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The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-314 – Bonnie Talks Easy Yoga (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4314.mp3]Link epi4314.mp3Support my Hood-to-Coast Relay for Cancer Research - https://give.everydayhero.com/us/chris-russell-hood-to-coast-for-cancer-researchIntro Bumper:Hello and welcome to episode 4-314 of the RunRunLive podcast.  Yes it’s been a month… or two fortnights… since you last received a RunRunLive podcast.   But now, your wait is over.  As you sleep I have silently packaged up another greasy ball of endurance sports content and slid it down the pipes of the internet to your electronic familiar.  And it’s been a weird month indeed.  In my last missive from the field I told you how I had lost my computer, a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 that I have been using since last November.  And how with that missing computer went all the files for Episode 4-313 – ‘the lost masterpiece’.  This week, two weeks later, after I had gotten a new Surface, procured all the magic software tha

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The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-312 – Randy Pierce – Mountains, Dogs and Inspiration(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4312.mp3]Link epi4312.mp3Intro Bumper:Chris Russell, a man barely alive…Heh, heh.  Yes I am old enough to have watched the 6 million dollar man when it premiered in 1977.  Well Hello my friends.  Welcome to Episode 4-312 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  This is Chris, your host, and I’m glad to see you.  Won’t you come in, grab a towel and sit with me for a bit while you cool down from your exertions of the week?It’s been a busy spring for me.  At the end of April I capped a worthy training cycle by running my 17th Boston Marathon.  6 Days later I fulfilled my role as titular figurehead (i.e. Race Director) at the 24th annual Groton Road Race.  Last week I spent a couple days in the hospital to have a special bionic powers installed.  I prefer to think of it as an upgrade rather than a patch.  They didn’t fix a bug in my heart, they upgraded me to Chris 3.0.  No

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-311 – Boston Marathon 2015 Wrap-up(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4311.mp3] Link Intro Bumper:Hello, Hello and Hello, my friends.  Wow! A busy couple weeks since we last spoke.  This time of year always makes me think about whether or not we have too many balls in the air.  I’m really torn between whether having so many project going on at the same time is a bad thing or a good thing.  I think it’s a little bit of both. Having a lot going on forces you to focus on those things that are really important.  But, when you do that you let other things slide and someone in your universe is bound to suffer.  The other thing that I don’t like is when my life gets so full of activity that all the slack time is taken away.  It means that any new or cool opportunity that floats by necessarily has to be neglected in the wash.Since we last talked I ran the Boston marathon.  I had a good day and I’ll give you the brief version of the race report in the

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-309 – Bryan Lyons on Pushing Rick Hoyt in 2015(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4310.mp3]Link epi4310.mp3Intro Bumper:https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussellHello my friends, this is Chris your host and this is the RunRunLive Podcast episode 4-310.  Welcome.  We are in our final days of taper leading into the Boston Marathon.  I’m ready.  I’m right on my target race weight, I’m strong in the legs and I’ve done it a few times before.  I’m starting from the back this year in the last charity corral.  It will take me awhile to get to the starting line and it will be crowded.  Looks like we’re getting decent weather, cool and rainy.  That’s actually my favorite racing weather.  One of my friends from the running club is getting a limo to take a bunch of us out to Hopkinton on Monday morning.  There’s no checked bags from Hopkinton anymore so we’ll have to navigate the cool, wet weather on the morning with some

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-309 – Anne – Laura and 50 states by age 25(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi439.mp3]Link epi4309.mp3Intro Bumper:https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussellMan, what a week!  I’m tired.  I raced the Eastern States 20 miler on Sunday.  It was the 20th anniversary race and they were back to the original course which starts in Kittery Maine, crosses over into Portsmouth, runs the entire coastline of New Hampshire and ends in Massachusetts.  You get 3 states in one race.  I didn’t really know how to manage the race going in.  I have been logging 40ish miles a week for a while and have done several 3 hour long runs but I’ve done almost no tempo or speed.  The summary would be that I’m in really good aerobic shape but lacking the sharp edge of racing.  And, for those of you not paying attention, the reason I can’t do the tempo and speed is that I have a heart condition, ‘exercise induced’ A-fib that I’ve developed ov

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-308 – Angie – Pregnancy and the Marathon(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4308.mp3]Link epi4308.mp3Intro Bumper:https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussellHey, hey, hey my friends.  How we doin?  We’re sliding unceremoniously into spring up here in the northern hemisphere.  Even though Boston broke the annual snowfall record this weekend it’s been melting nicely over the last 2 weeks.  The snow banks have receded from the roads like sulky, gray, hulking glaciers leaving room for me to run.  The clocks have been changed forward by an hour and the sun doesn’t set until 7:00 PM.  The sidewalks are filled with the hard detritus of winter cast off by the melting mounds.  Pieces of battered cars, piles of sand and salt, tree branches and the bones of small animals all emerge like some post-glacial science project.  Now the potholes emerge in the roads.  Great, dark, jagged rifts like portals to other, grimier univers

