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
Fdip140: Remembering Boston
In this episode we'll hear the stories of others who ran the 112th Boston Marathon. When you write up a race report you"re not just doing it for yourself to memorialize the even, you're doing it for …
Sat 10 May 2008
Fdip139: The 112th Boston Marathon
This is a race report and audio recording of my 7th time running the Boston Marathon. This year was different in that I approached the starting line unprepared for the task ahead of me. Suffering f…
01:06:34 |
Tue 29 Apr 2008
Intervals138B: Race Day
It really means a lot to me that you’d come out to have a beer with me, send me such kind words, good wishes, hopeful prayers, emails, blog posts, and voice messages to the Extra Mile PodCast…and for…
00:17:34 |
Sun 20 Apr 2008
Fdip138: The Great Race of 1983
The Boston Marathon is a race that challenges an athlete in a way that most courses do not, neither buy design or intent. It is not a fast course. It is not a race where any runner, elite or back o…
01:02:06 |
Wed 16 Apr 2008
Fdip137: The 2008 State of the Course
What happens in Boston, starts in Hopkinton. In this episode I take my last 16 miler from the starting line of the Boston Marathon through the bottom of Newton Lower Falls. For those of us who will…
01:13:34 |
Fri 11 Apr 2008
Fdip136: Running Legend Kathrine Switzer
It takes courage to stand up to authority. It requires an act of bravery to break the unfair rules so as to start the discussion. K.V. Switzer, Kathrine…didn't lace up her shoes on a cold and snowy…
00:59:39 |
Fri 04 Apr 2008
Intervals135B: Invitation
I have been invited to run the 112th Boston Marathon, and today I’d like to invite you to join me through this goofy little podcast. In this short format episode of Phedippidations “Intervals‿ I ext…
00:37:58 |
Fri 21 Mar 2008
Fdip135: Who do you run for?
We run for ourselves, for our health, for our family and friends, we run to honor, to celebrate, to achieve, and to accomplish. We run because we can…because at a very basic level we are good animal…
01:08:23 |
Fri 14 Mar 2008
Intervals134B: Living with Steve Runner
My name is John. Today I am going to take to the microphone and, on this special episode of Intervals, give you a sense of what it’s really like to live under the brutal and maniacal dictatorship of…
00:49:30 |
Fri 07 Mar 2008
Fdip134: Online Training Logs
Because of my new intermittent schedule, this episode of Fdip has the distinction (and curse) of being the longest I’ve produced thus far. The internet has created a way for runners to find and use …
01:28:07 |
Sun 02 Mar 2008
Fdip133: Pushing Past Exhaustion
To push yourself past your zone of comfort you need to smile, think positively, focus on something other than the pain and weakness and dedicate yourself to a higher purpose other than “just finishin…
01:05:35 |
Sun 10 Feb 2008
Fdip132: Marathoning FIRST
The Furman Institute of Running and Scientific Training stands by their philosophy of training as being the best scientifically proven method to improve as a runner, and gain fitness as an athlete. …
01:19:00 |
Sun 27 Jan 2008
Fdip131: The Big Boom
Running was adopted by a society who had been lulled into a false sense of security within the confines of their all too comfortable, technology empowered life of sedentary doom. In America, as in o…
01:01:55 |
Sun 20 Jan 2008
Fdip130: The Benefits of Running
When confronted with all of the positive advantages associated with becoming a runner, it helps to consider all of the reasons why running can help you to become a better person, both physically and,…
00:55:19 |
Sun 13 Jan 2008
Fdip129: The Hazards of Running
ust about everything in this life offers hazards and benefits. We balance comfort with pain, satisfaction with disappointment, and safety with danger every time we lace up our shoes and take to the …
01:04:00 |
Sun 06 Jan 2008
Fdip128: Another Loop Around the Sun
In a very real sense, you and I are “the hope of the world‿. We had some fun last year and some good times. We made new friends, we enjoyed successes on the road, we had some amazing experiences bo…
01:16:34 |
Sun 30 Dec 2007
Fdip127: The In Box Special
Handwritten letters and cards, email messages and our written words written throughout the year and especially during the holidays are a way to keep in touch, to maintain that fellowship that we have…
01:01:32 |
Sun 23 Dec 2007
Fdip126: Base Training
How can running slowly help us to achieve better performances later? It is particularly challenging to go from the relative intensity of pre-race workouts to a speed and pace that is much, much slowe…
01:17:49 |
Sun 16 Dec 2007
Fdip125: Running Legend Billy Mills
Today I will tell you the story of a great and compassionate warrior from the Oglala Latoka tribe named 'Makata Taka Hela'. Billy Mills bravely faced loneliness and isolation in his college years, a…
01:11:08 |
Sun 09 Dec 2007
Fdip124: The 2007 Philadelphia Marathon
The Philadelphia Marathon is a fantastic race, run through and about an incredible city. This was the best marathon performance of my life where my dreams for a sub four hour finish were possible an…
01:00:15 |
Sun 02 Dec 2007
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