he went into one of those research hospitals to make $3,000 as a clinical trial lab rat. He used that money and figured out how to make a feature length movie as an experiment in Mexico for the Spanish video market. That was El Mariachi. His plan was to make all his mistakes on this movie, sell it to the video distributers for a small profit and make a series of these as he learned that trade. Essentially throw-away movies. Then when he had enough experience he would approach the Hollywood crowd. Long story, short, El Mariachi got noticed in Hollywood, starting a feeding frenzy that got him a deal at Columbia and won Sundance. What's great about this story is several things. First, he worked very hard over many years to put himself in a position to succeed. A splendid example of grit. He also had the growth mindset going into this that he would make a movie, learn what he could in the process, not worry so much about failure and just do it. Take action. Learn from the results. It's a classic , rags to riches, very American in nature. On with the show! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – In between training cycles - Voices of reason – the conversation Nick Kershaw Link to share: Bio: The Impact Marathon Series are races for those who think differently, run for the good of others and dream they can leave an impact. Founded in 2015 by Nick Kershaw and Matt Fenton, IMS organizes races in four developing locations: Nepal, Malawi, Colombia and Guatemala. Like many more mainstream marathon companies IMS encourage runners to fundraise beforehand. However they ask runners to raise funds for one of the United Nations' Global Goals directly relating to the location of their race – for example, charities focusing on Gender Equality in Nepal. Runners then fly out to the race location a week before the marathon and complete two days of voluntary work directly relating to their selected Global Goal – in the above case, for example, providing support in a Nepalese burns unit. By doing so, participants get to see exactly how their fundraising helps and even get involved themselves via aid-work, thereby making a direct impact. IMS aims to provide a synthesis between travel, running and voluntary work. By harnessing the power of running they believe runners can make a real difference to the developing world. City-worker turned Social Entrepreneur with a penchant for travel, running and creating positive impact. He has spent the last living entirely nomadically, with just two bags for company. In this time he founded the Impact Marathon Series: a social business that harnesses the power of running to empower communities, runners and tackle the UN Global Goals. The Impact Marathon dream combines travel, volunteering and running to bring about social change. In their first year they began races in Nepal, Colombia, Malawi, Guatemala & Kenya. They bring 120 people from all over the globe, representing a variety corporates, NGOs and running clubs to each race. They all live together in the Athletes' Village whilst heading out each day to work at the exact projects they have fundraised for... They want to create a direct link to your fundraising so you can see, feel and understand the impact you have. The best bit, on the final day of Impact Week, everyone joins together with the surrounding communities to run a tough trail race, with most stunning backdrops you can imagine! http://run.impactmarathon.com Section two – Anxiety - Outro Ok my long suffering friends that is it, you have dug water pipe ditches and built out-buildings for the marginalized 3rd-world poor through to the end of episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast, and then you ran a slow marathon to celebrate. Yes I did run a 50K a couple weeks ago. Like I said, I have my notes, I just have to write it up. Other than being slow – took me 7 hours – it was a pleasant experience all around. I know, you're all going to divorce me if I don't start doing something interesting! We are rolling into June this week and we've had the oddest spring weather up here in New England. It's been 40's and 50's and overcast and rainy like Seattle or London for most of May. I'm not complaining. It's great running weather. I can't remember a spring where I was able to get so much use out of my old Boston Marathon running jacket. Not to run in, just to wear out. Usually we go from 45 to 90 and it stays there. We don't have these extended periods of cooler weather. It's been great for my apple trees. They flowered and since it wasn't hot they kept the flowers for more than a week. Now there are hundreds of little apples on them. I didn't get my garden in until just this past weekend. I'm starting a new project for June that I'm calling 5 at 5. I'm going to get up at 5 AM 30 Days and run 5 miles. The getting up early isn't the hard part for me. It's going to take a while or my body to get with the program of rolling out of bed and hitting the trails. My body would rather have coffee and oatmeal and a bathroom break. I'm taking Buddy with me for the first 2 miles and I'll try to take a photo every day in the same place to get a time lapse. With any luck we'll get to see summer break like a wave over these few weeks. This will help me stay in shape during June and will take less time out of my week than my normal training routine so I can get more stuff done. Let me tell you a couple stories from the past couple weeks. The first one is my mailbox story. This winter the snow plows took out my mail box. I wasn't able to fix or replace it with the ground frozen and I propped it up with some bailing wire and a metal stake. Now that it's warmer I needed to fix it because it frankly looked shoddy. But before I could fix the mailbox I needed to fix my wheelbarrow. So, really this is my Mailbox/Wheelbarrow story. I had a great big metal wheelbarrow that I had acquired many years ago. A few years back one of its staves broke. That is the proper term for a wheelbarrow handle, ‘stave'. Me, being the impatient man that I am bought a new wheelbarrow. I soon discovered that the quality of wheelbarrows has plummeted in the intervening time and this new wheelbarrow was crap. Very low quality. After I worked that new wheelbarrow into the ground I decided to fix the old one this year. I measured everything up and was able to procure the correct length staves on Amazon. I had to spend a few hours getting the old rusted bolts out of the old wheelbarrow and buying the proper inventory of new nuts and bolts. The new staves were the right length and of reasonably good quality. But the holes were in the wrong places. For the life of me I could not find my electric drill. And I did end up buying a new electric drill on Amazon. (I have since threatened my wife and children with painful and horrible death if they touch my new drill) Change that to the mailbox/wheelbarrow/drill story. I was able to find the full set of wood bits that I needed for the drill to drill the holes in the staves so that I could reassemble the wheelbarrow with the new hardware. And it's a thing of beauty. Then I went down to see if I couldn't dig up the roots of the old mailbox so I could drop a new one in. It turns out that whoever put that mailbox in wanted it to stay there. It was clasped on all sides by granite shards that I had to dig around and manually remove with my hands. You see I had to dig about surgically as to not destroy the well-established lilies, clematis and irises flourishing there. I got all the pieces of the old mailbox out, measured it up. checked the official postal regulations online and headed off to one of the giant home improvement stores. These mailbox posts come as one preassembled thing that you just stick in the ground so I thought I was close to the finish line. However when I made my pilgrimage up and down the aisles and to where the post box posts were I was disappointed, ne thwarted. They had two posts. Both of such poor quality as to be embarrassing. Instead I hiked the extra kilometer down to the lumber section and procured a couple 8 foot pressure treated 4 by 4's. So, I guess this is the mail box/wheelbarrow/drill/post story… Anyhow I was able to find my table saw and I crafted a beautiful post box post I set it nicely back into the ground with the granite chunks at the official height from the curb. I then gave the box itself a new coat of matt black paint. I have to tell you, it's a thing of beauty. There is nothing as life affirming to your suburban male then to be able to craft something with your own hands and have it actually end well. So those of you who have significant others who roll their eyes when you ask them to do some simple task – remember in suburbia there is no such thing as a simple task, but there is a job well done. I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-366 – Nick Kershaw – Impact Marathon Series (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4366.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast. 366 Podcasts. If you’re new to the show that means you could listen to one of the old shows every day for a year, even a leap year, to catchup. And, assuming I haven’t thrown in the towel, you’ll still be 25 episodes behind. It’s in our nature as endurance athletes to just keep moving forward. I do believe there is some innate value in that attribute of dogged persistence. What do you think? Are people too quick to ‘Pivot’ in these Silicon days? Silicon days. Kinda sounds like Halcyon Days. Do you know what that means? You may have heard that phrase “” used by people whose parents spent too much on a Liberal Arts Degree as referring to a happier time in the past. It really means more of a calm time. It means a time where winds don’t blow. It’s from Greek mythology. 10 words or less. Alcyone was turned into a sea bird. Aeolus becalmed the waves for 7 days each year so she could make her nest. Ok that was 21 words and a number. ‘Silicon Days’ also makes me think of irony. Many classic SciFi stories are about humans being devastated by a silicon-based life form. From where I’m sitting, we may have manifested this already, right? Enough rhyming games. What about endurance sports do we have to share today? Today we talk to Nick about his new enterprise Impact Marathons. He Skype called me from Greece where he was staying with his uncle Nick, his cousins, Nick, Nick and Nicki. Sorry couldn’t resist. Nick has an interesting story. He ditched a lucrative banking career at an early age and now sets up these experiential, socially impactful marathons in remote and beautiful places. I wanted to dive into why someone would do that. Why would you give away all your stuff, live out of a couple duffle bags and lead this nomadic lifestyle in pursuit of a big dream? Sounds fulfilling, romantic and terrifying at the same time. In section one I’ll address a question people have asked me about what to do when your next training cycle isn’t going to start for a couple weeks or months? In section two I’ll talk about anxiety. Speaking of the old shows, I’ve gone back in time and downloaded a few to listen to. Those first 80 shows are rough. I was on a schedule of pushing a show out a week and keeping it under an hour. The early audio is poor. I was using a cheap USB mic. That being said there was a certain hopefulness and creativity to them that is fun to listen to. I’m going to start editing up some of them and curating them into the members feed. I know when I subscribe to a new podcast and see there are 300 shows, I don’t go back to the beginning. I may cherry pick by topic. I’m going to do some cherry picking of my own from the archives for my members. Members, I truly appreciate you support. This has never been a commercial endeavor for me. It’s a passion project. My favorite thing is when I get a membership notice from someone I’ve never interacted with before and they say something like ‘I’ve been listening for years and you’ve really helped me with my running and my life’. That keeps me moving forward. Even when the days are not so Halcyon. Teresa and I did end up driving down to CT for that trail race last weekend. I’ve got my notes down but haven’t had time to write them up. I will. I’ll probably push it as a separate piece because those race reports tend to go long. Summary is, we had a good day. She ran the 20K like a champ and I ran the 50k like a stubborn old guy. Felt fine. No issues. My engine is good and my legs are good, I’m just a bit at loose ends with nothing to train for. … I finished reading a book called “” by Robert Rodriguez. He is a director. He made one of my favorite movies ‘Desperado’ with Antonio Banderas. It’s a really good story. It is his journals from when he made his first movie El Mariachi for $7,000. He did it with no crew. It ended up making him the toast of Hollywood. The basic story is that as a kid all he ever wanted to do was to make movies. So he made movies with his brothers and sisters as actors and videotape. He didn’t get good enough grades to get into film school, because, he spent all his time making movies. He didn’t have any money so he went into one of those research hospitals to make $3,000 as a clinical trial lab rat. He used that money and figured out how to make a feature length movie as an experiment in Mexico for the Spanish video market. That was El Mariachi. His plan was to make all his mistakes on this movie, sell it to the video distributers for a small profit and make a series of these as he learned that trade. Essentially throw-away movies. Then when he had enough experience he would approach the Hollywood crowd. Long story, short, El Mariachi got noticed in Hollywood, starting a feeding frenzy that got him a deal at Columbia and won Sundance. What’s great about this story is several things. First, he worked very hard over many years to put himself in a position to succeed. A splendid example of grit. He also had the growth mindset going into this that he would make a movie, learn what he could in the process, not worry so much about failure and just do it. Take action. Learn from the results. It’s a classic , rags to riches, very American in nature. On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – In between training cycles - Voices of reason – the conversation Nick Kershaw Link to share: Bio: The Impact Marathon Series are races for those who think differently, run for the good of others and dream they can leave an impact. Founded in 2015 by Nick Kershaw and Matt Fenton, IMS organizes races in four developing locations: Nepal, Malawi, Colombia and Guatemala. Like many more mainstream marathon companies IMS encourage runners to fundraise beforehand. However they ask runners to raise funds for one of the United Nations’ Global Goals directly relating to the location of their race – for example, charities focusing on Gender Equality in Nepal. Runners then fly out to the race location a week before the marathon and complete two days of voluntary work directly relating to their selected Global Goal – in the above case, for example, providing support in a Nepalese burns unit. By doing so, participants get to see exactly how their fundraising helps and even get involved themselves via aid-work, thereby making a direct impact. IMS aims to provide a synthesis between travel, running and voluntary work. By harnessing the power of running they believe runners can make a real difference to the developing world. City-worker turned Social Entrepreneur with a penchant for travel, running and creating positive impact. He has spent the last living entirely nomadically, with just two bags for company. In this time he founded the Impact Marathon Series: a social business that harnesses the power of running to empower communities, runners and tackle the UN Global Goals. The Impact Marathon dream combines travel, volunteering and running to bring about social change. In their first year they began races in Nepal, Colombia, Malawi, Guatemala & Kenya. They bring 120 people from all over the globe, representing a variety corporates, NGOs and running clubs to each race. They all live together in the Athletes' Village whilst heading out each day to work at the exact projects they have fundraised for... They want to create a direct link to your fundraising so you can see, feel and understand the impact you have. The best bit, on the final day of Impact Week, everyone joins together with the surrounding communities to run a tough trail race, with most stunning backdrops you can imagine! http://run.impactmarathon.com Section two – Anxiety - Outro Ok my long suffering friends that is it, you have dug water pipe ditches and built out-buildings for the marginalized 3rd-world poor through to the end of episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast, and then you ran a slow marathon to celebrate. Yes I did run a 50K a couple weeks ago. Like I said, I have my notes, I just have to write it up. Other than being slow – took me 7 hours – it was a pleasant experience all around. I know, you’re all going to divorce me if I don’t start doing something interesting! We are rolling into June this week and we’ve had the oddest spring weather up here in New England. It’s been 40’s and 50’s and overcast and rainy like Seattle or London for most of May. I’m not complaining. It’s great running weather. I can’t remember a spring where I was able to get so much use out of my old Boston Marathon running jacket. Not to run in, just to wear out. Usually we go from 45 to 90 and it stays there. We don’t have these extended periods of cooler weather. It’s been great for my apple trees. They flowered and since it wasn’t hot they kept the flowers for more than a week. Now there are hundreds of little apples on them. I didn’t get my garden in until just this past weekend. I’m starting a new project for June that I’m calling 5 at 5. I’m going to get up at 5 AM 30 Days and run 5 miles. The getting up early isn’t the hard part for me. It’s going to take a while or my body to get with the program of rolling out of bed and hitting the trails. My body would rather have coffee and oatmeal and a bathroom break. I’m taking Buddy with me for the first 2 miles and I’ll try to take a photo every day in the same place to get a time lapse. With any luck we’ll get to see summer break like a wave over these few weeks. This will help me stay in shape during June and will take less time out of my week than my normal training routine so I can get more stuff done. Let me tell you a couple stories from the past couple weeks. The first one is my mailbox story. This winter the snow plows took out my mail box. I wasn’t able to fix or replace it with the ground frozen and I propped it up with some bailing wire and a metal stake. Now that it’s warmer I needed to fix it because it frankly looked shoddy. But before I could fix the mailbox I needed to fix my wheelbarrow. So, really this is my Mailbox/Wheelbarrow story. I had a great big metal wheelbarrow that I had acquired many years ago. A few years back one of its staves broke. That is the proper term for a wheelbarrow handle, ‘stave’. Me, being the impatient man that I am bought a new wheelbarrow. I soon discovered that the quality of wheelbarrows has plummeted in the intervening time and this new wheelbarrow was crap. Very low quality. After I worked that new wheelbarrow into the ground I decided to fix the old one this year. I measured everything up and was able to procure the correct length staves on Amazon. I had to spend a few hours getting the old rusted bolts out of the old wheelbarrow and buying the proper inventory of new nuts and bolts. The new staves were the right length and of reasonably good quality. But the holes were in the wrong places. For the life of me I could not find my electric drill. And I did end up buying a new electric drill on Amazon. (I have since threatened my wife and children with painful and horrible death if they touch my new drill) Change that to the mailbox/wheelbarrow/drill story. I was able to find the full set of wood bits that I needed for the drill to drill the holes in the staves so that I could reassemble the wheelbarrow with the new hardware. And it’s a thing of beauty. Then I went down to see if I couldn’t dig up the roots of the old mailbox so I could drop a new one in. It turns out that whoever put that mailbox in wanted it to stay there. It was clasped on all sides by granite shards that I had to dig around and manually remove with my hands. You see I had to dig about surgically as to not destroy the well-established lilies, clematis and irises flourishing there. I got all the pieces of the old mailbox out, measured it up. checked the official postal regulations online and headed off to one of the giant home improvement stores. These mailbox posts come as one preassembled thing that you just stick in the ground so I thought I was close to the finish line. However when I made my pilgrimage up and down the aisles and to where the post box posts were I was disappointed, ne thwarted. They had two posts. Both of such poor quality as to be embarrassing. Instead I hiked the extra kilometer down to the lumber section and procured a couple 8 foot pressure treated 4 by 4’s. So, I guess this is the mail box/wheelbarrow/drill/post story… Anyhow I was able to find my table saw and I crafted a beautiful post box post I set it nicely back into the ground with the granite chunks at the official height from the curb. I then gave the box itself a new coat of matt black paint. I have to tell you, it’s a thing of beauty. There is nothing as life affirming to your suburban male then to be able to craft something with your own hands and have it actually end well. So those of you who have significant others who roll their eyes when you ask them to do some simple task – remember in suburbia there is no such thing as a simple task, but there is a job well done. I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-365 – Steve Hailstone – Heart Attack (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4365.