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
Fdip256: A Brief History of Wine
The history of wine is the history of civilization. It’s a story that dates back to the earliest days of agriculture and encompasses the life and times of our ancestors who consumed wine for both pl…
01:01:27 |
Wed 08 Dec 2010
Fdip255: Anatomy of a Running Shoe
Get to know the parts and materials that make up your running shoes, and you’ll be a better consumer of the one critical tool needed to reach your goals as a runner. Whether you’re looking to run you…
00:51:20 |
Fri 03 Dec 2010
Fdip254: Running Blogcast: A Runners Guide to Balance and Perspective
Today’s episode, being my first Running Blogcast features the writing of Neil Bearse, a fellow runner I’ve never had the honor of meeting in person: but I feel like we’re old friends. Neil is the on…
Fri 26 Nov 2010
Fdip253: New Media and the Art of Running Evangelism
You have the same ability to produce content in an artful way that will, no doubt, convince someone you care about to join us on the road as runners…and, if in the course of those public new media co…
00:53:18 |
Sun 21 Nov 2010
Fdip252: Running in my Sleep
The American statesman Ben Franklin once wrote “ There may be something to that with respect to our running performance. We sleep, on average a full one third of our lives. So, as a middle aged, mi…
00:58:02 |
Sun 14 Nov 2010
Fdip251: Running Legend Abebe Bikila
Today I will tell you about an amazing person who lived his life to the top. It’s an interesting life with high and low points, with obstacles which were overcome leading towards an eventual spiral …
00:48:03 |
Wed 10 Nov 2010
Fdip250: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
How many of us have trained over many months for a race only to perform terribly in the event itself, or how many of us have crossed that finish line in say, oh…I don’t know…a minute and 31 seconds s…
00:48:14 |
Wed 10 Nov 2010
Fdip249: The Running Gene
In the area of genetics and with respect to athletics, we are trying to understand what construction instructions are required to build the perfect runner. It would seem that certain attributes exis…
00:41:13 |
Sun 24 Oct 2010
Fdip248: The 5th Annual World Wide Festival of Races
They ran all over the world. They ran in warm places, cold places, rainy places, dry places. They ran alone and with friends; they ran fast and slow, in an organized race and in their back yards. …
01:12:15 |
Sun 17 Oct 2010
Fdip247: As the World Cheers
In a Universe that is thirteen point seven billion years old, on a planet that has only existed for four and a half billion years; our species: homo sapiens sapien, has only been around for two hundr…
01:20:33 |
Fri 08 Oct 2010
Fdip246: Running Through PodCamp Boston 5
PodCamp is all about podcasting, and using this medium to reach out to a community. Since you and I are runners, and since we all listen to podcasts, you and I are a part of this thing…and since I’m…
01:11:01 |
Sun 03 Oct 2010
Fdip245: Life Should be Long Enough
The Stanford University study titled “Reduced Disability and Mortality among aging runners” was published in the August 11th, 2008 issue of the journal Archives of Internal Medicine. At the time tha…
01:09:08 |
Sun 26 Sep 2010
Fdip243: Pregnantly Running
While the first part of this episode is dedicated to the precautions a pregnant mother should take with regards to athletic endeavors, there are many benefits to running while pregnant including the …
00:58:30 |
Sun 12 Sep 2010
Fdip242: Following Thoreau and the West Branch of the Penobscot
From Saturday April 14th through the 18th, 2010 my Dad, son, nephew and I traveled up the West Branch of the Penobscot River and across the northern end of Chesuncook Lake in the Northern Maine Wilde…
01:22:39 |
Sun 29 Aug 2010
Fdip241: Dr. George Sheehan and Growing
I am a disciple of Dr. George Sheehan, I’m not ashamed to tell you that, I’ve read and re-read everything the man has written…and I’ve come to know him in a comfortable, familiar way.
A man of scie…
01:11:00 |
Fri 13 Aug 2010
Fdip240: Caffeinated Running
As it is with most things in life, taken in moderation: Caffeine can be good for you and improve you’re your health and your performance on race day. But too much of a good thing can lead to disaster…
01:04:23 |
Sun 01 Aug 2010
Fdip239: Cruising to the Music
This is my annual music show; recorded (as always) while I’m on vacation. This time I’m on the Norwegian Cruise Ship Spirit traveling from Boston to Bermuda with my family as we celebrate the 50th A…
01:03:19 |
Sun 25 Jul 2010
a BIG Favor
Why Cook Well.
We eat because we have to.
Civilization is nothing more than a ten thousand year old human experiment to test the freakish theory that mankind could eat without being eaten. Four mill…
00:07:35 |
Sun 11 Jul 2010
Fdip238: Five Years and Running PodCast Goodness
Podcasting is a media so perfectly suited for the running lifestyle. Just as we schedule our runs in advance, we can schedule what we listen to ON those runs, in advance.
We can multi-task the tim…
01:10:57 |
Sun 04 Jul 2010
Fdip237: The 33rd Milton 10K Road Race
I had come to the town of Milton Massachusetts to
run a 10K road race that I had run three times before, with a 48:18 finish in
2002, a 52:30 finish in 2003 and a 53:40 finish in 2004. Today I was h…
01:04:43 |
Sun 27 Jun 2010
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