Podcasts about vermont city marathon

A volunteer program in Chittenden County is helping older adults age in place with their pets, which can lead to a better quality of life. Plus, Vermont received a waiver to participate in a federal food program, the state is looking for feedback on plans to manage the Blueberry Hill and Birdseye wildlife management units in Rutland County, Quebec is becoming easier to navigate for English-only speakers, and the Vermont City Marathon is now offering a cash prize for the fastest nonbinary runner.

Are you ready to embark on a journey that will push your physical and mental limits? Welcome to a marathon episode where we lace up, run, and conquer miles together, while unveiling the age-old question - "Should I run a marathon?"  We weigh the pros and cons of running a marathon and provide a detailed insight into the Dopey Challenge, a dream race for many. With a chance to enter our exciting giveaway, there's no room for sleepiness here! Enter the giveaway HERE!Dive into the world of marathons as we travel from the scenic Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota to the vibrant Indy Monumental Marathon in Indianapolis, Indiana. For beginners who are wondering which race is the right fit for them, we offer a first-hand account of various marathons including the Vermont City Marathon, the Walt Disney Marathon, the Big Sur Marathon, and the Flying Pig Marathon. Each marathon has its unique charm, challenge, and character, and we help you uncover the one that resonates with you.The final miles of our podcast episode journey are dedicated to preparation and training. We highlight the importance of being mentally prepared, loving the process, and embracing setbacks. Learn why taking rest days, meditating, and doing extra yoga or mobility exercises are essential. Discover why running a marathon is about more than just physical fitness—it's a test of endurance, determination, and mental strength. Remember, every mile conquered in training is a mile closer to your marathon goal. So, join us, and let's conquer those miles together!Support the showJoin the newsletter list to receive updates, special offers, and exclusive behind-the-scenes content. Want to become a member of Time for bRUNch+ to show your support of the show? Join here.Join the bRUNch bunch on Facebook or follow us on Instagram.

“At this point, it's knowing the warning signs and when you can keep pressing on the gas and when you're kind of like, ah, I gotta, I gotta step on the brakes a little bit … If you've been unlucky and had an injury, you kind of know what it felt, what it feels like, whatever led up to it. You can think, ‘Ooh, this is similar. So maybe I just want to take a day or two off and go in the pool or do some kind of cross training just so I don't repeat history.”   Pro marathoner (and full-time occupational therapist) Maegan Krifchin had a pretty incredible fall last year. After what was, in her mind, a suboptimal performance at the New York City Marathon Nov. 6, she finished two more marathons in the span of 30 days—each faster than the last. On Dec. 4, she ran a personal-best 2:29:21 for seventh place at the California International Marathon in Sacramento. And she's run four more since, including winning the Vermont City Marathon on May 28.   On this week's episode, Maegan points out that it's taken years of hard work to get strong enough for such a feat—and her lengthy running career hasn't been only PRs and podiums. She's had her fair share of injuries, including a hamstring pull less than 10K into the 2020 Olympic Marathon Trials. But she's learned from the setbacks and victories alike, and she has many lessons to share with other runners too, about everything from prehab to nutrition to adjusting your mindset about cross-training.    Resources/links: Maegan's Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook page The Runner's World article Cindy wrote about her back-to-back-to-back marathons   Thank you so much to our sponsors for season 6:  Fluid Running, which has revolutionized fitness by bringing running to the deep water IceeNOW.com, which provides innovative injury prevention and recovery solutions for athletes ADAM Rehabilitation, creators of the ADAM Brace System, the most stable exercise system built to save the health of your shoulders Learn more and access exclusive discount codes for their products at buymeacoffee.com/rebound or by joining The Injured Athletes Club Facebook group.   You can subscribe to The Injured Athletes Club on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get your podcasts, and if you like what you hear, please leave us a rating or a review in Apple podcasts. That helps other injured athletes find the show.   To access more resources for injured athletes: Buy Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries —now available as an audiobook! Access webinar videos, injury sources, and more great resources for injured athletes while supporting our work Join The Injured Athletes Club mailing list, for news and updates Join The Injured Athletes Club Facebook group, for support and camaraderie Like The Injured Athletes Club Podcast Facebook page, for the latest episodes Email us at hello@injuredathletesclub.com with questions, guest suggestions, or other feedback   DISCLAIMER: This content is for educational & informational use only and & does not constitute medical advice. Do not disregard, avoid or delay obtaining medical or health related advice from your health-care professional because of something you may have heard in an episode of this podcast. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please consult with a qualified medical professional for proper evaluation & treatment. Guests who speak on this podcast express their own opinions, experiences, and conclusions, and The Injured Athletes Club podcast hosts nor any company providing financial support endorses or opposes any particular treatment option discussed in the episodes of this podcast and are not responsible for any actions or inactions of listeners based on the information presented. The use of any information provided is solely at your own risk.  

Joe Connelly, executive Director of the Vermont City Marathon, comes in with the folks from M&T Bank to talk about the upcoming Marathon.

Scott Mindel has been a top performer in the longer distances for years.  He is a former member of the now discontinued Saucony Hurricanes and currently sponsored by Nuun's Elite program.  He recently achieved a half marathon PR of 1:07:17 while winning the Helderberg to Hudson Half Marathon.  Next up for Scott is the Vermont City Marathon.  Come learn about his journey to success in this 5run8 podcast episode.   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/michael-dinicola/support

The Vermont City Marathon is this weekend! Kurt and Anthony got all the last-minute details about the annual run through the streets of Burlington on Tuesday's show from the events' Race Director.

Hey there fellow naturalists and runners. Teage O'Connor here, co-host of The Single Acorn. I've been training to break the 100 mile world record. During the hundreds of hours and thousands of miles I've been put in to reach this goal, I've had plenty of time to think about what it takes on the mental side to compete in endurance events. In this episode, Glenn guides us through the world of trance and meditation and we try to find some overlap between our two worlds. We also talk about the endurance of nesting small-mouth bass and migrating geese. This will be the last episode before my race at 6 Days in the Dome. As part of the effort, I'm running a jog-a-thon type fundraiser for Junior Milers. I've been a volunteer coach for this awesome youth program for a couple of years and love it. Junior Milers trains kids to run in the Vermont City Marathon relay. Participants get running shoes, instruction on running-related topics, snakes, t-shirts, and exposure to positive role models. You can donate using the link in the show notes. https://crowspath.eventgroovefundraising.com/100-mile-world-record-attempt/Campaign Welcome to the Single Acorn Podcast.