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, this is Chris, your host, and welcome to episode 4-365 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Today we chat with our friend Steve Hailstone about his experience as a runner having a heart attack. I wanted to get Steve on and talk through his experience because I thought we might be able to save some lives. Seriously. It’s well known that we endurance athletes think that we are indestructible. This is not the case. We are typically healthier and fitter over the long arc of our lives but we are still susceptible to the same risks everyone else is, including heart disease. In section one I talk about how it’s not that much of a leap to go from a marathon to an ultra and give you some thoughts on how to do that. In section two I talk about how we get into and out of mental slumps. One of the things about mental slumps, whether you are religious or not, is the concept of will. You have free will. You are free to think what you want. With the free will comes the responsibility to know what it is that you are going to do with that free will. You’ve been invested with this great gift. It’s up to you to Use it. It’s been a couple weeks since we last talked. I believe I was headed into Groton Road Race Weekend last time we talked. We got a beautiful spring day. The races went off without a hitch. Since I was not race director this year I had the choice of either running in the morning at 6:00 AM with the race director’s cut of the race (that I invented 10 years ago!) or actually running the race itself. The 10k goes off in the early afternoon. I couldn’t really decide. Then I had a brain storm that I would just run both! Of course when I told the other folks in the club this they all rolled their eyes and told me they knew I was going to do both all along. Since we opted to hold the race on the 30th we were a week or so later in the spring. It really made a difference. The course was beautiful. That extra week allowed the course to green up just enough. Groton is a really pretty town. Coming out of a strong spring cycle and not really going hard at Boston I was able to perform well in both of my 10K’s. Maybe I’ll invent a new thing – the Groton Double. Still I was a bit beat up after doing all that manual work setting up the race and racing twice over the weekend. Monday I felt a bit like I should have more naps in my life. I’m a white collar worker and it made me consider that I’m getting soft. I need more general labor in my life. After Groton, I wanted to start in with the mountain climbing plan that Teresa and I came up with. Unfortunately, I didn’t calculate that you can’t really get into the White Mountains of New Hampshire until June. You can get into them, but only if you’re going to be skiing! Washington still has 30 feet of snow in Tuckerman’s ravine! It’s a very dangerous time to hike. I’ve just been doing a lot of trail running and trying to stay fit. I’ve been taking Teresa out with me when I can and we signed up for a race this weekend in CT that I will talk more about in the outro. … One of the books I’m reading is “The Magic of Thinking Big!” By David Swartz. This is a classic breathless self-help book from 1959. It’s great. It’s full of all the old-timey storytelling and phraseology of the era. It’s basically a self-authored book from this guy’s speeches and programs that went viral in those days. One of the quaint things he talks about is people who are suffering from ‘excusitis’. Everyone has an excuse as to why they can’t be successful or live the life they want. They are too old, or too young, or under-educated, or inexperienced. He calls this excusitis! He talks about how that’s all in your head and how to flip it over and make those excuses strengths. He talks about what I would call ‘feeding the good dog’ – meaning reinforcing those positive thoughts so your subconscious acts on them. I also read through a series of early excerpts on government. You might wonder why. One of my daughters was recycling some text books and one of them was “The Great Works” a bit of a survey on great writing. I rescued it. (I always have 3-4 books going at a time) I read Aristotle on why government is not what we want but a natural emergence of a bargain to trade independence for security. I read Thomas Hobbes on the natural rights of man, written in the 1600’s, and then the Declaration of Independence that cribs heavily from that with its rights to ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Of course, they never meant total equality. They meant political equality. To get to total equality you’d have to force everyone to a middle state by hobbling the exceptional and lifting the less exceptional and this would bring civilization to a grinding halt. That’s the dynamic we still work with today. Where do we draw that line between independence and equality? I also read a piece by Alexis de Tocqueville on how Americans are never happy with what they have. That is true. It’s our strength and our weakness. As I get older I am getting better at being happy with what I have. Even in stressful times I’m quite content. I picked up an old notebook and found that I had been listing things that I was grateful for as an exercise. The first entry read, Friends and mentors Books Sweat My Daughters My old dog Buddy We’ve all got a lot to think about. But we’ve all got a lot to be grateful for. Feed the good dog – Fertilize the positive. What are five things that you are grateful for today? On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Stepping up to a 50K from a marathon Voices of reason – the conversation Steve Hailstone Husband and father of 3. US Air Force veteran. California native transplanted in Pennsylvania. Reconnected with running in 2012. Heart attack survivor since early 2016. Seeking to understand Insulin Resistance as related to heart disease. Recently adopted Maffetone Method of running to ensure healthy retraining of heart. Section two – Getting out of a mental slump Outro Ok my friends, you have stumbled, clutching your chest, through to the end of episode 4-365 of the RunRunLive Podcast. You may have noticed that this episode was a week late. I apologize. I’m working with a startup out of California now and my time to write and produce has been significantly impinged. I’m not traveling as much, but, paradoxically that means less writing. Planes were always my quiet space. I may have to take a vacation from the podcast this summer, maybe just drop some ancient podcasts from the past on to the feed for a few months while I get some breathing room. Teresa and I are heading down to Connecticut tomorrow to run a trail race. She’s going to do her first trail race and her first ½ marathon distance. I’m going to attempt the 50K. I don’t have a CT marathon yet and I was a bit at loose ends so I jumped on this. We’ll see how it goes. Although the New England weather made its traditional leap from 50 to 95 in one day this week, it’s only going to be in the 70’s tomorrow. It looks like a nice 10K loop course with some technical bits and a lot of elevation. I’m just planning to hike it. Would be thrilled to get in under 7 hours. It will be my first 50K. I’m thinking about taking a step back from racing and training this summer. I’m leaning towards doing a 30 day program of just running 5 miles in the woods every morning for breakfast. I think it would be a nice challenge and give me some more free time to boot. I carted my old motorcycle out to the Honda fix-er-up place this week. Had to roll it into the back of my truck and strap it in – which was a bit dicey. I made the service managers day dragging in a 33 year old motorcycle – seriously, they were excited to work on it. Here’s the commercial from 1983, pretty cool huh? … So my friends, as we roll into the dog days of summer. What are your plans? What great mountains are you going to climb? What fabled beasts are you going to slay? What frozen hearts are you going to melt? Think about it. Send me an audio. I’ll play it if it isn’t too horrible. I had some Silicon Valley type ask me in a meeting “If you had all the money in the world, what would you do?” Not sure what that self-important prick, sorry did I say that out loud? I’m not sure what my west coast brother was looking to elucidate, but my answer was that I’d drop everything and run across the country. But, I’d like to add to that answer. I’d drop everything and grab a bunch of my friends and run across the country! That includes you. Meet me out back at the Winnebago and we’ll get started. And I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-365 – Steve Hailstone – Heart Attack (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4365.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, this is Chris, your host, and welcome to episode 4-365 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Today we chat with our friend Steve Hailstone about his experience as a runner having a heart attack. I wanted to get Steve on and talk through his experience because I thought we might be able to save some lives. Seriously. It's well known that we endurance athletes think that we are indestructible. This is not the case. We are typically healthier and fitter over the long arc of our lives but we are still susceptible to the same risks everyone else is, including heart disease. In section one I talk about how it's not that much of a leap to go from a marathon to an ultra and give you some thoughts on how to do that. In section two I talk about how we get into and out of mental slumps. One of the things about mental slumps, whether you are religious or not, is the concept of will. You have free will. You are free to think what you want. With the free will comes the responsibility to know what it is that you are going to do with that free will. You've been invested with this great gift. It's up to you to Use it. It's been a couple weeks since we last talked. I believe I was headed into Groton Road Race Weekend last time we talked. We got a beautiful spring day. The races went off without a hitch. Since I was not race director this year I had the choice of either running in the morning at 6:00 AM with the race director's cut of the race (that I invented 10 years ago!) or actually running the race itself. The 10k goes off in the early afternoon. I couldn't really decide. Then I had a brain storm that I would just run both! Of course when I told the other folks in the club this they all rolled their eyes and told me they knew I was going to do both all along. Since we opted to hold the race on the 30th we were a week or so later in the spring. It really made a difference. The course was beautiful. That extra week allowed the course to green up just enough. Groton is a really pretty town. Coming out of a strong spring cycle and not really going hard at Boston I was able to perform well in both of my 10K's. Maybe I'll invent a new thing – the Groton Double. Still I was a bit beat up after doing all that manual work setting up the race and racing twice over the weekend. Monday I felt a bit like I should have more naps in my life. I'm a white collar worker and it made me consider that I'm getting soft. I need more general labor in my life. After Groton, I wanted to start in with the mountain climbing plan that Teresa and I came up with. Unfortunately, I didn't calculate that you can't really get into the White Mountains of New Hampshire until June. You can get into them, but only if you're going to be skiing! Washington still has 30 feet of snow in Tuckerman's ravine! It's a very dangerous time to hike. I've just been doing a lot of trail running and trying to stay fit. I've been taking Teresa out with me when I can and we signed up for a race this weekend in CT that I will talk more about in the outro. … One of the books I'm reading is “The Magic of Thinking Big!” By David Swartz. This is a classic breathless self-help book from 1959. It's great. It's full of all the old-timey storytelling and phraseology of the era. It's basically a self-authored book from this guy's speeches and programs that went viral in those days. One of the quaint things he talks about is people who are suffering from ‘excusitis'. Everyone has an excuse as to why they can't be successful or live the life they want. They are too old, or too young, or under-educated, or inexperienced. He calls this excusitis! He talks about how that's all in your head and how to flip it over and make those excuses strengths. He talks about what I would call ‘feeding the good dog' – meaning reinforcing those positive thoughts so your subconscious acts on them. I also read through a series of early excerpts on government. You might wonder why. One of my daughters was recycling some text books and one of them was “The Great Works” a bit of a survey on great writing. I rescued it. (I always have 3-4 books going at a time) I read Aristotle on why government is not what we want but a natural emergence of a bargain to trade independence for security. I read Thomas Hobbes on the natural rights of man, written in the 1600's, and then the Declaration of Independence that cribs heavily from that with its rights to ‘Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Of course, they never meant total equality. They meant political equality. To get to total equality you'd have to force everyone to a middle state by hobbling the exceptional and lifting the less exceptional and this would bring civilization to a grinding halt. That's the dynamic we still work with today. Where do we draw that line between independence and equality? I also read a piece by Alexis de Tocqueville on how Americans are never happy with what they have. That is true. It's our strength and our weakness. As I get older I am getting better at being happy with what I have. Even in stressful times I'm quite content. I picked up an old notebook and found that I had been listing things that I was grateful for as an exercise. The first entry read, Friends and mentors Books Sweat My Daughters My old dog Buddy We've all got a lot to think about. But we've all got a lot to be grateful for. Feed the good dog – Fertilize the positive. What are five things that you are grateful for today? On with the show! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Stepping up to a 50K from a marathon Voices of reason – the conversation Steve Hailstone Husband and father of 3. US Air Force veteran. California native transplanted in Pennsylvania. Reconnected with running in 2012. Heart attack survivor since early 2016. Seeking to understand Insulin Resistance as related to heart disease. Recently adopted Maffetone Method of running to ensure healthy retraining of heart. Section two – Getting out of a mental slump Outro Ok my friends, you have stumbled, clutching your chest, through to the end of episode 4-365 of the RunRunLive Podcast. You may have noticed that this episode was a week late. I apologize. I'm working with a startup out of California now and my time to write and produce has been significantly impinged. I'm not traveling as much, but, paradoxically that means less writing. Planes were always my quiet space. I may have to take a vacation from the podcast this summer, maybe just drop some ancient podcasts from the past on to the feed for a few months while I get some breathing room. Teresa and I are heading down to Connecticut tomorrow to run a trail race. She's going to do her first trail race and her first ½ marathon distance. I'm going to attempt the 50K. I don't have a CT marathon yet and I was a bit at loose ends so I jumped on this. We'll see how it goes. Although the New England weather made its traditional leap from 50 to 95 in one day this week, it's only going to be in the 70's tomorrow. It looks like a nice 10K loop course with some technical bits and a lot of elevation. I'm just planning to hike it. Would be thrilled to get in under 7 hours. It will be my first 50K. I'm thinking about taking a step back from racing and training this summer. I'm leaning towards doing a 30 day program of just running 5 miles in the woods every morning for breakfast. I think it would be a nice challenge and give me some more free time to boot. I carted my old motorcycle out to the Honda fix-er-up place this week. Had to roll it into the back of my truck and strap it in – which was a bit dicey. I made the service managers day dragging in a 33 year old motorcycle – seriously, they were excited to work on it. Here's the commercial from 1983, pretty cool huh? … So my friends, as we roll into the dog days of summer. What are your plans? What great mountains are you going to climb? What fabled beasts are you going to slay? What frozen hearts are you going to melt? Think about it. Send me an audio. I'll play it if it isn't too horrible. I had some Silicon Valley type ask me in a meeting “If you had all the money in the world, what would you do?” Not sure what that self-important prick, sorry did I say that out loud? I'm not sure what my west coast brother was looking to elucidate, but my answer was that I'd drop everything and run across the country. But, I'd like to add to that answer. I'd drop everything and grab a bunch of my friends and run across the country! That includes you. Meet me out back at the Winnebago and we'll get started. And I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-364 – Steve Spear – Across the USA (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4364.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening my friends. Are you out on that early morning trail? Or maybe the warm sunshine of a lunch-time trot? Perhaps the star filled purity of a speedwork session at the track at night? Wherever, whenever, you may be, Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-364 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Today we chat with Steve Spear, not Steve Speirs of the 100 pushups app who we interviewed in episode 108 of the podcast, must've been the winter of 2008-2009. BTW all those old episodes are on my website at RunRunLive.com. I'm going to go listen to some of them myself and see if there isn't something interesting that I can curate for the members feed. It's bit surreal listening to yourself from the past. Time truly is a river. Today we are also going to squeeze in the 2017 Boston Marathon race report. I think. It's not the most exciting story ever told but it has become a tradition now. I think this will be the 9th Boston report that we have shared together. We started with my 10th Boston back in 2008. What a long strange trip it's been. Anyhow – since the race report is long – I'll just jump right into our interview with Steve Spear who ran across the USA to help get clean water to families in Africa. You'll hear me asking about how he did this because unlike Pete Kostelnik Steve ran the cross country route at a reasonable pace of 5 days a week and 35 miles a day. I could see myself doing that. I'll stick the race report in after that and we'll call it a day. My Friday's have become increasingly pressed for time but I'll persevere! I took Tuesday, Wednesday off last week after the race. I dug my old steel Fuji out, sprayed some petrochemicals on the chain and gears, pumped up the tires and went for a ride Thursday out to the rail trail. That felt nice. I went for a run in the woods in the drizzle and dark with Teresa on Friday for an hour and felt fine. It was nice to run with her. Kinda cool getting to talk in a relatively neutral setting. Saturday I met up with the running club to pick up litter on the Groton Road Race course. Sunday I got to join the club run in the morning and it was good to not have to worry about a long workout. The marathon gave me a lot of stress this year and I'm happy to have it in my rearview mirror. Tuesday morning I got up and went for a run in the woods. It was grey and overcast and easing into a patient drizzle. I brought Buddy, the old Wonder dog for the first 20- minutes or so then went back out and did another hour. There is something so peaceful and centering for me to run this loop. Right outside my front door. Right on the other side of my vegetable garden is the trail head. Buddy and I cut these trails. There was nothing here except bulldozer roads and animal tracks when we moved in. It was slated to be house lots. Over the years it became conservation land instead. Now, my house is the last on the cul-de-sac with conservation land on three sides. The woods have not yet exploded in green. We are in the April showers phase. But, you can sense the arboreal tension in the woods. Like a pensive skeleton waiting, on edge for the new leaves to burst forth. Hen turkeys, with beautiful sheens of reflecting feathers dart across the trail looking for the perfect place to raise this year's brood. Wood ducks bob on the gun-metal grey undulations of the pond. All are ready. We see the grey skeleton of winter. They sense the green wealth of spring. … Met the club on Saturday to pick up trash on the Groton Road Race course. We spent a few hours and got 2 full truckloads of litter off the roads. I suppose the most interesting thing I found was a plastic sandwich baggie with “Black Plague” and skull and crossbones written on it with a sharpie. What do you think? Some parent with a nerdy kid and questionable sense of humor making lunch? Or more probably an empty bag of a high-powered weed? Or, you never know, I'm now patient zero of the zombie apocalypse like I always assumed I'd be. Mostly it was Bud Light cans. And flavored vodka nips. The engineer in me wants to plot the beer can and vodka bottle distribution, do a regression analysis and lead an intervention to someone's door in Groton. Or just wait at the liquor store with an officer and some handcuffs. I guess if you are drinking on the way to work every day littering is pretty low on your list of worries. But, like spring, the road is clean and ready for the racers. We're going to have a great day. I'm no longer Race Director so I think I may actually run the 10K! That's the way life is. Life is change. Life is winter. Life is spring. As Oprah says, we aren't getting older, we're evolving! On with the show! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – nada Voices of reason – the conversation Steve Spear Chicago Tribune article about Spear's 2013 run across the U.S.: Daily Herald article about the 52k Spear ran last year for his 52nd birthday in 2016: World Vision article about Spear's transition from charity runner to World Vision staff member: Information about the Global 6k for Water Spear is planning forMay 6th: About Steve Spear In 2013 Steve Spear, Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, ran from LA to NY to bring clean water to children and families in Africa. Steve roughly averaged a marathon a day for 150 days straight. His run took him through 10 pair of running shoes and 14 states. Steve Spear is an honors graduate of Ozark Christian College in Joplin, MO. He led at senior levels at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL for over 15 years in a variety of pioneering efforts. As a Team World Vision Volunteer Running Ambassador Steve has completed numerous marathons, ultra marathons, a 2013 transcontinental run from LA to NY and personally raised over $500,000 for clean water in Africa. Steve and his wife Frances, of 28 years, have two grown children and reside in Carol Stream, IL. About the Global 6k for Water Steve Spear, Running Ambassador at World Vision is encouraging runners and churches around the U.S. to take part in the Global 6k for Water. 6 kilometers is the average distance that people in the developing world walk for water — water that is often contaminated with life-threatening diseases. From fast runners to leisurely walkers, thousands of people will unite around the globe and run 6km to bring clean water to communities in need. Each participant's registration of $50 goes to World Vision's Water Initiatives. After you register you will receive a World Vision Global 6K for Water t-shirt, race bib, and medal in the mail. Map out a 6km route in your neighborhood or attend a bigger gathering at a host site on Saturday, May 6th, 2017. More information is available at: Section two Boston Race Report - Outro Ok my friends, you have run slowly across the country and through the hills of Newton to the end of episode 4-364 of the RunRunLive Podcast. I'm running the Groton Road Race this weekend and the, just like that, it will be May already! I've got to peel off some time to get my vegetable garden started! I've been trying to get my old motorcycle on the road. I got it registered but ran into a bit of a snag last night. I put a new battery in an n no power! Now I'm going to have to chase around the wiring diagram with my multimeter and see if it's a fuse or a short or a ground… sigh… I'm not really designed with the patience for that. I went and gave blood this week. They've been pestering me but I needed to get through the marathon first. My vital signs are all fantastic. I had to do the mind control thing to jack my HR up over 50 for the nurse so I could avoid the red flags. It took a awhile but they were able to get my blood out of me. They have this sound track of 70's pop music that they play and it is a bit surreal. I hear those songs and I remember specific situations, where I was. For example building a fort in the rafters of my father's garage with my buddy Dave as pre-teens listening to “Ricky don't lose that number” by Steely Dan on the portable FM radio on a warm summer day in 1974. Us with our Mad Magazines and Farah Faucett posters. Now I've got to figure out what I want to do with this glorious summer laying before me like an unwrapped gift. So far all I've committed is to climb some mountains with Teresa. But, soon enough I'll get the itch. I do love trail running. I think I'll do some more of that. What's next? I don't know. I've been trying to figure out what to do with my life forever. There's no silver bullets. Sometimes you have the opportunity to choose epic and worthy things that in some way define you and in other ways demonstrate a worthy path to endeavors to the world. Sometimes circumstances knock you sideways and that unchosen path becomes the worthy thing. Every day, every mile, you get up. Whether your plan for that day works or something else happens you grind on with as much aplomb and reason as you can. Then you get up and do it again. Someday the crumbs of your life might lead someone else to something worthy for them. And that's it, my friends. Whether you think you are a leader or even an exemplar, people are watching you, the universe is watching you, get up and get it done today. And I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-364 – Steve Spear – Across the USA (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4364.