Phedippidations
Episodes
Fdip284: My First Time
21 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Today we’ll hear from six fellow runners (including myself) who will relate to you their personal stories about “Their First Times”.
Fdip283: Life 2.0
19 Jan 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Today is my 50th birthday. I was born at exactly 7:48 PM Eastern Standard Time in the maternity ward of Milton Hospital on Reedsdale Road and Highland...
Fdip282: The Runner and Doctor Shoe
25 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
We're traveling back in time on this episode; through six and a half years in PodCasting AND BEYOND!
Fdip281: Grape Races
09 Dec 2011
Contributed by Lukas
When oenophiles think about wine, they rarely consider the sport of running with regards to it’s enjoyment; and when runners consider our passion fo...
Fdip280: Summer of the Shark
24 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In the summer of 1975 I was a 13 year old skinny, big eared, pimply-faced teenager with a frown full of braces and a head filled with big ideas. This ...
Fdip279: For Love of Wine and Pizza Part 2
11 Nov 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Part two of a series of episode where we prepare ourselves to win an argument with a non-runner!
Fdip278: For Love of Wine and Pizza Part 1
21 Oct 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In order to start the conversation that plants the seed of an idea into someone’s head that they might want to begin the process to adopt the runnin...
Fdip277: Existence and the Running Man
22 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
“To be or not to be?”, that is only the second question we have to ask ourselves: the first is: Are we? or Are we not? Do we exist or is this all ...
Fdip276: Henry David Thoreau Walker
11 Sep 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I present for you an abridged for podcast version of Henry David Thoreau’s essay “A Walk to Wachusett”. As you listen to these w...
Fdip275: In Vino Veritas
27 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Philosophers have been asking the question “What is Truth” for thousands of years, as they try to determine if truth is subjective, objective, rel...
Fdip274: The Pursuit of Happiness
07 Aug 2011
Contributed by Lukas
I propose to you that running can bring you great happiness, and since I know that I’m preaching to the choir here, I’ll ask you to consider how r...
Fdip273: The Morality of Quitting
17 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we tackle the philosophical question “Is it morally right to quit a road race?”. For help in understanding the question en route t...
Fdip272: The Iron and Candy Anniversary Show
03 Jul 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The 6th Anniversay of Phedippidations.
Fdip271: Team Poco Loco
12 Jun 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Phedippidations is intended to recreate for you the experience of running with fellow runners and friends. On April 30th Team Poco Loc...
Fdip270: When There's Nothing Left to Burn, You Have to Set Yourself on Fire
27 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story of a fellow runner by the name of Katie who fought a good fight in that all too familiar way where all options are gone and the only...
Fdip269: el Poco Loco Curso
15 Apr 2011
Contributed by Lukas
A tour of the Poco Loco Course
Fdip268: Duncan Rises
25 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
“From where he tottered before the couch, on muscles immune to elongation and contraction, Duncan contemplated his next move. Opposite the lavatory,...
Fdip267: Running Varietals
10 Mar 2011
Contributed by Lukas
The term varietal describes an elementary form of something. With wine, it’s the fermented product of a single grape. With running, the word varieta...
Fdip266: Running Builds Bigger Brains
23 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
We all know how running can improve our lives, our health and our disposition with the universe around us. We know that running is part of a healthy l...
Fdip265: An Interval of Persistence
11 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
You and I are out on a run together. As we’re getting our miles in we start to talk to each other to pass the time. This is where we get to know eac...
Fdip264: Running Blogcast: Pre-Race Jitters
04 Feb 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Today I present the second in a series of episodes that I’m calling “Running Blogcasts” featuring the writing of fellow runners in our community...
Fdip263: Outrunning Celebrity
28 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrities are people too. They wake up in the morning, just as we do, they brush their teeth, they log onto their computers, they lace their own sho...
Fdip262: The Poetry of Running
21 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
IF YOU COULD, SOMEHOW, SEND A MESSAGE TO SOMEONE WHO WILL BE ALIVE ONE THOUSAND YEARS FROM NOW: WHAT WOULD YOU TELL THEM? The universe has come togeth...
Fdip261: Running Terroir
14 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
As a runner, you have to discover and understand your own running Terroir. You need to know how your environment, personality, geography and local cli...
Fdip260: Steve at SteveRunner dot Com
07 Jan 2011
Contributed by Lukas
I’m starting off the new year right by answering all of my email (or at least trying to). In this episode of a goofy little podcast I respond to som...
