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
Fdip85: Running Legend: Steve Prefontaine
Steve Prefontaine was a runner, and an artist in motion: all beauty, and passion, fire and guts encased within a body that sought perfection.
Fdip Blog of the week: beenthererunthat.blogspot.com
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00:52:25 |
Sun 25 Feb 2007
Fdip84: Sympathy for our Spouses
You have to have respect and be considerate when you’re in a relationship with a significant other….but most of all, you have to be sympathetic to their needs, and mindful of the way they’ll feel whe…
Sun 18 Feb 2007
Fdip83: Better Sounds to Run With
Thanks to new media and portable technology and the technological advances made in the last decade, you can take to the roads and listen to whatever YOU want to listen to, and if you learn something …
00:58:50 |
Sun 11 Feb 2007
Fdip82: The Stigma of Steroids
Runners have a gift. To enhance our performance with anabolic steroids and muscle-building drugs is to deny that gift. If you pollute your body with steroids you are cheating, and become a fraud. …
00:52:23 |
Sat 03 Feb 2007
Fdip81: Race Directing
A race director is part event organizer, part manager, part orchestra leader and part head chef. In this episode I talk about some of the things a race director will need to think about to conduct a…
00:59:22 |
Sun 28 Jan 2007
Intervals 80B: Steve Runner's Neighborhood
Over the past 80 episodes you and I have been running together every week, often in my town of Oxford, Massachusetts, yet I’ve never really described the places that I run through every day. In this…
00:51:09 |
Mon 22 Jan 2007
Fdip80: Dr. George Sheehan: Running and Being
Dr. George Sheehan returned to the road at the age of 45 to become “fully functional‿ as a good animal. His book, “Running and Being‿ became a philosophical bible for runners around the world. In it…
01:02:02 |
Sun 21 Jan 2007
Fdip79: Heading for the Hills
If you can incorporate hill training into your training program, you will gain a competitive edge with those whom you race against on the road. You will gain strength and be more comfortable and con…
00:56:58 |
Sun 14 Jan 2007
Fdip78: Charity Running
Charity is one way to give back to the world around you. By finding a noble purpose to your running, you will have lived a good and honorable life that will inspire others to behave as you, and that…
00:56:57 |
Sun 07 Jan 2007
Fdip77: In Review of Our Last Solar Orbit
In this episode we look back on some of the possibly more amusing moments of this PodCast. In a year of sad and bad news, war and disasters: it’s important to remember that it was a year worth living…
00:57:40 |
Sun 31 Dec 2006
Fdip76: The Moderate-Consistent Marathon Plan
I’m following a new marathon training plan for my Spring race. It’s no longer about just getting the miles in. It’s about learning what marathon pace feels like, and teaching my body to achieve tha…
00:44:08 |
Sun 24 Dec 2006
Fdip75: The Burnt-Out Syndrome
It happens to the best of us, the Burnt Out Syndrome is a very real thing, and it’s important to listen to your body as well as your spirit to detect the symptoms…because if you push too hard or run …
01:00:23 |
Sun 17 Dec 2006
Fdip74: Even More Gadgets and Gizmos
The tradition of gift giving during the holidays has become part of our culture, so in advent of the day we present an independent review of a few items that your fellow runners might hope to receive…
01:08:54 |
Sun 10 Dec 2006
Fdip73: Argumentum Adversus Integritas Curriculum
There are those who believe that middle of the pack runners should never be allowed to run a marathon. Twice a year, so called journalists and essayists embark on a controversial attempt to discredi…
00:58:05 |
Sun 03 Dec 2006
Fdip72: Running Legend Jim Fixx
Jim Fixx was the guru of running, he was the one who told the world about the benefits of our sport, and even in his death: he taught us to remember the heart: both for it’s biomechanical wonder and …
00:53:19 |
Sun 26 Nov 2006
Fdip71: The Cost of Running
Increased longevity, a better quality of life, a more profound sense of self satisfaction and personal fulfillment are all yours for the cost of a pair of running shoes, some time to train and the en…
00:51:24 |
Sun 19 Nov 2006
Fdip70: Exercise Addiction
There is a popular misconception that runners are afflicted with a compulsive physiological and psychological disorder. It is said that some runners are addicted to exercise. In this episode we look…
00:48:48 |
Sun 12 Nov 2006
Intervals 69B: After the Marine Corps Marathon
In this short format show we go back to Virginia, to meet up with my friend Joe after our successful running of the 31st Marine Corps Marathon, I also introduce you to a few other PodCasts which you’…
00:34:24 |
Tue 07 Nov 2006
Fdip69: The 31st Marine Corps Marathon
In this episode I have the honor of running a 26.2 mile marathon with the assistance and protection of the United States Marine Corps through the streets of Virginia and Washington DC. It’s an amazi…
01:04:40 |
Sun 05 Nov 2006
Fdip68: Bravery
It takes true courage to take that first step and become a runner, it takes a promise to oneself that you will abandon the comfort of a stationary life and accept the long hours and miles, sweat, pai…
00:53:35 |
Sun 29 Oct 2006
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