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
Fdip236: Love of Running
Today’s episode is not about my love of this sport; it’s about how
to help others to fall in love with
this sport.
Running is an activity that
fellow runners, like you and I, gather pleasure from. …
Wed 16 Jun 2010
Fdip235: Behind the Swoosh
The story behind
the swoosh is much bigger than that of just Nike and its corporate policy of
treating it’s workers as slaves: it’s a story that speaks to the working
conditions of many of the produc…
01:04:24 |
Sun 30 May 2010
Fdip234: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Play
Greetings fellow canines; my
name is Indiana Jones; I am NOT the fictional American Adventurer and
Archeologist Dr. Henry Walton Jones Junior created by film maker George Lucas
and portrayed by Harri…
01:01:55 |
Sun 23 May 2010
Fdip233: Can Marathon’s Kill You?
In this episode I review the
abstract of a study released last March by Dr. Depina Kardara and his team at
the Athens Medical School,Hippokration Hospital titled “Marathon Runners
Have Increased Aort…
00:59:23 |
Sun 16 May 2010
Fdip232: The 114th Boston Marathon
I had come to Hopkinton Massachusetts to run the
114th Boston Marathon, and found myself in the early miles facing the eventual
breakdown of my body. From the joyful
celebration of a New England tow…
01:11:07 |
Sun 02 May 2010
Fdip231: The Qualifying Standards of Boston
The Czech Locomotive, Emil
Zatopek, 3 time gold medalist in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki once said “If you want to run, run a
mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.…
00:57:23 |
Thu 15 Apr 2010
Fdip230: Boston and the 2010 State of the Course
In this episode of The Goofy
Little Podcast, I run the first 18 miles of the Boston Marathon course and I’ll
let you know if there’s anything new to look for on the road before you arrive
to run this…
01:06:15 |
Sun 11 Apr 2010
Fdip229: Running Legend Tarzan Brown
Tarzan Brown was an amazing
athlete who lived a hard, impoverished life but faced the world with dignity and
strength. There are so many legendary
and half-true mysteries about the man and his caree…
01:05:09 |
Sun 04 Apr 2010
Fdip228: Dispatches from the Road
I like eggs.
Show Links:
“Final Broadcast” by the Statistics
01:13:18 |
Sun 14 Mar 2010
Fdip227: Barefoot Patterns and Forces
Professor Daniel Leiberman’s (and his team) paper “Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners” looks into how and why human beings can and did run comfortabl…
Sun 28 Feb 2010
Fdip226: GI Distance Running Problems
When you run, you’re body is under stress, and that causes your body to increase the levels of certain chemicals to kinda even things out. These chemicals, in turn, may lead to an increase in gastro…
Fri 12 Feb 2010
Fdip225: The Key Note I’ll Never Get to Give
I’m never going to be asked to give a speech in front of a crowd of fellow runners. It’s not going to happen; and by saying that I’m not implying that the absent request is a travesty; there’s a goo…
Fri 05 Feb 2010
Fdip224: The Call of the Miles
Today’s episode is the first to talk about the phenomenon of Ultra Marathons.
There is obviously a lot more to this topic than I can fit in a single goofy little podcast, and as a homework assignmen…
Fri 29 Jan 2010
Fdip223: Dr. George Sheehan and the Church of Running
In his essay, IS RUNNING A RELIGION, Dr. George Sheehan makes that point that running is a place, not a system of belief. Running gives us an opportunity to renew ourselves while we’re out there on …
01:01:01 |
Fri 22 Jan 2010
Fdip222: I’ve Got Mail
I know I’ve said this before, but I want you to understand that I read all of your email. This problem I have with answering email is somewhat embarrassing for me; and when I starting having these p…
Fri 15 Jan 2010
Fdip221: The 2010 Spring Marathon Guide
This episode begins with another ice cold swim in Boston Harbor with friends, and a stated theory that will become my “law of thermodynamic refreshment”.
Because athletes prefer to run distance races…
01:05:43 |
Fri 08 Jan 2010
Fdip220: Four Hour Marathon Part 2 - Endurance
This is my first podcast episode of 2010, and my second episode regarding my intentions for running a sub Four Hour Marathon in the Autumn of this year.
Endurance training and Aerobic development are…
00:53:40 |
Fri 01 Jan 2010
Fdip219: A Year in Motion and Review
Personally, I’ve never really needed the changing of the calendar year as a reason to set and keep a resolution: so any promises I’m going to make are probably a continuation of what I’ve been workin…
Fri 25 Dec 2009
Fdip218: The 2009 Phedippidations Holiday PodCast Variety Show Special
In the spirit of all those old cheesy classic television holiday variety show specials by the Osmond Brothers, Bob Hope, Donny and Marie, and the Smothers Brothers: I present for you my first Holiday…
01:53:30 |
Fri 18 Dec 2009
Fdip217: Running Legend: Browning Ross
Browning Ross was a talented runner, coach, spokesman, leader and proponent of distance running; at a time when there weren’t too many runners in the world who could actually finish a marathon.
It wa…
00:59:38 |
Fri 11 Dec 2009
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