Runrunlive 4.0 - Running Podcast

Episode 5-496 – Coach Nora and some frequently asked questionsHello my running friends. Welcome to episode 5-496 of the RunRunLive podcast. Today we have a fun chat with Nora who is a coach and athlete about frequently asked questions. We ran into each other when I was answering running questions on Facebook.  As always Nora’s contact links will be in the show notes. If you want to take a look at her practice it’s at mileaftermile.co.I am consistently pushing this podcast out every two weeks while I can manage it, because I enjoy doing so. But, I’m not going to focus so much on the fine details for now because I just don’t have the time. This is the RunRunLive ‘compromise’ version, where we don’t edit as tightly and don’t polish as much. But we still have conversations and try to have fun. In section one I talk about shoes. And if you don’t agree with me, there’s going to be a rumble.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 5-495 – Maddi and some trail magic Hello my running friends. Hello my running friends. It’s only been a couple weeks but it feels like a lifetime. When we last spoke I was on top of all my training and fitness goals for this cycle. And then the universe stepped in and rebalanced the karma for me by breaking my collarbone. I’ll tell you all about that in Section two today. In section one we’ll talk about some more running advice I have been dispensing. And today’s interview is with Maddi who is a self-described trail bum who just stepped off the Appalachian Trail.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 5-494Hello my running friends, yes I let this one slide a week, because I needed to align it with the off-week of my other podcast – the apocalypse podcast – in which I am entering my 5th season now. Honestly, I have crowded my calendar so much it’s hard to get done all the stuff I’m signed up for. Today I will talk about one of those top 5 questions from the running forums – how to stay motivated and get the workouts done. I’ll talk a bit about how I do goal setting and why. And I’ll give you an update on my own goals for the summer that, for better or worse, I’m closing in on the deadlines for. Today’s interview is with the race director for the Mamba 100 in Memphis. That is my goal race for this campaign. I am glad I talked to him because I acquired insights into the course that filled in some blanks for me. So, sit back, (unless you’re in a chair with no back, because you’ll sprawl onto the floor). Sprawl is an interesting word that come to us through Old English

Episode 5-493 – Interview Les is Made Hello my running friends. This week I present the last of the repurposed interview that I did originally for my other show “After the Apocalypse”. This is a friendly talk with Led for his Les is Made podcast – and fittingly he is really interested in talking about running. I had planned to write an article that dove deeper into some of the frequently asked questions. But, I’m out of day today and I figure something is better than nothing. I had another satirical piece on how women running together have an entirely different conversation than men talking to each other – based on my admittedly biased observations. But, alas there is only so much gas in the tank and I have miles to go before I sleep. So – My friends, I’ll give you an update on my training – drop the interview and slink off stage left in a embarred shuffle. My training is going great. Within the last 7 days I have completed a nice 12 mile trail run, a 100K bike and capped it off

Episode 5-492 – Publishing Sci-Fi George Allen Miller Hello my running friends. This week I’m continuing my streak of double dipping on the interviews from my other podcast and presenting you with George Allen Miller. He’s an author and we have a nice, tight chat about the creative process and some aspects of publishing and our favorite Sci-Fi. So - if you are one of those double dippers who already listened to my After the Apocalypse podcast you can fast forward through the interview section, but I will also have some unique content of you as well In section one I’ll continue my Runner FAQ conversation. In section two I’ll do an old-man nutrition rant.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 5-490 – Fran Tabor Hello my running friends. Today we’ve got a great show for you. I speak with Fran Tabor, who is one of those brilliantly independent thinkers – a real renaissance person. We discussed Alien first contact and lots of other stuff. I think you’ll enjoy it. In section one I’m going to talk through some of the responses that I have been giving to the “Runners Loving Running” Facebook group – because I decided to take a new tack. Instead of ridiculing the questions for being absurd, I decided to give thoughtful answers. It’s ‘tack’ by the way. T A C K. Not ‘tact’. Tack is a sailing term that means the direction you are going. When you change tack in a sailboat, the captain yells ‘Coming about’ and then the mainsail boom swings around to catch the wind and knocks you overboard – setting up the meet cute or the humorous plot element in any movie involving sailboats. I talk about my new audio-book adventure in section two. Because the in

