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
Fdip334: The Cheesy Poof Problem
Here’s the problem with almost all of the processed foods that are available to us today:
They’re convenient, easy to prepare if preparation is even necessary, they’re easily accessible, inexpensive,…
00:36:02 |
Sun 28 Feb 2016
Fdip333: A Measure of Health - Part Two
This is the second of a two part episode. Listen.
Back in February of 2015, on episode 324 of Phedippidations, I revealed to you the measure of my health, listing the vital clinical statistics of m…
00:28:13 |
Tue 19 Jan 2016
Fdip331: The Miracles
We celebrate Thanksgiving Day in the United States this time each year, so this episode is dedicated to the concept of being thankful.
00:30:05 |
Thu 26 Nov 2015
Fdip330: Thus Spake Zarathustra
And now it’s October: we’re more than 80% through the end of the year "getting back to where we once belonged”, and for me…I’ve come upon a bit of a road block.
To best understand this road block, …
00:30:34 |
Fri 16 Oct 2015
Fdip329: Ten Years a Man of Constant Podcasting
I’m humbled. What can I say? I’m totally humbled here, reeling in fact from the kind words from so many friends and fellow runners, people whom I admire a great deal.
I’ll be honest with you…I’ve…
00:50:45 |
Sun 05 Jul 2015
Fdip328: The Mojo au Groton
It was a perfect day for a run in New England. Presented by the Squannacook River Runners, this is the 24th running of the Groton Road Race.
Being a runner feels different for me now. The universe…
00:31:18 |
Fri 19 Jun 2015
Fdip327: Exploratory Running
Most runners could go out, right now and run a few miles under the morning sun. We often do so without considering the power of the act. We take for granted the incredible advantage this gives us as…
00:31:13 |
Thu 21 May 2015
Fdip326: The Ten Percent Rule
“The Young Man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions” wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Coaches, Experts, Friends and Fellow Runners all seem to agree that “slowly and carefully ramping …
00:40:05 |
Sat 11 Apr 2015
Fdip325: Running New England
This is a transformative journey that we’re taking together, so it might help you to understand the context of this journey if you could understood a bit more about where I’ll be running.
In better…
00:42:05 |
Sat 14 Mar 2015
Fdip324: A Measure of Health Part One
This is part one of a two part episode. I’ll publish the second part at the end of the year.
In the last episode of Phedippidations I talked about getting back to a metaphysical place where I once…
00:34:27 |
Sat 14 Feb 2015
Fdip323: Getting Back to Where You Once Belonged
I “once belonged” to a community of fellow runners. I understand that many of you and this association have always considered me to be a member of the “run local, think global” team, but I haven’t fe…
00:33:34 |
Sat 17 Jan 2015
Fdip322: Running Across the Frozen White Wasteland
Episode twenty-three of Phedippidations, which was published on December 18th, Anno domini 2005 was titled “Cold Weather Running”.
I guess you could consider this a bit of an update to that recor…
00:36:10 |
Thu 25 Dec 2014
Fdip321: The Quantified Self
We live in the age of the selfie and self promotion. Social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even Podcasts: allow us to share so much of our lives, and we…in posting such content…
01:01:08 |
Sat 22 Nov 2014
Fdip320: Teleological Wishes and Anthropic Misses
Something to contemplate on your long, slow run today:
The Teleological argument in support of the existence of God says “that the universe is ordered towards some end or purpose, that it was created…
01:06:10 |
Sat 25 Oct 2014
Fdip319: What Does the Fox Say?
On the Fox News website a few weeks ago, Dr. Jennifer Landa, wrote an article “How Endurance Running Can Damage Your Health”. Dr. Landa is an excellent physician. She’s the Chief Medical Officer of …
01:02:41 |
Sat 27 Sep 2014
Fdip318: Intervals From The Past
I have this “other podcast”, that I call Intervals…and unlike the portmanteau title of Phedippidations…the title “Intervals” is a bit of a double entendre. Whereas Phedippidations usually has a the…
01:05:04 |
Sat 30 Aug 2014
Fdip317: Wine for Newbies
Today, on Phedippidations I’m going to teach you three things, and I mean REALLY teach you…you can’t flunk this course, and if you already know something (or a lot of things) about wine, then conside…
01:05:47 |
Sat 19 Jul 2014
Fdip316: A Puppy Named Eva
The thing about human beings that strikes me as both wonderful and fascinating: is our capacity for change. If you asked me ten years ago would I ever “own” a dog, I’d have laughed at the notion.
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00:55:48 |
Fri 13 Jun 2014
Chesuncook Lake with the Dudes
Five dudes drove to Biff-Country in the summer of 2002. They saw moose, canoed, swam, and slept in tents. They ate beans, Dick’s Famous Chicken, pop-corn, jerky, mango, and Reece’s Cups. They skip…
01:23:23 |
Mon 26 May 2014
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