Fdip259: What I Did Last Year
30 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is our time. With the changing of the calendar year it’s common for us to take the time to look back on the previous solar orbit, or look forwa...
Fdip258: Dr. George Sheehan: Seeing
23 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m going to read for you the final chapter of Dr. George Sheehans book “Running and Being – The Total Experience”. I’m doing this in ...
Fdip257: The Mojo Loco
17 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The friends who I ran the Mojo Loco with are listening to this right now, Chris and Chris, Eddie, Nik, Dan, Mat, Susan, Steve, Samantha, Norm, Adam an...
Fdip256: A Brief History of Wine
08 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The history of wine is the history of civilization. It’s a story that dates back to the earliest days of agriculture and encompasses the life and ti...
Fdip255: Anatomy of a Running Shoe
03 Dec 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Get to know the parts and materials that make up your running shoes, and you’ll be a better consumer of the one critical tool needed to reach your g...
Fdip254: Running Blogcast: A Runners Guide to Balance and Perspective
26 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode, being my first Running Blogcast features the writing of Neil Bearse, a fellow runner I’ve never had the honor of meeting in perso...
Fdip253: New Media and the Art of Running Evangelism
21 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
You have the same ability to produce content in an artful way that will, no doubt, convince someone you care about to join us on the road as runners…...
Fdip252: Running in my Sleep
14 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The American statesman Ben Franklin once wrote “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. There may be something to tha...
Fdip251: Running Legend Abebe Bikila
10 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Today I will tell you about an amazing person who lived his life to the top. It’s an interesting life with high and low points, with obstacles which...
Fdip250: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
10 Nov 2010
Contributed by Lukas
How many of us have trained over many months for a race only to perform terribly in the event itself, or how many of us have crossed that finish line ...
Fdip249: The Running Gene
24 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In the area of genetics and with respect to athletics, we are trying to understand what construction instructions are required to build the perfect ru...
Fdip248: The 5th Annual World Wide Festival of Races
17 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
They ran all over the world. They ran in warm places, cold places, rainy places, dry places. They ran alone and with friends; they ran fast and slow, ...
Fdip247: As the World Cheers
08 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In a Universe that is thirteen point seven billion years old, on a planet that has only existed for four and a half billion years; our species: homo s...
Fdip246: Running Through PodCamp Boston 5
03 Oct 2010
Contributed by Lukas
PodCamp is all about podcasting, and using this medium to reach out to a community. Since you and I are runners, and since we all listen to podcasts, ...
Fdip245: Life Should be Long Enough
26 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The Stanford University study titled “Reduced Disability and Mortality among aging runners” was published in the August 11th, 2008 issue of the jo...
Fdip243: Pregnantly Running
12 Sep 2010
Contributed by Lukas
While the first part of this episode is dedicated to the precautions a pregnant mother should take with regards to athletic endeavors, there are many ...
Fdip242: Following Thoreau and the West Branch of the Penobscot
29 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
From Saturday April 14th through the 18th, 2010 my Dad, son, nephew and I traveled up the West Branch of the Penobscot River and across the northern e...
Fdip241: Dr. George Sheehan and Growing
13 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I am a disciple of Dr. George Sheehan, I’m not ashamed to tell you that, I’ve read and re-read everything the man has written…and I’ve come to...
Fdip240: Caffeinated Running
01 Aug 2010
Contributed by Lukas
As it is with most things in life, taken in moderation: Caffeine can be good for you and improve you’re your health and your performance on race day...
Fdip239: Cruising to the Music
25 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is my annual music show; recorded (as always) while I’m on vacation. This time I’m on the Norwegian Cruise Ship Spirit traveling from Boston ...
a BIG Favor
11 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Why Cook Well. We eat because we have to. Civilization is nothing more than a ten thousand year old human experiment to test the freakish theory that ...
Fdip238: Five Years and Running PodCast Goodness
04 Jul 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Podcasting is a media so perfectly suited for the running lifestyle. Just as we schedule our runs in advance, we can schedule what we listen to ON tho...
Fdip237: The 33rd Milton 10K Road Race
27 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I had come to the town of Milton Massachusetts to run a 10K road race that I had run three times before, with a 48:18 finish in 2002, a 52:30 finish i...
Fdip236: Love of Running
16 Jun 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is not about my love of this sport; it's about how to help others to fall in love with this sport. Running is an activity that fellow ...
Fdip235: Behind the Swoosh
30 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The story behind the swoosh is much bigger than that of just Nike and its corporate policy of treating it's workers as slaves: it's a story that speak...
