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Episode 4-443 – Chasing Summits with Gary Harrington RunRunLive 5.0 - Running Podcast
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The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-443 – Chasing Summits with Gary Harrington (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4443.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Intro: Hello and welcome to episode 4-443 of the RunRunLive podcast. I’m going to apologize in advance. I’ve been having a hard time staying positive these last couple weeks. I think some of it is seasonal – maybe you have these blue periods as well. And, of course some of it is the ongoing apocalypse and the level of uncertainty and weirdness in our worlds. So – if any of that bleeds through, I apologize in advance. But, here’s the good news, being who we are, life-long endurance athletes of one form or another we are going to take this as an opportunity. We are going to flip this on its head. We, you and I, are going to ask better questions. I don’t have all the answers, but we can as the questions and have the conversations with you and potentially together we can find some strategies to do better. And at the end of the day, I guess that’s all we can really ask, right? To do a little bit better. So in today’s show we are going to talk to a fellow runner, ultra-runner and a peak bagger extraordinaire Gary Harrington about his book “chasing summits”, which on the surface is about climbing a bunch of mountains, but under the covers is about how Gary went from a divorced, struggling, overweight sports journalist to a guy who created a lifestyle of physical freedom, physical and mental health. As is so many times the case in our journey here at RunRunLive, what we find is that the Running, the swimming, the hiking – they weren’t the point, they were they vehicle for the self discovery. In section one we’ll talk about how to address your sagging enthusiasm for running in the apocalypse. In section two we’ll talk about strategies for creating freedom in your life. The last couple weeks have been up and down for me. I’ve maintained my off-peak training schedule of getting out 3-4 times a week for a run with 2-3 core workouts. I haven’t been really good at keeping up my yoga. I’ve really lacked enthusiasm for the workouts. Nevertheless, I have gotten some fairly pleasant long runs in the woods with Ollie. There are a couple of compounding factors here. First is that my 9-5 job has been mentally stressful and typically is more like 8:00 to 6:00. By the time I role out of a day I’m exhausted and not feeling the workout. And my workout are consistently pushed to the after work hours. I could get out early but the sun doesn’t rise until after 6:00 so I’m in danger of missing those early calls. I know, I know, I am the last person who should be in this position. I literally wrote the book on how to train with a busy life. But, there it is. This is different. Somehow the current house-arrest version of work combined with nothing to train for, makes working out feel kinda onerous and pointless. Humans, right? Just when we need it most, our brain manufactures ways to make it hard. The time change and lack of sunlight has been harder this year than previously. I find that my eyes are really affected by staring at the computer all day and when I’m out in the woods I can’t see enough to manage the technical bits in the dark. This leads to having to run constantly on guard, which is stressful, constantly tweaking my feet and ankles on roots and rocks and consistently falling down. None of this creates the mental relaxation that I go to running and trail running for. I can go on the roads, but then I’m dealing with traffic and the dog and it’s not the best. So, when I got back from running last night I ordered one of those chest-based lighting systems. I’m hoping if I can light up the trails better it will take some of the stress out of it and open those low-light options up. My current headlamp a
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-443 – Chasing Summits with Gary Harrington (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4443.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Intro: Hello and welcome to episode 4-443 of the RunRunLive podcast. I’m going to apologize in advance. I’ve been having a hard time staying positive these last couple weeks. I think some of it is seasonal – maybe you have these blue periods as well. And, of course some of it is the ongoing apocalypse and the level of uncertainty and weirdness in our worlds. So – if any of that bleeds through, I apologize in advance. But, here’s the good news, being who we are, life-long endurance athletes of one form or another we are going to take this as an opportunity. We are going to flip this on its head. We, you and I, are going to ask better questions. I don’t have all the answers, but we can as the questions and have the conversations with you and potentially together we can find some strategies to do better. And at the end of the day, I guess that’s all we can really ask, right? To do a little bit better. So in today’s show we are going to talk to a fellow runner, ultra-runner and a peak bagger extraordinaire Gary Harrington about his book “chasing summits”, which on the surface is about climbing a bunch of mountains, but under the covers is about how Gary went from a divorced, struggling, overweight sports journalist to a guy who created a lifestyle of physical freedom, physical and mental health. As is so many times the case in our journey here at RunRunLive, what we find is that the Running, the swimming, the hiking – they weren’t the point, they were they vehicle for the self discovery. In section one we’ll talk about how to address your sagging enthusiasm for running in the apocalypse. In section two we’ll talk about strategies for creating freedom in your life. The last couple weeks have been up and down for me. I’ve maintained my off-peak training schedule of getting out 3-4 times a week for a run with 2-3 core workouts. I haven’t been really good at keeping up my yoga. I’ve really lacked enthusiasm for the workouts. Nevertheless, I have gotten some fairly pleasant long runs in the woods with Ollie. There are a couple of compounding factors here. First is that my 9-5 job has been mentally stressful and typically is more like 8:00 to 6:00. By the time I role out of a day I’m exhausted and not feeling the workout. And my workout are consistently pushed to the after work hours. I could get out early but the sun doesn’t rise until after 6:00 so I’m in danger of missing those early calls. I know, I know, I am the last person who should be in this position. I literally wrote the book on how to train with a busy life. But, there it is. This is different. Somehow the current house-arrest version of work combined with nothing to train for, makes working out feel kinda onerous and pointless. Humans, right? Just when we need it most, our brain manufactures ways to make it hard. The time change and lack of sunlight has been harder this year than previously. I find that my eyes are really affected by staring at the computer all day and when I’m out in the woods I can’t see enough to manage the technical bits in the dark. This leads to having to run constantly on guard, which is stressful, constantly tweaking my feet and ankles on roots and rocks and consistently falling down. None of this creates the mental relaxation that I go to running and trail running for. I can go on the roads, but then I’m dealing with traffic and the dog and it’s not the best. So, when I got back from running last night I ordered one of those chest-based lighting systems. I’m hoping if I can light up the trails better it will take some of the stress out of it and open those low-light options up. My current headlamp a
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