Episode 5-490 – Stoned GeniusHello my running friends. Hey! 6 new episodes in a row. But I am cheating by re-tasking interviews I did for my other show.  So if you are a listener to my After the Apocalypse feed, this is the same interview and you’ve already heard it.  I will stick a quick article into section one with my thoughts on what to drink on run and hydration in general. I follow this annoying Facebook group called ‘runners loving running’ that has these really dumb beginner running questions and I though it would be fun to answer some of them. This a long interview. 1:30. So you have been warned. It is me being interviewed by Rodney the Stoned Genius on his podcast, named, interestingly enough “the Stoned Genius” and he was nice enough to share the audio with me. On with the show. Section Onehttps://runrunlive.com/what-should-i-drinkFeatured InterviewThat’s what I love about podcasting. Any curious soul can find and connect with their tribe.

Hello my running friends. Now, I see you… you’re shaking your head. 5 in a row? What are you doing Chris? I just got around to removing the RunRunLive podcast from my old phone and here you are dropping conten t again? How can we trust you again? You’ve put us through so much. Yup – I’m on fire folks. I even baked up some new bumpers. Besides I am using the interviews for both my podcasts so there are economies of scale.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello my running friends. Here we go – 4 episodes in a row! I have actually gotten messages from people commenting on their surprise and delight, well surprise anyhow, that I have been able to keep it up. One of my long-standing tricks is to have an interview. This is also why there are so many interview-based podcasts. It’s a great way to leverage other people’s knowledge and energy for your own benefit – I bit like a parasitic worm or a vampire. Insert rim shot sound effect. But – seriously folks – today we have a chat with Roger Smith. Roger is a scientist and science fiction writer. I’m doing a series of interviews of scientists and science fiction writers. If you also listen to my apocalypse podcast you’ll see some duplication. I’m using the same interviews over there. The difference will be podcast specific content, like the intro and outro, and here, in the RunRunLive podcast I’ll sneak in some short articles about some running topics.  Hosted on A

Hello my running friends. Here we go – 3 episodes in a row!  On today’s show we’ve got the recording of when I was on Adam Tinkoff’s show a few weeks ago. This is a long interview…well, not really an interview, more of a conversation. It’s too long for me to edit out the slow bits, like when Adam is trying to get his AI to work. You’ll just have to muddle through. But we do have some good conversations about community and we do reconnect with some old friends from the running community and we do some reminiscing. Since this is so long I won’t stick anything else in here, but I’ll come back at the end with an update. On with the show!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 5-5486 – Nutrition with Dr. RachelHello my running friends. Here we go – 2 episodes in a row!  On today’s show we talk to my nutrition coach Rachel. I’ve worked off an on with Rachel for many years. She recently earned her doctorate and she is looking for new clients. She gave me a good excuse to do another chat.  It all works out. You get another show and I get to catch up with Dr. Rachel. I’ll talk a little about my nutrition journey in section one. In section two I’ll talk a bit about the scary and fun world of artificial intelligence. On with the show!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 5-5485 – Nate Talks About ParentingHello my running friends. And so, the universe finds us together again. It is a fine Monday morning at the end of April bleeding into May and the fulsome fecundity of mother nature bursts free from the oppressive bonds of winter. The birds are singing, the rabbits are munching, the flowers show their timid faces in the new dawn of longer days and happier times. And here we are.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A quick update from the trails with Ollie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 5-484 – the one about the treeIntroduction:Hello and welcome to episode 5-484 of the RunRunLive Podcast. I’m calling it 5-484. That’s as good a number as any. At this point we are beyond the specificity of rational numbers and, some would say, rationality in general. Today I’m going to tell a story about a tree. I’ll give you the update on my current entropy challenge. Because it’s always something, isn’t it? And I have an idea to start a new segment called “Stupid running questions.” And, maybe I’ll talk about mortality. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

RunRunLive Episode 5483 – The one about 5K’s and Relay races and retirement…Hello my running friends. How are you doing today? It’s winter here in New England. The shortest days of the year are upon us. The seasons change and so do I. Which is a lyric from a song by the Guess Who called “No Time”, from an album called “Canned Wheat” released in 1969. The Guess Who was an influential Canadian rock band from Winnipeg of all places.  Randy Bachman from the band went on to success with Bachman Turner Overdrive. Apologies for not getting a show out. I have ideas in my head. I just don’t have the animation to write them down and record. Something is better than nothing they say. But, the older I get, the more I understand the value of nothing as well. Today I’m going to catch you up on a few races I’ve run and some other stuff as I work my way into shape for my next race, which is the Napa Valley Marathon in March. Now that I’ve put Boston aside as a goal race,