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening my friends. Are you out on that early morning trail? Or maybe the warm sunshine of a lunch-time trot? Perhaps the star filled purity of a speedwork session at the track at night? Wherever, whenever, you may be, Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-364 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Today we chat with Steve Spear, not Steve Speirs of the 100 pushups app who we interviewed in episode 108 of the podcast, must’ve been the winter of 2008-2009. BTW all those old episodes are on my website at RunRunLive.com. I’m going to go listen to some of them myself and see if there isn’t something interesting that I can curate for the members feed. It’s bit surreal listening to yourself from the past. Time truly is a river. Today we are also going to squeeze in the 2017 Boston Marathon race report. I think. It’s not the most exciting story ever told but it has become a tradition now. I think this will be the 9th Boston report that we have shared together. We started with my 10th Boston back in 2008. What a long strange trip it’s been. Anyhow – since the race report is long – I’ll just jump right into our interview with Steve Spear who ran across the USA to help get clean water to families in Africa. You’ll hear me asking about how he did this because unlike Pete Kostelnik Steve ran the cross country route at a reasonable pace of 5 days a week and 35 miles a day. I could see myself doing that. I’ll stick the race report in after that and we’ll call it a day. My Friday’s have become increasingly pressed for time but I’ll persevere! I took Tuesday, Wednesday off last week after the race. I dug my old steel Fuji out, sprayed some petrochemicals on the chain and gears, pumped up the tires and went for a ride Thursday out to the rail trail. That felt nice. I went for a run in the woods in the drizzle and dark with Teresa on Friday for an hour and felt fine. It was nice to run with her. Kinda cool getting to talk in a relatively neutral setting. Saturday I met up with the running club to pick up litter on the Groton Road Race course. Sunday I got to join the club run in the morning and it was good to not have to worry about a long workout. The marathon gave me a lot of stress this year and I’m happy to have it in my rearview mirror. Tuesday morning I got up and went for a run in the woods. It was grey and overcast and easing into a patient drizzle. I brought Buddy, the old Wonder dog for the first 20- minutes or so then went back out and did another hour. There is something so peaceful and centering for me to run this loop. Right outside my front door. Right on the other side of my vegetable garden is the trail head. Buddy and I cut these trails. There was nothing here except bulldozer roads and animal tracks when we moved in. It was slated to be house lots. Over the years it became conservation land instead. Now, my house is the last on the cul-de-sac with conservation land on three sides. The woods have not yet exploded in green. We are in the April showers phase. But, you can sense the arboreal tension in the woods. Like a pensive skeleton waiting, on edge for the new leaves to burst forth. Hen turkeys, with beautiful sheens of reflecting feathers dart across the trail looking for the perfect place to raise this year’s brood. Wood ducks bob on the gun-metal grey undulations of the pond. All are ready. We see the grey skeleton of winter. They sense the green wealth of spring. … Met the club on Saturday to pick up trash on the Groton Road Race course. We spent a few hours and got 2 full truckloads of litter off the roads. I suppose the most interesting thing I found was a plastic sandwich baggie with “Black Plague” and skull and crossbones written on it with a sharpie. What do you think? Some parent with a nerdy kid and questionable sense of humor making lunch? Or more probably an empty bag of a high-powered weed? Or, you never know, I’m now patient zero of the zombie apocalypse like I always assumed I’d be. Mostly it was Bud Light cans. And flavored vodka nips. The engineer in me wants to plot the beer can and vodka bottle distribution, do a regression analysis and lead an intervention to someone’s door in Groton. Or just wait at the liquor store with an officer and some handcuffs. I guess if you are drinking on the way to work every day littering is pretty low on your list of worries. But, like spring, the road is clean and ready for the racers. We’re going to have a great day. I’m no longer Race Director so I think I may actually run the 10K! That’s the way life is. Life is change. Life is winter. Life is spring. As Oprah says, we aren’t getting older, we’re evolving! On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – nada Voices of reason – the conversation Steve Spear Chicago Tribune article about Spear's 2013 run across the U.S.: Daily Herald article about the 52k Spear ran last year for his 52nd birthday in 2016: World Vision article about Spear's transition from charity runner to World Vision staff member: Information about the Global 6k for Water Spear is planning forMay 6th: About Steve Spear In 2013 Steve Spear, Pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, ran from LA to NY to bring clean water to children and families in Africa. Steve roughly averaged a marathon a day for 150 days straight. His run took him through 10 pair of running shoes and 14 states. Steve Spear is an honors graduate of Ozark Christian College in Joplin, MO. He led at senior levels at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL for over 15 years in a variety of pioneering efforts. As a Team World Vision Volunteer Running Ambassador Steve has completed numerous marathons, ultra marathons, a 2013 transcontinental run from LA to NY and personally raised over $500,000 for clean water in Africa. Steve and his wife Frances, of 28 years, have two grown children and reside in Carol Stream, IL. About the Global 6k for Water Steve Spear, Running Ambassador at World Vision is encouraging runners and churches around the U.S. to take part in the Global 6k for Water. 6 kilometers is the average distance that people in the developing world walk for water — water that is often contaminated with life-threatening diseases. From fast runners to leisurely walkers, thousands of people will unite around the globe and run 6km to bring clean water to communities in need. Each participant's registration of $50 goes to World Vision's Water Initiatives. After you register you will receive a World Vision Global 6K for Water t-shirt, race bib, and medal in the mail. Map out a 6km route in your neighborhood or attend a bigger gathering at a host site on Saturday, May 6th, 2017. More information is available at: Section two Boston Race Report - Outro Ok my friends, you have run slowly across the country and through the hills of Newton to the end of episode 4-364 of the RunRunLive Podcast. I’m running the Groton Road Race this weekend and the, just like that, it will be May already! I’ve got to peel off some time to get my vegetable garden started! I’ve been trying to get my old motorcycle on the road. I got it registered but ran into a bit of a snag last night. I put a new battery in an n no power! Now I’m going to have to chase around the wiring diagram with my multimeter and see if it’s a fuse or a short or a ground… sigh… I’m not really designed with the patience for that. I went and gave blood this week. They’ve been pestering me but I needed to get through the marathon first. My vital signs are all fantastic. I had to do the mind control thing to jack my HR up over 50 for the nurse so I could avoid the red flags. It took a awhile but they were able to get my blood out of me. They have this sound track of 70’s pop music that they play and it is a bit surreal. I hear those songs and I remember specific situations, where I was. For example building a fort in the rafters of my father’s garage with my buddy Dave as pre-teens listening to “Ricky don’t lose that number” by Steely Dan on the portable FM radio on a warm summer day in 1974. Us with our Mad Magazines and Farah Faucett posters. Now I’ve got to figure out what I want to do with this glorious summer laying before me like an unwrapped gift. So far all I’ve committed is to climb some mountains with Teresa. But, soon enough I’ll get the itch. I do love trail running. I think I’ll do some more of that. What’s next? I don’t know. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with my life forever. There’s no silver bullets. Sometimes you have the opportunity to choose epic and worthy things that in some way define you and in other ways demonstrate a worthy path to endeavors to the world. Sometimes circumstances knock you sideways and that unchosen path becomes the worthy thing. Every day, every mile, you get up. Whether your plan for that day works or something else happens you grind on with as much aplomb and reason as you can. Then you get up and do it again. Someday the crumbs of your life might lead someone else to something worthy for them. And that’s it, my friends. Whether you think you are a leader or even an exemplar, people are watching you, the universe is watching you, get up and get it done today. And I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-363 – Lauren Fern Watt – for the love of dogs! (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4363.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - 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 19th 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! … 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! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Practical Taper Tips - Voices of reason – the conversation Lauren Fern Watt – Gizelle's Bucket List Hi, I'm Lauren! I'm an author and travel journalist splitting my time between Nashville and Los Angeles. My first book, , comes out March 7, 2017 with Simon & Schuster. To learn more about the book click , or to meet me on tour click . 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 . 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 , , or send me a message . Shatterproof is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the devastation that addiction causes families. Section two 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. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-363 – Lauren Fern Watt – for the love of dogs! (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4363.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - 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 19th 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! … 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! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Practical Taper Tips - Voices of reason – the conversation Lauren Fern Watt – Gizelle’s Bucket List Hi, I’m Lauren! I’m an author and travel journalist splitting my time between Nashville and Los Angeles. My first book, , comes out March 7, 2017 with Simon & Schuster. To learn more about the book click , or to meet me on tour click . 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 . 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 , , or send me a message . Shatterproof is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ending the devastation that addiction causes families. Section two 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. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-362 – Rick Hoyt – a Running Life (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4362.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-362 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Chris here. I am criminally behind in my production schedule. As some of you may have divined, especially those of you on LinkedIn, I changed gigs over the last couple months and am now back in startup land. It's not my startup, but still the the urgency and lack of resources spills over. (Humorous editor's note: Microsoft word tried to change ‘divined' to ‘deveined' which is something totally different. That combined with being in my last few weeks of marathon training for Boston creates less space and opportunity to write and record. The company is out of Silicon Valley, (of course), and I'm out of Boston so there's a 3-hour time change. Even thought you'd think you'd be able to adjust your work days, it always seems to add 3 or more hours to the day. It reminds me of when I had a job where I had to contend with Boston's infamous traffic. I devised a plan to go in a couple hours early to beat the traffic and then leave a couple hours early on the back end of the day to beat the traffic again. What really ended up happening was I'd go in early, get caught up in the day, and end up going home late after the traffic. I'm sure there's some math we could use there to make everyone's lives simpler. The way we have arranged it everyone's whims always line up. For example, let's say you're sitting at work on a warm Friday in June and you think “I know, I'll leave early and get a jump on driving to the Cape for the weekend!” You can bet that there are a couple hundred thousand people having that same thought at that same time and you will be soon sucking C02 with them on Route 6. I'm sure all of this will be solved when the impartial Artificial Intelligence of the robot overlords takes over. But, will we miss it? Will we someday be writing long, sorrowful poems in praise of a good traffic jam? How it brought our families together and made the fabric of society stronger? How did I get down this rat hole? Oh, yeah. It's Saturday Morning and It's snowing. It's been snowing for 24 hours and it's April first. Last time we got this kind of spring weather two weeks before the Boston Marathon was 2006. It ended up being 85 degrees at the starting line that year. Today I bring you a RunRunLive podcast exclusive. An interview with Rick Hoyt. Rick has run almost twice as many Boston marathons as I have and I'm running my 19th this year. I am thrilled to be able to ask him questions directly. My favorite Hoyt story is how Dick and Rick pushed their way into the Boston Marathon. The Boston Athletic Association of the late 1970's would not be considered an ‘open-minded' organization. They were steadfast in their belief that the Boston Marathon was a traditional race. You had to qualify. You had to be a man. You had to pass a physical and be a ‘real' able-bodied athlete to get in. Dick tried to get in and they wouldn't let him. They thought they had a good barrier to entry that he wouldn't be able to get over. They told him that he had to qualify, not only in his age group, but in Rick's age group as well. At the time this meant Dick had to run better than a 2:50 marathon with Rick. Dick didn't whine about it. He didn't sue them. Instead he trained and ran a 2:45 qualifying race pushing Rick. This was before racing chairs existed. This was before the first running boom. These guys were breaking new ground. They were all alone. Their dogged persistence, their unassuming commitment to the sport, their grit earned them a spot on the starting line in Hopkinton. The way they did it also earned the respect of the running world and opened a door for a generation of runners. They were pioneers who caused change. They caused change by living that change. So that's the context of our interview today. In section one I'll go deep into how I do a pace run on the treadmill. In section two, I'm going to give you an audio recording of the 2nd most read blog post I ever wrote, a chapter from my first book, called “Running with Buddy”. This will give you a good lead in for the sentiment going into our next show which will include an interview with Luaren Fern Watts about her new book, Gizelle's Bucket List. After we last spoke I attempted a 22 mile tempo run on the Boston course. Frank and I did an out and back from Ashland, around mile 4, to Wellesley mile 15, right before the dip down into Newton Lower Falls. This is the so-called ‘flat' portion of the course. I'm always surprised at just how not-flat it is. It's rolling hills. Nothing major, but some good pulls when you're racing. I was rolling off a hard week with a lot of miles. The plan was to run an hour in zone 2, then drop to race pace -5 for an hour and a half then do 5 minute on/off zone 3 surges for the last half hour. My legs were heavy going in from the big week. I ran 7 miles the day before and a set of hill repeats on the Friday. It was around freezing and overcast to drizzly. We didn't see as many runners out as we thought we might. When we hit the hour mark I dropped into what felt like race pace to me, but my pacing ability proved to be clueless. I was shooting for around 8 minute miles but we were clocking 7:30's and 7:40's. At the end of each mile I'd say ‘Oh crap' and let Frank lead for a while and we'd manage an 8:05. Then I'd drop back into the 7:30's. It was a pacing disaster! We hung in there trying to find race pace until around the 18 mile mark my wheels fell off. We were climbing a long hill and my legs just went dead and said ‘no mas'. This was about an hour into the pace part of the run. I let Frank go and tried to find a pace I could manage and recover a bit. I managed some to bash it out in the low 8's with a couple of walk breaks. I finished up with over 22 miles and over 3 hours of decent effort. I even recovered a bit in the last mile. All-in-all I wasn't horribly disappointed. It's another brick in the wall and a good race-specific workout and a good reminder of just how deceptively nasty that Boston course is with its constant rolling hills. Then I jumped on a plane to Silicon Valley. Spent the week out there that nicely coincided with a rest week, although I did manage to run up a 1,500 foot mountain behind my hotel twice. Now I'm finishing up my last hard week and tuning up for the big show. I'm off the beer and seeing how far I can get my weight down for the race, which adds to the stress of it all! I made some poor nutritional choices in Cali and have been hovering around 180, which isn't horrible for me. This week I've stayed on top of it better and am down around 175. Those 5-10 pounds make a huge difference for me on race day. Especially where my current bottleneck is my legs not my engine. Taking a few extra pounds off my quads will buy me a couple extra miles at race pace on Patriot's day. … And the weather continues to not cooperate. We are in the midst of yet another storm here 2-weeks out. My day got away from me yesterday and I ended up doing a hill repeat session at dusk in the slush. Now normal people might think, “hey, the sun is setting, it's 33 degrees out and alternating rain and snow, I think I'll skip that hill workout.” But, I think, “Here are the marathon gods putting another challenge in front of me. Here is another opportunity for me to rise to the occasion. To do what others will not. And that has some merit to it. I kitted up quickly, before I lost my nerve, and headed out through the trails to a secluded road behind my house with a nice hill. The woods were quite peaceful. The snow/ice was a couple inches deep but nice and granular, like running on beach gravel. There was no wind, and it was quite beautiful with the hiss of the sleet in the tree tops. The hill repeats themselves were a bit tricky. I had 3 sets of 5 X 40 seconds. It was snowing fairly hard. There was slush on the road. It was maybe an inch deep on the shoulders, but the tire paths from the occasional car were relatively clean with just a skim of icy slush. There were parts where the melt water was running in streams down the hill. The question in my mind was where would I get the most traction? The tire tracks? The slush? The shoulders? I opted for the tire tracks. It was slick and I had to run a bit flat footed. I couldn't really toe off with any vigor. The trick was to find the places where the road was cracked or lined because these irregularities provided a bit of a traction point. When the occasional car passed, I'd drift over to the slushy shoulder mid repeat. That wasn't bad either because there was barks and sticks and dirt under the slush on the shoulder that could give you some traction. But you had to run through the deep stuff and got much wetter feet. I switched back to my old Hokas for the outing so as not to abuse my race shoes. And you know what? It wasn't that bad. I got my workout done and felt like a total stud. I felt like I ‘won' somehow. That's the lesson here my friends. You make your own rules in this world. Don't let the slush storms of life cause you to miss a workout. On with the show. I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Treadmill pace run - Voices of reason – the conversation Rick Hoyt – Team Hoyt The Early Years Rick was born in 1962 to Dick and Judy Hoyt. As a result of oxygen deprivation to Rick's brain at the time of his birth, Rick was diagnosed as a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. Dick and Judy were advised to institutionalize Rick because there was no chance of him recovering, and little hope for Rick to live a “normal” life. This was just the beginning of Dick and Judy's quest for Rick's inclusion in community, sports, education and one day, the workplace. Dick and Judy soon realized that though Rick couldn't walk or speak; he was quite astute and his eyes would follow them around the room. They fought to integrate Rick into the public school system, pushing administrators to see beyond Rick's physical limitations. Dick and Judy would take Rick sledding and swimming, and even taught him the alphabet and basic words, like any other child. After providing concrete evidence of Rick's intellect and ability to learn like everyone else, Dick and Judy needed to find a way to help Rick communicate for himself. With $5,000 in 1972 and a skilled group of engineers at Tufts University, an interactive computer was built for Rick. This computer consisted of a cursor being used to highlight every letter of the alphabet. Once the letter Rick wanted was highlighted, he was able to select it by just a simple tap with his head against a head piece attached to his wheelchair. When the computer was originally first brought home, Rick surprised everyone with his first words. Instead of saying, “Hi, Mom,” or “Hi, Dad,” Rick's first “spoken” words were: “Go, Bruins!” The Boston Bruins were in the Stanley Cup finals that season. It was clear from that moment on, that Rick loved sports and followed the game just like anyone else. In 1975, at the age of 13, Rick was finally admitted into public school. After high school, Rick attended Boston University, and he graduated with a degree in Special Education in 1993. Dick retired in 1995 as a Lt. Colonel from the Air National Guard, after serving his country for 37 years. The Beginning of Team Hoyt In the spring of 1977, Rick told his father that he wanted to participate in a 5-mile benefit run for a Lacrosse player who had been paralyzed in an accident. Far from being a long-distance runner, Dick agreed to push Rick in his wheelchair and they finished all 5 miles, coming in next to last. That night, Rick told his father, “Dad, when I'm running, it feels like I'm not handicapped.” This realization was just the beginning of what would become over 1,000 races completed, including marathons, duathlons and triathlons (6 of them being Ironman competitions). Also adding to their list of achievements, Dick and Rick biked and ran across the U.S. in 1992, completing a full 3,735 miles in 45 days. In a triathlon, Dick will pull Rick in a boat with a bungee cord attached to a vest around his waist and to the front of the boat for the swimming stage. For the biking stage, Rick will ride a special two-seater bicycle, and then Dick will push Rick in his custom made running chair (for the running stage). Rick was once asked, if he could give his father one thing, what would it be? Rick responded, “The thing I'd most like is for my dad to sit in the chair and I would push him for once.” The 2009 Boston Marathon was officially Team Hoyt's 1000th race. Rick always says if it comes down to doing one race a year he would like it to be the Boston Marathon: his favorite race. 2013 was going to be Dick and Rick's last Boston Marathon together, but they were not able to finish due to the bombings. They vowed to be back in 2014 to finish "Boston Strong" with all the other runners, which they did; stopping many times along the 26.2 distance to take photos and shake hands of the many well wishers, and finishing with several of the runners from their Hoyt Foundation Boston Marathon team. Dick and Rick will continue to do shorter distances races and triathlons together, and teammate Bryan Lyons will be taking over in pushing Rick in the 2015 Boston Marathon. Bryan and Rick ran some local races together this year, and will start