Monday
Mar032008
Long Green Miles Podcast
Monday, March 3, 2008 at 9:16PM Join me on this show as I run 10 miles to and from a 13.1 mile half marathon, totaling 33 miles. I recorded some audio jewels, such as running in the moonlight, calling Emily from the road, hitting 26.2 miles, and slowly melting down in the mid-day heat. If you're an ultra running fan, you will definitely dig this.
Don't forget, I registered for this race over the Internet, picked up the packet by bike, then ran 10 miles each way to do it. How green can you make your next race?
- Starting in the moonlight.
- Julien from In Over Your Head.
- Josue Stephens.
- Running in Kingwood, TX. rules.
- Equipment for running long and in the dark.
- Do I have Macca-Face?
- The difference between runners and triathletes. Odor?
- How I decided to run 33 miles today.
- Running 100 miles from College Station to Austin?
- How to mix in butterfly and "pencil drills" in your swimming.
- Emily is a mess.
- I call Emily from the road.
- I start the half marathon.
- I call Emily from the road again.
- I have an incident with a shopkeeper.
- How I raced a guy at the half.
- Red Bull starts making me crazy.
- Check out Garagepunk.com.
- "The Queen of the Cavemen" by Micra Girls from Finland.
- Get your McSalad on!
- You can get fruit and milk instead of chips and a coke at Subway.
- Swim, bike, and run your age on BfitBday!
- Patagonia really knows how to make clothes.
- Team Slipstream rules.
- Best quote by Coach Adam ever.
- A new way to be green - eat less!
- Is bottled water the new smoking?
- I need a drawing of a Buddha M-Dot.
- Which is worse, anthrax or burgers?
- April 12 is Shower with your Helmet Day.
- Check out Yield2Life.com
- Is Dean Karnazes the Jesus of Running?
- I gots tha plantar fasciitis.
- Will there be another Zentri style podcast from Pittsburg?
- I make it home, Emily says I look like a stud. (With my awesome sunburn)
- Voicemails!
Reader Comments (14)
This may have to be renamed "Zen and the Art of Ultrarunning." Speaking of, I am interested in starting an ultrarunning podcast...
You would probably be the first ultrarunner/podcaster that is very fast. You'd get lots of subscribers trying to learn how you run like you do. It would also be a great promotional vehicle for yourself and the events you want to create. Let me know how I can help!
Speaking of "green note", what are doing charging chips on an Amex? Come on man, at least use a debit so you're not feeding the debt machine. :-) Just giving you a hard time ~ love the show. Remember though, cash is green.
Sir
I am a Texan living and working in the UK and am expanding my conditioning from running to swim bike run. I love your show but am getting a little sick of your high horse. Bottled water takes less energy (and water) to produce than red bull. Please don't look down your nose at every Texan you see. It makes you look snobby and petty. Please don't take this message too personally. I love the show and am actually just pissed off that my long run is 9 miles. Your's is 33. Damn you.
That depends. Where was the red bull canned? If it was locally, than that takes less energy than water imported from Fiji.
I'll be recording a show soon from the Farm in East Texas. We'll be driving my extended cab F-150 there, eating junk food, hanging out with the cows and donkey, shooting guns, and simply "getting our Tex-ass on." All efforts at saving the earth will be negated and you should feel better.
High horse? I believe you are just jealous because you miss our horses here. They are far more down to earth than the snooty horses in Blighty.
I love Texans. The people I don't like - you can find them everywhere. I've found them from here to Cali to NYC to Mexico to Canada.
Hurry back to Tex-ass. The UK is damaging your brain. We'll have a nice mess of enchiladas waiting for you when you show up!
There is nothing wrong with my brain Brettita. Look at the back of a red bull or any drink for that matter. Now separate all those ingredients and think about the resources needed to create them, ship them, combine them and then reship them to your mouth. I see your point on bottled water from Fiji. All of my water comes from ice chipped from the polar ice cap. Enjoy the enchiladas and I mean that. The food here sucks. There is no Mexican food here. It makes me cry. I see your getting a lot of stupid green comments like mine so I won't make them anymore.
Congratulations on your 33 mile run! I took in several podcast on my 22 mile run on Sunday. You were my virtual training partner for the last half or so. (even though your were 10 miles ahead of me.)
I really enjoyed your show. It wasn't just the idea of running 33 miles, but to continuously record the show, and being somewhat coherent.
The analogy of being a runner or a triathlete was great. Did you actually make that s#%t up??? Or have you been watching too much CSI?