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-307 – The Continuing Adventures of Wendy Nail(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4307.mp3]Link epi4307.mp3Intro Bumper:https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussellWell, my friends, here we are, Late Friday afternoon and time to publish another episode of the long running Podcast series RunRunLive…A serial magazine series sponsored by the Cialis and the History Channel about the trials and tribulations of Yaks farming on the north eastern permafrost… No? Ok, It’s not sponsored by anyone except the neurotically charged neurons of my cranial sphere.  And mostly we talk about distance running and endurance sports and we talk to members of our community about their adventures and transformations and epiphanies.  And at 25 words with 4 conjunctions that, my friends, is a sentence Vladmir Nabokov would be proud of. Just got back from running 1:45 outside on the roads.  That’s two outside runs for the week! I’m killing it

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-306 – Jed’s Life Changes(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4306.mp3]Link epi4306.mp3Intro Bumper:https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussellHoly Moley and welcome to episode 4-306 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Man it’s cold! I As I write this we haven’t been above freezing for a month and have had 6 feet of snow up here!  I like winter as much as the next guy but I’m getting a bit weary of the continuous Blizzard-cane that is New England. Since we talked last I did take trip to Atlanta and got some nice long runs in in Buckhead.  I came back from dinner one night and said ‘to heck with it, I’m heading out!’  and ran from Buckhead all the way up Peachtree to midtown.  I was out for a nice 1:45 minutes which is about a ½ marathon for me at an easy pace.  Everybody else was walking around in winter coats and hats and I was chugging along down the sidewalk in shorts.  Up here where I live I’ve been banished to the tre

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-305 – SheriAnne’s Adventures(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4305.mp3]Link epi4305.mp3Intro Bumper:https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussellBuenas Dias! Mi Amigos.  I told you that early in my career I did a couple projects in Chihuahua Mexico, right?  That was before it got a bit dicey with the los drugos down there.  More innocent times. So we made it to February!  Old Man Winter has shown up with a vengeance up here in New England.  It’s ok, I like winter.  Or at least I can deal with it when it’s really only a couple months out of the year.  That’s one of the joys of living here is that you get 4 real seasons, but not enough of each to make them annoying.  Makes us flexible and tough.  Since we last talked it’s been snowing almost every other day.  Last weekend we got a cool 2-day blizzard that dumped 3 feet of snow.  Since it was cold too, zero degrees Fahrenheit, it was that fluffy snow that is great f

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-304 – Susan Loken – You’re never too old if you believe(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4304.mp3]Link epi4304.mp3Intro Bumper:https://www.crowdrise.com/TeamHoytBoston2015/fundraiser/christopherrussellHello my friends.  Here we are creeping up on February.  How has the core of you existence been treating you?  Has it been resonating with the universal master mind?  Have you been doing the dosey-doe with your life purpose?  Yeah, me neither.  But I’m getting by.  I don’t know what it is about this time of year that just makes me want to sleep!  It’s all good.  I have the headphones in and I’m listening to some reggae and sipping a local IPA and dredging some creativity from the dregs of my old and atrophied brain for you! My friends.  My running friends.  My endurance sweet hearts.  Those of you new to our podcast, welcome to episode 4-304.  Codec-wise that’s the fourth version or iteration or generation of the RunRunLive podcast and the 304t

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-303 – Bruce Van Horn - Running and Self-esteem(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4303.mp3]Link epi4303.mp3Intro Bumper:Hello my friends and welcome to 2015.  Who woulda thunk it? We made it.  I can remember sitting in elementary school and thinking how old I’d be when we got to the year 2000, and here we are 15 years later.  You have once again found yourself with me, Chris, in your ear buds.  Whether you’re out on your frozen roads or the tropical antipodean outback I’m thrilled and honored to be your running-related mental succubus. …Well it’s been a quiet week out here in Independence Kansas along the banks of Spring creek.  As I look out onto the frost covered acreage I can see groups of feral yaks cavorting in the sleet.  Except for those sick ones.  They don’t look so good.  They’re in rough shape with fur falling out in bunches and they walk with a strange stiff-legged lurch.  I called the local animal control officer out and he should

RunRunLive 4.0 Episode 4-302 - Roxanne and Paula 2014-08-07 17.53.12(Audio: link)     Link epi4302.mp3   Intro: Hey. How are yah?  Welcome my friends.  To the RunRunLive Podcast.  Episode 4302.  How ya been?  Maybe you’re a new friend?  Maybe you got one of those brand new shiny i-devices for Christmas and you’re just dipping your toe into the podcast world?  By the way I like your nail polish. Matches your eyes.  But, that tattoo must have hurt, no? Anyway, this is Chris your host.  We have been sharing a podcast in and about running and endurance sport for a few years now.  Welcome.  I’m coming to you from the grassy steppes of Independence Kansas where I run a feral yak farm in between professional gigs. The running is challenging out here.  The wind cutting across the plains in the winter is a bit biting, but you get used to it.  And you know the toughest warriors are from the Steppes, the Scythians, the Huns and the Mongols all rode down on ‘civilization’ from the windy grasslands. There’s something goin