training for Boston after the holidays, doing a half marathon in Carlsbad, CA in January, as well as, other local half marathons and races. Neither Dick or Rick are ready to retire yet. The Team Hoyt Theme Song “Run!” By the Ted Painter Band It's available for download at as are other songs and information about the band. It was written by yours truly and band members John Prunier and Kat Duffey, recorded in Nashville and Harford, CT. and performed by the Ted Painter Band. Incidentally, I'm also a member of Team Hoyt and have been running with Nick Draper, a 27 year old man with a similar disability as Rick, for the last 3 and a half years. This will be our 4th Boston marathon and 16th marathon. We also do triathlons. If interested, you can learn more about "Team In the Nick of Time" at Thanks for your interest in the song, Chris. Take care, Ted Section two Running with Buddy - The Mid-Packer's Lament: A collection of running stories with a view from the middle of the pack Paperback – November 21, 2005 by (Author) Outro Alright my friends. I'm running out of daylight so I have to get this show out the door! You have slip-slided through the snow and slush to the end of episode 4-362 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Like I mentioned, next week we talk about dogs! Going to the dogs. I love my old dog. He's lying on the floor by the door here with me as I write. He's bored. He's wearing one of the ridiculous shirts Teresa bought for him. The music in the Rick Hoyt interview today was the The Team Hoyt Theme Song “Run!” By the Ted Painter Band. I got permission to use it from Ted who also runs pushing Nick for Team Hoyt Boston Marathon team- they do sub 3 hour marathons and this will be their 3rd or 4th Boston together. It's available for download at as are other songs and information about the band. To learn more about Ted and Nick search for “Team in the Nick of Time” on Facebook – or find the link in the show notes. It was written by yours truly and band members John Prunier and Kat Duffey, recorded in Nashville and Harford, CT. and performed by the Ted Painter Band. "Team In the Nick of Time" at I just assume at this point that everyone knows what I'm talking about but I guess it wouldn't kill me to give you a quick review. I post the text of all these shows on my website, . You can also click on the show in your podcast player and all the links and notes and text are in the actual show file. That's what I mean when I say – it's in the show notes. I would appreciate any contribution to my Team Hoyt fund you can make. The crowdrise link is ironically enough, in the show notes. … I told you my hill-repeats-in-the-slush story. Let me tell you another story from this week where the evil gods of marathon chaos beat me. Tuesday I had one of those 13 mile pace runs on the calendar. I had it scheduled for mid-morning. I had a gap in my schedule and weather window where it would warm up a little and before it started raining. Of course calls got rescheduled and things went sideways and I couldn't get out. I repositioned it for early afternoon. The challenge for me with this kind of run is I'm looking at close to 2 full hours out on the road. It's hard to squeeze into a day. And that 2 hours is just the running part. I should have done it early morning but I was still recovering from West Coast jet lag. Early afternoon comes and I'm still at my desk. Now it's getting dark and it's raining. I'd squeeze in a regular run in these conditions but a 2 hour tempo run in the pitch black rain, not really. I didn't have the right clothes with me or a headlamp. But, I had a flash of inspiration. I still have the key card for the gym at my old office. I had to pick up Teresa later so I would drive to the treadmill, knock out this run and get to the train. I ended up getting to the treadmill after 6 and had to take some potty breaks, etc. but was getting the work out done. Then around 8:00PM I'm 8 miles in, 2 miles into that last 5 hard zone 4 miles and I notice I'm the only one in there and the cleaning staff is in. I look at the clock, and I look at the cleaning lady and it turns out the gym closes at 8:00! That was it. I got my 8 miles in and didn't concede defeat as much as called it a draw. The evil marathon gods of entropy and chaos didn't let me complete my planned workout, but I did get an 8 mile tempo run in. We'll call it a tie. Because sometimes. Even when you really hang in there. When you make the extra effort. The chaos and entropy still wins. Just go down swinging. And I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-362 – Rick Hoyt – a Running Life (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4362.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-362 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Chris here. I am criminally behind in my production schedule. As some of you may have divined, especially those of you on LinkedIn, I changed gigs over the last couple months and am now back in startup land. It’s not my startup, but still the the urgency and lack of resources spills over. (Humorous editor’s note: Microsoft word tried to change ‘divined’ to ‘deveined’ which is something totally different. That combined with being in my last few weeks of marathon training for Boston creates less space and opportunity to write and record. The company is out of Silicon Valley, (of course), and I’m out of Boston so there’s a 3-hour time change. Even thought you’d think you’d be able to adjust your work days, it always seems to add 3 or more hours to the day. It reminds me of when I had a job where I had to contend with Boston’s infamous traffic. I devised a plan to go in a couple hours early to beat the traffic and then leave a couple hours early on the back end of the day to beat the traffic again. What really ended up happening was I’d go in early, get caught up in the day, and end up going home late after the traffic. I’m sure there’s some math we could use there to make everyone’s lives simpler. The way we have arranged it everyone’s whims always line up. For example, let’s say you’re sitting at work on a warm Friday in June and you think “I know, I’ll leave early and get a jump on driving to the Cape for the weekend!” You can bet that there are a couple hundred thousand people having that same thought at that same time and you will be soon sucking C02 with them on Route 6. I’m sure all of this will be solved when the impartial Artificial Intelligence of the robot overlords takes over. But, will we miss it? Will we someday be writing long, sorrowful poems in praise of a good traffic jam? How it brought our families together and made the fabric of society stronger? How did I get down this rat hole? Oh, yeah. It’s Saturday Morning and It’s snowing. It’s been snowing for 24 hours and it’s April first. Last time we got this kind of spring weather two weeks before the Boston Marathon was 2006. It ended up being 85 degrees at the starting line that year. Today I bring you a RunRunLive podcast exclusive. An interview with Rick Hoyt. Rick has run almost twice as many Boston marathons as I have and I’m running my 19th this year. I am thrilled to be able to ask him questions directly. My favorite Hoyt story is how Dick and Rick pushed their way into the Boston Marathon. The Boston Athletic Association of the late 1970’s would not be considered an ‘open-minded’ organization. They were steadfast in their belief that the Boston Marathon was a traditional race. You had to qualify. You had to be a man. You had to pass a physical and be a ‘real’ able-bodied athlete to get in. Dick tried to get in and they wouldn’t let him. They thought they had a good barrier to entry that he wouldn’t be able to get over. They told him that he had to qualify, not only in his age group, but in Rick’s age group as well. At the time this meant Dick had to run better than a 2:50 marathon with Rick. Dick didn’t whine about it. He didn’t sue them. Instead he trained and ran a 2:45 qualifying race pushing Rick. This was before racing chairs existed. This was before the first running boom. These guys were breaking new ground. They were all alone. Their dogged persistence, their unassuming commitment to the sport, their grit earned them a spot on the starting line in Hopkinton. The way they did it also earned the respect of the running world and opened a door for a generation of runners. They were pioneers who caused change. They caused change by living that change. So that’s the context of our interview today. In section one I’ll go deep into how I do a pace run on the treadmill. In section two, I’m going to give you an audio recording of the 2nd most read blog post I ever wrote, a chapter from my first book, called “Running with Buddy”. This will give you a good lead in for the sentiment going into our next show which will include an interview with Luaren Fern Watts about her new book, Gizelle’s Bucket List. After we last spoke I attempted a 22 mile tempo run on the Boston course. Frank and I did an out and back from Ashland, around mile 4, to Wellesley mile 15, right before the dip down into Newton Lower Falls. This is the so-called ‘flat’ portion of the course. I’m always surprised at just how not-flat it is. It’s rolling hills. Nothing major, but some good pulls when you’re racing. I was rolling off a hard week with a lot of miles. The plan was to run an hour in zone 2, then drop to race pace -5 for an hour and a half then do 5 minute on/off zone 3 surges for the last half hour. My legs were heavy going in from the big week. I ran 7 miles the day before and a set of hill repeats on the Friday. It was around freezing and overcast to drizzly. We didn’t see as many runners out as we thought we might. When we hit the hour mark I dropped into what felt like race pace to me, but my pacing ability proved to be clueless. I was shooting for around 8 minute miles but we were clocking 7:30’s and 7:40’s. At the end of each mile I’d say ‘Oh crap’ and let Frank lead for a while and we’d manage an 8:05. Then I’d drop back into the 7:30’s. It was a pacing disaster! We hung in there trying to find race pace until around the 18 mile mark my wheels fell off. We were climbing a long hill and my legs just went dead and said ‘no mas’. This was about an hour into the pace part of the run. I let Frank go and tried to find a pace I could manage and recover a bit. I managed some to bash it out in the low 8’s with a couple of walk breaks. I finished up with over 22 miles and over 3 hours of decent effort. I even recovered a bit in the last mile. All-in-all I wasn’t horribly disappointed. It’s another brick in the wall and a good race-specific workout and a good reminder of just how deceptively nasty that Boston course is with its constant rolling hills. Then I jumped on a plane to Silicon Valley. Spent the week out there that nicely coincided with a rest week, although I did manage to run up a 1,500 foot mountain behind my hotel twice. Now I’m finishing up my last hard week and tuning up for the big show. I’m off the beer and seeing how far I can get my weight down for the race, which adds to the stress of it all! I made some poor nutritional choices in Cali and have been hovering around 180, which isn’t horrible for me. This week I’ve stayed on top of it better and am down around 175. Those 5-10 pounds make a huge difference for me on race day. Especially where my current bottleneck is my legs not my engine. Taking a few extra pounds off my quads will buy me a couple extra miles at race pace on Patriot’s day. … And the weather continues to not cooperate. We are in the midst of yet another storm here 2-weeks out. My day got away from me yesterday and I ended up doing a hill repeat session at dusk in the slush. Now normal people might think, “hey, the sun is setting, it’s 33 degrees out and alternating rain and snow, I think I’ll skip that hill workout.” But, I think, “Here are the marathon gods putting another challenge in front of me. Here is another opportunity for me to rise to the occasion. To do what others will not. And that has some merit to it. I kitted up quickly, before I lost my nerve, and headed out through the trails to a secluded road behind my house with a nice hill. The woods were quite peaceful. The snow/ice was a couple inches deep but nice and granular, like running on beach gravel. There was no wind, and it was quite beautiful with the hiss of the sleet in the tree tops. The hill repeats themselves were a bit tricky. I had 3 sets of 5 X 40 seconds. It was snowing fairly hard. There was slush on the road. It was maybe an inch deep on the shoulders, but the tire paths from the occasional car were relatively clean with just a skim of icy slush. There were parts where the melt water was running in streams down the hill. The question in my mind was where would I get the most traction? The tire tracks? The slush? The shoulders? I opted for the tire tracks. It was slick and I had to run a bit flat footed. I couldn’t really toe off with any vigor. The trick was to find the places where the road was cracked or lined because these irregularities provided a bit of a traction point. When the occasional car passed, I’d drift over to the slushy shoulder mid repeat. That wasn’t bad either because there was barks and sticks and dirt under the slush on the shoulder that could give you some traction. But you had to run through the deep stuff and got much wetter feet. I switched back to my old Hokas for the outing so as not to abuse my race shoes. And you know what? It wasn’t that bad. I got my workout done and felt like a total stud. I felt like I ‘won’ somehow. That’s the lesson here my friends. You make your own rules in this world. Don’t let the slush storms of life cause you to miss a workout. On with the show. I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Treadmill pace run - Voices of reason – the conversation Rick Hoyt – Team Hoyt The Early Years Rick was born in 1962 to Dick and Judy Hoyt. As a result of oxygen deprivation to Rick’s brain at the time of his birth, Rick was diagnosed as a spastic quadriplegic with cerebral palsy. Dick and Judy were advised to institutionalize Rick because there was no chance of him recovering, and little hope for Rick to live a “normal” life. This was just the beginning of Dick and Judy’s quest for Rick’s inclusion in community, sports, education and one day, the workplace. Dick and Judy soon realized that though Rick couldn’t walk or speak; he was quite astute and his eyes would follow them around the room. They fought to integrate Rick into the public school system, pushing administrators to see beyond Rick’s physical limitations. Dick and Judy would take Rick sledding and swimming, and even taught him the alphabet and basic words, like any other child. After providing concrete evidence of Rick’s intellect and ability to learn like everyone else, Dick and Judy needed to find a way to help Rick communicate for himself. With $5,000 in 1972 and a skilled group of engineers at Tufts University, an interactive computer was built for Rick. This computer consisted of a cursor being used to highlight every letter of the alphabet. Once the letter Rick wanted was highlighted, he was able to select it by just a simple tap with his head against a head piece attached to his wheelchair. When the computer was originally first brought home, Rick surprised everyone with his first words. Instead of saying, “Hi, Mom,” or “Hi, Dad,” Rick’s first “spoken” words were: “Go, Bruins!” The Boston Bruins were in the Stanley Cup finals that season. It was clear from that moment on, that Rick loved sports and followed the game just like anyone else. In 1975, at the age of 13, Rick was finally admitted into public school. After high school, Rick attended Boston University, and he graduated with a degree in Special Education in 1993. Dick retired in 1995 as a Lt. Colonel from the Air National Guard, after serving his country for 37 years. The Beginning of Team Hoyt In the spring of 1977, Rick told his father that he wanted to participate in a 5-mile benefit run for a Lacrosse player who had been paralyzed in an accident. Far from being a long-distance runner, Dick agreed to push Rick in his wheelchair and they finished all 5 miles, coming in next to last. That night, Rick told his father, “Dad, when I’m running, it feels like I’m not handicapped.” This realization was just the beginning of what would become over 1,000 races completed, including marathons, duathlons and triathlons (6 of them being Ironman competitions). Also adding to their list of achievements, Dick and Rick biked and ran across the U.S. in 1992, completing a full 3,735 miles in 45 days. In a triathlon, Dick will pull Rick in a boat with a bungee cord attached to a vest around his waist and to the front of the boat for the swimming stage. For the biking stage, Rick will ride a special two-seater bicycle, and then Dick will push Rick in his custom made running chair (for the running stage). Rick was once asked, if he could give his father one thing, what would it be? Rick responded, “The thing I’d most like is for my dad to sit in the chair and I would push him for once.” The 2009 Boston Marathon was officially Team Hoyt’s 1000th race. Rick always says if it comes down to doing one race a year he would like it to be the Boston Marathon: his favorite race. 2013 was going to be Dick and Rick's last Boston Marathon together, but they were not able to finish due to the bombings. They vowed to be back in 2014 to finish "Boston Strong" with all the other runners, which they did; stopping many times along the 26.2 distance to take photos and shake hands of the many well wishers, and finishing with several of the runners from their Hoyt Foundation Boston Marathon team. Dick and Rick will continue to do shorter distances races and triathlons together, and teammate Bryan Lyons will be taking over in pushing Rick in the 2015 Boston Marathon. Bryan and Rick ran some local races together this year, and will start training for Boston after the holidays, doing a half marathon in Carlsbad, CA in January, as well as, other local half marathons and races. Neither Dick or Rick are ready to retire yet. The Team Hoyt Theme Song “Run!” By the Ted Painter Band It's available for download at as are other songs and information about the band. It was written by yours truly and band members John Prunier and Kat Duffey, recorded in Nashville and Harford, CT. and performed by the Ted Painter Band. Incidentally, I'm also a member of Team Hoyt and have been running with Nick Draper, a 27 year old man with a similar disability as Rick, for the last 3 and a half years. This will be our 4th Boston marathon and 16th marathon. We also do triathlons. If interested, you can learn more about "Team In the Nick of Time" at Thanks for your interest in the song, Chris. Take care, Ted Section two Running with Buddy - The Mid-Packer's Lament: A collection of running stories with a view from the middle of the pack Paperback – November 21, 2005 by (Author) Outro Alright my friends. I’m running out of daylight so I have to get this show out the door! You have slip-slided through the snow and slush to the end of episode 4-362 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Like I mentioned, next week we talk about dogs! Going to the dogs. I love my old dog. He’s lying on the floor by the door here with me as I write. He’s bored. He’s wearing one of the ridiculous shirts Teresa bought for him. The music in the Rick Hoyt interview today was the The Team Hoyt Theme Song “Run!” By the Ted Painter Band. I got permission to use it from Ted who also runs pushing Nick for Team Hoyt Boston Marathon team- they do sub 3 hour marathons and this will be their 3rd or 4th Boston together. It's available for download at as are other songs and information about the band. To learn more about Ted and Nick search for “Team in the Nick of Time” on Facebook – or find the link in the show notes. It was written by yours truly and band members John Prunier and Kat Duffey, recorded in Nashville and Harford, CT. and performed by the Ted Painter Band. "Team In the Nick of Time" at I just assume at this point that everyone knows what I’m talking about but I guess it wouldn’t kill me to give you a quick review. I post the text of all these shows on my website, . You can also click on the show in your podcast player and all the links and notes and text are in the actual show file. That’s what I mean when I say – it’s in the show notes. I would appreciate any contribution to my Team Hoyt fund you can make. The crowdrise link is ironically enough, in the show notes. … I told you my hill-repeats-in-the-slush story. Let me tell you another story from this week where the evil gods of marathon chaos beat me. Tuesday I had one of those 13 mile pace runs on the calendar. I had it scheduled for mid-morning. I had a gap in my schedule and weather window where it would warm up a little and before it started raining. Of course calls got rescheduled and things went sideways and I couldn’t get out. I repositioned it for early afternoon. The challenge for me with this kind of run is I’m looking at close to 2 full hours out on the road. It’s hard to squeeze into a day. And that 2 hours is just the running part. I should have done it early morning but I was still recovering from West Coast jet lag. Early afternoon comes and I’m still at my desk. Now it’s getting dark and it’s raining. I’d squeeze in a regular run in these conditions but a 2 hour tempo run in the pitch black rain, not really. I didn’t have the right clothes with me or a headlamp. But, I had a flash of inspiration. I still have the key card for the gym at my old office. I had to pick up Teresa later so I would drive to the treadmill, knock out this run and get to the train. I ended up getting to the treadmill after 6 and had to take some potty breaks, etc. but was getting the work out done. Then around 8:00PM I’m 8 miles in, 2 miles into that last 5 hard zone 4 miles and I notice I’m the only one in there and the cleaning staff is in. I look at the clock, and I look at the cleaning lady and it turns out the gym closes at 8:00! That was it. I got my 8 miles in and didn’t concede defeat as much as called it a draw. The evil marathon gods of entropy and chaos didn’t let me complete my planned workout, but I did get an 8 mile tempo run in. We’ll call it a tie. Because sometimes. Even when you really hang in there. When you make the extra effort. The chaos and entropy still wins. Just go down swinging. And I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-361 – Zelus Craft Beer for Endurance (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4361.