Fdip234: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Play
23 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Greetings fellow canines; my name is Indiana Jones; I am NOT the fictional American Adventurer and Archeologist Dr. Henry Walton Jones Junior created ...
Fdip233: Can Marathon's Kill You?
16 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I review the abstract of a study released last March by Dr. Depina Kardara and his team at the Athens Medical School,Hippokration Hosp...
Fdip232: The 114th Boston Marathon
02 May 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I had come to Hopkinton Massachusetts to run the 114th Boston Marathon, and found myself in the early miles facing the eventual breakdown of my body. ...
Fdip231: The Qualifying Standards of Boston
15 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
The Czech Locomotive, Emil Zatopek, 3 time gold medalist in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki once said "If you want to run, run a mile. If you wan...
Fdip230: Boston and the 2010 State of the Course
11 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of The Goofy Little Podcast, I run the first 18 miles of the Boston Marathon course and I'll let you know if there's anything new to l...
Fdip229: Running Legend Tarzan Brown
04 Apr 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Tarzan Brown was an amazing athlete who lived a hard, impoverished life but faced the world with dignity and strength. There are so many legendary and...
Fdip112BM.mp3
22 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
-undefined-
Fdip228: Dispatches from the Road
14 Mar 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I like eggs. Show Links: http://www.fdiplive.blogspot.com http://qik.com/steverunner/videos http://feeds.feedburner.com/IntervalsAudio http://runningp...
Fdip227: Barefoot Patterns and Forces
28 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Daniel Leiberman’s (and his team) paper “Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners” looks i...
Fdip226: GI Distance Running Problems
12 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
When you run, you’re body is under stress, and that causes your body to increase the levels of certain chemicals to kinda even things out. These che...
Fdip225: The Key Note I’ll Never Get to Give
05 Feb 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I’m never going to be asked to give a speech in front of a crowd of fellow runners. It’s not going to happen; and by saying that I’m not implyin...
Fdip224: The Call of the Miles
29 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s episode is the first to talk about the phenomenon of Ultra Marathons. There is obviously a lot more to this topic than I can fit in a single...
Fdip223: Dr. George Sheehan and the Church of Running
22 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
In his essay, IS RUNNING A RELIGION, Dr. George Sheehan makes that point that running is a place, not a system of belief. Running gives us an opportun...
Fdip222: I’ve Got Mail
15 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
I know I’ve said this before, but I want you to understand that I read all of your email. This problem I have with answering email is somewhat embar...
Fdip221: The 2010 Spring Marathon Guide
08 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This episode begins with another ice cold swim in Boston Harbor with friends, and a stated theory that will become my “law of thermodynamic refreshm...
Fdip220: Four Hour Marathon Part 2 - Endurance
01 Jan 2010
Contributed by Lukas
This is my first podcast episode of 2010, and my second episode regarding my intentions for running a sub Four Hour Marathon in the Autumn of this yea...
Fdip219: A Year in Motion and Review
25 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Personally, I’ve never really needed the changing of the calendar year as a reason to set and keep a resolution: so any promises I’m going to make...
Fdip218: The 2009 Phedippidations Holiday PodCast Variety Show Special
18 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In the spirit of all those old cheesy classic television holiday variety show specials by the Osmond Brothers, Bob Hope, Donny and Marie, and the Smot...
Fdip217: Running Legend: Browning Ross
11 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Browning Ross was a talented runner, coach, spokesman, leader and proponent of distance running; at a time when there weren’t too many runners in th...
Fdip216: Running Through a New England Town
04 Dec 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Running a race with a friend is always a good thing because the friendly rivalry will tend to push you past your own comfortable limits. When I first ...
Fdip215: Inspiring Off the Couch
27 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
When you inspire someone to take to the road, to join us as runners: you are filling them with the same passion that you have for this sport, you are ...
Fdip214: Email to my Droid
20 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve said before that a podcast is better than a radio show because it embraces communication through social media; in fact: better than that…it I...
Fdip213: Sports Medical Quackery
13 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Human beings have always feared the unknown and unknowable. Desperate for cures to our everyday ailments and those conditions and illnesses which caus...
Fdip212: Four Hour Marathon Part 1: Why?
06 Nov 2009
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first part in a series I’ll produce over the next year, regarding my efforts to run a sub four hour marathon. For me, the goal of runnin...
Fdip211: Gifts, Gadgets and Gizmos for Runners
30 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
I present for you another one of my annual gadgets and gizmos review shows for some ideas on running gear and Apparatus that you might give your fello...
