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The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-368 – Julia and the Endurance Epiphany  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4368.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-368 the new summer, of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Happy 4th of July to all my patriotic American friends.  Today we have a chat with Julia who has a great story.  She had that moment in her life where she almost lost everything that led her to endurance sports.  We get some many of these stories and it makes me wonder why people seem to need to get knocked up side of the head to make big changes in their lives?  Maybe it’s just that we need to be shown that anything is possible.  I’m dropping this show on June 30th.  I am finishing up my 30-day 5 at 5 project where I simply got up and ran 5 miles at 5 AM every morning in the woods. I’ll give you my report out on that in one of the sections. How are you doing?  If you’re an ultra-marathoner you’re

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-367 – Matt Dunlap – BQ  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4367.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-367 th3e new summer, of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Here we are in June.  Today we are going to chat with Matt who qualified for Boston recently.  Not to be entirely self-promotional, but he used the Marathon BQ plan from my book, “Marathon BQ – how to qualify for Boston in 14 weeks with a full time job and a family” that recounts my own journey to a Boston qualifier.  It fascinates me to listen to these folks who have run the plan and qualified.  It’s wonderful to me that it actually works for them.  When you write down something like that there is always the worry that it has nothing to do with the plan.  Somehow it is just you and your genetics or your work ethic or pure chance tipping those scales.  So – congratulations to Matt for putting in the work and reap

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-366 – Nick Kershaw – Impact Marathon Series  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4366.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, and welcome to episode 4-366 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  366 Podcasts.  If you’re new to the show that means you could listen to one of the old shows every day for a year, even a leap year, to catchup.  And, assuming I haven’t thrown in the towel, you’ll still be 25 episodes behind.  It’s in our nature as endurance athletes to just keep moving forward.  I do believe there is some innate value in that attribute of dogged persistence.  What do you think?  Are people too quick to ‘Pivot’ in these Silicon days?  Silicon days.  Kinda sounds like Halcyon Days.  Do you know what that means?  You may have heard that phrase “” used by people whose parents spent too much on a Liberal Arts Degree as referring to a happier time in the past. It really means more of a calm time.

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-365 – Steve Hailstone – Heart Attack  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4365.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends, this is Chris, your host, and welcome to episode 4-365 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Today we chat with our friend Steve Hailstone about his experience as a runner having a heart attack.  I wanted to get Steve on and talk through his experience because I thought we might be able to save some lives.  Seriously.  It’s well known that we endurance athletes think that we are indestructible.  This is not the case.  We are typically healthier and fitter over the long arc of our lives but we are still susceptible to the same risks everyone else is, including heart disease.  In section one I talk about how it’s not that much of a leap to go from a marathon to an ultra and give you some thoughts on how to do that.  In section two I talk about how we get into and out of mental slumps

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-364 – Steve Spear – Across the USA  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4364.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening my friends.  Are you out on that early morning trail?  Or maybe the warm sunshine of a lunch-time trot?  Perhaps the star filled purity of a speedwork session at the track at night?  Wherever, whenever, you may be, Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-364 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Today we chat with Steve Spear, not Steve Speirs of the 100 pushups app who we interviewed in episode 108 of the podcast, must’ve been the winter of 2008-2009.   BTW all those old episodes are on my website at RunRunLive.com.  I’m going to go listen to some of them myself and see if there isn’t something interesting that I can curate for the members feed.  It’s bit surreal listening to yourself from the past.  Time truly is a river. Today we are also going to squeez

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-363 – Lauren Fern Watt – for the love of dogs!  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4363.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-363 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Come on over here and let me pet you.  Wait, no that’s inappropriate, what I mean is today we are talking dogs and running and books with Lauren Fern Watts, whose book “Gizelle’s Bucket List” I had the pleasure of reading recently.  As is my habit I called her up and asked for an interview.  Great story.  Starving artist who went viral and got a book deal.  As we speak I am two days out from the my 19th Boston Marathon.  I am healthy and well trained and I’ve managed to hold my…shtuff together during the taper.  I’ll head into the expo tomorrow.  To pick up my stuff.  It’s funny, I’ve been so busy that I haven’t even opened the race material they sent me a couple weeks ago!  Imagine that.  Some day you may

Episode Boston 2017 – A preview of the Boston Marathon with Coach  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epiBoston2017.mp3] Link   Folks, Friends, Marathon-wonks, this is a chat I had with my coach today about this year’s Boston Marathon, my training and what to expect.  I wanted to get something out to those of you who might find the information useful before race weekend. See you out there! Chris,   Coach Jeff ->   MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-362 – Rick Hoyt – a Running Life  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4362.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-362 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Chris here.  I am criminally behind in my production schedule.  As some of you may have divined, especially those of you on LinkedIn, I changed gigs over the last couple months and am now back in startup land.  It’s not my startup, but still the the urgency and lack of resources spills over.  (Humorous editor’s note: Microsoft word tried to change ‘divined’ to ‘deveined’ which is something totally different.  That combined with being in my last few weeks of marathon training for Boston creates less space and opportunity to write and record.  The company is out of Silicon Valley, (of course), and I’m out of Boston so there’s a 3-hour time change.  Even thought you’d think you’d be able to adjust your work days, it always