Happy New Year! Did you resolve to lose weight this year? Running burns a ton of calories so it should be a great way to melt off the pounds, right? Well, maybe not. Dr. Kyle Flack, a weight-loss researcher from the University of Kentucky, conducts studies on how the body responds to exercise and how much you really need to work out to work off those extra pounds, and it turns out you need to work out a lot more than the current recommendations suggest. Dr. Flack was recently featured in a New York Times article on exercising to lose weight and he shares his research results and provides insights on why weight loss isn’t as simple as burning more calories than you take in. He explains how body chemistry can seemingly work against us, thwarting significant weight loss, especially for fitter people, and why it’s not uncommon for people to actually gain weight while training for a marathon. Through his studies, Dr. Flack has found that people overcompensate for the calories they’ve burned pretty consistently, and he shares what the average calorie overcompensation amount is and how much exercise time is required to overcome it to really drop pounds. He also talks about how long it takes to make exercise a habit, he compares strength training to aerobic exercise for weight loss potential, and also reveals whether it’s possible to build muscle and lose fat at the same time. If your goal is to lose or maintain your weight through your running, this is definitely a must-listen-to episode! Kyle Flack grew up in a small town in Vermont where, as a 4-year starter on the varsity football team, earned All-State honors twice and won two state championships. He left to play college football at Ferrum College in Southwest Virginia, earning a BS in health sciences 4 years later. He continued his education at Virginia Tech in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise, where he earned his PhD in 2014.  Upon beginning grad school, Kyle also turned over a new leaf in terms of his exercise routine, going from 280-pound power-lifting football player (who got winded walking upstairs) to a runner. He devoted an entire winter and spring to this newfound training, lost 40 pounds, and completed his first marathon, Vermont City Marathon in 2008.  From there he was addicted, running two marathons each year for the next 5 years throughout grad school and dropping another 30 pounds. Each marathon was a new learning experience, a new opportunity to get better, and always ended with the goal or running the next marathon faster!  After grad school, and after finally reaching that sub-3:30 goal (he did the Marshall University Marathon in 3:27) Kyle shifted his attention to triathlons, which he has been at since 2014. Kyle completed a Post-Doctoral research fellowship with the USDA in Grand Forks North Dakota from 2014 to 2017 and has since been an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition since 2017. Kyle is an RD (registered dietitian) and primarily focused on researching weight loss physiology, how exercise may affect eating behaviors, and how exercise can be more appropriately used for weight control.       Questions Kyle is asked:   4:52 You are a researcher at the University of Kentucky specializing in how exercise affects eating and weight loss.  And you don't just study it, you used running to lose weight yourself.  Can you share your experience?   7:27 You were already an athlete with football so it wasn’t like you were obese or overweight and just wanted to lose weight by running?   7:58 Let’s get into some weight loss science.  It seems that weight loss should be easy. It’s "calories in and calories out."  What makes it more complicated than that?   10:00 When you lose weight, you’re obviously lighter so there’s less of you to move around. Is that correct?   10:30 Why isn't exercise generally effective for weight loss?   11:37 Overcompensating for calorie expenditure due to exercise is not entirely all our fault. This is not entirely a willpower issue or something like that. Our body’s working against us. Is that correct?   14:28 What you’re saying is when you go for a great run and you get all these endorphins flowing, you’re feeling really good, the entire pan of brownies tastes even better, right?   15:15 Many athletes that I’ve coached have actually gained weight when they start training for a marathon. They are burning a ton of calories and for whatever reason instead of losing weight, they gain weight. How is that possible?   19:34 I did a calculator once to figure out how many calories I burned running a mile and it was something terrible like 56 calories, and I’m just like, “What! That’s not fair.” Why is our body doing this to us?   20:17 In a recent study you did, you and your team found that in order to lose fat, the participants in the study needed to burn 3000 extra calories per week.  Can you talk about this study?   21:52 In your recent study, were the participants moving less in their normal lives when they weren’t exercising? Were they slowing down?   23:27 The exercise you put the test participants through, was it just walking? Is that what you had them do?   23:51 Any other differences would you expect to find if you did the same study with athletes rather than obese, sedentary people?   25:01 Does the type of exercise matter?  How about duration, frequency, or intensity?   26:44 The results of your study show frequency doesn’t matter. That’s good news for the weekend warriors, right?   27:19 You’ve also done some studies about the reinforcement value of exercise and I’d love to hear your thoughts on how we can make exercise a habit that we can stick to.   33:27 You’re talking about a significant amount of exercise, five, six, seven hours a week for most people to get addicted to exercise?   34:11 One thing about exercise studies and nutrition studies, there’s some inherent difficulties in studying human beings because we’re not rats and you can’t put us in cages. So what kind of limitations did you find in some of your studies? What are the challenges that you find in this kind of work?   39:36 Nutrition labels, they don’t have to be perfectly accurate. I’ve heard that you can be 20% off on your nutrition label and it still be okay with the FDA. So calories in aren’t always perfect, right?   40:12 What about strength training?  How does that differ from cardio when it comes to weight loss,  hunger, the afterburn? We hear that when you strength train, muscles take more energy to sustain than fat does so you’re burning more just standing around if you have more muscle mass. Can you talk about that?   42:59 Can you gain muscle at the same time as lose fat? I’ve heard that that’s not always the case. Is that possible?   44:18 What questions are still unsolved and what kind of research are you looking to do in the future? Questions I ask everyone:   48:39 If you could go back and talk to yourself when you started running, what advice would you give?   49:46 What is the greatest gift running has given you?   50:19 Where can listeners connect with you?   Quotes by Kyle:   “If you lose weight, we would expect you to decrease your total energy expenditure, but what’s really been found is that if you lose weight, you decrease it more than what we would anticipate.”   “We need to exercise more to overcome that obligatory 1000-calorie-a-week compensatory response so we can actually see useful weight loss. So that 150-minutes-a-week recommendation that we hear actually isn’t enough to overcome that compensatory response.”   “With aerobic exercise, you can put someone on, ‘You’re going to exercise at this heart rate for 30 minutes,’ and you can do that for everybody and they all have the same workout. But if you say, ‘Okay, you’re going to go to the gym and lift weights for an hour,’ that’s going to look completely different from one person to the next person in terms of muscle activation, what you’re lifting, how heavy, how intense.”   Take a Listen on Your Next Run Want more awesome interviews and advice? Subscribe to our iTunes channel Mentioned in this podcast:   kyle.flack@uky.edu New York Times Article - Exercise for Weight Loss: Aim for 300 Minutes a Week Runners Connect Winner's Circle Facebook Community RunnersConnect Facebook page https://runnersconnect.net/focus/ RunnersConnect Focus Classes Use Promo Code RTTT for 20% off Sweaty Betty at www.sweatybetty.com/RTTT Follow Kyle on:   Kyle Flack | Human Environmental Sciences (uky.edu) We really hope you’ve enjoyed this episode of Run to the Top. The best way you can show your support of the show is to share this podcast with your family and friends and share it on your Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media channel you use. The more people who know about the podcast and download the episodes, the more I can reach out to and get top running influencers, to bring them on and share their advice, which hopefully makes the show even more enjoyable for you!  

We're thrilled to bring you Episode 151 of The BibRave Podcast - brought to you by our good friends at Knockaround. Save 20% on your newest pair of shades with code “BIBRAVEKNOCKS2”.  This week on the podcast we have a grab bag of topics! Tim, Jessica, and Andy cover some interesting running tips that were discovered at Crossfit (runners & Crossfit? Who knew?!). Then the trio reflect on Tim's experiment with the ketogenic diet - the pros and the cons of cutting those carbs. Lastly, they talk about Tim's other experiment - his capsule wardrobe. Have you checked out our latest podcast special series? Check out Making It: an AfterShokz Podcast Series by BibRave with special guest Chaz Davis in Episode 1!  If you enjoyed this episode, we would love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes! Want to join the podcast conversation? Message us on social - Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook - and don't forget to use the hashtags #BibChat & #BRPodcast!  Show Notes: Knockaround - Save 20% with code “BIBRAVEKNOCKS2” Making It: an AfterShokz Podcast Series by BibRave Proud To Run Chicago BibRave Pride swag How to ‘pony' Hood to Coast Mt. Hood 50 The BibRave Podcast Ep. 49: Team BibRave vs. Mt Hood! Ketogenic diet Adkins Whole30®️ Capsule Wardrobe The BibRave Podcast Ep. 127: Exploring the Vermont City Marathon and a chat about Tidying Up Follow Team BibRave on social! Jessica: FB, TW, IG Tim: TW, IG Andy: FB, TW, IG  For those digging the sweet ukulele intro music, that comes to us from the talented musician and running coach, Matt Flaherty. Check out his site for more audio goodness!    If you like what you hear and want to get more, please subscribe in iTunes and leave a review. That pleases our overlords at iTunes...

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-408 – Bill Endures (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4408.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello, my friends and welcome to episode 4-408 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Well, folks it's been almost a month since Boston, so let's get back on track, back in the saddle and do some serious podcasting!  Grr… I'm sitting in the Starbucks, one of the two Starbucks that is on my work commute route.  My hands are a bit cold.  I road my motorcycle this morning.  It's in the low 40's but sunny.  I like to stop and write for small patched of time in the morning at these oases of warmth and humanity.  I've got some calls that I'll take from here and then I'll wander into my office later.   Today we've got a great chat with Bill who is one of those crunchy, old ultra-runners who have done everything.  I was interested in how he did his cross country run and he definitely has a view point on it! In section one we'll talk about working through a post event funk.  In section two I'll keep pounding away on the big, navel-gazing topics of Eckhart Tolle's book.  I'm training, actually in my taper for Vermont.  I have had some good workouts and some not-so great workouts.  In general I've kept the weight off and my training paces are good.  I've got some high-hamstring-attach point challenges that I'm trying to rehab through.  The challenge with extended training cycles on the road is that they tend to get very specific and make you fragile.  Somehow this long cycle has made my hips and glutes a bit weak and they go on me in the high miles.  It's the same old story, lower the water level and you find new rocks.  Keep training and you'll find new weak points.  So I'm working through that.  We talked for awhile, but I'll save the updates for the Outro.  … I will tell one story.  It's a story about a giant, half-eaten catfish.  When I was in elementary school, so 8, 9, 10 years old I had a best friend whose name was Dave.  We built a fort in the rafters of my Dad's garage one summer and decorated it with stickers from Mad Magazine.  I can remember listening to “Ricky Don't Loose That Number” by Steely Dan on the pop station, which would make it 1975ish.  I'd go over to Dave's house on the weekends and we'd disappear into the woods and roads around his house to go exploring.  We would wander over to the train tracks and put pennies on the tracks for the trains to smoosh, things like that.  One time we were out on the power lines behind his house, the same power lines that I ride my mountain bike on and do long trail runs on now.  It was this time of year – spring in New England.  What happens in spring is we get the melt and a lot of rain and the ponds, rivers and swamps all fill up with water.  For instance, I have a little pond in my back yard, right now that only exists this time of year.  Anyhow we were wandering through this patch of swamp that had recently been a pond and we came across a giant catfish, high a dry, with a bit missing from the scavengers.  Too bad we didn't' have Instagram back then.  Here was this enormous fish, as if dropped form the sky by aliens into the middle of a field.  That's a 50-60 year-old fish that took a wrong turn somewhere.  I'll always remember that image in my internal Instagram, which is probably much better than the actual picture anyhow. I tell this story because my Mom called to tell me Dave died this week.  I hadn't spoken to him in decades.  BNot to be morbid, but I want you to understand and appreciate today as a gift.  We're all winning.  We are all in extra innings and you and I are blessed.  Don't waste 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 me trying to sound sincere about Stamps.com or Audible.. (although, fyi, my MarathonBQ book is on audible) 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. There are book reviews, odd philosophical thoughts, zombie stories and I curate old episodes for you to listen to.  I recently added that guy who cut off is foot so he could keep training and my first call with Geoff Galloway.   “Curated” means I add some introductory comments and edit them up a bit.  So anyhow – become a member so I can keep paying my bills.   … 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. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Warning Lights - http://runrunlive.com/paying-attention-to-your-warning-lights Voices of reason – the conversation Bill Schultz Not sure what you're looking for as far as links and articles, but I've included a few below. I started running in 1978 and ran my 1st ultra in 1979.  Ran my 1st 24Hr around 1982 and my 1st 6 Day race in 1984.  My best was in 1989 when I won with 475 miles. The next year, 1990, I took a sabbatical from teaching and ran a US Trascon water to water in 95 days. (Huntington Beach, CA to Atlantic City, NJ.  I've been Co-RD for the Dawn To Dusk To Dawn Track Ultras (D3) since 1984. This year's race will be the 24th edition.  Along with my own running, I've been helping Mike Melton time ultras from 100K to 6 Days around the country (13 last year).   Attached are some Articles that came out back in 1989 and 1990 regarding my Transcon and my best 6 Day race. Here are a few links.       Section two – No-Mind -   Outro Well, my friends you called ahead, made your plans and safely ran across the nation in record time to the end of the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-408, nmaybe it's tome to retire?  Don't get caught in a funk! Enochs results Like I said I am in a short training cycle for the Vermont City Marathon.  There's just no way I'm going to walk away without my qualifying time this spring.  I'm in too good shape.  If you're going to be up there let me know and we'll say high.  I'm going to pitch a tent in the park there for a couple nights.  It's something I learned from mountain bike racing.  Just pitch a tent you'll be fine! I got a new Garmin, a 235.  I'll give you a write up at some point.  I'm still figuring it out, but I like it so far.  One quick story / iPhone tip for you to take you out.  I have an iPhone 6s.  like it.  I listen to podcasts and music on it.  When I drive to work I tend to listen to podcasts.  Now, for some reason, when I plug in the phone to the radio I put in my truck, it decides to start playing the first song, alphabetically in the song list on my phone.  The first song alphabetically in the song list on my phone was a really aggressive punk rock number called “Already Dead” by Rancid.  The challenge I had was that some of the podcasters I listen to, and I won't name any names, haven't figured out how to level their audio.  You have to turn them way up to hear them.  The result, as you may have guessed by now, was that I'd get blown out of my seat a couple times a week when I plugged in my phone for the ride to work.  It was like having an audio bomb go off in the truck!  Eventually I was moved to engineer a solution.  I downloaded a really mild morning meditation and renamed it lower case aaaaaaa-filename…. Now I am greeted by a lovely, low and soothing voice encouraging me to embrace the day.  It's much better.  And if someone is in the car with me I get to tell this story.  As a corollary, I also changed the my alarm to wake up in the morning on my iPhone to be an compilation of inspirational “seize the day!” type speeches.  If you want me to walk you through the how to's just shoot me a note. And I'll see you out there.   MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Rachel -> Coach Jeff ->  