Fdip210: The 4th Annual World Wide Festival of Races
23 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
I live in a world Where everyone runs With this one thing in common We love to run together Although we live apart On a tiny blue bubble in space Wher...
Fdip209: The 2009 Valley Harvest Half Marathon
16 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In the course of a long weekend, my friend Joe and I would explore the coastline and harbors of the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. We’d check out ...
Intervals208B: Twenty Questions
13 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of Phedippidations Intervals, Joe Steindl interviews podcast host and Run Net Community member: Steve Runner, asking him 20 of...
Fdip208: Cheers from the Third Planet
09 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Nothing lasts forever in this physical universe of ours. We can talk about the eternal world to come, the kingdom of Heaven, Nirvana, Tian, the Celest...
Fdip207: Chi-Running
02 Oct 2009
Contributed by Lukas
ChiRunning is a new technique that incorporates traditional Lydiard style training with moving more efficiently, more in tune to the way our bodies we...
Fdip206: TO: Steve Runner FROM: You
25 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
I read every one of your emails, although I’m sorry to admit that I can’t always respond. I want to, I really do…were this production my full ti...
Fdip205: A Radical Plan for Health Care
18 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Health Care is a system of rules and services, offered to help individuals become and remain healthy. Here in the United States, the term Health Care ...
Fdip204: Team Sweat
11 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
"There is a discrimination in this world and slavery and slaughter and starvation. Governments repress their people; and millions are trapped in pover...
Fdip203: The Pose Running Method
04 Sep 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The Pose Method of running incorporates some interesting concepts that may be worth your consideration. It’s a biomechanical model that has you land...
Fdip202: Running Legend Paavo Nurmi
28 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Some called him Suuri Vaikenija "A Great Silent One" but to the world he was known as “The Flying Finn”. During the 1920s, he was the best middle ...
Fdip201: The Dysevolutional Runner
21 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
We need to recognize the fact that, through cultural changes, we have evolved. It is through modern humanities incompatibility with our natural enviro...
Fdip200: A Goofy Little PodCast
14 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In a way, the reason I produce Phedippidations is so I can make the world just a tiny bit better than it was before I started to produce this podcast....
Fdip199: Producing Phedippidations
07 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A podcast should be an expression of yourself, with a deep and open honesty that reveals all of the good things in your heart, as well as your weaknes...
Fdip198: Walking – by Henry David Thoreau
01 Aug 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I’m going to read you an abridged version of another book by Thoreau, this one titled Walking, which Thoreau written in 1861. This was an ess...
Fdip197: The Second Question and Answer Show
24 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation is an informal talk with someone about opinions, ideas, feelings or everyday matters. A good conversation is an interaction between two...
Fdip196: Acclimatization and Performance
17 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
When summer rears its oppressive head of high humidity and heat, fellow runners must take to the road with the solar conditions in mind and heed the w...
Fdip195: The Bunion Derby
10 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
The Bunion Derby was an event like no other, and there will never be another like it. While there have been many cross continental races since 1928, n...
Fdip194: Athletic Arthritic?
03 Jul 2009
Contributed by Lukas
There’s this rumor going around that distance runners are more prone to developing arthritis, a medical condition from by the Greek word “arthro”...
Fdip193: Running with Ear Candy
27 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
From a small island in the middle of southern Maine’s Sebago Lake, I present for you my annual review of some of my favorite songs from the past yea...
Fdip192: Theseus’s Paradox and Other Thoughts
19 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
Beware the contents of this episode, ye who come here to listen to the runner boy run! In this episode, I go out for a run and just let my mind flow, ...
Fdip191: Me Heart Takes a Beating
12 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is a review of a study published last month in the American Journal of Cardiology titled “Relation of Biomarkers and Cardiac Magnetic R...
Fdip190: A Longer Life with Purpose
05 Jun 2009
Contributed by Lukas
As simple and exhausting as it sounds: running can be your purpose in life; and if you’re already a runner as I suspect you are: then running can be...
Fdip189: The Other Newton’s Laws
29 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
They called him Arthur “Greatheart” Newton. He had been a runner in his twenties, but gave it up after a time, taking to the road again 12 years l...
Fdip188: John Michaels Puppy
22 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
This is one of those strange podcast episodes that merges a little of my personal life (you’ll hear us picking up our new Dog Indiana and bringing h...
Fdip187: The Running Evolution
15 May 2009
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I present for you the major findings of Professor Daniel Lieberman of the Biological Anthropology department at Harvard University and...