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-361 – Zelus Craft Beer for Endurance  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4361.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-361 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Chris here.  I’m testing out a new recording space.  It’s got a lot of hard surfaces so it might be a tad echo-ey.  I’ll hang up a couple quilts and see if that softens it up.  We call them quilts now, but didn’t they used to be called tapestries?  Anyway – today we have an interesting interview with Geoff from Zelus beer who I reached out to because they are apparently targeting endurance athletes. I always wondered about the connection between beer and running – and it being St. Paddy’s Day today and all…it seems appropriate. In section one I’m going to dust off an old post I wrote on trail running.  Why?  Because I’ve had a rash of spam posts on my web site and all of them were in the comments of this trail runnin

Hello my friends, This is Chris.  I know, you’re used to hearing my voice and may be taken aback to see it coming out of my actual face, but I wanted to talk to you.  On April 17th of this year I’ll be running my 19th Boston Marathon.  My training’s going well – I should be able to give it a respectable effort.  And, of course, I’m running for Team Hoyt this year.  If you don’t know the story of the Hoyts, on a fateful day in 1979 rick Hoyt, who is about my age now and told his dad, Dick, that he wanted to run a local 5 miler.  That started an amazing story of Dick pushing Rick in his wheelchair through thousands of races.  Marathons, ironmans and in the process they broke barriers for the disabled in all walks of life.  They became heroes to a generation of athletes. So I’m asking for your help.  This isn’t to support me, or even the Hoyts, or even the 100’s of disabled athletes they encourage.  This is you and me supporting dreaming the impossible This is you and me supporting the courage to make a differen

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-360 – Dan Weston Runs to Work  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4360.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-360 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  This is Chris your host.  That’s 360 podcasts out there over the past 8-9 years.  Kind of amazing.  It’s been awhile since I re-jiggered the format maybe it’s about time for some fashionable new skins or something.  I’d like to do more but there just isn’t much money in yak farming.  There is plenty of money in being a hit man but I have to keep that in secret, offshore bank accounts.  Today we have a longish interview with Dan Weston who is one of our friends from the UK.  We talk through his running adventures.  In section one I’ve got a piece on some of the finer nuances of hill repeats.  In section two I’ve got a thoughtful piece on ‘hope’ that has been kicking around in my brain for about a decade so I’m glad it m

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-358 – Pam the TrailMomma  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4359.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-359 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Today, for me is February 17 2017.  For you?  Who knows?  Through the miracle of time travel and temporal displacement you could be interfacing with my digital echoes thousands of years from now.  I’m going to keep my intro brief because I’ve got a couple longer pieces in this episode and I’m horribly behind schedule!  When we last talked my training was great and I was ramping up my volume and intensity.  Of course that was a great way to cures myself.  The next day I ran an easy run with my buddies and that night I had a noticeably sore knee. I couldn’t tell if it was from the running or from carrying some heavy crates up to the attic so I took a few days easy.    By mid week it was gone and turns out I probably tweaked s

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-358 – Q&A with Chris  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4358.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Well hello my friends and welcome to Episode 4-358 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  How are you doing?  We made it to February.  We’re on the other side of the equinox. The days are getting longer.  My training is going great.  I’ve been eating clean and I’m ramping up my miles for Boston.  I did a 1:20 step up on Sunday with a full 50 minutes of tempo at faster than race pace.  I did a hilly 10.5 on Tuesday and another hilly 10.8 on Wednesday.  I’m at close to 30 miles and I’ve got two more runs this week.  That’s good volume for me and my legs feel good.  I’m recovering well and nothing hurt.  Right on plan.  Today we have an interesting interview with a handsome, intelligent and compelling man.  No.  Not really.  Just kidding.  As I threatened I had my baby, future Neurosurgeon, Teresa ask me questions

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-357 – Hip Re-surface with Joe  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4357.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to episode 4-357 of the RunRunLive podcast. I wrote this sitting in the airport in San Jose waiting on a red-eye flight back east. I don’t mind sleeping on planes. I’m a good sleeper. It wasn’t a direct flight and there actually wasn’t much sleep. I’m a bit burnt out from a couple weeks of travel and some emotionally draining interactions. I got a run in. A morning run. I just headed out from the hotel and followed the trolley tracks and sidewalks up north 1st street. It was cold and rainy. Something very rare in California. They welcomed the rain but it messed people up. It caused extreme traffic problems. It was a bit surreal running past PayPal’s head quarters in the pre-dawn drizzle. I just did an out and back. It’s cold for them - in the 40’s and everyone is bun