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-408 – Bill Endures (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4408.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello, my friends and welcome to episode 4-408 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Well, folks it’s been almost a month since Boston, so let’s get back on track, back in the saddle and do some serious podcasting!  Grr… I’m sitting in the Starbucks, one of the two Starbucks that is on my work commute route.  My hands are a bit cold.  I road my motorcycle this morning.  It’s in the low 40’s but sunny.  I like to stop and write for small patched of time in the morning at these oases of warmth and humanity.  I’ve got some calls that I’ll take from here and then I’ll wander into my office later.   Today we’ve got a great chat with Bill who is one of those crunchy, old ultra-runners who have done everything.  I was interested in how he did his cross country run and he definitely has a view point on it! In section one we’ll talk about working through a post event funk.  In section two I’ll keep pounding away on the big, navel-gazing topics of Eckhart Tolle’s book.  I’m training, actually in my taper for Vermont.  I have had some good workouts and some not-so great workouts.  In general I’ve kept the weight off and my training paces are good.  I’ve got some high-hamstring-attach point challenges that I’m trying to rehab through.  The challenge with extended training cycles on the road is that they tend to get very specific and make you fragile.  Somehow this long cycle has made my hips and glutes a bit weak and they go on me in the high miles.  It’s the same old story, lower the water level and you find new rocks.  Keep training and you’ll find new weak points.  So I’m working through that.  We talked for awhile, but I’ll save the updates for the Outro.  … I will tell one story.  It’s a story about a giant, half-eaten catfish.  When I was in elementary school, so 8, 9, 10 years old I had a best friend whose name was Dave.  We built a fort in the rafters of my Dad’s garage one summer and decorated it with stickers from Mad Magazine.  I can remember listening to “Ricky Don’t Loose That Number” by Steely Dan on the pop station, which would make it 1975ish.  I’d go over to Dave’s house on the weekends and we’d disappear into the woods and roads around his house to go exploring.  We would wander over to the train tracks and put pennies on the tracks for the trains to smoosh, things like that.  One time we were out on the power lines behind his house, the same power lines that I ride my mountain bike on and do long trail runs on now.  It was this time of year – spring in New England.  What happens in spring is we get the melt and a lot of rain and the ponds, rivers and swamps all fill up with water.  For instance, I have a little pond in my back yard, right now that only exists this time of year.  Anyhow we were wandering through this patch of swamp that had recently been a pond and we came across a giant catfish, high a dry, with a bit missing from the scavengers.  Too bad we didn’t’ have Instagram back then.  Here was this enormous fish, as if dropped form the sky by aliens into the middle of a field.  That’s a 50-60 year-old fish that took a wrong turn somewhere.  I’ll always remember that image in my internal Instagram, which is probably much better than the actual picture anyhow. I tell this story because my Mom called to tell me Dave died this week.  I hadn’t spoken to him in decades.  BNot to be morbid, but I want you to understand and appreciate today as a gift.  We’re all winning.  We are all in extra innings and you and I are blessed.  Don’t waste 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 me trying to sound sincere about Stamps.com or Audible.. (although, fyi, my MarathonBQ book is on audible) 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. There are book reviews, odd philosophical thoughts, zombie stories and I curate old episodes for you to listen to.  I recently added that guy who cut off is foot so he could keep training and my first call with Geoff Galloway.   “Curated” means I add some introductory comments and edit them up a bit.  So anyhow – become a member so I can keep paying my bills.   … 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. Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com … Section one – Warning Lights - http://runrunlive.com/paying-attention-to-your-warning-lights Voices of reason – the conversation Bill Schultz Not sure what you're looking for as far as links and articles, but I've included a few below. I started running in 1978 and ran my 1st ultra in 1979.  Ran my 1st 24Hr around 1982 and my 1st 6 Day race in 1984.  My best was in 1989 when I won with 475 miles. The next year, 1990, I took a sabbatical from teaching and ran a US Trascon water to water in 95 days. (Huntington Beach, CA to Atlantic City, NJ.  I've been Co-RD for the Dawn To Dusk To Dawn Track Ultras (D3) since 1984. This year's race will be the 24th edition.  Along with my own running, I've been helping Mike Melton time ultras from 100K to 6 Days around the country (13 last year).   Attached are some Articles that came out back in 1989 and 1990 regarding my Transcon and my best 6 Day race. Here are a few links.       Section two – No-Mind -   Outro Well, my friends you called ahead, made your plans and safely ran across the nation in record time to the end of the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-408, nmaybe it’s tome to retire?  Don’t get caught in a funk! Enochs results Like I said I am in a short training cycle for the Vermont City Marathon.  There’s just no way I’m going to walk away without my qualifying time this spring.  I’m in too good shape.  If you’re going to be up there let me know and we’ll say high.  I’m going to pitch a tent in the park there for a couple nights.  It’s something I learned from mountain bike racing.  Just pitch a tent you’ll be fine! I got a new Garmin, a 235.  I’ll give you a write up at some point.  I’m still figuring it out, but I like it so far.  One quick story / iPhone tip for you to take you out.  I have an iPhone 6s.  like it.  I listen to podcasts and music on it.  When I drive to work I tend to listen to podcasts.  Now, for some reason, when I plug in the phone to the radio I put in my truck, it decides to start playing the first song, alphabetically in the song list on my phone.  The first song alphabetically in the song list on my phone was a really aggressive punk rock number called “Already Dead” by Rancid.  The challenge I had was that some of the podcasters I listen to, and I won’t name any names, haven’t figured out how to level their audio.  You have to turn them way up to hear them.  The result, as you may have guessed by now, was that I’d get blown out of my seat a couple times a week when I plugged in my phone for the ride to work.  It was like having an audio bomb go off in the truck!  Eventually I was moved to engineer a solution.  I downloaded a really mild morning meditation and renamed it lower case aaaaaaa-filename…. Now I am greeted by a lovely, low and soothing voice encouraging me to embrace the day.  It’s much better.  And if someone is in the car with me I get to tell this story.  As a corollary, I also changed the my alarm to wake up in the morning on my iPhone to be an compilation of inspirational “seize the day!” type speeches.  If you want me to walk you through the how to’s just shoot me a note. And I’ll see you out there.   MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Rachel -> Coach Jeff ->  

We're thrilled to bring you Episode 127 of The BibRave Podcast! This week's episode is sponsored by the People's United Bank Vermont City Marathon and Relay - and if you're looking to run, use code “BibRave10” to save $10 on sign-up! This week, Tim, Jess, and Andy start off by highlighting some of the amazing reasons to experience the Vermont City Marathon. They chat about the local enthusiastic spectators, the clover-leaf course, and some of the things you would (and wouldn't) expect to see out in Burlington, Vermont. Then the trio dives into the world of tidying. With the surge of popularity of the Netflix series, Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Tim, Jess, and Andy discuss certain methodologies and philosophies on how to tidy up, why it is important to have a tidy space, and what is really crucial to keep in one's life. As we're starting off the new year, we all could stand to tidy things up a bit - have a great before and after pic of a new tidy space? Share with us on social with the hashtags, #BibChat and #BRPodcast! As always, you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! And, if you enjoyed this episode (or any other episode) we would love it if you could leave us a review on iTunes!   Show Notes: People's United Bank Vermont City Marathon and Relay Use code “BibRave10” to save $10 VCM course map Tidying Up with Marie Kondo on Netflix Books by Marie Kondo The Chicago Red Line Follow Team BibRave on social! Jessica: FB, TW, IG Tim: TW, IG Andy: FB, TW, IG   For those digging the sweet ukulele intro music, that comes to us from the talented musician and running coach, Matt Flaherty. Check out his site for more audio goodness!    If you like what you hear and want to get more, please subscribe in iTunes and leave a review. That pleases our overlords at iTunes...

This week’s guest is Taylor Bickford, a graduate of Wellesley College who’s run for BAA and the Heartbreakers in Boston. Taylor’s run 2:42 for the marathon and founded Hearth Baking Co., a pop-up bakery that provides healthy and delicious treats made by and for runners. We talk about our favorite flavors of cookies, the origin of the podcast, and the ups and downs of training. David tells the “blister story,” Taylor goes for a run after getting hit by a truck, and Angelica gets excited for her first ever marathon. Plus, we play a game that makes it clear how little some of us know about professional runners. As a sidenote, this episode was recorded before Vermont City Marathon. This past weekend, Angelica crushed it and ran 2:57 in her marathon debut, and we’re very proud of her! Some great stuff coming up – we’ll probably be releasing episodes closer to every two weeks than every week in the summer. In the meantime, don't forget to subscribe and to follow us on Facebook and instagram @runyourmouthpod!

