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
Fdip177: The Winning Bug by Jackson Scholz
This week I present for you the short story “The Winning Bug” written by Jackson Volney Scholz also known as the “New York Thunderbolt”.
Jackson Scholz was an American track and field athlete who sp…
01:19:04 |
Fri 06 Mar 2009
Fdip176: Mailbox Review
The greatest reward for producing a podcast like Phedippidations is the electronic messages that you are kind enough to send me, but there’s an old Scottish proverb that reads “What may be done at an…
01:13:48 |
Fri 27 Feb 2009
Fdip175: Running on the Road Again
There are so many beautiful places on this planet that you can find to go for a run which are beautiful, interesting, and memorable. If you are traveling for pleasure, business or any purpose: pack …
00:54:48 |
Sat 21 Feb 2009
Fdip174: A Lecture From Arthur Lydiard
In April of 1990, Arthur Lydiard gave a lecture in Osaka Japan as part of a clinic he conducted in Tokyo and Osaka. From that trip, numerous articles were written in running magazines all over the w…
01:18:38 |
Fri 13 Feb 2009
Fdip173: The 1st Questions and Answers Show
As runners, we all have questions; questions about our experiences on the road, questions about best practices as outlined by the experts, questions about the human body and the science regarding mot…
01:03:26 |
Fri 06 Feb 2009
Fdip172: George Sheehan on Running to Win
The book George Sheehan on Running to Win, is a book of wisdom, sage advise and clinical recommendations from a well versed authority on health and fitness. Dr. Sheehan was someone who was passionat…
00:37:43 |
Fri 30 Jan 2009
Fdip171: Why Runners Break
There are plenty of reasons why runners break. The human body is a fantastically robust and adaptable organism, but it has it’s physical limits that, despite our good intentions through hard and lon…
00:57:56 |
Fri 23 Jan 2009
Fdip170: Thoughts from the Road
I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, but the anniversary of my first breath on this planet’s ocean of oxygen takes place on the 19th of this month, just a few days after this show is available …
Fri 16 Jan 2009
Fdip169: Massaging the Trigger Points
Pain is the body’s way of telling us that something is wrong, and when we ignore those messages we are risking further and more permanent injury.
Myofascial trigger point pain syndrome is problemat…
Fri 09 Jan 2009
Fdip168: Exercise Induced Asthma
If you find yourself struggling to catch your breath during a race or on a particularly cold or humid day, you may have exercise induced asthma. Don’t let it prevent you from taking to the road and …
00:58:21 |
Fri 02 Jan 2009
Fdip167: Around We Go Again
This episode is a review of the leap year 2008, MMVIII of the Gregorian calendar, Anno Domini of the Common Era.
Like any other year, 2008 had it’s accomplishments and failures, its successes and dis…
01:25:23 |
Fri 26 Dec 2008
Fdip166: It’s Not About Courage
This week your goofy little host goes “off the deep end” again with a podcast filled with critical thinking, loud enunciation and a very un-holiday-like disposition.
This episode is a statement of my…
01:00:06 |
Fri 19 Dec 2008
Fdip165: Running Legend: Ted Corbitt
Ted Corbitt was without a doubt the “father of long distance running”. He was a pioneer in ultramarathons and a big part of the running revolution of the 1960’s and 70’s. He was once called “a spir…
01:11:50 |
Fri 12 Dec 2008
Fdip164: A New England Five Miler
In this episode I run the 20th Annual Whiten Five Thanksgiving Day Road Race in Whitensville, Massachusetts; a village in Northbridge. It wasn’t my fastest five miler, but I had fun running it never…
01:00:04 |
Fri 05 Dec 2008
Fdip163: Running Clubs
Running clubs are local organizations that you can join to gain the support of fellow runners as a way to motivate, inspire, invigorate and improve your performance on the road. But for all the grea…
01:04:17 |
Fri 28 Nov 2008
Fdip162: Catching Up
When you are out there, running a race, and you find yourself (point A) behind another runner (point B) whom you are working to catch up to…there is a relative velocity between the two of you that is…
01:03:38 |
Fri 21 Nov 2008
Fdip161: Gifts for the Holiday Runner
So what is the point of giving gifts to each other during the holiday? It is to express our feelings of appreciation, care and fondness for one another…and the best way to do that, with respect to g…
01:05:05 |
Fri 14 Nov 2008
Fdip160: Strong to the Core
Our core is our center; it is where our arms, legs and head meet to create the human body we inhabit and control. It is where, just a few inches or centimeters above, resides the all important heart…
01:06:43 |
Fri 07 Nov 2008
Fdip159: Responsible Shoes
This episode will serve as proof that I’m an totally independent new media producer, and will guarantee that I never get that huge contract with a major running shoe label. But when running shoe co…
01:09:35 |
Fri 31 Oct 2008
Fdip158: The 2008 Bay State Marathon
Life is all about making choices. Choices between what’s right and wrong, choices between what’s good and evil, choices between altruism and egotism, of giving and taking, of sharing and selfishness…
01:03:07 |
Fri 24 Oct 2008
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