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-361 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Chris here. I'm testing out a new recording space. It's got a lot of hard surfaces so it might be a tad echo-ey. I'll hang up a couple quilts and see if that softens it up. We call them quilts now, but didn't they used to be called tapestries? Anyway – today we have an interesting interview with Geoff from Zelus beer who I reached out to because they are apparently targeting endurance athletes. I always wondered about the connection between beer and running – and it being St. Paddy's Day today and all…it seems appropriate. In section one I'm going to dust off an old post I wrote on trail running. Why? Because I've had a rash of spam posts on my web site and all of them were in the comments of this trail running post so I took it as a sign. In Section two I'll share a post on Grit that I wrote a couple weeks back. It's been a crazy couple of weeks. My training has been deep into the dark place and the weather hasn't been cooperating. It's been cold on the weekends for my long runs and coach has been kicking the crap out of me. For example he's given me a couple mid-week 12-14 mile tempo runs that were crazy hard outside in the freezing cold. Basically 3 hard workouts a week. I did a 14 mile run with 10 at tempo two Sunday's ago and it was 10 degrees out with a 14 mph wind. I did another interval workout one night where I got all the weather in one workout – Freezing rain, wind, cold and blowing snow – all in the same hour. Last Sunday I did 2:45 long run with an hour of it at tempo, again in the teens with a wind. It's hard to get mentally geared up for these hard workouts when you've got the weather piling on. But it's ok. These are the workouts that make you stronger. They make you mentally stronger and physically stronger. One of the things that Angela Duckworth talks about in the book Grit is the question “How do you get more Grit?” and “Can you learn to be Gritty?” And it turns out the answer is yes. The science, the studies show that the way to learn how to do hard things is by practicing doing hard things. I know that's always been true for me. I know running has always been that hard thing for many of us. You learn how to do hard things by doing hard things. That's it. Do something hard. On with the show. … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don't have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Trails 101 - Voices of reason – the conversation Geoffrey Pedder – Zelus Beer Here is a bio for me (Geoffrey Pedder): Geoffrey founded ZēLUS in January 2015 after teaching himself how to brew beer the previous year. Since that time he has completed a brewing courses in California, Massachusetts and Vermont. Geoffrey either runs, bikes or swims almost daily and has competed in a multitude of running races and triathlons over many different distances, including marathons and half ironmans. Before starting ZēLUS Geoffrey worked in the shoe industry for 12 years, where he was primarily a brand builder and product developer. He also had corporate roles in production, financial analysis and marketing. Geoffrey is originally from the UK and has experience of working in a number of international markets. Here are a few links (sorry, there are a lot, the key ones are the website and Facebook I guess): Website: Stockists: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Untappd: Cheers, Geoff. Section two Grit, Practice and Flow - Outro OK, my long suffering friends, Since it is St. Paddy's Day maybe you have sipped a nice local craft IPA along to the finish of Episode 4-361 of the RunRunLive Podcast. I told you I have not been racing this spring just hitting that training that the coach has been throwing over the wall. Boston is the second Monday in April and we'll see what that brings! The interesting thing is that I have been hitting paces on these tempo runs that I haven't seen since 2011. Let me back up for those of you who might not have been listening to this podcast for 10 years…After the marathon in 2011 I pulled up lame with a terrible case of plantar fasciitis that I just could not shake and I basically stopped running for 18 months. I did a lot of biking and swimming but I stopped marathon racing almost entirely. I was just starting to train again in 2013 and we had a challenging year. Some yahoos decided to blow up the marathon and my Dad died of cancer and to be honest it knocked me sideways a bit. So, I did this Forrest Gump routine where I ran a marathon a month from the Boston Marathon 2013 to the Boston Marathon 2014, including Marine Corp and New York and one I just made up myself. I think I may have overshot a bit because the following season I came down with this heart problem called exercise induced AFIB. That laid me low for another year until I went in and got it fixed in the spring of 2015. Then, being the stubborn guy that I am, I started training again. But, I had lost a solid 30 seconds a mile off my marathon times to all this foolishness and trials and tribulations. I settled into a new normal and kept having adventures. Now you're up to speed. So here we are. 2017. Training for my 19th Boston Marathon. Guess what? I'm seeing paces that have seem to indicate that I've managed to get back 15 seconds of that 30 seconds I lost. I was on the treadmill this week doing a 11 mile step up run and my zone 4 pace was 7:08 – 7:18 towards the end of that run. It looks like I have my base back, my aerobic fitness or, in layman's terms, my engine. I've gotten a bit of the pace back. I don't have any real speed but I do have some solid tempo paces. So as you raise your green tinted Guinness tonight think about saying a short prayer for me. Pray for good weather on Patriot's Day. Pray that I'll be graced with the common sense not to attack the course like I did last year. Pray that I will find the courage to close those last 6 awful miles to Bolyston street. You'd think that after all these years it would cease to scare me. But the thought of racing Boston still fills me with an awful dread because I know what it is capable of and I've been beaten more times then I have won. But, also pause to think about the Grit you need to have to hang in and keep pushing through 5 years of challenge. Listen, I do this because I need to do it. It's my passion in the true Latin sense. There is nothing that can beat you unless you let it beat you. All it takes is grit. I was down in Dallas last week. I came back from my early morning run and was getting some coffee in the hotel breakfast buffet. It was just me, one other lady guest and the lady working the buffet. You know, one of those self-serve areas. The other lady guest stops the server who was going about her business, cleaning and checking, etc – and I'm thinking, “Whoop, here we go, she's going to whine about the waffles being too salty or something…”, but no. She stops the server and says, with a big smile, “I just wanted to let you know how great a job you folks are doing with this breakfast. It is the best I've ever seen. I just had to let you know how great a job you're doing…” And that Server walked away with the biggest smile. Ear to ear. Don't be stingy with your gifts. You can make a difference. And I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-361 – Zelus Craft Beer for Endurance (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4361.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-361 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Chris here. I’m testing out a new recording space. It’s got a lot of hard surfaces so it might be a tad echo-ey. I’ll hang up a couple quilts and see if that softens it up. We call them quilts now, but didn’t they used to be called tapestries? Anyway – today we have an interesting interview with Geoff from Zelus beer who I reached out to because they are apparently targeting endurance athletes. I always wondered about the connection between beer and running – and it being St. Paddy’s Day today and all…it seems appropriate. In section one I’m going to dust off an old post I wrote on trail running. Why? Because I’ve had a rash of spam posts on my web site and all of them were in the comments of this trail running post so I took it as a sign. In Section two I’ll share a post on Grit that I wrote a couple weeks back. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. My training has been deep into the dark place and the weather hasn’t been cooperating. It’s been cold on the weekends for my long runs and coach has been kicking the crap out of me. For example he’s given me a couple mid-week 12-14 mile tempo runs that were crazy hard outside in the freezing cold. Basically 3 hard workouts a week. I did a 14 mile run with 10 at tempo two Sunday’s ago and it was 10 degrees out with a 14 mph wind. I did another interval workout one night where I got all the weather in one workout – Freezing rain, wind, cold and blowing snow – all in the same hour. Last Sunday I did 2:45 long run with an hour of it at tempo, again in the teens with a wind. It’s hard to get mentally geared up for these hard workouts when you’ve got the weather piling on. But it’s ok. These are the workouts that make you stronger. They make you mentally stronger and physically stronger. One of the things that Angela Duckworth talks about in the book Grit is the question “How do you get more Grit?” and “Can you learn to be Gritty?” And it turns out the answer is yes. The science, the studies show that the way to learn how to do hard things is by practicing doing hard things. I know that’s always been true for me. I know running has always been that hard thing for many of us. You learn how to do hard things by doing hard things. That’s it. Do something hard. On with the show. … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. What does that mean? It means you don’t have to listen to yet another Blue Apron or Hello Fresh ad. As a matter of fact, stop being lazy and go shop for your own food. We do have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Trails 101 - Voices of reason – the conversation Geoffrey Pedder – Zelus Beer Here is a bio for me (Geoffrey Pedder): Geoffrey founded ZēLUS in January 2015 after teaching himself how to brew beer the previous year. Since that time he has completed a brewing courses in California, Massachusetts and Vermont. Geoffrey either runs, bikes or swims almost daily and has competed in a multitude of running races and triathlons over many different distances, including marathons and half ironmans. Before starting ZēLUS Geoffrey worked in the shoe industry for 12 years, where he was primarily a brand builder and product developer. He also had corporate roles in production, financial analysis and marketing. Geoffrey is originally from the UK and has experience of working in a number of international markets. Here are a few links (sorry, there are a lot, the key ones are the website and Facebook I guess): Website: Stockists: Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Untappd: Cheers, Geoff. Section two Grit, Practice and Flow - Outro OK, my long suffering friends, Since it is St. Paddy’s Day maybe you have sipped a nice local craft IPA along to the finish of Episode 4-361 of the RunRunLive Podcast. I told you I have not been racing this spring just hitting that training that the coach has been throwing over the wall. Boston is the second Monday in April and we’ll see what that brings! The interesting thing is that I have been hitting paces on these tempo runs that I haven’t seen since 2011. Let me back up for those of you who might not have been listening to this podcast for 10 years…After the marathon in 2011 I pulled up lame with a terrible case of plantar fasciitis that I just could not shake and I basically stopped running for 18 months. I did a lot of biking and swimming but I stopped marathon racing almost entirely. I was just starting to train again in 2013 and we had a challenging year. Some yahoos decided to blow up the marathon and my Dad died of cancer and to be honest it knocked me sideways a bit. So, I did this Forrest Gump routine where I ran a marathon a month from the Boston Marathon 2013 to the Boston Marathon 2014, including Marine Corp and New York and one I just made up myself. I think I may have overshot a bit because the following season I came down with this heart problem called exercise induced AFIB. That laid me low for another year until I went in and got it fixed in the spring of 2015. Then, being the stubborn guy that I am, I started training again. But, I had lost a solid 30 seconds a mile off my marathon times to all this foolishness and trials and tribulations. I settled into a new normal and kept having adventures. Now you’re up to speed. So here we are. 2017. Training for my 19th Boston Marathon. Guess what? I’m seeing paces that have seem to indicate that I’ve managed to get back 15 seconds of that 30 seconds I lost. I was on the treadmill this week doing a 11 mile step up run and my zone 4 pace was 7:08 – 7:18 towards the end of that run. It looks like I have my base back, my aerobic fitness or, in layman’s terms, my engine. I’ve gotten a bit of the pace back. I don’t have any real speed but I do have some solid tempo paces. So as you raise your green tinted Guinness tonight think about saying a short prayer for me. Pray for good weather on Patriot’s Day. Pray that I’ll be graced with the common sense not to attack the course like I did last year. Pray that I will find the courage to close those last 6 awful miles to Bolyston street. You’d think that after all these years it would cease to scare me. But the thought of racing Boston still fills me with an awful dread because I know what it is capable of and I’ve been beaten more times then I have won. But, also pause to think about the Grit you need to have to hang in and keep pushing through 5 years of challenge. Listen, I do this because I need to do it. It’s my passion in the true Latin sense. There is nothing that can beat you unless you let it beat you. All it takes is grit. I was down in Dallas last week. I came back from my early morning run and was getting some coffee in the hotel breakfast buffet. It was just me, one other lady guest and the lady working the buffet. You know, one of those self-serve areas. The other lady guest stops the server who was going about her business, cleaning and checking, etc – and I’m thinking, “Whoop, here we go, she’s going to whine about the waffles being too salty or something…”, but no. She stops the server and says, with a big smile, “I just wanted to let you know how great a job you folks are doing with this breakfast. It is the best I’ve ever seen. I just had to let you know how great a job you’re doing…” And that Server walked away with the biggest smile. Ear to ear. Don’t be stingy with your gifts. You can make a difference. And I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-360 – Dan Weston Runs to Work (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4360.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-360 of the RunRunLive Podcast. This is Chris your host. That’s 360 podcasts out there over the past 8-9 years. Kind of amazing. It’s been awhile since I re-jiggered the format maybe it’s about time for some fashionable new skins or something. I’d like to do more but there just isn’t much money in yak farming. There is plenty of money in being a hit man but I have to keep that in secret, offshore bank accounts. Today we have a longish interview with Dan Weston who is one of our friends from the UK. We talk through his running adventures. In section one I’ve got a piece on some of the finer nuances of hill repeats. In section two I’ve got a thoughtful piece on ‘hope’ that has been kicking around in my brain for about a decade so I’m glad it made itself known. I published this piece on LinkedIn this week. By the way a kudos to those of you who hunted me down on LinkedIn after I posted that piece about setting up your profile a couple episodes back. I published another piece on ‘Grit’. I’m reading that book by Angela Duckworth and I would recommend it. Very good book. Pulls together many of the concepts we’ve talked about here and, frankly, a very appropriate read for endurance sports aficionados. How’s my training been? Am I still battling injuries? I know I left you hanging with some knee pain and some foot pain and a couple week’s off? Well the day after we last talked I went out and hit a hilly 18-miler with my buddies and felt great. Coach has been beating the crap out of me but I’m hanging strong. He gave me a 13 mile step up run with 50 minutes of it in zone 4-5 that I struggled with. He gave me these hill repeats that I’m going to share with you. Then last Sunday I knocked off a hilly 19-miler on my own in 2:45. Yesterday he damn near killed me with a set of 7 7-minute intervals. But, I’m getting it done and nothing hurts. 6 weeks out from Boston so this is the hard part. The dark place. For the remainder of this week he’s got me doing another set of hill repeats and then a tempo 14-miler with the middle 10 miles at faster than race pace. So, yeah, the good stuff! … I’ve been trying out different guided meditations on Youtube as part of my morning routine. Like I said you can search on “Meditation for _____” fill in the blank and you’ll find several. Meditation for sleep, for studying, for energy, for anxiety, for dead possums…anything. Most of these are just breathing meditation. Some have various relaxation and visualization techniques. But some are actually very close to hypnosis, so you have to be careful. They will do that thing where they talk you into a meditative state and then do the old “you are going down an elevator…deeper and deeper…when I count to three…” that sort of thing. Just be careful, because in this state you are susceptible to suggestions. Like I said it’s hard for me to meditation because Buddy the Wonder dog hates meditation and will invariably start his barking and whining when I’m deep in a meditative state. He hates meditation. Funny, I noticed I’ve been buying a lot of extra dog treats recently…and going for a lot of walks… Hmmmm…. On with the show! … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. We have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Hill Repeats Nuance - Voices of reason – the conversation Dan Weston Short bio : I started running at the age of 26 and quickly progressed to running for North Wales. I did well in 10ks, so moved up to half-marathons, then full marathons and Ultras often achieving a podium finish. In the last year and a half I’ve been focusing on Ultra Marathons. Representing my Country (Wales) in the last few. My goals for the next year are to achieve a sub 2h30m marathon, win a few more UK Ultra Marathons. Section two HOPE - Outro Yes, my friends, not only have you run to work but you have taken a shower and found yourself at the end of episode 4-360 of the RunRunLive podcast. I will continue to train away for Boston. I’m keeping my promise of not running any of the spring races and just focusing on the big race. That will be my 19th Boston Marathon. My club gets a hotel room at the finish with a massage / physical therapist. If you need a place to take a shower let me know and we can have a beer! That is if you’re willing to wait until I drag my tired old bones across the finish line. I am collecting for Team Hoyt and I’m a bit light so I could use the help – the link is in the show notes. My cross-training project for the summer is probably going to be to try to climb the 10 tallest mountains in New England. Not sure I can do them all in one season but Teresa says she’s in. … The days are noticeably warmer and longer. I’ve been getting out in shorts the last couple weeks. Spring is in the air. I really like spring. It’s a hopeful season. A season of rebirth. A season of new beginning and promise. It makes me think about how lucky I am. How many podcasts I’ve been able to produce on this journey. How many adventures we’ve had together. How many great new friends I’ve made. I’m a lucky person. I really am. I am grateful. Thank you for hanging around with me. Think about what you’re grateful for. I bet it will make you smile when you’re doing hill repeats! And I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-360 – Dan Weston Runs to Work (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4360.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-360 of the RunRunLive Podcast. This is Chris your host. That's 360 podcasts out there over the past 8-9 years. Kind of amazing. It's been awhile since I re-jiggered the format maybe it's about time for some fashionable new skins or something. I'd like to do more but there just isn't much money in yak farming. There is plenty of money in being a hit man but I have to keep that in secret, offshore bank accounts. Today we have a longish interview with Dan Weston who is one of our friends from the UK. We talk through his running adventures. In section one I've got a piece on some of the finer nuances of hill repeats. In section two I've got a thoughtful piece on ‘hope' that has been kicking around in my brain for about a decade so I'm glad it made itself known. I published this piece on LinkedIn this week. By the way a kudos to those of you who hunted me down on LinkedIn after I posted that piece about setting up your profile a couple episodes back. I published another piece on ‘Grit'. I'm reading that book by Angela Duckworth and I would recommend it. Very good book. Pulls together many of the concepts we've talked about here and, frankly, a very appropriate read for endurance sports aficionados. How's my training been? Am I still battling injuries? I know I left you hanging with some knee pain and some foot pain and a couple week's off? Well the day after we last talked I went out and hit a hilly 18-miler with my buddies and felt great. Coach has been beating the crap out of me but I'm hanging strong. He gave me a 13 mile step up run with 50 minutes of it in zone 4-5 that I struggled with. He gave me these hill repeats that I'm going to share with you. Then last Sunday I knocked off a hilly 19-miler on my own in 2:45. Yesterday he damn near killed me with a set of 7 7-minute intervals. But, I'm getting it done and nothing hurts. 6 weeks out from Boston so this is the hard part. The dark place. For the remainder of this week he's got me doing another set of hill repeats and then a tempo 14-miler with the middle 10 miles at faster than race pace. So, yeah, the good stuff! … I've been trying out different guided meditations on Youtube as part of my morning routine. Like I said you can search on “Meditation for _____” fill in the blank and you'll find several. Meditation for sleep, for studying, for energy, for anxiety, for dead possums…anything. Most of these are just breathing meditation. Some have various relaxation and visualization techniques. But some are actually very close to hypnosis, so you have to be careful. They will do that thing where they talk you into a meditative state and then do the old “you are going down an elevator…deeper and deeper…when I count to three…” that sort of thing. Just be careful, because in this state you are susceptible to suggestions. Like I said it's hard for me to meditation because Buddy the Wonder dog hates meditation and will invariably start his barking and whining when I'm deep in a meditative state. He hates meditation. Funny, I noticed I've been buying a lot of extra dog treats recently…and going for a lot of walks… Hmmmm…. On with the show! … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. We have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Hill Repeats Nuance - Voices of reason – the conversation Dan Weston Short bio : I started running at the age of 26 and quickly progressed to running for North Wales. I did well in 10ks, so moved up to half-marathons, then full marathons and Ultras often achieving a podium finish. In the last year and a half I've been focusing on Ultra Marathons. Representing my Country (Wales) in the last few. My goals for the next year are to achieve a sub 2h30m marathon, win a few more UK Ultra Marathons. Section two HOPE - Outro Yes, my friends, not only have you run to work but you have taken a shower and found yourself at the end of episode 4-360 of the RunRunLive podcast. I will continue to train away for Boston. I'm keeping my promise of not running any of the spring races and just focusing on the big race. That will be my 19th Boston Marathon. My club gets a hotel room at the finish with a massage / physical therapist. If you need a place to take a shower let me know and we can have a beer! That is if you're willing to wait until I drag my tired old bones across the finish line. I am collecting for Team Hoyt and I'm a bit light so I could use the help – the link is in the show notes. My cross-training project for the summer is probably going to be to try to climb the 10 tallest mountains in New England. Not sure I can do them all in one season but Teresa says she's in. … The days are noticeably warmer and longer. I've been getting out in shorts the last couple weeks. Spring is in the air. I really like spring. It's a hopeful season. A season of rebirth. A season of new beginning and promise. It makes me think about how lucky I am. How many podcasts I've been able to produce on this journey. How many adventures we've had together. How many great new friends I've made. I'm a lucky person. I really am. I am grateful. Thank you for hanging around with me. Think about what you're grateful for. I bet it will make you smile when you're doing hill repeats! And I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
After the update on this week’s Clyde Army Countdown, Bryan plays nutritionist to help further Peter’s marathon training. Then, they get past their technical difficulties and have an in-depth conversation with runner Alison Desir, creator of the free fitness group Harlem Run. They talk about her (and her relay team’s) historic 240-mile run from New York City to Washington D.C. that raised over $100K for Planned Parenthood, as well as how Alison became a runner and an activist and how she hopes to continue the work that her Run 4 All Women movement began. Photo by Rachel Link Harlem Run Instagram @harlemrun twitter @harlem_run facebook.com/HarlemRun harlemrun.com Run4AllWomen @run4allwomen - IG and twitter facebook.com/Run4AllWomen Personal @powderedfeet - IG and twitter powderedfeet.com If you would like to help Peter reach his fundraising goal (he's running the 2017 Boston Marathon with Spaulding’s Race for Rehab Team) please visit his Crowdrise page here: https://www.crowdrise.com/spauldingrehabboston17/fundraiser/petervilla