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Holistic, deep-thoughts innovator and Runner of the Week, Brent Robertson, joins the show to tell how he went from being unhealthy to marathoner—and how that has affected his career, relationships, and his entire life. Serena, Marie, RD, talks about the exclusive TRLS Shake Yo' Sugar Habit Challenge, and Kari gives an update on her sugar-free Lent experience this past week. Kari recaps Cupid's Undie Run in Washington, DC and her experience meeting Kim Stemple from We Finish Together. Serena busts some electrolyte myths and shares the best source of electrolyte replenishment when you are feeling off or need to rehydrate. Featured Guest and Runner of the Week: Brent Robertson Hear how Brent Robertson went from being overweight and having a heart condition to running marathons and how it has affected his career, relationships, and the rest of his life. Explains how he started running (in April 2014)—and how it became a practice of discipline Chats about the body, mind, and soul connection and how he took responsibility for the viability of his wellbeing Talks about his ideal for a work environment where we can fully express ourselves (we spend so much time working anyway, why not connect to ourselves more deeply and have it expressed through our work?) and how his business, Fathom, revolves around that theory Uses ideograms to help understand his employees and himself Explores his running challenges Loves posting his runs on social media—and it actually helped him catch his atrial fibrillation, which is a quivering or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure, and other heart-related complications Ran a 5K and the next day had heart surgery in June 2014 (and ran a ten-mile race three weeks later!) Signed up his first half marathon in Fall 2014 (Hartford Half Marathon in the pouring rain) Ran the Gansett Half Marathon in Narragansett, RI the following weekend (in hurricane conditions) Adopted a policy where he always signs up for his next event the day before the event he's about to run Used a training program that the West Hartford Fleet Feet ran and joined a running group (January 2015) About a month before he signed up for the Vermont City Marathon (in Burlington), the Sierra Club reached out and asked if he would run with their team for the Boston Marathon (which was only four weeks away at the time), so Boston became his first marathon (and he finished in 3:37)! Is coaching runners for the 2016 Boston Marathon Started a trail-running group and ran 26 miles of the Appalachian Trail Is currently training for a BQ at the Sugarloaf Marathon on May 15, 2016 Suggests Cloze for smarter relationship management and uses Evernote Ran the New York City Marathon this fall after rupturing a disk in his back Has the Traprock 50K trail run in April 2016 Jabra Have you entered yet to win a FREE set of Jabra Pulse earbuds this month? Jabra, a TRLS show sponsor, is giving away a free pair in February, so sprint over to Jabra.com/TRL, and sign up for the TRLS e-mail list at therunninglifestyle.com/join to enter to win. This month's winner will also receive an exclusive Skype call with Kari. She loves the Pulse for the in-ear heart-rate monitoring and amazing sound quality. Serena Marie, RD Serena Marie, RD, the show's go-to, real-food dietitian, chats about the Shake Yo' Sugar Habit Challenge and more. Describes the three-week challenge that re-examines eating choices Kari admits that she got headaches at the beginning (which could be a sign of withdrawal) Kari has more energy and feels more in control Serena explains that the more choices you have, the more likely you are to overeat—limiting your options is a way for your brain to relax and not make so many choices Kari drinks smoothies with frozen strawberries, almond milk, and avocado, chia or hemp seeds, unsweetened, shredded coconut, and tangerines To join, go to com for details and access to a special Facebook group Kari recaps Cupid's Undie Run in Washington, DC on February 13, 2016 and meeting Kim Stemple from We Finish Together (and the episode “Special Mindful Monday w/Kim Stemple, Founder of We Finish Together” [Episode 103]) Kari met the founder of Cupid's Undie Run (which holds races across the country), Bobby Van, who was named one of Runner's World's most inspiring runners (He raises money for the Children's Tumor Foundation) Went to watch the Olympic Marathon Trials with a group of runners (including Melani Hom) at Duffy's Irish Pub (the pub opened up early for folks to watch the trials!) The ladies were rooting for Meb of course, Galen Rupp took first (and this was his first marathon), Jared Ward took third, and Luke Puskedra took fourth (which means he's the alternate) On the women's side, Amy Cragg and Shalane Flanagan ran almost the whole race together; Desiree (Desi) Linden ran a great race, and Kara Goucher came in fourth Special thanks to Jeff Caron from ElliptiGO® who connected Kari with fellow runners Serena also suggests coconut water (potassium) with honey or salt to replenish electrolytes for someone who's very active; bone broth with apple cider vinegar, salt, and veggies for someone who's feeling ill Thanks to Jeff Paladina at Fleet Feet Sports in Mechanicsville, PA on Sunday, March 6 at 9:30 a.m. EST, Kari will talk about living a running lifestyle and a behind-the-scenes look at The Running Lifestyle show, and then the group is going to go out for a run. Kari is looking forward to meeting up with runners! Visit Delaware on Mother's Day weekend to hang out with Kari at the Delaware Marathon Festival! The Delaware Marathon Running Festival, on May 8, 2016, is amazing thanks to Race Directors Joel and Stacey Schiller (Stacey will be announcing at the marathon and half marathon finish line, and Kari will be the announcer at the relay finish line.) Head over to the Delaware Marathon Festival web site. When registering for a race, use The Running Lifestyle Show (TRLS) as a team and receive the following discounts: $20 off the marathon ($90 by February 29thwith the TRLS discount) $10 off the half marathon ($75 with the TRLS discount by February 29th) $10 off a four-person relay team ($150 with the TRLS discount by February 29th) $20 off an eight-person relay team ($300 with the TRLS discount by February 29th) Kari will be hosting a meet up in Wilmington, DE on May 7. E-mail Kari@TheRunningLifestyle.com for details. To show your TRLS love at the festival, run over to the Shop section of the TRLS web site to grab your TRLS apparel. Next week, Kari will talk with Cailyn Ryan about how companies are looking at the lifestyle market and what trends are popping up. Please remember to review TRLS in iTunes or recommend the show to your friends and show them how to subscribe! Contact: Brent Robertson: Website: Fathom.net Facebook: /brent.robertson Twitter: @brentrobertson   Serena Marie, RD: Website: www.SerenaMarieRD.com Facebook: /SerenaMarieRD Twitter: @SerenaMarieRD Instagram: SerenaMarieRD   Kari Gormley: Facebook: The Running Lifestyle Show Twitter: @KariGormley Instagram: @KariGormley