5-482Hello my friends and welcome to episode 482 of the RunRunLive Podcast. Today I’m going to gift you with a long screed entitled “Zero to Hero, How to go from zero miles and injured to a marathon in 6 months.” But, before I go there let’s do some business. I went back to the old RunRunLive 4.0 bumpers, because I like them. I didn’t like the new ones that I had done for me. The old ones are voiced by members of our community. That opening bumper about squeezing the life from lemons is by old-friend John. The strumming guitar and singing are the styling of Adam Tinkoff. The ‘move you to the exit’ is Steve Chopper. And the harmony on the last bit of the outro is Adam and Eddie Marathon. If I ever do interviews again, the ‘featured interview’ bumper is a young version of my talented daughter Katie. They make me happy and hopefully make you happy too. Secondly I spent some time last weekend loading old shows into the new ACast feed. I got all the way back to 250

We have a great show for you today and we have a lot of ground to cover so strap on your yaktrax and hang on to your running buddies and let’s get to it.It’s a cold Massachusetts Friday afternoon in my life. I’m finishing up some tasks on my task list so that I can burst forth from my home office and into the trails for an easy 7 miler with the wonder dog. I’ve got a set of live Grateful Dead on the headphones that my friend, that inglorious bastard of a demented genius, the Zen Runner tipped me off to.Today we will enthrall you with an interview o fJon Metz who is a professional Triathlete coach. I chat with him about how he helps people get it all done. We will also assault your senses with a piece on how we internally value our running efforts – that I’m calling ‘My Best Run”.Lastly I’ll hit you directly in your pouty lips with a tactically instructional piece on how I think about the structure of life balance. I was really excited about this piece until I wrote it up. I found

Introduction:Hello my endurance athletic old friends. Welcome to episode 5-481.How are we on this fine fall day? Up here in New England we have set the clocks back and it is now officially dark at 4:30ish, which makes me want to stab myself in the eye with an olive fork… Is there such a thing as an olive fork? We like to tell ourselves up, with puritanical zeal, and righteous fury, that all this lack of sunlight and crappy weather makes us harder and more able to transverse this fickle world filled with chaos. We say things like, “I was doing hill repeats in the freezing rain,” – wearing that suffering like holy stigmata. But, what if it’s all a lie? What if all the adversity just makes us grumpy and hard to live with? I don’t know – but I do know the best policy is to take it one day at a time, do what you can and embrace what the universe brings you because time is short! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello my friends and welcome to the RunRunLive Podcast. My name is Chris and I am your host. Here is a quick introduction for anyone listening for the first time. I have been an amateur runner my whole life. I got serious in the late 90’s and it changed my life, like many obsessions will. I started this podcast in 2007 to share all the wonderful things I had learned. It has been a gift to me and I‘ve met so many great people who have enriched my life. There are close to 500 episodes that span a decade or more of training and racing marathons and mountain bikes and triathlons and so much more. I am sifting though my archives and will attempt to post them all here in sequence. I interview famous and not-so-famous people from the sport. I give advice and tips. I tell stories and entertain. The first 50 or so episodes have some audio challenges as the technology hadn’t really ripened yet. After that I hit my stride and the show’s are fun and consistent throug

4-16-2023 Update Well my friends.  Tomorrow is Patriots Day in Boston. And we all know what that means.  That’s right, it’s the Boston Marathon.  I’ve got a few friends running.  The weather looks pretty good. Sara Hall is running and Des Linden.  The fastest man in the world, Kipchoge is looking to complete his sweep of the majors.   Who knows?  Maybe we’ll see a sub-2-hour finish from him!  That would be something.  I am running a bit again.  I have spent the last 2-3 month slowly trying to get myself back into shape.  The knee seems to be ok as long as I don’t work it to hard.  I’m still trying to see where the edge is.  I worked with Rachel and took 15-20 pounds off.  And I got through the first 30 days of the Body Building for Beginners program.  I’m going to stop that right there.  I repeated weeks 3 and 4, but I’m not going to go deeper.  It gets very specific in the second two months and is probably more complex than I need.  And, the big news is that I have signed up for a race.  My friend Ann who we