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-358 – Pam the TrailMomma (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4359.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-359 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Today, for me is February 17 2017. For you? Who knows? Through the miracle of time travel and temporal displacement you could be interfacing with my digital echoes thousands of years from now. I'm going to keep my intro brief because I've got a couple longer pieces in this episode and I'm horribly behind schedule! When we last talked my training was great and I was ramping up my volume and intensity. Of course that was a great way to cures myself. The next day I ran an easy run with my buddies and that night I had a noticeably sore knee. I couldn't tell if it was from the running or from carrying some heavy crates up to the attic so I took a few days easy. By mid week it was gone and turns out I probably tweaked something in a non-running activity. Just goes to show you how terribly fragile a marathoner becomes in the run up to a road marathon. As a result I missed a weekend long run. Then this past weekend I got 17 and a half in with my buddies and my foot ended up being quite sore afterwards. Feels like I aggravated my plantar fasciitis again. It's a combination of the high volume, the cold weather and my shoes are getting old. But, I had to take most of this week off as well. I dragged my bike trainer in from the porch and set it up in the living room in front of the TV and have been spinning away. I'm going to try an easy 18 tomorrow morning with my buddies. One great development is that coming full circle I'm doing long runs with my old friend Frank who you might remember from episode 1! He went through that same hip resurfacing thing and is back on the roads with me training for Boston! Never say never! Never say die! We'll be doing this when we're 80! Today I chat about trail running and plant eating with the delightful Pam the “Trail Moma” – I think you'll like her. Thanks to my friends out there for responding to my cry for help to get some new interviewees! It worked. In section one I've got a long piece on how to survive the winter blues in your training and your life. In section two I'm going to test out piece on sales that I'd appreciate any feedback on. Send me fistfulls of dirty cash in duffel bags, or just contribute, to my Team Hoyt fund. Yeah you. I'm talking to you! Do the right thing. I know where you live. I'm sending Buddy to break your legs for a contribution. I've had to move 3 large helpings of winter storm snow this week and my back hurts! But we also got the winter moon which was wonderful! The days are getting longer. Spring is coming. … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. We have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Winter Blues - Voices of reason – the conversation Pam – The TrailMomma Links: Instagram: @Trailmomma Facebook: As for a bio, feel free to use this or grab from my site - either is fine. A New Jersey transplant that landed herself in California, Pam is a weekend warrior with a passion. She works full-time, is the mother of two and has a burning desire to see everyone achieve their best life by thriving on a plant-based diet. If she's not running the canyons of Northern California she is attending plant-based conferences or has her nose in a book reading the latest on the healing properties of plants. She finds pleasure in helping those that reach out to her for help in transitioning out of the Standard American Diet (SAD) and into one that will transform them inside and out. Two more links. My YouTube channel and I realized I mentioned the Engine 2 group in our talk. Happy Trails! Pam Section two Sales and selling - Outro Yes, my friends, this particular trail is a dead end that you have followed, an impassable swamp of ideas that you cannot ford, but you have reached, at the end of the RunRunLive Podcast. I'm still training away and a couple weeks isn't going to affect me either way. The lesson, for you, though, is, as I said in the first piece, pay attention and get in front of injuries early in your cycle. Before they take you out. I know in my experience there is never an immediate chronic injury, it's always something that would have healed in a couple weeks or days if I had just been smart about it. We're about a month and a half out from Boston. That gives me plenty of time to tune my racing. I'm already riding a good fitness base so I'm not worried about it. I can lose those last ten pounds in 2 weeks if I have to! I've got a lot going on. I'm short on time today and that's ok. That's why we set deadlines. Deadlines and urgency are enabling. As a matter of fact urgency is one of the preconditions for entering a flow state. Translation: you do some of your best work when you don't have any other choice and you don't have time to think about it! I'm reading a great book, that I'll write more about in the future, called ‘Grit', by Angela Duckworth. It talks a lot about how being successful is more related to sustained effort than intelligence and skill. I love this concept. I can see it in my running and career. It also says that when you find something that you are passionate about, that becomes your obsession and purpose, it isn't like being struck by lightning. Most people don't end up doing what they thought they would. The path to success and passion and self-realization is a crooked one. If you were to stumble across my personal journals you'd find them full of laments that I don't know what I want to do with my life! The first phase is one of ‘interest' of ‘discovery' before people lock into that thing they love. So, don't be afraid to try new things and shop around in your interest. It's an incremental process and a crooked road that never ends. Please, enjoy the journey! And I'll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-358 – Pam the TrailMomma (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4359.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-359 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Today, for me is February 17 2017. For you? Who knows? Through the miracle of time travel and temporal displacement you could be interfacing with my digital echoes thousands of years from now. I’m going to keep my intro brief because I’ve got a couple longer pieces in this episode and I’m horribly behind schedule! When we last talked my training was great and I was ramping up my volume and intensity. Of course that was a great way to cures myself. The next day I ran an easy run with my buddies and that night I had a noticeably sore knee. I couldn’t tell if it was from the running or from carrying some heavy crates up to the attic so I took a few days easy. By mid week it was gone and turns out I probably tweaked something in a non-running activity. Just goes to show you how terribly fragile a marathoner becomes in the run up to a road marathon. As a result I missed a weekend long run. Then this past weekend I got 17 and a half in with my buddies and my foot ended up being quite sore afterwards. Feels like I aggravated my plantar fasciitis again. It’s a combination of the high volume, the cold weather and my shoes are getting old. But, I had to take most of this week off as well. I dragged my bike trainer in from the porch and set it up in the living room in front of the TV and have been spinning away. I’m going to try an easy 18 tomorrow morning with my buddies. One great development is that coming full circle I’m doing long runs with my old friend Frank who you might remember from episode 1! He went through that same hip resurfacing thing and is back on the roads with me training for Boston! Never say never! Never say die! We’ll be doing this when we’re 80! Today I chat about trail running and plant eating with the delightful Pam the “Trail Moma” – I think you’ll like her. Thanks to my friends out there for responding to my cry for help to get some new interviewees! It worked. In section one I’ve got a long piece on how to survive the winter blues in your training and your life. In section two I’m going to test out piece on sales that I’d appreciate any feedback on. Send me fistfulls of dirty cash in duffel bags, or just contribute, to my Team Hoyt fund. Yeah you. I’m talking to you! Do the right thing. I know where you live. I’m sending Buddy to break your legs for a contribution. I’ve had to move 3 large helpings of winter storm snow this week and my back hurts! But we also got the winter moon which was wonderful! The days are getting longer. Spring is coming. … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. We have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Winter Blues - Voices of reason – the conversation Pam – The TrailMomma Links: Instagram: @Trailmomma Facebook: As for a bio, feel free to use this or grab from my site - either is fine. A New Jersey transplant that landed herself in California, Pam is a weekend warrior with a passion. She works full-time, is the mother of two and has a burning desire to see everyone achieve their best life by thriving on a plant-based diet. If she's not running the canyons of Northern California she is attending plant-based conferences or has her nose in a book reading the latest on the healing properties of plants. She finds pleasure in helping those that reach out to her for help in transitioning out of the Standard American Diet (SAD) and into one that will transform them inside and out. Two more links. My YouTube channel and I realized I mentioned the Engine 2 group in our talk. Happy Trails! Pam Section two Sales and selling - Outro Yes, my friends, this particular trail is a dead end that you have followed, an impassable swamp of ideas that you cannot ford, but you have reached, at the end of the RunRunLive Podcast. I’m still training away and a couple weeks isn’t going to affect me either way. The lesson, for you, though, is, as I said in the first piece, pay attention and get in front of injuries early in your cycle. Before they take you out. I know in my experience there is never an immediate chronic injury, it’s always something that would have healed in a couple weeks or days if I had just been smart about it. We’re about a month and a half out from Boston. That gives me plenty of time to tune my racing. I’m already riding a good fitness base so I’m not worried about it. I can lose those last ten pounds in 2 weeks if I have to! I’ve got a lot going on. I’m short on time today and that’s ok. That’s why we set deadlines. Deadlines and urgency are enabling. As a matter of fact urgency is one of the preconditions for entering a flow state. Translation: you do some of your best work when you don’t have any other choice and you don’t have time to think about it! I’m reading a great book, that I’ll write more about in the future, called ‘Grit’, by Angela Duckworth. It talks a lot about how being successful is more related to sustained effort than intelligence and skill. I love this concept. I can see it in my running and career. It also says that when you find something that you are passionate about, that becomes your obsession and purpose, it isn’t like being struck by lightning. Most people don’t end up doing what they thought they would. The path to success and passion and self-realization is a crooked one. If you were to stumble across my personal journals you’d find them full of laments that I don’t know what I want to do with my life! The first phase is one of ‘interest’ of ‘discovery’ before people lock into that thing they love. So, don’t be afraid to try new things and shop around in your interest. It’s an incremental process and a crooked road that never ends. Please, enjoy the journey! And I’ll see you out there. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-358 – Q&A with Chris (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4358.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-358 of the RunRunLive Podcast. How are you doing? We made it to February. We're on the other side of the equinox. The days are getting longer. My training is going great. I've been eating clean and I'm ramping up my miles for Boston. I did a 1:20 step up on Sunday with a full 50 minutes of tempo at faster than race pace. I did a hilly 10.5 on Tuesday and another hilly 10.8 on Wednesday. I'm at close to 30 miles and I've got two more runs this week. That's good volume for me and my legs feel good. I'm recovering well and nothing hurt. Right on plan. Today we have an interesting interview with a handsome, intelligent and compelling man. No. Not really. Just kidding. As I threatened I had my baby, future Neurosurgeon, Teresa ask me questions that you had sent in. What can I say, they can't all be great shows! Come o, we're at episode 358 for heaven's sake! I get a gimme now and then. In part one I'll focus in on how to execute a step-up run. In section two I'll share a piece that I wrote this week on how to tell your story on LinkedIn for my business blog. Other than that it's Friday night and I owe you a show! So let's progress with alacrity before we freeze in this February evening. … I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. We have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. … Last week one of my runs was a 30-30 workout. It's a bit of a speed workout. You warm up then you run 30 seconds hard, at 15-20 seconds faster than your 5K pace. Then you recover for 30 seconds and repeat. Do that 20 times and cool down. It's the type of workout that you should really do on the track, but the local tracks are all under snow right now so I did it in my neighborhood. My neighborhood is almost exactly a 1K loop. It's sort of a slightly inclined 1K oval. It's good for this type of workout and my neighbors have long gotten over the fact that I'm THAT guy. There's a Montessori school at the end of road. So I ran past the kids playing in the playground every 4-5 minutes. I got out at lunch, to get some sun, so they were out playing in the snow. These are little kids. They were playing over the remains of a snow fort of some sort. We got this weird ice-rain-snow-freeze that makes for some sturdy, crunchy snow. I got these little windows of precocious organizational behavior as I ran by. First time I passed they were trying to stop someone from destroying the snow fort. There was a party that was actively pro-destruction and another that really didn't want them to do that and a couple of moderators trying to find a middle ground. Next time I went by they had figured out some way to jump off or slide on the fort remains and now were working out the rules for doing so. Much debate on the proper jumping and sliding protocols. Next time they were all happily taking turns doing whatever it was they decided was the funnest thing to do, but since, apparently only one person at a time could do it, the moderators were now verbally enforcing who's turn it was and how long they could go. No adults involved. Just a gang of little kids on a snow fort. And they self-organized to keep things moving along. Made me think about the nature of humans and how we are much stronger together than apart. When we can work it out and find a way to move forward – everybody wins. Maybe we could promote these kids up to run the world? On with the show. The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Step-up run part 2 - Voices of reason – the conversation ME! Got nuthin to add! Section two Using LinkedIn to tell your story - Outro Alrighty my friends. You stepped up to the end of episode 4-358 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Love you guys. Don't be afraid to send me questions or comments. I do love the interaction. I'm right on track in my training for Boston. I received my entry confirmation today – so it's real! Hopefully we'll get good weather and I'll be able to let the dogs out! My nutrition has been super clean this week. It's been a good build week and I feel pretty good. I'll go out for an easy 7-8 with my buddies tomorrow and then 15-16 on Sunday. As I promised I skipped Derry this year and am not signing up for any of the spring races. I may decide to do Eastern States. But I'm trying to focus my training and keep it simple. … I had two back to back 1:30 runs this week. I did them on a hilly course around my house over into the next town on the back roads. We've got snow on the ground and it's in the mid-20's. Tuesday I couldn't get the run done until it was dark out. I went out into the cold, quiet New England winter night. It's really special in the winter at night when it's cold out. It was a moonless night. It was super quiet. When it gets cold the air gets really dry and crisp. All you can hear is the pat pat pat of your feet on the pavement and the sound of your own breathing. Even though there was no moon, because of the icy snow cover the woods and roads were lit up from the starlight. When it gets dry like this the stars fight their way through the light pollution and stand out. You can look up and see Orion the Hunter and the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia and the sparkling dust of the Milky Way. Our home. So don't be afraid to get out and feel the cold air in your lungs and live the winter months with the verve and joie de vivre that I know you all possess. And…I'll see you out there! MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-358 – Q&A with Chris (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4358.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-358 of the RunRunLive Podcast. How are you doing? We made it to February. We’re on the other side of the equinox. The days are getting longer. My training is going great. I’ve been eating clean and I’m ramping up my miles for Boston. I did a 1:20 step up on Sunday with a full 50 minutes of tempo at faster than race pace. I did a hilly 10.5 on Tuesday and another hilly 10.8 on Wednesday. I’m at close to 30 miles and I’ve got two more runs this week. That’s good volume for me and my legs feel good. I’m recovering well and nothing hurt. Right on plan. Today we have an interesting interview with a handsome, intelligent and compelling man. No. Not really. Just kidding. As I threatened I had my baby, future Neurosurgeon, Teresa ask me questions that you had sent in. What can I say, they can’t all be great shows! Come o, we’re at episode 358 for heaven’s sake! I get a gimme now and then. In part one I’ll focus in on how to execute a step-up run. In section two I’ll share a piece that I wrote this week on how to tell your story on LinkedIn for my business blog. Other than that it’s Friday night and I owe you a show! So let’s progress with alacrity before we freeze in this February evening. … I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. We have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. … Last week one of my runs was a 30-30 workout. It’s a bit of a speed workout. You warm up then you run 30 seconds hard, at 15-20 seconds faster than your 5K pace. Then you recover for 30 seconds and repeat. Do that 20 times and cool down. It’s the type of workout that you should really do on the track, but the local tracks are all under snow right now so I did it in my neighborhood. My neighborhood is almost exactly a 1K loop. It’s sort of a slightly inclined 1K oval. It’s good for this type of workout and my neighbors have long gotten over the fact that I’m THAT guy. There’s a Montessori school at the end of road. So I ran past the kids playing in the playground every 4-5 minutes. I got out at lunch, to get some sun, so they were out playing in the snow. These are little kids. They were playing over the remains of a snow fort of some sort. We got this weird ice-rain-snow-freeze that makes for some sturdy, crunchy snow. I got these little windows of precocious organizational behavior as I ran by. First time I passed they were trying to stop someone from destroying the snow fort. There was a party that was actively pro-destruction and another that really didn’t want them to do that and a couple of moderators trying to find a middle ground. Next time I went by they had figured out some way to jump off or slide on the fort remains and now were working out the rules for doing so. Much debate on the proper jumping and sliding protocols. Next time they were all happily taking turns doing whatever it was they decided was the funnest thing to do, but since, apparently only one person at a time could do it, the moderators were now verbally enforcing who’s turn it was and how long they could go. No adults involved. Just a gang of little kids on a snow fort. And they self-organized to keep things moving along. Made me think about the nature of humans and how we are much stronger together than apart. When we can work it out and find a way to move forward – everybody wins. Maybe we could promote these kids up to run the world? On with the show. The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Step-up run part 2 - Voices of reason – the conversation ME! Got nuthin to add! Section two Using LinkedIn to tell your story - Outro Alrighty my friends. You stepped up to the end of episode 4-358 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Love you guys. Don’t be afraid to send me questions or comments. I do love the interaction. I’m right on track in my training for Boston. I received my entry confirmation today – so it’s real! Hopefully we’ll get good weather and I’ll be able to let the dogs out! My nutrition has been super clean this week. It’s been a good build week and I feel pretty good. I’ll go out for an easy 7-8 with my buddies tomorrow and then 15-16 on Sunday. As I promised I skipped Derry this year and am not signing up for any of the spring races. I may decide to do Eastern States. But I’m trying to focus my training and keep it simple. … I had two back to back 1:30 runs this week. I did them on a hilly course around my house over into the next town on the back roads. We’ve got snow on the ground and it’s in the mid-20’s. Tuesday I couldn’t get the run done until it was dark out. I went out into the cold, quiet New England winter night. It’s really special in the winter at night when it’s cold out. It was a moonless night. It was super quiet. When it gets cold the air gets really dry and crisp. All you can hear is the pat pat pat of your feet on the pavement and the sound of your own breathing. Even though there was no moon, because of the icy snow cover the woods and roads were lit up from the starlight. When it gets dry like this the stars fight their way through the light pollution and stand out. You can look up and see Orion the Hunter and the Big Dipper and Cassiopeia and the sparkling dust of the Milky Way. Our home. So don’t be afraid to get out and feel the cold air in your lungs and live the winter months with the verve and joie de vivre that I know you all possess. And…I’ll see you out there! MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-356 – Talking Communities with Kevin Gwin of the Extra Mile (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4356.