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-309 – Anne – Laura and 50 states by age 25 (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi439.mp3] Link epi4309.mp3 Intro Bumper: https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussell Man, what a week!  I'm tired.  I raced the Eastern States 20 miler on Sunday.  It was the 20th anniversary race and they were back to the original course which starts in Kittery Maine, crosses over into Portsmouth, runs the entire coastline of New Hampshire and ends in Massachusetts.  You get 3 states in one race.   I didn't really know how to manage the race going in.  I have been logging 40ish miles a week for a while and have done several 3 hour long runs but I've done almost no tempo or speed.  The summary would be that I'm in really good aerobic shape but lacking the sharp edge of racing.   And, for those of you not paying attention, the reason I can't do the tempo and speed is that I have a heart condition, ‘exercise induced' A-fib that I've developed over the last couple years where later in a workout, under load my heartbeat becomes irregular.  I'm going in to get that fixed in May but I have to drag my old self through the Boston Marathon course first! And, for those of you really not paying attention, this is Chris, your host, and this is the RunRunLive Podcast where we consider the transformational power of endurance sport.  From now on, try to pay attention.   There were 5 of us from my club at the race but we weren't running together because we were at different goal levels.  I planned to just sort of hang back and let the race come to me and keep a watchful eye on the heart rate.  But, any of you who have raced with me know how that usually goes.   I'm an excitable boy, and, as usual I struggled to stay slow and knocked off the early miles 45 – 50 seconds a mile faster than my ‘safe' goal.  I was worried I'd fall apart at the end but I felt great.  The A-fib did kick in for the last few miles but I never crashed and my legs were solid and I wasn't sore at all on Monday. We got a great day for racing.  It was sunny and mid-30's.  There was a bit of a head wind, but nothing that was unmanageable.  This course is nice and flat.  I've probably run this race a dozen times.  All-in-all it was an excellent outing.  I had a blast.  I have to be careful with my exuberance.  Even though it was a good 20 mile run, that only gets you to the base of Heartbreak Hill and for the last 10k my heart was whacking around in my chest like a deranged hamster.  While I was sorting through the race photos this week I actually paid for one it was so good.  I usually don't bother with race photos.  The camera isn't that kind to me in general and I'm too cheap to pay the exorbitant prices, but this was a great picture that captured how much fun I was having and was only $10 for the digital.  We have a great show for you today. In the first section I'm going to look at how road races have changed over the 25 years I've been running them and what that may or may not mean for us.   In the interview we have the final guest interview that was recorded for me at the end of last summer (sorry Anne and Laura for the delay in getting it out!)  Anne interviews Laura who set the record as the youngest person to run all 50 US states.  She did it by the age of 25. She recounts how she started as an adamant ‘non-runner' just trying to get to one mile and some of the wonderful, transformative life lessons she learned along the way.  The final section is a super interesting (and maybe creepy) social experiment that I was running on strangers while traveling this week using the tools of the Pick Up Artists.   Props to my coach, Jeff from PRSFit.  I told him in January that I couldn't so any speedwork but I still wanted to race Boston and we figured out how to work with what we had.  All long, slow, build, aerobic training.  I can feel the results in my runs over the last 3 weeks and I can see the strength in my body.   Just goes to show you folks, where there is a will there's a way.   On with the Show!  Section one - Running Tips 7 ways road races have changed in a generation http://runrunlive.com/7-ways-road-races-have-changed-in-one-generation Voices of reason – the interviews Laura @50by25 Management consultant who became the youngest woman to run a marathon in all 50 states, while still enjoying her margaritas. Sometimes simultaneously. I began writing this blog in December 2007 under the title “Absolut(ly) Fit.” I chose the name to reflect a belief that I had then (and still have today): the best way to live a healthy and happy lifestyle is to maintain balance. Of course it's good for your body to work out and eat healthy food most of the time, but it's also good for your spirit to eat the foods you enjoy. Perhaps you want to set an ambitious goal like training for a marathon – but in the pursuit of that, you don't need to give up everything else in order to succeed.   Case in point – heading straight from my 2nd marathon to visit my favorite winery, Chateau Ste. Michelle I didn't always have this philosophy of balance. Growing up, I preferred musical theater to sports, and never understood how someone could do both. In my mind, you were either artsy or sporty – but never both. I began to challenge this and other assumptions while doing a college internship in Sarasota, Florida. Finding it difficult to make friends in a strange place, I told myself that I could either be miserable and have a terrible summer, or I could make the best of it and spend the time trying to improve myself in some way. I decided that I was going to do two things I had previously thought impossible: learn to cook and learn to run.   Lounging and drinking in the ocean? Don't worry, I still made time for that! The cooking was easy; the running was a bit harder. I had defined my goal as being able to run one mile without stopping, and lacking any better running equipment, I drove my car in a loop around the neighborhood until the odometer read one mile – that was how far I needed to go. For two months I pounded the pavement, working my way up to running more and walking less of that distance. By the end of the summer I had not only been able to run my one mile “course ” without stopping, but I also completed a 5K race (though that was with plenty of walk breaks)! I was so proud of myself, and told everyone I knew. But after running one mile, I wondered – could I run two miles? How about three? I gradually increased my distance, completing a 5 mile race, then a 10K (6.2 miles), and eventually a 10 miler. In December 2007, shortly after starting “Absolut(ly) Fit”, I decided it would be my New Year's resolution to complete a half marathon by the end of the year. I smashed that resolution before the end of the month when I ran theManhattan Half Marathon in Central Park. I was shocked that I had been able to complete it – I thought for sure I was pushing my limits further than I could go. But I did it, and now I wondered – could I somehow complete a full marathon? I started adding more miles on to my “training sessions” (which were actually just early Saturday morning attempts to burn off the calories of the alcohol and late-night pizza/tacos/etc I had consumed with my friends the night before). I didn't follow a real training plan, but typically tried to add five to ten minutes onto whatever I had done the last time I went for a run, and that gradual increase helped me to progress injury-free. I didn't worry about how fast I was going, and instead focused on enjoying the gorgeous views and surprisingly quiet calm of Manhattan on a weekend morning. But while it wasn't too hard to do just another five to ten minutes than I had done the week before, the extra mileage was adding up – until one weekend morning, I ran 22 miles! Although I hadn't been following a formal training plan, I had read enough to know that most marathon training plans stopped around 22 miles… so it seemed that I was ready to go the full distance. I signed up for the Vermont City Marathon a few weeks later, selecting it in large part because it was sponsored by Ben and Jerry's and promised free ice cream at the finish. If anything was going to get me to run 26.2 miles, it was ice cream! My mom and my best friend came to cheer me on, holding signs that said “run to the ice cream, Laura!” That motivation certainly helped – whenever I saw their signs, you can bet that I ran a little faster! Of course I had some soul-searching, “why did I sign up for this” moments in the last few miles (what first-time marathoner doesn't?), but within a few minutes after the finish line, the memories of the tough times were completely replaced by pride of accomplishment. I did it!   Proud marathoner with ice cream in hand! In fact, I was so elated that instead of wanting to stop there, I decided to run another marathon. And another after that. To this day, no matter how many marathons I've run, there is nothing like that feeling of conquering the impossible I get when I cross a marathon finish line. It never gets old! I set a new ambitious goal for myself – to run a marathon in each U.S. state by my 25th birthday – and completed it on June 6, 2010, just two years and one week after I completed my first marathon. In doing so, I broke the world record as the youngest woman to run a marathon in all 50 states. I didn't stop there, though – in November 2013, I ran my 100th marathon to become the youngest member of the 100 Marathon Club. As of this writing (December 2014), I've run 105 marathons in 50 US states, one US territory, and six countries.   Seconds after achieving my 50by25 goal, I'm in disbelief. While I was working toward my “50 marathons by my 25th birthday” challenge, I picked up the 50by25 moniker – and now that I'm a bit older and perhaps not quite so focused on college drinking games and the NYC bar scene, I thought rebranding my blog to 50by25 would make more sense. Yes, I've already completed the 50by25 goal and want to move onto new challenges. However, I think the short-and-sweet 50by25 phrase is a great example of how to set a goal, break it up into manageable chunks, and achieve it. It's quantifiable, it's timebound, and for me, it provided something inspiring enough to work toward that I didn't give up even when things got tough. 50by25 is a huge part of who I am today, and a reminder that I can do the “impossible.” Of course I hope to accomplish more in my life and not just rest on my laurels from here on out, but 50by25 was really the perfect quest and serves as a great template for future endeavors. Though I still run marathons (and write about them on the blog), you'll find that my blog now focuses a lot on goal setting, productivity, and travel in addition to the usual health and fitness topics. I think mastering these activities is the best way to enjoy life and attain true happiness, and I'm eager to learn and share as much as I can about those topics! If you're not sure where to start, check out my top posts page that I put together for new visitors. Thanks for coming by, and if you have any questions, always feel free to leave a comment on a post or contact me anytime :) Section Two – Life Lessons Make them smile - http://runrunlive.com/one-powerful-easy-small-habit Outro Oi! Oi! Oi! Come on! Let's have some energy!  Pick it up buttercup!  Mmmmm… Got a little bit of rumbly in my tumbly today.  Had to make not one, but two pit stops in the woods on my run.  Feeling a bit jet lagged.  I've got a funky playlist going now and I'm tapping out this semi-screed for you.  Or, I guess for us.   I had a funny idea for a short story based in the not-so-distant future where the people who come in last in the race get all the prizes and praise.  No one wants to win because the winners get tied to a post and stoned for being un-feeling bastards.   I forgot to tell you folks that I've been steadily upgrading my hardware.  I got the new iPhone 6 and I really like it.  Not the super big one the ‘just a little bigger' one.  And I replaced my laptop with a Surface Pro 3 a couple months ago and I've grown to like it, especially for travel.  And finally, I lost those Bluetooth headphones that Hilton sent me, ironically by leaving them in a Marriott.   I like the no-strings attached option though and I've bought another pair.  These are called an Mpow Cheetah Sport Bluetooth 4.1 Headphone.  They are good but they go all the way into the ear canal which can be uncomfortable and dangerous because you really can't hear anything else.  So far my toxic body juices haven't killed them but the battery life seems to be maybe 4 hours.  And of course the microphone sucks if you wanted to use them to talk on the phone.   When I was up at the start I had a great chat with Team Hoyt.  Rick and Dick were there as well as Bryan Lyons who is pushing Rick in the longer races now.  I was talking to Dick, who still pushes Rick in the shorter races.  Dick was telling me how he was having back pain and now that he was retired he's got a physio coach and has been doing core work every day and he feels great.   Does it ever feel to you like everyone is having the same conversations at the same time?  Dick was telling me about how great having a strong core is.  He's 75 years old!  I wanted to thank all of you who helped me make my goal for fund raising for Team Hoyt for Boston. I hope to get Bryan on before the race, in the next show.  He was nervous, telling me he's not good with ‘media' – makes me laugh – like I'm Geraldo or something.  Did some math and figured out that I've got somewhere around 5-600 miles on these Hokas.  They still feel fine but I can feel them getting a little ‘loose'.  Time to start looking for a new pair of something.  I'm not going to change horses before Boston.   But, as a lesson, don't do what I do, which is to run in a pair of shoes until your knees start hurting.  You should always have a couple pair in rotation and switch back and forth so you don't get ‘repetitive' injuries.  Well my lovelies I have to let you go.  I'm so far behind in my work that I may never dig out and it's Friday afternoon.  My motivation and energy flows from me and spreads like a dark puddle across the hardwood floor.  The warmth of a comforting bed, the friendly embrace of the couch and the warm dopamine drip of procrastination are sucking at my mind.   Last week I played hooky one weekday afternoon and went into China town with my daughter. We had a blast knocking around the Chinese shops and eating at a Shabu Shabu place.  We didn't roll back home until around 8:00 PM.  I had still had to get my run in.   The weather had taken a turn from the better.  It wasn't snowing and the hulking drifts had retreated from the roads a bit.  There was not a cloud in the sky.  There was not a breath of wind.  There was a 1/4 moon and a sky full of stars.  It was about 28 degrees – warm enough to allow some freedom from the atrocious and common winter bulk of accoutrements of the past 3 months.  A soundless night.   I made my way over through the old neighborhood where I bought my first little house and settled with my new bride in 1985 at the age of 22.  I remember struggling to run a 2 mile loop there as I started my fitful return to fitness in my late 20's.   I ran down the sidewalks of my life and looked in the windows of my memories and felt at peace and full of joy. I remembered the nights like this when all is effortless and joyful are the reason I train and race and strive.  It's the quiet and beautiful moments that sneak up on you while you are busy living that teach you how precious living is.  I'll see you out there.  https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussell http://www.grotonroadrace.com/ Closing comments http://runrunlive.com/my-books  

