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
Fdip374: The Selfish Calorie
Our bodies have to work to eliminate alcohol from our bodies as quickly as possible, and it doesn’t help us build strong muscles or support healthy bones. One might say (and many do) that alcohol is…
00:20:21 |
Sun 27 Mar 2022
Fdip373: Putting Yourself Out There
As a goofy little podcaster who has brought you with me through many long runs, road races and marathons, I have been less than proud to admit to you that I weigh 76 in excess of 174 pounds (the weig…
00:25:25 |
Sun 20 Mar 2022
Fdip372: Requiring Air
If there’s one thing I know about health and the wonders of metabolism it is that we need air to live just as fire needs air to burn. And when you have nothing left to burn you have to set yourself o…
00:16:34 |
Sun 13 Mar 2022
Fdip371: Room to Improve
One day we’ll come to realize that our effort at becoming healthy doesn’t end when we finally burn 60 or, to paraphrase the thoughts of a well-loved traveler: "There will be no moment of smug clarity…
00:17:27 |
Sun 06 Mar 2022
Fdip370: The Lessons of Pain
Pain is a signal that something is wrong with your body…and yes, I know, I’ve run 22 marathons, I’ve experienced lactic acid buildup in my muscles and savored the joy of THAT feeling…and I’m sure the…
00:16:25 |
Sun 27 Feb 2022
Fdip369: That Feeling
“That Feeling” is something that I would best describe as “satisfaction, relief, accomplishment and release”…it’s that feeling you get the moment you stop running at that moment when the running stop…
00:19:18 |
Sun 20 Feb 2022
Fdip368: Routine
One day in a life is an opportunity to embrace a routine to improve the quality of your experience in the universe.
00:35:10 |
Sun 13 Feb 2022
Fdip367 - Faster with Fasting
Carl Sagan once said that “Extraordinary Claims require Extraordinary Evidence”. That’s probably true even for ordinary claims, such as not eating food will lead to weight loss. It may be that by tra…
00:22:18 |
Sun 06 Feb 2022
Fdip366: Plethoric Caloric
We are always burning, it’s what we do…and we have to do more than just accept that, we have to embrace it, we have to lean into it hard. Because one day, all that that burning we do will come to an …
00:21:06 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
Fdip365: The Hackers Diet
“The human capacity to ignore inconvenient facts and avoid unpleasantness is immense. Success in any endeavor requires coming to terms with the true nature of the task at hand and, if the goal is wo…
00:18:00 |
Mon 24 Jan 2022
Fdip364: Keep Banging on your drum
Burning 60 isn’t magic…it’s science. It’s applying well-documented and understood practices to a problem and observing the results. Burning 60 isn’t difficult, it just takes a willingness to follow t…
00:17:03 |
Sun 16 Jan 2022
Fdip363 - Fire up the Data
In systems theory, I learned that “Input is something put into a system or expended in its operation to achieve an output or result.” Here are the data inputs that I am using to achieve the results I…
00:19:39 |
Sun 09 Jan 2022
Fdip362 - The Burning 60 Plan
I’m going to try something different here…at least something different for me. I’m going to use both science and psychology to achieve an important goal of mine and I’m going to bring you along for t…
00:13:57 |
Mon 03 Jan 2022
Fdip361: The Squeaky Front Door
Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! - Dr. Suess
00:19:40 |
Sat 20 Feb 2021
Fdip360: It’s Not Supposed to be Easy
Right now, I’m just some guy from Boston, and that’s okay...but when next we meet I’ll be bringing an old friend...someone you well know whose name no longer defines him, but celebrates the short yet…
00:17:46 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Fdip359: From the land of our Father
Recorded in Launching Place on Prince Edward Island, a beautiful part of the world where the Walkers came to live.
00:58:59 |
Wed 08 Jan 2020
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