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-356 – Talking Communities with Kevin Gwin of the Extra Mile  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4356.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hey there!  It’s a new year! I know we lost a lot of celebrities in 2016, but you and I made it, right?  So welcome to a new year.  And welcome to the extra-mile edition of the RunRunLive Podcast.  That’s right I grabbed our friend Kevin Gwin away from his Beatles albums and Galloway chatter to talk to me about communities of runners and how the world has changed since we started doing this a decade ago.  How was your 2016?  Glass half-full or tank half-empty?  I’m going to quote my favorite race ‘A’ goal.  “I didn’t die!”  The rest is gravy I guess! Let’s see what I can remember… I think we started the year running the Hangover Classic 10k on January first and jumping in the ocean.  Then in January didn’t trundle the wife off to Phoenix for a quick vacation that inc

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-354 – Heart Rate Training Refresher with Coach  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4355.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks -   Hello my little elves and reindeer and welcome to the Saturnalia celebration of the RunRunLive Podcast.  We are at Episode 4-355 today.  I hope all of you are doing well.  Are you getting to spend some time with your families?  Maybe take a moment to be grateful and in the moment?  It’s all good.  Today we are going to do a little heart rate training refresher with coach.  I have been getting a lot of questions on heart rate training so I thought we’d take a couple beats to review some of that.  Maybe it will set you up for your next training cycle coming out of the winter solstice.  In section one I’m going to talk about Raynaud’s disease or syndrome – which is common in the cold weather months – and how it’s a different thing than just having cold hands.  In section two I’m g

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-354 – Thor Kirleis – UltraRunner Vs Lyme Disease  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4354.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to episode 4-354 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  How’s everyone doing?  We got our first snow on the ground up here in New England this week.  It’s been a mild winter so far.  In today’s show we have a good long chat with my old buddy Thor about his experience with Lyme Disease.  This is part of my series on athletes who have been challenged and have had to reconsider the role of running in their lives.  In section one I’m going to drop a piece on selecting a HR monitoring device (based on a listener question) and in Section two I’m going to share some timeless wisdom by Peter Drucker.  This past Sunday I raced the Mill Cities Relay.  They gave me the ‘long leg’ of 9.5 miles and I was on a solid male senior team with 4 other guys from my club. I’ll talk

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-353 – Ann and I talk about when you can’t run anymore  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4353.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends and welcome to episode 4-353 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  Today we are going to have a chat with our old friend Ann Brennan about not being able to run anymore.  I’m going to do a series on this – so if you’ve got some major body part replacement or something that has caused a radical shift in your endurance sports allegiance – shoot me a note and we’ll chat about it.  In section one I’m going to talk about how to ease into heart rate training and how it makes a great 30-day project.  In section two I’m going to talk about a 30-day project I’m in – running naked! I apologize for the rough edit job on the last show.  I got a new laptop and it took me a while to break it in.  It was really struggling with the audio editing.  I de-installed the stupid McAffee

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-352 – Frank Gianinno – The USA Cross Country Record Falls  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4352.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello and welcome to Episode 4-352 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  How are you doing?  Hanging in there?  Good.  It’s been a weird couple weeks, But we made it. Here we are.  It’s the middle of November. I am another year older and as far as I know the sun is going to come up today.  Although I can’t be too sure because we’re in that part of the year where we wake up in the dark and come home in the dark up here in New England.  The leaves are all down and the bones of the old Earth are poking through the great canvas.  It’s cold in mornings and that feels good on our old bodies.  I’ve already had a fire in the fireplace.  Today we have a great chat with Frank Gianinno who held the record for the cross USA run until Pete Kostelnick broke it! In section one we’ll talk about

The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-351 – RunGum  (Audio: link) Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Hello my friends.  How’s your October going?  This is Chris, your host.  Welcome to episode 451 of the RunRunLive podcast.  Today we’re going to chat with Nick Symmonds Olympian, 800m champion and CEO of RunGum.  I usually shy away from talking about products but Nick seemed like a fairly interesting dude and I like to support entrepreneurs, especially in our space. Reading Nick’s bio he seems a bit of a high-energy renegade type.  A world class 800M racer with a rich social life – supposedly he dated Paris Hilton but I didn’t have the guts to go there.  Perhaps he’s the Toulouse-Lautrec of middle distance running?  I tried to tease him out on his start-up story but he mostly sticks to the script. It’s something we are seeing more of.  Accomplished runners in 2016 don’t have to fade into obscurity or open a shoe store.  The new playbook in to use that 15 minutes to launch