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
Fdip67: Results From Around the World Wide Half
578 runners registered for the 1st World Wide Half, and 49% recorded a finishing time. Of all the things you earn in running a road race, your finishing time is the most important evidence of your p…
00:59:04 |
Sun 22 Oct 2006
Fdip66: The 1st Annual Fdip WWHalf Challenge
Over 560 runners from 23 countries took part in the First Annual Phedippidations World Wide Half Marathon Challenge.
“Think Global, Run local‿ is not an ethereal concept. It’s a real challenge to re…
00:54:55 |
Sun 15 Oct 2006
Fdip65: Shouts of Encouragement
With over 470 runners in 23 different countries, many of whom have never run a half marathon before, this episode celebrates life through the simple act of running. Produced to inspire, support, enc…
01:05:08 |
Sun 08 Oct 2006
Fdip64: Race Day Strategies
Your pre-race strategy doesn’t end when you cross the starting line, but when you cross the finish line and beyond. You need to experiment with your own unique race strategy to find one that works b…
00:57:37 |
Sun 01 Oct 2006
Fdip63: Running Legend Bill Bowerman
Bill Bowerman was one of the greatest track coaches of all time, who coached some of the greatest runners of all time. He was also co-founder of a famous running shoe company and inventor of the mod…
00:54:42 |
Sun 24 Sep 2006
Fdip62: Mental Training
In this episode we look into the techniques needed to train the mind for the psychological challenges of running. We need to be prepared for those running events that are difficult to imagine, and t…
00:58:36 |
Sun 17 Sep 2006
Fdip61: Running Around Town
Get to know the places where you run. Understand and appreciate the history, art and nature of the places that you run through and upon. You owe it to yourself to hear that story, as an added benefi…
00:54:15 |
Sun 10 Sep 2006
Fdip60: Predicting Performance
Here in New England, if you don’t like the weather: wait 10 minutes and it’ll change for the better or worse. Predicting your finishing time in a half or full marathon is a more scientific venture b…
00:48:14 |
Sun 03 Sep 2006
Fdip59: Those Who Support Us
There are people in your life who in a major or minor way support, enable and encourage you to take your body through the pains of training to the glory of race day; and we owe these people our deepe…
00:41:37 |
Sun 27 Aug 2006
Fdip58: 2006 Falmouth Road Race
Sometimes you come to the race with you’re “A‿ game being only a C minus.‿ I came to the Falmouth Road Race less prepared than my friend Joe, but I did have one trick up my sleeve, one strategy to t…
01:00:24 |
Sun 20 Aug 2006
Fdip57: On the Surface
From the shores of Wells Beach in Southern Maine, this week I run a twelve miler on the sand and talk about running surfaces. One of the great things about our sport is that you can run on just abou…
00:59:39 |
Sun 13 Aug 2006
Fdip56: Running Legend Eric Liddell
Eric Liddell believed that everything he did should give God pleasure. As a runner he was the fastest and had achieved the highest glory, and as a religious man he found that his greatest strength ca…
01:06:28 |
Sun 06 Aug 2006
Fdip55: The Maine Woods of Thoreau
As runners, we need to experience the peace and tranquility of quiet places, if only to refresh our commitment to the Henry David Thoreauian ideals that made us runners in the first place. This week…
00:59:40 |
Sun 30 Jul 2006
Fdip54: Cross Training for Runners
In this episode we talk about cross training, and tell you what some of the experts say about the best exercises to perform as a means to complement the running that you do.
00:49:49 |
Sun 23 Jul 2006
Fdip53: The Perils of Overtraining
In this episode we look into the problems of overtraining, and try to consider listening to our barking bodies. I re-enact a meeting I had with my sports doctor several years ago, and you’ll hear me…
00:51:12 |
Sun 16 Jul 2006
Fdip52: Forgive us our Trespasses
You should be able to approach your run each day with the ability to forgive yourself for the way you’ve eaten, your lack of sleep, or laziness in the previous days.
00:53:22 |
Sun 09 Jul 2006
Intervals 51B: Independence from Mainstream Media
As part of a collaboration with photographers, bloggers, podcasters and vloggers, July 4th is a day to declare our independence from mainstream media. In this episode of Intervals, I play three “Pod…
00:22:36 |
Tue 04 Jul 2006
Fdip51: A Life of Passion
We need to encourage those who face life with sadness and emptiness to fill their lives with a passion for something, anything, and everything. Don’t let someone you know live a life without purpose…
00:52:43 |
Sun 02 Jul 2006
Intervals 50B: The 3rd Annual Sharon Timlin Memorial 5K Road
The Angel Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting ALS investigations at the Cecil B. Day Laboratory for Neuromuscular Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In this …
00:15:47 |
Mon 26 Jun 2006
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