Phedippidations
Inspirations, motivations,contemplations and conversations for and about runners.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 47 minutes
- Episodes
- 491
- Years Active
- 2005 - 2025
Fdip296: Motivational Gadgetry
I’m going to talk about four specific gadgets on our run today, physical devices that are said to help motivate you to live a healthier life.
Show notes available at SteveRunner.com
01:01:57 |
Thu 20 Sep 2012
Fdip295: Dr. George Sheehan – Facing the Future
It’s been almost two years since I produced an episode of this goofy little podcast featuring the thoughts and words of a man I admire a great deal: Dr. George Sheehan. There’s no specific reason fo…
01:18:50 |
Sat 08 Sep 2012
Fdip294: The Walkers of Prince Edward Island
Who are you?
When we contemplate those elements of our origins, personality and physical being…we have to consider our genetic history, the environment in which we were raised and live and, the beh…
01:23:17 |
Fri 03 Aug 2012
Fdip293: The Ghost of Phedippidations
This episode celebrates the 7th anniversary of this podcast, the first episode of which was published on Independence Day, July 4th of the year 2005.
As you’d expect, my life is very different today…
01:27:46 |
Tue 17 Jul 2012
Fdip292: Running in Time
The universe is different for runners, because we have a far more personal relationship with it.
Non-runners can jump on a bike, in a car, on a boat, strap themselves into a plane or a rocket, and di…
01:06:54 |
Sat 16 Jun 2012
Fdip291: Running in Space
You’re out on a five mile run, the sun is setting and the stars are beginning to shine. You are traveling a measureable distance across a tiny blue bubble in space that has been in existence for 4.5…
01:12:39 |
Fri 01 Jun 2012
Fdip290: Road Race au Groton
Running the Groton Road Race was like running with an old friend I had never actually met, with one friend I had met before and another I’ve known for years through the running community of which I a…
01:03:43 |
Fri 18 May 2012
Fdip289: Pride and Pronation
We should be proud of we are, and act as a positive examples for others: but at the same time remain wary of vanity – because while we are certainly worthy of having pride in our actions and through …
00:57:13 |
Fri 27 Apr 2012
Fdip288: The Strength of Youth - The Story of a Marathon Race by Frank Odell
This is a story of passion, determination and guts in a marathon road race that is very much like the one you may have, or may one day run. It’s a story that demonstrates the importance of experienc…
01:14:44 |
Wed 11 Apr 2012
Fdip287: Hemingway’s Key and Life to its Top
This was Ernest Hemingway, a man who inspired his readers to stand up against facists and bullies, while in many ways he tended to be somewhat of a bully himself. Hemingway lived his life to the ful…
01:21:06 |
Fri 23 Mar 2012
Fdip286: The Rationality of Fear and Road Races
The guy who said it was a “miracle that he had the courage to start” is full of crap. Courage has nothing to do with starting a road race, and he’s a fool to push that slogan on new runners.
01:00:52 |
Sun 26 Feb 2012
Fdip285: The Problem with Treadmilling
Treadmilling is not a bad thing. But I think everyone listening to me understands that given the choice between running in place for an hour within your home, or at a gym and moving outside, under t…
01:14:37 |
Sun 05 Feb 2012
Fdip284: My First Time
Today we’ll hear from six fellow runners (including myself) who will relate to you their personal stories about “Their First Times”.
01:29:38 |
Sat 21 Jan 2012
Fdip283: Life 2.0
Today is my 50th birthday.
I was born at exactly 7:48 PM Eastern Standard Time in the maternity ward of Milton Hospital on Reedsdale Road and Highland Street in the town of Milton, Massachusetts o…
01:23:55 |
Thu 19 Jan 2012
Fdip282: The Runner and Doctor Shoe
We're traveling back in time on this episode; through six and a half years in PodCasting AND BEYOND!
01:33:35 |
Sun 25 Dec 2011
Fdip281: Grape Races
When oenophiles think about wine, they rarely consider the sport of running with regards to it’s enjoyment; and when runners consider our passion for moving our bodies through space: the topic of win…
01:10:53 |
Fri 09 Dec 2011
Fdip280: Summer of the Shark
In the summer of 1975 I was a 13 year old skinny, big eared, pimply-faced teenager with a frown full of braces and a head filled with big ideas. This was the first time I had ever been able to expre…
01:09:37 |
Thu 24 Nov 2011
Fdip279: For Love of Wine and Pizza Part 2
Part two of a series of episode where we prepare ourselves to win an argument with a non-runner!
01:07:14 |
Fri 11 Nov 2011
Fdip278: For Love of Wine and Pizza Part 1
In order to start the conversation that plants the seed of an idea into someone’s head that they might want to begin the process to adopt the running life style, you need the right ammunition: you ne…
01:08:57 |
Fri 21 Oct 2011
Fdip277: Existence and the Running Man
“To be or not to be?”, that is only the second question we have to ask ourselves: the first is: Are we? or Are we not? Do we exist or is this all just a dream?
Descartes had something to say abo…
01:20:12 |
Thu 22 Sep 2011
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