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-309 – Anne – Laura and 50 states by age 25 (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi439.mp3] Link epi4309.mp3 Intro Bumper: https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussell Man, what a week!  I’m tired.  I raced the Eastern States 20 miler on Sunday.  It was the 20th anniversary race and they were back to the original course which starts in Kittery Maine, crosses over into Portsmouth, runs the entire coastline of New Hampshire and ends in Massachusetts.  You get 3 states in one race.   I didn’t really know how to manage the race going in.  I have been logging 40ish miles a week for a while and have done several 3 hour long runs but I’ve done almost no tempo or speed.  The summary would be that I’m in really good aerobic shape but lacking the sharp edge of racing.   And, for those of you not paying attention, the reason I can’t do the tempo and speed is that I have a heart condition, ‘exercise induced’ A-fib that I’ve developed over the last couple years where later in a workout, under load my heartbeat becomes irregular.  I’m going in to get that fixed in May but I have to drag my old self through the Boston Marathon course first! And, for those of you really not paying attention, this is Chris, your host, and this is the RunRunLive Podcast where we consider the transformational power of endurance sport.  From now on, try to pay attention.   There were 5 of us from my club at the race but we weren’t running together because we were at different goal levels.  I planned to just sort of hang back and let the race come to me and keep a watchful eye on the heart rate.  But, any of you who have raced with me know how that usually goes.   I’m an excitable boy, and, as usual I struggled to stay slow and knocked off the early miles 45 – 50 seconds a mile faster than my ‘safe’ goal.  I was worried I’d fall apart at the end but I felt great.  The A-fib did kick in for the last few miles but I never crashed and my legs were solid and I wasn’t sore at all on Monday. We got a great day for racing.  It was sunny and mid-30’s.  There was a bit of a head wind, but nothing that was unmanageable.  This course is nice and flat.  I’ve probably run this race a dozen times.  All-in-all it was an excellent outing.  I had a blast.  I have to be careful with my exuberance.  Even though it was a good 20 mile run, that only gets you to the base of Heartbreak Hill and for the last 10k my heart was whacking around in my chest like a deranged hamster.  While I was sorting through the race photos this week I actually paid for one it was so good.  I usually don’t bother with race photos.  The camera isn’t that kind to me in general and I’m too cheap to pay the exorbitant prices, but this was a great picture that captured how much fun I was having and was only $10 for the digital.  We have a great show for you today. In the first section I’m going to look at how road races have changed over the 25 years I’ve been running them and what that may or may not mean for us.   In the interview we have the final guest interview that was recorded for me at the end of last summer (sorry Anne and Laura for the delay in getting it out!)  Anne interviews Laura who set the record as the youngest person to run all 50 US states.  She did it by the age of 25. She recounts how she started as an adamant ‘non-runner’ just trying to get to one mile and some of the wonderful, transformative life lessons she learned along the way.  The final section is a super interesting (and maybe creepy) social experiment that I was running on strangers while traveling this week using the tools of the Pick Up Artists.   Props to my coach, Jeff from PRSFit.  I told him in January that I couldn’t so any speedwork but I still wanted to race Boston and we figured out how to work with what we had.  All long, slow, build, aerobic training.  I can feel the results in my runs over the last 3 weeks and I can see the strength in my body.   Just goes to show you folks, where there is a will there’s a way.   On with the Show!  Section one - Running Tips 7 ways road races have changed in a generation http://runrunlive.com/7-ways-road-races-have-changed-in-one-generation Voices of reason – the interviews Laura @50by25 Management consultant who became the youngest woman to run a marathon in all 50 states, while still enjoying her margaritas. Sometimes simultaneously. I began writing this blog in December 2007 under the title “Absolut(ly) Fit.” I chose the name to reflect a belief that I had then (and still have today): the best way to live a healthy and happy lifestyle is to maintain balance. Of course it’s good for your body to work out and eat healthy food most of the time, but it’s also good for your spirit to eat the foods you enjoy. Perhaps you want to set an ambitious goal like training for a marathon – but in the pursuit of that, you don’t need to give up everything else in order to succeed.   Case in point – heading straight from my 2nd marathon to visit my favorite winery, Chateau Ste. Michelle I didn’t always have this philosophy of balance. Growing up, I preferred musical theater to sports, and never understood how someone could do both. In my mind, you were either artsy or sporty – but never both. I began to challenge this and other assumptions while doing a college internship in Sarasota, Florida. Finding it difficult to make friends in a strange place, I told myself that I could either be miserable and have a terrible summer, or I could make the best of it and spend the time trying to improve myself in some way. I decided that I was going to do two things I had previously thought impossible: learn to cook and learn to run.   Lounging and drinking in the ocean? Don’t worry, I still made time for that! The cooking was easy; the running was a bit harder. I had defined my goal as being able to run one mile without stopping, and lacking any better running equipment, I drove my car in a loop around the neighborhood until the odometer read one mile – that was how far I needed to go. For two months I pounded the pavement, working my way up to running more and walking less of that distance. By the end of the summer I had not only been able to run my one mile “course ” without stopping, but I also completed a 5K race (though that was with plenty of walk breaks)! I was so proud of myself, and told everyone I knew. But after running one mile, I wondered – could I run two miles? How about three? I gradually increased my distance, completing a 5 mile race, then a 10K (6.2 miles), and eventually a 10 miler. In December 2007, shortly after starting “Absolut(ly) Fit”, I decided it would be my New Year’s resolution to complete a half marathon by the end of the year. I smashed that resolution before the end of the month when I ran theManhattan Half Marathon in Central Park. I was shocked that I had been able to complete it – I thought for sure I was pushing my limits further than I could go. But I did it, and now I wondered – could I somehow complete a full marathon? I started adding more miles on to my “training sessions” (which were actually just early Saturday morning attempts to burn off the calories of the alcohol and late-night pizza/tacos/etc I had consumed with my friends the night before). I didn’t follow a real training plan, but typically tried to add five to ten minutes onto whatever I had done the last time I went for a run, and that gradual increase helped me to progress injury-free. I didn’t worry about how fast I was going, and instead focused on enjoying the gorgeous views and surprisingly quiet calm of Manhattan on a weekend morning. But while it wasn’t too hard to do just another five to ten minutes than I had done the week before, the extra mileage was adding up – until one weekend morning, I ran 22 miles! Although I hadn’t been following a formal training plan, I had read enough to know that most marathon training plans stopped around 22 miles… so it seemed that I was ready to go the full distance. I signed up for the Vermont City Marathon a few weeks later, selecting it in large part because it was sponsored by Ben and Jerry’s and promised free ice cream at the finish. If anything was going to get me to run 26.2 miles, it was ice cream! My mom and my best friend came to cheer me on, holding signs that said “run to the ice cream, Laura!” That motivation certainly helped – whenever I saw their signs, you can bet that I ran a little faster! Of course I had some soul-searching, “why did I sign up for this” moments in the last few miles (what first-time marathoner doesn’t?), but within a few minutes after the finish line, the memories of the tough times were completely replaced by pride of accomplishment. I did it!   Proud marathoner with ice cream in hand! In fact, I was so elated that instead of wanting to stop there, I decided to run another marathon. And another after that. To this day, no matter how many marathons I’ve run, there is nothing like that feeling of conquering the impossible I get when I cross a marathon finish line. It never gets old! I set a new ambitious goal for myself – to run a marathon in each U.S. state by my 25th birthday – and completed it on June 6, 2010, just two years and one week after I completed my first marathon. In doing so, I broke the world record as the youngest woman to run a marathon in all 50 states. I didn’t stop there, though – in November 2013, I ran my 100th marathon to become the youngest member of the 100 Marathon Club. As of this writing (December 2014), I’ve run 105 marathons in 50 US states, one US territory, and six countries.   Seconds after achieving my 50by25 goal, I’m in disbelief. While I was working toward my “50 marathons by my 25th birthday” challenge, I picked up the 50by25 moniker – and now that I’m a bit older and perhaps not quite so focused on college drinking games and the NYC bar scene, I thought rebranding my blog to 50by25 would make more sense. Yes, I’ve already completed the 50by25 goal and want to move onto new challenges. However, I think the short-and-sweet 50by25 phrase is a great example of how to set a goal, break it up into manageable chunks, and achieve it. It’s quantifiable, it’s timebound, and for me, it provided something inspiring enough to work toward that I didn’t give up even when things got tough. 50by25 is a huge part of who I am today, and a reminder that I can do the “impossible.” Of course I hope to accomplish more in my life and not just rest on my laurels from here on out, but 50by25 was really the perfect quest and serves as a great template for future endeavors. Though I still run marathons (and write about them on the blog), you’ll find that my blog now focuses a lot on goal setting, productivity, and travel in addition to the usual health and fitness topics. I think mastering these activities is the best way to enjoy life and attain true happiness, and I’m eager to learn and share as much as I can about those topics! If you’re not sure where to start, check out my top posts page that I put together for new visitors. Thanks for coming by, and if you have any questions, always feel free to leave a comment on a post or contact me anytime :) Section Two – Life Lessons Make them smile - http://runrunlive.com/one-powerful-easy-small-habit Outro Oi! Oi! Oi! Come on! Let’s have some energy!  Pick it up buttercup!  Mmmmm… Got a little bit of rumbly in my tumbly today.  Had to make not one, but two pit stops in the woods on my run.  Feeling a bit jet lagged.  I’ve got a funky playlist going now and I’m tapping out this semi-screed for you.  Or, I guess for us.   I had a funny idea for a short story based in the not-so-distant future where the people who come in last in the race get all the prizes and praise.  No one wants to win because the winners get tied to a post and stoned for being un-feeling bastards.   I forgot to tell you folks that I’ve been steadily upgrading my hardware.  I got the new iPhone 6 and I really like it.  Not the super big one the ‘just a little bigger’ one.  And I replaced my laptop with a Surface Pro 3 a couple months ago and I’ve grown to like it, especially for travel.  And finally, I lost those Bluetooth headphones that Hilton sent me, ironically by leaving them in a Marriott.   I like the no-strings attached option though and I’ve bought another pair.  These are called an Mpow Cheetah Sport Bluetooth 4.1 Headphone.  They are good but they go all the way into the ear canal which can be uncomfortable and dangerous because you really can’t hear anything else.  So far my toxic body juices haven’t killed them but the battery life seems to be maybe 4 hours.  And of course the microphone sucks if you wanted to use them to talk on the phone.   When I was up at the start I had a great chat with Team Hoyt.  Rick and Dick were there as well as Bryan Lyons who is pushing Rick in the longer races now.  I was talking to Dick, who still pushes Rick in the shorter races.  Dick was telling me how he was having back pain and now that he was retired he’s got a physio coach and has been doing core work every day and he feels great.   Does it ever feel to you like everyone is having the same conversations at the same time?  Dick was telling me about how great having a strong core is.  He’s 75 years old!  I wanted to thank all of you who helped me make my goal for fund raising for Team Hoyt for Boston. I hope to get Bryan on before the race, in the next show.  He was nervous, telling me he’s not good with ‘media’ – makes me laugh – like I’m Geraldo or something.  Did some math and figured out that I’ve got somewhere around 5-600 miles on these Hokas.  They still feel fine but I can feel them getting a little ‘loose’.  Time to start looking for a new pair of something.  I’m not going to change horses before Boston.   But, as a lesson, don’t do what I do, which is to run in a pair of shoes until your knees start hurting.  You should always have a couple pair in rotation and switch back and forth so you don’t get ‘repetitive’ injuries.  Well my lovelies I have to let you go.  I’m so far behind in my work that I may never dig out and it’s Friday afternoon.  My motivation and energy flows from me and spreads like a dark puddle across the hardwood floor.  The warmth of a comforting bed, the friendly embrace of the couch and the warm dopamine drip of procrastination are sucking at my mind.   Last week I played hooky one weekday afternoon and went into China town with my daughter. We had a blast knocking around the Chinese shops and eating at a Shabu Shabu place.  We didn’t roll back home until around 8:00 PM.  I had still had to get my run in.   The weather had taken a turn from the better.  It wasn’t snowing and the hulking drifts had retreated from the roads a bit.  There was not a cloud in the sky.  There was not a breath of wind.  There was a 1/4 moon and a sky full of stars.  It was about 28 degrees – warm enough to allow some freedom from the atrocious and common winter bulk of accoutrements of the past 3 months.  A soundless night.   I made my way over through the old neighborhood where I bought my first little house and settled with my new bride in 1985 at the age of 22.  I remember struggling to run a 2 mile loop there as I started my fitful return to fitness in my late 20’s.   I ran down the sidewalks of my life and looked in the windows of my memories and felt at peace and full of joy. I remembered the nights like this when all is effortless and joyful are the reason I train and race and strive.  It’s the quiet and beautiful moments that sneak up on you while you are busy living that teach you how precious living is.  I’ll see you out there.  https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussell http://www.grotonroadrace.com/ Closing comments http://runrunlive.com/my-books  