RunRunLive 4.0Episode 4-301, Dave McGillivray and Heart Disease in Runners(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4301.mp3]Link epi4301.mp3Intro Bumper:Intro: Prelude:When I started the RunRunLive Podcast in July of 1857 it was a different world.  I know it hasn’t been 150 years but it does seem like a long time ago.  Now here we are at the sharp and dangerous blade edge of another season or edition or chapter – whatever you want to call it.  I chose the meme of running plus living not to show the dichotomy or separation of the two but to highlight the synergy and union of them.  When you combine endurance sports into your life one plus one equals 3.  Running has opened up worlds for me.  I like to say it has transformed me, but that isn’t quite the right way to put it.  I wasn’t a 300 pound diabetic asthmatic on the edge of physical extinction.  I was a normal, family guy stuck instead in the corporate grindwheel of modern existence.  Maybe that’s a form of existential extinction. R

Interludes 1.3(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/Interludes1.3.mp3] Link “Interlude of Love” - BacksliderIntroduction:Hello my friends.  Hope you are doing well.  I’m afraid I got squeezed into the wormhole of too many time commitments this week and couldn’t get the first episode of the new version of the RunRunLive podcast put together. I won’t bore you with excuses.  On the bright side I’m getting closer.  I’ve got the first interview rteady to go and all the rough audio for the intros, outros and bumpers, so hang in there and we’ll get it out to you. Hope you all enjoyed the NYC race report.  It was a bear to write, edit and produce.  I probably spent 24 hours of work on it and could have spent another 24, but that’s what deadlines are for.  One of the best lessons you’ll ever learn as a creative is how to push out the ‘good enough’ because you will cease to exist before you ever find ‘the perfect’.In lieu of a new episode this week I’m going to give you a teaser from the new bo

Interludes 1.2 - NYC Marathon(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/NYC.mp3]Link NYC.mp3 Act one – The BridgeJoe Strummer and the Mescaleros – All in a Day Freezing and about half way across the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and the wind was blowing sideways at 20-30 mph with gusts up to 50 mph.  Physical shivers racked me in the Orange Staging Area on the island.  My giant trash bag cut the wind but did little to warm me.  I was thankful to have the giant trash bag but would have rather had a full size wool blanket or poncho like Clint Eastwood wore in the spaghetti westerns.  Or a down jacket.  The temperature was not that bad.  It was in the high 30’s Fahrenheit, but the cutting wind dropped the perceived temperature to single digits.  I was feeling it. We were ½ mile or so in, still on the upward slope of the bridge with a steady stream of runners.  I didn’t want to get in the way of anyone trying to race, but I recognized this as THAT iconic photo that everyone takes from this race and

Interludes 1.0(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/Interludes1.mp3]Link Interludes1.mp3 Introduction:Hello my endurance friends and welcome to a crack-stuffing version of the RunRunLive podcast that I’m going to call “Interludes”.  I didn’t want you to think I fell into the abyss as I work to figure out the format for RunRunLive4.0.  I’ll keep passing along some content as I go to keep your interest. You can always go back and sample one of the previous 300 episodes that are filled with so much fluff and stuff about long distance running and endurance sport.  I was going to call it interregnum, but that seemed a bit imperious.  But, it does lead us to a discussion of the value of a good command of Latin and Greek roots when trying to discern the language.  As you may have guessed the prefix ‘inter’, (technically a ‘morpheme’) means between or among.  In this case Inter means between.  Inter should not be confused with ‘intra’ which means ‘within’.  Intercompany would mean “Between co

Expisode 300 – Coach Andrew Kastor and much frivolity…(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4300.mp3]Link epi4300.mp3Intro:Hello my friends and welcome to episode 300 of the RunRunLive podcast.  For those of you who have been friends for a bit you’ll realize that this is a necessary departure from our standard format to celebrate our Tri-centennial.  For those of you who may be new to our little endurance sports journal, well you’ll just have to figure it out by listening to some of the other shows.  Thanks you to Tony for the marathon prayer intro.  Tony does a regular segment called Tony’s Trials on the Marathon Talk UK Podcast (link).  One of our executive editors, Alex form the UK got permission from them for us to use it. Marathon Talk UK -> All about running. A weekly podcast dedicated to keeping you on the inside track to successful running. Presented by Martin Yelling and Tom WilliamsTony Audenshaw - Tony's TrialsI’m guessing we are going to go long today, so you’d bette

The RunRunLive 3.0 Podcast Episode 3-299 – Coach Kristie(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi3299.mp3]Link epi3299.mp3Support RunRunLive; Purchase an audio book of running stories.  Written and performed with love by Chris Russell  ------------->>>>>>>http://bit.ly/1cH2Fr7 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The RunRunLive 3.0 Podcast Episode 3-298 – Grace Kim - LeanGirlsClub(Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi3298.mp3]Link epi3298.mp3Support RunRunLive; Purchase an audio book of running stories.  Written and performed with love by Chris Russell  ------------->>>>>>>http://bit.ly/1cH2Fr7 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.