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hey there! It's a new year! I know we lost a lot of celebrities in 2016, but you and I made it, right? So welcome to a new year. And welcome to the extra-mile edition of the RunRunLive Podcast. That's right I grabbed our friend Kevin Gwin away from his Beatles albums and Galloway chatter to talk to me about communities of runners and how the world has changed since we started doing this a decade ago. How was your 2016? Glass half-full or tank half-empty? I'm going to quote my favorite race ‘A' goal. “I didn't die!” The rest is gravy I guess! Let's see what I can remember… I think we started the year running the Hangover Classic 10k on January first and jumping in the ocean. Then in January didn't trundle the wife off to Phoenix for a quick vacation that included the Rock ‘n Roll Marathon and a bunch of cool sight-seeing? Did I not run a bunch of the local races leading up to Boston? Like Derry and Stu's and Eastern States? Did I not Have a great training cycle? The best in 5 years right? Then we ran Boston and learned that lesson about going out too fast that somehow never gets learned. But, we checked off our 18th Boston, didn't die and raised some coin for the Hoyts. Do I seem to remember capping off 10 years of Race Directorship of the Groton Road Race? The race and the club managed to survive my term and handed it off to someone even more capable! There might have been a couple weeks in May where all that caught up with me and I slowed down with a small case of pneumonia, but you can't get rainbows without rain. I jumped out of that rough patch by running the Grand Canyon with my newly graduated Daughter. How cool is that for a bucket list checkoff? The summer was a bit doldrum filled, but I capped it off with another nice vacation to Chicago, yes I did see a Cubs Game in Wrigley Field. Apparently my good karma rubbed off on those fellows later in the year. I shook off the heat and placed in that trail marathon in Indy. I returned to my old friend the Wapack Trail for a long outing in the rocks on Labor Day. Then I turned around and spanked that Spartan Beast a couple weeks later, making a fair amount of young people cry. Somewhere in there I lost 15 pounds and showed up for the Portland Marathon lean and light. I got lucky with the weather and requalified. I joined my club for the Ayer 5k tradition on Thanksgiving and our end-of-season shindig at the Mill Cities Relay. This past Saturday I ran the 4th edition of my very own made up marathon and I'll tell you about that later. Goodreads tells me I read 27 books. I know I wrote at least 52 articles. I pushed out 26 podcasts. I trained almost every day. Pretty good year, right? Was it perfect? Was it filled with challenges and accidents and side turns? Of course, it was. If everything is smooth sailing and your life isn't filled with challenges you're not living, you're waiting to die. I don't know if any of that stuff would be considered worthy, or good or bad. I try very hard not to waste time keeping score. It's simpler. Get up and do stuff. Do what you can do. I have a sign by y desk that reminds me that consistency and practice are a reasonable substitute for genius, it says; “Work the Process.” Anyway, today we talk with Kevin. In section one I'll talk a bit about breathing. I was thinking about this topic this week and wanted to poke at it a bit. In section two I'll probably pull some more nuggets out of the Drucker book I've just finished. (that would count as number one for 2017, if I was keeping score!) … BeforeI let you go I'll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. We have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member's only audio. 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. My family and I go over to my Mom's for Christmas Eve. I was driving around in the truck with Buddy doing errands on Saturday and she called me to see what time I was planning to come. I asked her who else was coming, because I had some nieces and nephews I was trying to get presents to. And she must have thought I was qualifying the gathering because she said “It's not the number of people who show up, Chris, it's the quality of the people who show up.” There ya go. Happy New Year. On with the show. The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member's content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I've been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro's, Outro's, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3's you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Breathing - Voices of reason – the conversation Kevin Gwin from the ExtraMile Podcast The Extra Mile Podcast is a podcast for runners of all abilities from any part of the globe. In this podcast we encourage runners, no matter what their ability, to get in touch and send us their audio updates to tell us about their training, their races, or even if they've just taken up running. We welcome everyone in to our online community. Some runners choose to record themselves out on a run, whilst others like to record in the comfort of their own home. Whichever suits you, why not record us a message and let us know how your running is going? You can use your computer, your MP3 player or any type of audio digital recording device to record something and email it in to us, we really would love to hear from you. This podcast is listened to by many runners around the globe who often take the show out on their training runs and just love to hear about how other runners are doing - a bit like having a group virtual running buddies to keep them company. Thanks for visiting the site and we hope you'll add your voice to our growing global community of runners on the Extra Mile Podcast! The Extra Mile Podcast-GALLOWAY EDITION is a podcast for runners of ALLabilities who want to learn everything they can about theGalloway RUN/WALK/RUNtraining method right from Jeff ! This podcast will Run/Walk you right through Jeff's 30 week marathon training schedule and gently get you to the finish line of your fall marathon "INJURYFREE"!!! Section two The Effective Executive - http://runrunlive.com/the-effective-executive-peter-e-drucker Outro Alrighty my friends. New year, new lease on life, right? Blank slate for us. You my friend have diaphragmatically breathed your way through the end of Episode 4-356 of the RunRunLive podcast. Strange cadence to the holidays this year. It seems like everyone disappeared for 2 weeks on the business side. I was trying to make calls and I couldn't get a response out of anyone. Now this week they are all emerging from the woodwork with a corresponding urgency! As of Monday I'm back on my clean eating wagon. It feels good. My goal is to see if I can get down to 165 pounds for the Boston marathon. It's ironic that the government BMI tables have always told me I should be between 155 and 165 for my height. I always thought that was bull. At that weight I'm going to be somewhere in the 6-7% body fat. Should be able to see some of those ab muscles I've never seen! I'm healthy and my training is going well. Coach has me in the build-2 stage, which means I'll start ramping up the volume and working in some intensity. I did one last idiotic thing to close out the year, well, actually two things. I hosted the 4th annual Groton Marathon. We made it more official this year. We set up the clock and had people ‘register'. We got some blank buttons with the club logo on them. I Left a piece of notebook paper on the tailgate of my truck and had people sign in their name, distance and make up a bib number. The official bibs were the buttons. I gave them a sharpie to write their numbers on the button. Of course, given the geekiness of runners I didn't just get numbers. I got two pi's, a mu, a natural logarithm and a tally mark five. Then I had them write down their finishing time when they were done. So we could get results. I handed out handmade holiday ornaments as medals. I got about 24 people to come out and run various differences. The ½ was very popular. Two other guys joined me for the full. Given the shape I was in it was probably about 4-6 miles more than I should have been running – but we got it done, finishing up around 4:09. It hovered just below freezing for the whole day. I guess the lesson here is you don't need to be a $150 Rock n Roll event to get out and have fun with your buddies. Because of the odd way the holidays fell, the Hangover Classic was the next day. I ran the 5K with Teresa and we all jumped in the Atlantic, as is our tradition. It was interesting running the day after a marathon. I just stretched out and let my legs do what they wanted. I survived. Now I'm back on the plan and ramping up for Boston. It's good to have a compass point to steer towards. On a different note, Buddy the old Wonder dog is doing ok. He can't run much anymore because his his back hips are very weak now. He's not in any pain, he just has trouble getting up and down. He still climbs the stairs and jumps up in the bed. He's still perfectly mobile, but I think his running days are over. He's started his new career as a lap dog to keep the girls warm at night. Not a bad gig. … We had a warm day with rain this week and it washed most of the snow and ice from the trails. I was able to get out for a run. Out behind the pond I found a cell phone in the ground. I brought it home. It was a droid in an Otter case and it still had a charge on it. It was locked so I couldn't tell whose it was. I brought it home and put it on the charge. It rang a couple times, but I couldn't get to it in time. I ended up dropping it at the police station. I hope the owner thinks to call down there. I feel like I should put a sign up on the trail that says “I found your cell phone and left it with the Police.” I also tried to give blood. Funny story. The Red Cross were sending me desperate emails. I tried to make an appointment on their website, but my experience is that making an appointment really has no impact on the process. It's not the most organized process. Of course the lady is taking my HR and I tell her it's going to be low, but she enters it and the system flags it, and she has to call a doctor to get it overridden. Crazy right? I sometimes feel like we get penalized for being healthy. Then they hook me up, she can't find a vein, because, I guess I ‘m a bit grissley. She fishes around, calls the other guy over, he fishes around, they finally find some blood flow and get me going. Couple minutes later the next person wanders by and notices that I've dried up. She fishes around for awhile, then they give up. They unhook me and I'm done. That's it. They don't get a bag of blood. I get a bottle of water, a t-shirt, a Dunkies gift card and a bruise. So, I'm not complaining but there's an hour and a half of my life I think we could make better use of! Anybody else have this challenge? Seems like a process that could use a bit of effectiveness consulting, eh? … So my friends. Here we are in 2017. Ten years in. Remember when you were a kid and 10 years seemed like such a long wait? Now it's the blink of an eye. It's up to you to slow it down. You have to grab time by the tail and hold on tight, or as Ferrris said, you might miss it. We tend to get caught up and tied up by all the things undone, piled up and leering at us. I think you have to actively counter that. Especially in these early days of the calendar when we're all thinking about goals and list and priorities. I leave you with one of the sentiments from my daily practice. Focus on executing today, living now, being present in today's tasks and let the outcomes take care of themselves. And.. I'll see you out there in a healthy, prosperous and joy filled 2017. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-356 – Talking Communities with Kevin Gwin of the Extra Mile (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4356.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hey there! It’s a new year! I know we lost a lot of celebrities in 2016, but you and I made it, right? So welcome to a new year. And welcome to the extra-mile edition of the RunRunLive Podcast. That’s right I grabbed our friend Kevin Gwin away from his Beatles albums and Galloway chatter to talk to me about communities of runners and how the world has changed since we started doing this a decade ago. How was your 2016? Glass half-full or tank half-empty? I’m going to quote my favorite race ‘A’ goal. “I didn’t die!” The rest is gravy I guess! Let’s see what I can remember… I think we started the year running the Hangover Classic 10k on January first and jumping in the ocean. Then in January didn’t trundle the wife off to Phoenix for a quick vacation that included the Rock ‘n Roll Marathon and a bunch of cool sight-seeing? Did I not run a bunch of the local races leading up to Boston? Like Derry and Stu’s and Eastern States? Did I not Have a great training cycle? The best in 5 years right? Then we ran Boston and learned that lesson about going out too fast that somehow never gets learned. But, we checked off our 18th Boston, didn’t die and raised some coin for the Hoyts. Do I seem to remember capping off 10 years of Race Directorship of the Groton Road Race? The race and the club managed to survive my term and handed it off to someone even more capable! There might have been a couple weeks in May where all that caught up with me and I slowed down with a small case of pneumonia, but you can’t get rainbows without rain. I jumped out of that rough patch by running the Grand Canyon with my newly graduated Daughter. How cool is that for a bucket list checkoff? The summer was a bit doldrum filled, but I capped it off with another nice vacation to Chicago, yes I did see a Cubs Game in Wrigley Field. Apparently my good karma rubbed off on those fellows later in the year. I shook off the heat and placed in that trail marathon in Indy. I returned to my old friend the Wapack Trail for a long outing in the rocks on Labor Day. Then I turned around and spanked that Spartan Beast a couple weeks later, making a fair amount of young people cry. Somewhere in there I lost 15 pounds and showed up for the Portland Marathon lean and light. I got lucky with the weather and requalified. I joined my club for the Ayer 5k tradition on Thanksgiving and our end-of-season shindig at the Mill Cities Relay. This past Saturday I ran the 4th edition of my very own made up marathon and I’ll tell you about that later. Goodreads tells me I read 27 books. I know I wrote at least 52 articles. I pushed out 26 podcasts. I trained almost every day. Pretty good year, right? Was it perfect? Was it filled with challenges and accidents and side turns? Of course, it was. If everything is smooth sailing and your life isn’t filled with challenges you’re not living, you’re waiting to die. I don’t know if any of that stuff would be considered worthy, or good or bad. I try very hard not to waste time keeping score. It’s simpler. Get up and do stuff. Do what you can do. I have a sign by y desk that reminds me that consistency and practice are a reasonable substitute for genius, it says; “Work the Process.” Anyway, today we talk with Kevin. In section one I’ll talk a bit about breathing. I was thinking about this topic this week and wanted to poke at it a bit. In section two I’ll probably pull some more nuggets out of the Drucker book I’ve just finished. (that would count as number one for 2017, if I was keeping score!) … BeforeI let you go I’ll remind you that the RunRunLive podcast is ad free and listener supported. We have a membership option where you can become a member and as a special thank you, you will get access to member’s only audio. 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. My family and I go over to my Mom’s for Christmas Eve. I was driving around in the truck with Buddy doing errands on Saturday and she called me to see what time I was planning to come. I asked her who else was coming, because I had some nieces and nephews I was trying to get presents to. And she must have thought I was qualifying the gathering because she said “It’s not the number of people who show up, Chris, it’s the quality of the people who show up.” There ya go. Happy New Year. On with the show. The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported. We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content. Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Breathing - Voices of reason – the conversation Kevin Gwin from the ExtraMile Podcast The Extra Mile Podcast is a podcast for runners of all abilities from any part of the globe. In this podcast we encourage runners, no matter what their ability, to get in touch and send us their audio updates to tell us about their training, their races, or even if they've just taken up running. We welcome everyone in to our online community. Some runners choose to record themselves out on a run, whilst others like to record in the comfort of their own home. Whichever suits you, why not record us a message and let us know how your running is going? You can use your computer, your MP3 player or any type of audio digital recording device to record something and email it in to us, we really would love to hear from you. This podcast is listened to by many runners around the globe who often take the show out on their training runs and just love to hear about how other runners are doing - a bit like having a group virtual running buddies to keep them company. Thanks for visiting the site and we hope you'll add your voice to our growing global community of runners on the Extra Mile Podcast! The Extra Mile Podcast-GALLOWAY EDITION is a podcast for runners of ALLabilities who want to learn everything they can about theGalloway RUN/WALK/RUNtraining method right from Jeff ! This podcast will Run/Walk you right through Jeff's 30 week marathon training schedule and gently get you to the finish line of your fall marathon "INJURYFREE"!!! Section two The Effective Executive - http://runrunlive.com/the-effective-executive-peter-e-drucker Outro Alrighty my friends. New year, new lease on life, right? Blank slate for us. You my friend have diaphragmatically breathed your way through the end of Episode 4-356 of the RunRunLive podcast. Strange cadence to the holidays this year. It seems like everyone disappeared for 2 weeks on the business side. I was trying to make calls and I couldn’t get a response out of anyone. Now this week they are all emerging from the woodwork with a corresponding urgency! As of Monday I’m back on my clean eating wagon. It feels good. My goal is to see if I can get down to 165 pounds for the Boston marathon. It’s ironic that the government BMI tables have always told me I should be between 155 and 165 for my height. I always thought that was bull. At that weight I’m going to be somewhere in the 6-7% body fat. Should be able to see some of those ab muscles I’ve never seen! I’m healthy and my training is going well. Coach has me in the build-2 stage, which means I’ll start ramping up the volume and working in some intensity. I did one last idiotic thing to close out the year, well, actually two things. I hosted the 4th annual Groton Marathon. We made it more official this year. We set up the clock and had people ‘register’. We got some blank buttons with the club logo on them. I Left a piece of notebook paper on the tailgate of my truck and had people sign in their name, distance and make up a bib number. The official bibs were the buttons. I gave them a sharpie to write their numbers on the button. Of course, given the geekiness of runners I didn’t just get numbers. I got two pi’s, a mu, a natural logarithm and a tally mark five. Then I had them write down their finishing time when they were done. So we could get results. I handed out handmade holiday ornaments as medals. I got about 24 people to come out and run various differences. The ½ was very popular. Two other guys joined me for the full. Given the shape I was in it was probably about 4-6 miles more than I should have been running – but we got it done, finishing up around 4:09. It hovered just below freezing for the whole day. I guess the lesson here is you don’t need to be a $150 Rock n Roll event to get out and have fun with your buddies. Because of the odd way the holidays fell, the Hangover Classic was the next day. I ran the 5K with Teresa and we all jumped in the Atlantic, as is our tradition. It was interesting running the day after a marathon. I just stretched out and let my legs do what they wanted. I survived. Now I’m back on the plan and ramping up for Boston. It’s good to have a compass point to steer towards. On a different note, Buddy the old Wonder dog is doing ok. He can’t run much anymore because his his back hips are very weak now. He’s not in any pain, he just has trouble getting up and down. He still climbs the stairs and jumps up in the bed. He’s still perfectly mobile, but I think his running days are over. He’s started his new career as a lap dog to keep the girls warm at night. Not a bad gig. … We had a warm day with rain this week and it washed most of the snow and ice from the trails. I was able to get out for a run. Out behind the pond I found a cell phone in the ground. I brought it home. It was a droid in an Otter case and it still had a charge on it. It was locked so I couldn’t tell whose it was. I brought it home and put it on the charge. It rang a couple times, but I couldn’t get to it in time. I ended up dropping it at the police station. I hope the owner thinks to call down there. I feel like I should put a sign up on the trail that says “I found your cell phone and left it with the Police.” I also tried to give blood. Funny story. The Red Cross were sending me desperate emails. I tried to make an appointment on their website, but my experience is that making an appointment really has no impact on the process. It’s not the most organized process. Of course the lady is taking my HR and I tell her it’s going to be low, but she enters it and the system flags it, and she has to call a doctor to get it overridden. Crazy right? I sometimes feel like we get penalized for being healthy. Then they hook me up, she can’t find a vein, because, I guess I ‘m a bit grissley. She fishes around, calls the other guy over, he fishes around, they finally find some blood flow and get me going. Couple minutes later the next person wanders by and notices that I’ve dried up. She fishes around for awhile, then they give up. They unhook me and I’m done. That’s it. They don’t get a bag of blood. I get a bottle of water, a t-shirt, a Dunkies gift card and a bruise. So, I’m not complaining but there’s an hour and a half of my life I think we could make better use of! Anybody else have this challenge? Seems like a process that could use a bit of effectiveness consulting, eh? … So my friends. Here we are in 2017. Ten years in. Remember when you were a kid and 10 years seemed like such a long wait? Now it’s the blink of an eye. It’s up to you to slow it down. You have to grab time by the tail and hold on tight, or as Ferrris said, you might miss it. We tend to get caught up and tied up by all the things undone, piled up and leering at us. I think you have to actively counter that. Especially in these early days of the calendar when we’re all thinking about goals and list and priorities. I leave you with one of the sentiments from my daily practice. Focus on executing today, living now, being present in today’s tasks and let the outcomes take care of themselves. And.. I’ll see you out there in a healthy, prosperous and joy filled 2017. MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -
There is a lot of evil in the world, and children often see the worst of it. Is it possible to push back against the trials our children face in just a single day? It may sound like a tired phrase: “kids are our future.” But it’s true, and in too many places in this country and around the world, they aren’t being treated with the respect they deserve. Some are being discarded and abused. Others are raised in poverty with very little chance of getting a good education. There are small signs of hope on the horizon and we want to celebrate that as well as invite you to be part of the solution by joining Heart Beings, the emotional intelligence organization Six Seconds, and Crowdrise in a fundraising campaign. Listen to our podcast and learn about great organizations that are making a difference in the lives of children everywhere. Universal Children’s Day – November 20th “By resolution 836(IX) of 14 December 1954, the General Assembly recommended that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children. It recommended that the Day was to be observed also as a day of activity devoted to promoting the ideals and objectives of the Charter and the welfare of the children of the world.” -United Nations
All images courtesy of relay team members Mike Welden and Jeff Green were part of a group of 10 people including a few Canadian ALS researchers, and a Miss America contestant. This group, organized by Steve Luther ran from Rochester to Boston, MA to raise awareness and deliver funds they raised in an effort to end ALS. In this epsiode, they share the highs and lows of their 400 mile adventure.Episode LinksWhat the F&*k is ALS? - (Mike's Blog post) "Ice Bucket Challenge" Research SuccessALS AssociationALS Relay EventDe-Feet ALSDonate Now (CrowdRise) Finish ArticleBomber's Burritos Red Fern SponsorsJosh Stratton LMT - Tell him you heard the podcast and use the code "IronMan" when booking during August for $15 off a 60 minute massage!SHIRTSA limited number of #riopodcast shirts are available! Get'em! RunnersGreg Rowe (cameo)Steven LutherAmberRick ConradJamie Hobbs Special Guests: Jeff Green and Mike Welden.