The RunRunLive 3.0 Podcast Episode 3-293 – Boston Marathoner Jill Maguire Trotter             (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi3293.mp3] Link Support RunRunLive; Purchase an audio book of running stories.  Written and performed with love by Chris Russell  -------------à>>>>>>> Introductory Comments: Hello my friends.  We find ourselves once more together to share an episode, episode 3-293 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  It's been busy few weeks training-wise since we last talked.  I made the mistake of telling my coach that I wanted to qualify and was willing to do the work.  He reciprocated by hammering me with hard, long workouts that have kicked my running life out of balance in a good way.  I'm still only running 4 times a week but last week that included an 8 mile tempo run, a 10 mile tempo run and a 20 mile long run.  This week is more of the same.  I'm hanging on by my fingernails but it's all good.  It's a great way to narrow your focus.  I was down the Cape over the 4th of July holiday.  Nothing really eventful but it's a different climate down there.  Very hot and humid.  I think it is somehow closer to the sun.  It's all well and good when you're snoozing on a beach towel but not so much when you're trying to hammer out a run. Today we are going to chat with a local marathoner and running friend of mine Jill Maguire Trotter.  I was interested in getting her take on running because she's one of those people who manages to live her life, train and compete at a high level.  In section one I'm going to share an essay I wrote about work.  And in Section two I'm going to get you fired up to face the daemons of discomfort.  I didn't travel this week so I got some good Miracle Morning time to cogitate on these themes. That first week of getting back into the hard work of training was discouraging.  I'm heavy and my legs are slow. But I know that I can do it.  I believe that all I have to do is battle with the effort and keep bringing my best work and have patience.  I believe it will turn around and the fitness will come and the training effect will kick in.  I'm beginning to see signs of life.  I'm completing these workouts successfully and it's encouraging.  It's tempting to declare victory and just walk away from the hard training at my age and ability level.  I'm never going to be more than average no matter how hard I train.  I've got nothing to prove.  But it just feels worthy to be training to exhaustion.  It feels right.  My garden is coming in nicely.  I'm eating cucumbers and chard and kale.  The hops are budding up.  The berries are ripening and soon I'll be sharing fresh tomatoes with the squirrels.  Buddy doesn't like the squirrels.  He doesn't like the rabbits either.  For some reason we have a proliferation of rabbits this year.  And they are a brazen lot.  They sit in the yard and mock the dog, smugly devouring my parsley.  I wonder where all the local hawks and eagles and coyotes got off to?  We are through the nice part of summer up here in New England.  Now we are into the hot and humid, turn on the AC time of year.  The dog hates it.  I can't take him running.  He's exhausted by going to a walk.  The mosquitoes and deer flies are out in full force.  It's a quiet and languid season.  The dog days. Toss your fresh salads and let's Get On with the Show! … You should really sign on to my email list.  Rather than basking in safe obscurity you can declare your allegiance to RunRunLive and get my drivel directly in your inbox.  I mean, really, you've made it to 289 episodes and sucked the vital life force out of my narrative for 5+ years you should subscribe or at least join the RunRunLive Facebook group.  or just search FaceBook for “RunRunLive”. On with the show! Section one: Work - Featured Interview: Jill Maguire Trotter From Level Runner ->   Jill Maguire Trotter has hopped for east coast to west and back east again, getting a little bit faster with each successive leap. Growing up in the Worcester suburb of Millbury, MA, Trotter played youth soccer, softball, and most notably field hockey. She intended to play the latter sport in college (Babson) just like she did in high school (Notre Dame Academy), but those plans never came to fruition. After a brief stint as a sedentary person, Trotter became antsy and joined not the field hockey team but the cross country one. Although she “lacked the mental toughness” (her words) to be competitive, she stuck with it up to and through graduation. After moving to San Francisco in 1995, she joined the Leukemia Society's Team in Training and starting ramping up for her first marathon on the trails of Mt. Tam. In June of 1996, she ran 3:33 at the Mayor's Midnight Sun Marathon in Anchorage, Alaska and qualified for Boston. Of course, this led to a return trip to the east coast in both ‘97 and ‘98 where she ran 3:33 and 3:30, respectively. Finally, in 1998, after all those trips from the City by the Bay to the City of the Beans, she settled for good (so far, at least) in the Merrimack Valley. She married, started a family, and took a break from marathons but not running. She gave birth to her first son in 2001, then a daughter in 2003. Having missed the 26.2 distance, she started up again and ran a 3:22 at the 2005 Boston Marathon while unknowingly pregnant with her 3rd child, and a mere 9 months after giving birth to #3, she won the 2006 Baystate Marathon in 3:11. Three children under the age of 5 led to the purchase of a treadmill, and like many a dedicated runner/parent she snuck in her runs while the kids napped. In 2007, with her children almost out of diapers, Trotter got serious. Encouraged by her Baystate performance, she joined the Greater Lowell Road Runners and recruited Nate Jenkins for coaching duties. Her goal: run sub 3:00. About enlisting Jenkins as coach Trotter says, “I credit Nate for teaching me how to train for the marathon; he instilled in me that it is about hard work and I should have confidence in my marathon goal times since they are based on results that I've achieved during workouts.” Her hard work paid off. Trotter ran 3:00 at the Vermont City Marathon in 2008 and then 2:58 at Cal International later that year. In addition to Jenkins, she credits Jim Rhoades with a valuable assist as they did most of her long runs together. Trotter turned 40 in 2012 and has been one of the best master runners in the region. She considers her best event the marathon, and her competition would likely agree as she placed 1st in the masters division at the USATF-NE GPS Manchester City Marathon. Her time: 3:09. She is inspired by Kara Haas, Trish Bourne, Liane Pancoast, Nancy Corsaro, Cathy Pearce, and Barbara McManus and credits them for contributing to her success. She says, “I find that while I like to be competitive with women from other clubs, I also want them to succeed in their own goals; the New England running community is amazingly supportive.” Beyond running, Trotter aspires to be a good influence on her 3 children. Above all, she wants to teach them that if they work hard they can achieve their goals. I'd say that's on The Level. PRs 5k – 18:42 @ Hollis 10k – 39:55 @ Tufts 15k – 61:37 @ Boston Tune-up Half – 1:28 @ Hyannis Full – 2:58 @ Cal International   Section two: The Dark Place revisited at middle age - Outro: That's all we have for you today.  Hope you're all fired up to go throw yourself at some tempo workouts.  But, seriously you draw your own line.  Don't base your self-image on what I say.  If you have never done speed or tempo training then give yourself 3-4 weeks to ease into it with strength training.  Make sure you're form is right.  Do your stretching and physical therapy before you hit it hard.  Any weak spot or chink in your armor will turn into a injury when you go to the dark place.  Your ability to figure out what's a real injury and what's another bothersome niggle will be needed to stay with it.  When I'm in the throws of one of these hard, big bounce cycles something always hurts.  There were a couple days last week where I had trouble sleeping due to the exhaustion of my leg muscles.  Pain is a signal but it's neither good nor bad and you have to be able to figure out what's real and what's not.  There's no black and white.  If you're going to drop into crazy big workouts make sure you stretch and warm up well.  Make sure you fuel well before and after.  Make sure you stretch and massage and ice where necessary.  Because all the fitness in the world can't help you unless you make it to the starting line.  If you have the discipline to do not only the workouts but also the whole package of things you need to do to stay healthy then the dark place is the shortest path to your goals.  I successful moved the RunRunLive website over to a new hosting service.  I'm still working out some bugs and I haven't gotten a chance to back update the episodes and articles that fell into the gap.  I'll get to it over the next couple weeks.  At some point I'll revamp the whole site because it is getting a little long in the tooth.  For the next iteration of the show I'm collecting blog posts from others.  I'm going to read them.  So if you have a post you'd be willing to share with me just send it along.  I'm also going to look for some guest interviewers to add some new voices in as well – if you're interested in doing an interview for me let's talk.  Get ready for RunRunLive 4.0. 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The RunRunLive 3.0 Podcast Episode 3-293 – Boston Marathoner Jill Maguire Trotter             (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi3293.mp3] Link Support RunRunLive; Purchase an audio book of running stories.  Written and performed with love by Chris Russell  -------------à>>>>>>> Introductory Comments: Hello my friends.  