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Episode 4-445 – The Hong Kong Running Scene with Mark Agnew RunRunLive 5.0 - Running Podcast
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The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-445 – The Hong Kong Running Scene with Mark Agnew (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4445.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Intro: Hello and welcome to episode 4-445 of the RunRunLive podcast. How are we doing? By the time this podcast tickles your inner ears it will be the shortest day of the year up here in New England. It might even be that “After the holidays” scenario when someone bought you a new audio device or phone and you have downloaded some podcasts and you’re listening in to see what you like and sure enough you find this weird old dude who runs a lot and has a dog and rambles on and on and on about things that no one really cares about and then says something like, “Hey that was a 71 word sentence!” Vladimir Nabokov would be proud! Yup you new listeners can bail out now because it doesn’t’ get any better. This week we talk to Mark Agnew who is the extreme sports reporter in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post. No kidding a real, honest to goodness ex-patriot living in Hong Kong and covering the ultra-running scene. Super interesting. In section one we talk about running in the snow, because, yeah, I’ve been running in the snow. Write about what you know is what someone said, so there you have it. In section two I’m going to talk about the importance of a positive aspect. Now Aspect is not a good old English word. It is from Latin. You might recognize that Latin root ‘Spec’. As in Spectacles. So Aspect means “to look” or in the case I’m using it “appearance”. Anyhow… It’s been an uneventful couple of weeks since we last spoke. I had a good higher volume week and got 5 runs in. I did them all on the trails with Ollie so it only added up to 30 something miles but if I had been running those on the roads it would have been over 40 miles for the week. We got a nice big dump of dry snow this week. Somewhere around a foot and a half. It’s hard to tell because the storm had 30+ MPH winds so the snow wasn’t evenly distributed. I haven’t been out running in this new snow yet, but I have gone for a couple hikes with Ollie and it is hard going! It got cold and stayed cold. Woke up to 3 degrees Fahrenheit this morning. It’s amazing how fast you adapt to the cold weather. It’s so dry and so bright with the snow down. It’s also acoustically amazing. You can hear sounds traveling for miles in the dry air. The coyotes were out last night singing in the woods. Clear as a bell. Ollie was freaking out. He wanted to get out of the house and have a go at them. Or join them maybe. He is a bit of a free spirit. That son of a gun has taken to ambushing me on the trails again. It’s a border collie thing. Buddy, my old dog did it too. But Ollie is a bit aggressive. He’ll pounce on me and give me a nip if I’m not paying attention. He’s not trying to hurt me but his big old velociraptor jaws are leaving me with vampire bites on my thighs. I’ve taken to carrying a small stick with me so I can swat him when he moves in for an ambush. What the southerners would call a switch. Maybe I’m bringing back some bad memories of someone having a switch taken to them. “Switch” is an old German word. Means long thin stick. Maybe I should have used the word ‘crop’ like a riding crop. “Crop” is another old German word. I think we’re seeing a pattern. Lots of swatting going on with those old Germans. But anyhow I can give him a little swat and it keeps him from biting me. I read an article about a woman who died from a dog bite. She got the flesh eating bacteria!. Yikes. But what I’m really worried about is turning into a were-collie. (by the way ‘were’ is Algo Saxon for ‘man’ – so were-wolf is literally ‘man-wolf’) If I were to turn into a were-collie,
The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-445 – The Hong Kong Running Scene with Mark Agnew (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4445.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Intro: Hello and welcome to episode 4-445 of the RunRunLive podcast. How are we doing? By the time this podcast tickles your inner ears it will be the shortest day of the year up here in New England. It might even be that “After the holidays” scenario when someone bought you a new audio device or phone and you have downloaded some podcasts and you’re listening in to see what you like and sure enough you find this weird old dude who runs a lot and has a dog and rambles on and on and on about things that no one really cares about and then says something like, “Hey that was a 71 word sentence!” Vladimir Nabokov would be proud! Yup you new listeners can bail out now because it doesn’t’ get any better. This week we talk to Mark Agnew who is the extreme sports reporter in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post. No kidding a real, honest to goodness ex-patriot living in Hong Kong and covering the ultra-running scene. Super interesting. In section one we talk about running in the snow, because, yeah, I’ve been running in the snow. Write about what you know is what someone said, so there you have it. In section two I’m going to talk about the importance of a positive aspect. Now Aspect is not a good old English word. It is from Latin. You might recognize that Latin root ‘Spec’. As in Spectacles. So Aspect means “to look” or in the case I’m using it “appearance”. Anyhow… It’s been an uneventful couple of weeks since we last spoke. I had a good higher volume week and got 5 runs in. I did them all on the trails with Ollie so it only added up to 30 something miles but if I had been running those on the roads it would have been over 40 miles for the week. We got a nice big dump of dry snow this week. Somewhere around a foot and a half. It’s hard to tell because the storm had 30+ MPH winds so the snow wasn’t evenly distributed. I haven’t been out running in this new snow yet, but I have gone for a couple hikes with Ollie and it is hard going! It got cold and stayed cold. Woke up to 3 degrees Fahrenheit this morning. It’s amazing how fast you adapt to the cold weather. It’s so dry and so bright with the snow down. It’s also acoustically amazing. You can hear sounds traveling for miles in the dry air. The coyotes were out last night singing in the woods. Clear as a bell. Ollie was freaking out. He wanted to get out of the house and have a go at them. Or join them maybe. He is a bit of a free spirit. That son of a gun has taken to ambushing me on the trails again. It’s a border collie thing. Buddy, my old dog did it too. But Ollie is a bit aggressive. He’ll pounce on me and give me a nip if I’m not paying attention. He’s not trying to hurt me but his big old velociraptor jaws are leaving me with vampire bites on my thighs. I’ve taken to carrying a small stick with me so I can swat him when he moves in for an ambush. What the southerners would call a switch. Maybe I’m bringing back some bad memories of someone having a switch taken to them. “Switch” is an old German word. Means long thin stick. Maybe I should have used the word ‘crop’ like a riding crop. “Crop” is another old German word. I think we’re seeing a pattern. Lots of swatting going on with those old Germans. But anyhow I can give him a little swat and it keeps him from biting me. I read an article about a woman who died from a dog bite. She got the flesh eating bacteria!. Yikes. But what I’m really worried about is turning into a were-collie. (by the way ‘were’ is Algo Saxon for ‘man’ – so were-wolf is literally ‘man-wolf’) If I were to turn into a were-collie,
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