From the Commodore, to PHP and the Web, to Objective-C, to Functional Reactive MVVM in Swift, Josh is a goldmine for our Los Angeles iOS Developer scene and we're so happy to welcome him into the SwiftCoders community. Enjoy! Links: Video - Functional Reactive MVVM at CocoaHeads LA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Bd0p3J_4AVideo - Protocols with Associated Types - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWoNjiSPqI8Josh on Twitter - @joshavant - https://twitter.com/joshavantWebsite - https://iamjo.shEmail - josh@iamjo.sh Questions, comments, or you just wanna say Hi? Contact your host @garricn on Twitter This episode was recorded using the Cast platform by @JulianLepinski. Wanna start your own podcast? Try Cast!
Anna Quinlan shares the story by which her son Noah joined their family through adoption and the reason Anna chose to run her first marathon. It’s a unique and amazing story of sacrifice, endurance, and hardship. She also provides some helpful lessons learned from training and completing for the Big Sur International Marathon, in which she also raised money for the charity Every Mother Counts. Anna lives in Sacramento, CA, is the mother of two active boys, and is a professional writer. Episode sponsored by goodr, use code “runified2016” for a special Runified discount! Anna Quinlan’s Website, Instagram, CrowdRise, The Hardest Mile Every Mother Counts Website, Run for EMC, Instagram Runified’s Website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Links PDF mit den Ergebnissen der Europäischen Selfpublishing-Studie von Books on Demand Infografik zur Studie im Blog der Autorenwelt Tim Ferriss Edward Norton Podcast episode on Mastery, Must-Read Books, and The Future of Crowdfunding CrowdRise
Every other year, the Oregon Legislature meets for a short session—35 days—to discuss budgets and other timely issues. This year was a whirlwind for housing advocates and others looking to squeak through some laws. For this episode of "Why Isn't Anyone...?" Team members Justin Buri and Vivian Satterfield are joined by Kristina Narayan from the Asian Pacific American Network of Oregon to discuss what went down in Salem during February and what that means for inclusionary zoning and other hoped-for changes. Roll credits: Today's show was produced by Justin Buri and Vivian Satterfield, and edited by Eric Klein. Music is by Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet. You can find us on our Facebook page and on Twitter @whyisntanyone. If you liked this show, help us keep it going by donating via our website, whyisntanyone.com, where you can also leave us comments, questions, and ideas for future topics. Check out the people who have supported us on Crowdrise! We are a project of Umbrella, a Portland-based nonprofit that encourages community-based street culture.
Understanding is what we’re all trying to achieve with each other. Featuring thoughts from Richard Wolfe, co-founder of CrowdRise, Samuel in Montreal, Andrew in Putney, England, and a poem called LOVE from Lee the Homeless Bard. Key Takeaways: #1: A common weed called Plantain Leaf can relieve health ailments. #2: Giving back can be fun when you do it together. #3: Once a concept is introduced, you must revisit it over and over again before you can reach mastery. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/unifiedthreads/message
“What Is Equity?” Everyone uses this word. What does it mean, how is it used, and where should we be going with it? This is such a big word that we will be exploring this as a special two-parter series. Here we have Part 2. In the studio for this episode, we have four of the 10-person team at Why Isn't Anyone Talking About This—Adonia Lugo, Alexis Gabriel, Joy Davis and Steph Routh. Today's show was produced by the whole Team; edited by Steph Routh, and hosted by Adonia, Alexis, Joy, and Steph. Music is by Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet. You can find us on our Facebook page and on Twitter@whyisntanyone. If you liked this show, help us keep it going by donating via our website, whyisntanyone.com, where you can also leave us comments, questions, and ideas for future topics. Check out the people who have supported us on Crowdrise! We are a project of Umbrella, a Portland-based nonprofit that encourages community-based street culture.
This episode, I sit down with Edward Norton (@EdwardNorton). Edward is an actor, filmmaker and activist. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards for his work in Primal Fear, American History X, and Birdman. He has starred in scores of other films, including Fight Club, The Illusionist, and Moonrise Kingdom. Unbeknownst to most people, Edward is also a serial startup founder (e.g. CrowdRise; here’s my current campaign), a UN ambassador for biodiversity, a massively successful investor (e.g. early Uber), a pilot, and deeply involved with wilderness conservation. In this conversation, we cover a lot of ground, including: His beginnings in acting, and what early mentors taught him What separates great actors from mediocre actors, as illustrated through an early Marlon Brando story Edward’s physical preparation for American History X (and camera trickery) The importance of surfing His favorite books, documentaries, underrated films and filmmakers, and essays (The Catastrophe of Success, etc.) His advice to his 20- and 30-year old self And much more... And here’s a bonus, another favorite book he remembered after we stopped recording: Buddhism Without Beliefs. Enjoy! This podcast is brought to you by 99Designs, the world's largest marketplace of graphic designers. I have used them for years to create some amazing designs. When your business needs a logo, website design, business card, or anything you can imagine, check out 99Designs. I used them to rapid prototype the cover for The 4-Hour Body, and I've also had them help with display advertising and illustrations. If you want a more personalized approach, I recommend their 1-on-1 service. You get original designs from designers around the world. The best part? You provide your feedback, and then you end up with a product that you're happy with or your money back. Click this link and get a free $99 upgrade. Give it a test run. This podcast is also brought to you by Wealthfront. Wealthfront is a massively disruptive (in a good way) set-it-and-forget-it investing service, led by technologists from places like Apple and world-famous investors. It has exploded in popularity in the last 2 years and now has more than $2.5B under management. In fact, some of my good investor friends in Silicon Valley have millions of their own money in Wealthfront. Why? Because you can get services previously limited to the ultra-wealthy and only pay pennies on the dollar for them, and it’s all through smarter software instead of retail locations and bloated sales teams. Check out wealthfront.com/tim, take their risk assessment quiz, which only takes 2-5 minutes, and they’ll show you—for free–exactly the portfolio they’d put you in. If you want to just take their advice and do it yourself, you can. Or, as I would, you can set it and forget it. Well worth a few minutes: wealthfront.com/tim. ***If you enjoy the podcast, would you please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to convince hard-to-get guests. I also love reading the reviews!For show notes and past guests, please visit tim.blog/podcast.Sign up for Tim’s email newsletter (“5-Bullet Friday”) at tim.blog/friday.For transcripts of episodes, go to tim.blog/transcripts.Interested in sponsoring the podcast? Visit tim.blog/sponsor and fill out the form.Discover Tim’s books: tim.blog/books.Follow Tim:Twitter: twitter.com/tferriss Instagram: instagram.com/timferrissFacebook: facebook.com/timferriss YouTube: youtube.com/timferriss
Today we will be talking about “What Is Equity?” Everyone uses this word. What does it mean, how is it used, and where should we be going with it? This is such a big word that we will be exploring this as a special two-parter series. In the studio for this episode, we have four of the 10-person team at Why Isn't Anyone Talking About This—Vivian Satterfield, Mychal Tetteh, Leslie Lum, and Steph Routh. Today's show was produced by the whole Team; edited by Steph Routh, and hosted by Vivian, Mychal, Leslie, and Steph. Music is by Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet. You can find us on our Facebook page and on Twitter@whyisntanyone. If you liked this show, help us keep it going by donating via our website, whyisntanyone.com, where you can also leave us comments, questions, and ideas for future topics. Check out the people who have supported us on Crowdrise! We are a project of Umbrella, a Portland-based nonprofit that encourages community-based street culture.
The methods of placemaking aren't new, but its popularity with non-profit funders is. What is the goal of placemaking? As neighborhoods at risk of gentrification and displacement become home to placemaking projects, will they be around long enough to reap the benefits? Why Isn't Anyone Talking About This? hosts Alexis Gabriel and Heidi Guenin —spoke with Luann Algoso, a Portland, Oregon-based writer, blogger, activist, and strategic communications specialist, and Jamaal Green, PhD student in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning. Today's show was produced by Alexis Gabriel and Heidi Guenin; edited by Eric Klein, and hosted by Alexis and Heidi. Music is by Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet. You can find us on our Facebook page and on Twitter@whyisntanyone. If you liked this show, help us keep it going by donating via our website, whyisntanyone.com, where you can also leave us comments, questions, and ideas for future topics. Check out the people who have supported us on Crowdrise! We are a project of Umbrella, a Portland-based nonprofit that encourages community-based street culture.
On September 15, 2015, the Community Alliance of Tenants— Oregon's statewide tenant rights association—declared a Renter State of Emergency. How can Portland remain home to the people who live here, and what does the future look like? “Why Isn't Anyone Talking About This” host Mychal Tetteh—joined by fellow hosts Alexis Gabriel and (myself) —spoke with Justin Buri, the Executive Director of the Community Alliance of Tenants. Roll Credits EP 001 was produced by Eric Klein and Mychal Tetteh; edited by Eric Klein, and hosted by Mychal Tetteh, Alexis Gabriel, and Steph Routh. Intro music is by Nick Humphrey, outro music by Bluebird Entertainment. You can find us on our Facebook page and on Twitter @whyisntanyone. We are a project of Umbrella, a Portland-based nonprofit that encourages community-based street culture. If you liked this show, help us keep it going by donating via our Crowdrise campaign to ensure we have a second, fifth, and 50th episode.
This week the Two Gay Geeks talk TV and Movie news. We have a few interesting tid-bits, from news about Big Screen properties to Little (depends on how big your TV is...) Screen gems and even some Indie Screen possibilities. Join us as we discuss the news and banter nonsensically about all things entertainment. Check below in this article for important links. As always we welcome your feedback, let us know what you think, good or bad we want to know. Thank you for listening, we really do appreciate you taking time out of your day to spend with us. Our YouTube channel is Two Gay Geeks (audio only):Show Notes / Links:See the trailer for the Fox series Minority Report here See episode titles for Jessica Jones in our article here Dubsmash War starts September 2nd, check out our article here or the Crowdrise link here Please consider supporting our friends over at Beyond the Impact as they continue their Kickstarter campaign here Click here to view the New Star Wars Canon Timeline in Chronological Order See the trailer for Victor Frankenstein in our article here Have a look at the concept art for the new “Star Wars Land” unveiled at D23 in our article here Check it Out As our motto “You name it, We talk about it” implies, we have a wide variety of interests. With that in mind, we are always on the lookout for interesting things to talk about. Below are two exciting independent film projects that fit squarely in our area of interest, one has a Doctor Who connection and the other is of LGBT interest. Check out the articles for more information and to connect with them on Social Media: Neighbours from Hell, a new Horror/ Comedy film in production, we look forward to more info (especially since Colin Baker is involved). See our article updated with a synopsis here Conditioning, a Horror Short film with a message in the pre-production phase. See our article for more information and to support these young independent filmmakers here Thank You We want to give a special shout out to the Facebook Group “The Gay Geek” for graciously allowing us to post our episodes to their page. Look for them at www.facebook.com/groups/thegaygeek Instagram Baby We can now be found on Instagram as TwoGayGeeks and TGGeeks, see the links on the right sidebar. You are Important We welcome your suggestions. Let us know what you like or don’t like or if you have an opinion or comment on an article or the show. You may email us below, comment on Facebook, or call our listener line at 469.TG Geeks (469.844.3357). Let us know if there is something we should be watching and why, we may just give you a shout-out in a future episode. We will not publish or use your email address to spam you.
Pitch The Crowd I met JR McNair a few months ago when I was just getting started here with the Midtown studio. He is an Atlanta native and hometown sports star that now resides in South Fulton County. While in College J.R. started a business development company that since its inception has helped over 3,000 small business owners. J.R. […] The post Pitch The Crowd appeared first on Business RadioX ®.
Happy New Year Diamonds! I hope you all had a Fabulously Fun and safe New Year! I don't know about you but I am glad November and December of 2014 are done! I have been so busy I had to make an appointment to breathe.... I am #soserious. It's all finish somewhat now and time to move on to the next segment of my life. Thank you all for your support in 2014 as I look forward to getting your business exposed in 2015! There's a lot of good things planned for the show as I work hard to get your business and talents broadcast. In case you haven't observed the shows new time is 6:00pm EST still on Monday's, why the change you ask? I tell you bout it on the show. Monday's show is #CoffeeTalk time I wanted to have this time with you before my parade of guest and new musicians start coming through #soexcited! It is my time to get a little personal about what's been going on in my life for the holiday's, discuss new discoveries for social networking, brand building, New Years resolutions and all that good stuff. I am also going to talk about the shows new website at: LJDNShow.com how we are raising money and the purpose introducing the our fund raising website: CrowdRise.com, my upcoming magazine interview....Wow! So much I can't wait to chat with you! Now that you will be off work get comfy on your couch, favorite chair or bed and listen in, even better call me in the studio at: 347-237-4697 I would love to hear from you. Would you like to be a guest? email me Music promotions send email
Olá Empreendedores, Hoje Gabriel Mello (@universonegocio) e Henrique Souza (@henriqu_os) batem um papo sobre Financiamento Coletivo (CrowFunding). Saiba o real motivo pelo qual as Startup's utilizam as ferramentas de Financiamento Coletivo.
This week I've got an update on a story from last week. The family of Chris Gerard has set up a page on Crowdrise.com to help with his medical bills. Chris took a bad fall a couple weeks ago and sustained a serious brain injury. His longterm outlook is good, But they could use your help. Events coming up from Taxman, New Day Craft, Flat 12, Daredevil, Hoosier Beer Geek, Girl's Pint Out, Crown Brewing and many more!
This week, Megan and Joe talk with Stuart Elliott, advertising columnist at The New York Times about his recent article on "Seeking Success by Helping to Feed the Hungry." In it, Stuart profiles a new campaign called Run 10 Feed 10. Each person who registers to run in 10-kilometer races to be held in 11 cities this fall will trigger 10 meals to people in need in the runner’s community. The partners in the initiative are Unilever, on behalf of four brands, Degree Women, Ragú, Simple and Vaseline; Women’s Health magazine, published by Rodale; the Feed Foundation; and Crowdrise, a Web site that uses social networking and crowdsourcing to help raise money for charities. We discuss how this new campaign may represent a new area of opportunity for media companies that have previously let brands take center stage with cause marketing initiatives. Stuart also reflects on the growth of cause marketing the past few years and where the industry may be headed.
Robert Wolfe is the co-founder of Crowdrise, an online fundraising website with the tagline, "If you don't give back, no one will like you." They're all about, "raising money for charity and having the most fun in the world while doing it." Robert co-founded Crowdrise with his brother, Jeffrey Wolfe. Before creating Crowdrise, they started and built Moosejaw, a successful multi-channel retailer that combined humor, crowdsourcing, social commerce and creative marketing.Crowdrise's two other co-founders are Shauna Robertson, who has produced comedies like Suberbad, Knocked Up, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Anchorman, and Edward Norton (pictured here with Robert), who you know from his roles in films like Fight Club, American History X, and 25th Hour, but who is also a committed social and environmental activist. He has personally raised over 100 million dollars for charitable causes over the last 20 years. Listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast on iTunes. Connect with Crowdrise Website: http://www.crowdrise.com Twitter: @crowdrise Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/crowdrise Koh Scholar Computer Drive Robert mentioned: http://www.crowdrise.com/KohScholarComputer/fundraiser/KohScholarCorey Will Ferrell's Crowdrise campaign Robert mentioned:http://www.crowdrise.com/scholarshipsforcancersurvivors/fundraiser/willferrell Connect with meWebsite: http://brittbravo.comSpeaking & workshop calendar: http://brittbravo.com/speakingBlog: http://havefundogood.blogspot.comTwitter: @BbravoFacebook: www.facebook.com/britt.bravo
Robert Wolfe of Crowdrise (www.crowdrise.com) will be our guest. Crowdrise is about volunteering, raising money for Charity and having fun while doing it. Whether you're running a marathon, volunteering, or have causes that you care deeply about, create your own Fundraising Pages on Crowdrise and choose from over a million charities to raise money for. Visit the Peace Day TV page on Crowdrise at: http://www.crowdrise.com/broadcast/fundraiser/peacedaytv ~ join our team, or create your own project and team!
Robert Wolfe of Crowdrise (www.crowdrise.com) will be our guest. Crowdrise is about volunteering, raising money for Charity and having fun while doing it. Whether you're running a marathon, volunteering, or have causes that you care deeply about, create your own Fundraising Pages on Crowdrise and choose from over a million charities to raise money for. Visit the Peace Day TV page on Crowdrise at: http://www.crowdrise.com/broadcast/fundraiser/peacedaytv ~ join our team, or create your own project and team!
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