Regarding you "high horse" I don't think you are much different then other triathletes (or cyclist) for that matter. It take a certain kind of attitude or mentality to compete. If this wasn't there you would never succeed!
your not so new listener... from Springfield, IL
Rock On!
Brett,
I am a new and dedicated listener! I don't know why it took so long, I have been a friend of Tyler Darby's who got me off my ass two years ago (I was 316 lbs on March 10, 2006) and now I weight about 240 (but muscular) and run marathons and ultras. I have run about 7 marathons, 4 50ks, a 50 miler, and a 100 miler (DNF'd at 68) This summer I plan two 100 milers on foot and one by mountain bike. My first tri is still in my future, and I know I am going to love it. I do swim as part of my workouts. My workouts are much like your podcasts, very off the hip and flowing, but always trying to challenge myself and grow.
I have found a new great friend for training with, and it is your podcast. I burst out laughing at the latest podcast, when Coach Adam advocated training hard enough to injure those around you.
Well, for now I just wanted you to know that I find your ramblings a perfect fit to my geographical ramblings and you will be with me through many miles. Thanks for what you do to make Zen as creative as it is for us, and stay motivated!
I guess that is it for now. Take it easy cheesy!
@Dan - Yeah, I made that up. Wait till you read the book I'm writing about hippies.
@Mike - You've done 68 miles running and never done a sprint tri? You gotta be kidding me. You'll crush it. Amazing story on the weight loss.
The high horse thing is interesting. I guess that'd be true if I'd ever won even my age group, averaged faster than a 12 minute mile in a marathon, or was even moderately handsome. If it's really just about being "green", caring about and being in touch with the environment is the absolute core of Zen. It's about harmony with your surroundings and paying attention to everything right here and now, not putting things off for others to deal with after you're gone.
As endurance athletes, people often look up to us and hold us to a higher standard. We can all do better as far as taking care of this place and kids and other adults often follow our example. Whether we do every little part of it right or sometimes wrong, the Zen way is to keep practicing at it.
When people see a typical yutz like myself putting forth the effort to save gas and have fun doing it, that sticks in their mind as something they can do as well. It's ridiculously easy to find plenty of hypocracy with what I was doing. My clothes are made from plastics, shoes made by chinese children, sunscreen tested on baby bunnies, running on land taken from Native Americans... Trying to find fault with somebody making an honest effort to minimize his impact on the environment is like saying the seashore is no good just because you happened to step on a sharp rock. There's a lot of sharp rocks. But overall, it ain't a bad place.
The Zen way is that there really is no right or wrong. Moral issues can't be decided by anybody except by the person committing it. What's a murder in one situation is saving mankind in another. The question is was your decision skillful or unskillful in that current situation? I am very happy with my decision to drink a Red Bull on the run because it was far outweighed by gas saved by running to and from the race. If I didn't drink it, I'd had somebody come pick me up, burning far more gas than it took to make the drink. Believe me, I thought about it before buying it.
You can apply the skillful vs. unskillful litmus test to everything you do all day and find yourself a changed person.
But, you can't do everything right. And that's OK. That's why it's called "practicing" Zen.
I try to not tell people what to do, just make observations instead. Some people come to Zen and the Art of Triathlon and get a little confused at first. They expect it to be like most other shows and mistake long ramblings about nothing in general to be commandments from a tri-geek egomaniac. If that's how you feel, let go. You don't have control over what I say, but you do have control over your reaction to it. If you don't believe me, you don't have to search to far back in the catalog to find me interviewing a horse on the side of a Texas highway about it's opinion on doping in the TDF. There really isn't much here of substance to get worked up about. Some people simply enjoy having a goofy friend in their iPod to go working out with. ;)
First time listener, first time poster.
Dude, your show "the long green miles" was great. I've found an awesome running buddy, especially when I do work on the treadmill.
thanks for the effort and tell Emily I hope her toe feels better ;0)
Your running-challenged friend,
Jim
Just catching up on a few months of back podcasts. (I rotate several). Glad you have discovered running. I started as a runner and when I got on a bike I was able to develop my bike skills fast due to my running background. Sadly, I fell in love with cycling so much, I am only now beginning to rebuild to over 1/2 marathon distances.
I feel your pain with Sunday church drivers. I started blogging a month ago and one of my first posts was a rant about the scariest incident I had on the road. A family running late for church tried to kill me. Sunday long runs and rides are the most 'entertaining'.
Thanks for the podcasting.
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