We find ourselves once more together to share an episode, episode 3-293 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  It’s been busy few weeks training-wise since we last talked.  I made the mistake of telling my coach that I wanted to qualify and was willing to do the work.  He reciprocated by hammering me with hard, long workouts that have kicked my running life out of balance in a good way.  I’m still only running 4 times a week but last week that included an 8 mile tempo run, a 10 mile tempo run and a 20 mile long run.  This week is more of the same.  I’m hanging on by my fingernails but it’s all good.  It’s a great way to narrow your focus.  I was down the Cape over the 4th of July holiday.  Nothing really eventful but it’s a different climate down there.  Very hot and humid.  I think it is somehow closer to the sun.  It’s all well and good when you’re snoozing on a beach towel but not so much when you’re trying to hammer out a run. Today we are going to chat with a local marathoner and running friend of mine Jill Maguire Trotter.  I was interested in getting her take on running because she’s one of those people who manages to live her life, train and compete at a high level.  In section one I’m going to share an essay I wrote about work.  And in Section two I’m going to get you fired up to face the daemons of discomfort.  I didn’t travel this week so I got some good Miracle Morning time to cogitate on these themes. That first week of getting back into the hard work of training was discouraging.  I’m heavy and my legs are slow. But I know that I can do it.  I believe that all I have to do is battle with the effort and keep bringing my best work and have patience.  I believe it will turn around and the fitness will come and the training effect will kick in.  I’m beginning to see signs of life.  I’m completing these workouts successfully and it’s encouraging.  It’s tempting to declare victory and just walk away from the hard training at my age and ability level.  I’m never going to be more than average no matter how hard I train.  I’ve got nothing to prove.  But it just feels worthy to be training to exhaustion.  It feels right.  My garden is coming in nicely.  I’m eating cucumbers and chard and kale.  The hops are budding up.  The berries are ripening and soon I’ll be sharing fresh tomatoes with the squirrels.  Buddy doesn’t like the squirrels.  He doesn’t like the rabbits either.  For some reason we have a proliferation of rabbits this year.  And they are a brazen lot.  They sit in the yard and mock the dog, smugly devouring my parsley.  I wonder where all the local hawks and eagles and coyotes got off to?  We are through the nice part of summer up here in New England.  Now we are into the hot and humid, turn on the AC time of year.  The dog hates it.  I can’t take him running.  He’s exhausted by going to a walk.  The mosquitoes and deer flies are out in full force.  It’s a quiet and languid season.  The dog days. Toss your fresh salads and let’s Get On with the Show! … You should really sign on to my email list.  Rather than basking in safe obscurity you can declare your allegiance to RunRunLive and get my drivel directly in your inbox.  I mean, really, you’ve made it to 289 episodes and sucked the vital life force out of my narrative for 5+ years you should subscribe or at least join the RunRunLive Facebook group.  or just search FaceBook for “RunRunLive”. On with the show! Section one: Work - Featured Interview: Jill Maguire Trotter From Level Runner ->   Jill Maguire Trotter has hopped for east coast to west and back east again, getting a little bit faster with each successive leap. Growing up in the Worcester suburb of Millbury, MA, Trotter played youth soccer, softball, and most notably field hockey. She intended to play the latter sport in college (Babson) just like she did in high school (Notre Dame Academy), but those plans never came to fruition. After a brief stint as a sedentary person, Trotter became antsy and joined not the field hockey team but the cross country one. Although she “lacked the mental toughness” (her words) to be competitive, she stuck with it up to and through graduation. After moving to San Francisco in 1995, she joined the Leukemia Society’s Team in Training and starting ramping up for her first marathon on the trails of Mt. Tam. In June of 1996, she ran 3:33 at the Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon in Anchorage, Alaska and qualified for Boston. Of course, this led to a return trip to the east coast in both ‘97 and ‘98 where she ran 3:33 and 3:30, respectively. Finally, in 1998, after all those trips from the City by the Bay to the City of the Beans, she settled for good (so far, at least) in the Merrimack Valley. She married, started a family, and took a break from marathons but not running. She gave birth to her first son in 2001, then a daughter in 2003. Having missed the 26.2 distance, she started up again and ran a 3:22 at the 2005 Boston Marathon while unknowingly pregnant with her 3rd child, and a mere 9 months after giving birth to #3, she won the 2006 Baystate Marathon in 3:11. Three children under the age of 5 led to the purchase of a treadmill, and like many a dedicated runner/parent she snuck in her runs while the kids napped. In 2007, with her children almost out of diapers, Trotter got serious. Encouraged by her Baystate performance, she joined the Greater Lowell Road Runners and recruited Nate Jenkins for coaching duties. Her goal: run sub 3:00. About enlisting Jenkins as coach Trotter says, “I credit Nate for teaching me how to train for the marathon; he instilled in me that it is about hard work and I should have confidence in my marathon goal times since they are based on results that I’ve achieved during workouts.” Her hard work paid off. Trotter ran 3:00 at the Vermont City Marathon in 2008 and then 2:58 at Cal International later that year. In addition to Jenkins, she credits Jim Rhoades with a valuable assist as they did most of her long runs together. Trotter turned 40 in 2012 and has been one of the best master runners in the region. She considers her best event the marathon, and her competition would likely agree as she placed 1st in the masters division at the USATF-NE GPS Manchester City Marathon. Her time: 3:09. She is inspired by Kara Haas, Trish Bourne, Liane Pancoast, Nancy Corsaro, Cathy Pearce, and Barbara McManus and credits them for contributing to her success. She says, “I find that while I like to be competitive with women from other clubs, I also want them to succeed in their own goals; the New England running community is amazingly supportive.” Beyond running, Trotter aspires to be a good influence on her 3 children. Above all, she wants to teach them that if they work hard they can achieve their goals. I’d say that’s on The Level. PRs 5k – 18:42 @ Hollis 10k – 39:55 @ Tufts 15k – 61:37 @ Boston Tune-up Half – 1:28 @ Hyannis Full – 2:58 @ Cal International   Section two: The Dark Place revisited at middle age - Outro: That’s all we have for you today.  Hope you’re all fired up to go throw yourself at some tempo workouts.  But, seriously you draw your own line.  Don’t base your self-image on what I say.  If you have never done speed or tempo training then give yourself 3-4 weeks to ease into it with strength training.  Make sure you’re form is right.  Do your stretching and physical therapy before you hit it hard.  Any weak spot or chink in your armor will turn into a injury when you go to the dark place.  Your ability to figure out what’s a real injury and what’s another bothersome niggle will be needed to stay with it.  When I’m in the throws of one of these hard, big bounce cycles something always hurts.  There were a couple days last week where I had trouble sleeping due to the exhaustion of my leg muscles.  Pain is a signal but it’s neither good nor bad and you have to be able to figure out what’s real and what’s not.  There’s no black and white.  If you’re going to drop into crazy big workouts make sure you stretch and warm up well.  Make sure you fuel well before and after.  Make sure you stretch and massage and ice where necessary.  Because all the fitness in the world can’t help you unless you make it to the starting line.  If you have the discipline to do not only the workouts but also the whole package of things you need to do to stay healthy then the dark place is the shortest path to your goals.  I successful moved the RunRunLive website over to a new hosting service.  I’m still working out some bugs and I haven’t gotten a chance to back update the episodes and articles that fell into the gap.  I’ll get to it over the next couple weeks.  At some point I’ll revamp the whole site because it is getting a little long in the tooth.  For the next iteration of the show I’m collecting blog posts from others.  I’m going to read them.  So if you have a post you’d be willing to share with me just send it along.  I’m also going to look for some guest interviewers to add some new voices in as well – if you’re interested in doing an interview for me let’s talk.  Get ready for RunRunLive 4.0. 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It's the 7th anniversary of 4 Feet Running! Almost. This week:- Nik and Dan celebrate their 7th wedding anniversary doing a 5-mile run with the dogs in Barrington, R.I.- Nik continues her tapering on the way to the Vermont City Marathon- Dan has sort of a lousy running week thanks to the rain- They discuss the early days of their courtship, which had a Sharks & Jets type feel, politically, until it became Sharks & Sharks- They talk about their future marathon travel plans, which may include Texas- Nik & Dan meet a guy still bitter about World War II- They get some coffee and kale soup and read some feedback from very nice people(5.21.08)

In this episode I talk about my second (and third) marathons, running with my brother and the Adirondacks that I love.