Going Back

My podcast Phedippidations has come a long way since I started in July of 2005; and in recent years it has strayed away from the topic of running.  There’s a reason for that.  Episode 323 “Getting Back to Where You Once Belonged” is the first episode in a story that will document my return to the road.  In this episode of Intervals, I’d like to tell you about some great changes that you’ll be hearing on Phedippidations.

Is it worth it?

In his book “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” Christopher Hitchens argues that religion is responsible for most of the terrible atrocities in human history.  What happened in Paris last week is just the latest example of the disgusting horror that religion has infected the world with.  We have reached a point in our civilization where we have to ask ourselves “Is religion worth the evil that is brings to the world?”

What Hitches would have said about Charlie Hebdo:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/08/christopher-hitchens-the-case-for-mocking-religion/

Buh Bye 2014…Bring on the New Year!

Well, our 2014th orbit around the sun since some arbitrary point in time 4.54 Billion years after the bubble started spinning is completed and we’re ready to do it all over again. Next year will be better, I promise.

Le Mauvais Pied

This is the transcript for a bit I wrote for episode 89 of Phedippidations back on March 25^th, 2007 titled "A Pain in the Knee".

Happy Holiday's to all of my fellow runners.  Run long and taper!

- Steve

SFX: French Restaurant

Waiter: Ah, monsieur, welcome to Le Mauvais Pied …are you ready to order?

Steve:  Uhhh…yeah, I think so…what are your specials today?

Waiter:  Today we offer a tres bonne stress fractured tibia, lightly seasoned and presented with a band of illiotibial syndrome garnish…

Steve: Nahhh….that’ll take too long to heal, do you anything less complex?

Waiter: We have a simple yet elegant plantar facitis, developed just this morning after a tres diffiicle run in the slush.

Steve: Nahh, I’m looking for something a little bit higher up the leg.

Waiter: Might I recommend something in the hip area, perhaps un inflammation al la bursa, perhaps un tro-chan-teric bursitis or a deep hip flexor snap…very deep and very snappy.

Steve: nahhh

Waiter: Perhaps a case of exercise induced compartment syndrome?

Steve: nahhhh…

Waiter: ankle sprain?

Steve: no

Waiter: Achilles tendonitis?

Steve: no

Waiter: shin splints?

Steve: no

Waiter: Metatarsal Stress Syndrome?

Steve: uh huh

Waiter: Quadriceps strain?

Steve: No

Waiter: Inflammation of the adductor muscles?

Steve: Nah

Waiter: perhaps a light to moderate rap on the head?

Steve: don’t you have something kind of mid range, above the tibia but below the groin?

Waiter:  (slight pause) well…(hesitant) we do have the chef’s specialty, but I don’t think you’d want to try it.

Steve: What is it called?

Waiter: well…I don’t really think you want to try it….perhaps I could interest you in some blackend toenails, or a nasty case of athlete’s foot?

Steve: What is the chefs special?

Waiter: (sigh) It’s called Chrondromalatia, Patella.

Steve:  mmmm…it sounds great, 

Waiter: Might I recommend some Iliopsoas Tendonitis, it’s very painful and fresh?

Steve: No, I think I’ll take the Chrondromalatia Patella please.

Waiter: Are you sure you wouldn’t like to try our Pi-riformis Syndrome, it’s a pain in the butt to prepare, but it has a certain kick to it

Steve: Nahh…just bring me the Chrondromalatia Patella please.

Waiter: (sigh) yes monsieur, of course…would monsieur pull back his chair please?

Steve: there ya go.

Waiter: merci….hold out your knee please….

Steve: how’s that

Waiter: bon, bon….and now, le Chronromalatia Patella…

SFX of hitting, or kicking knee….Steve yells…

Waiter: bonne appetite.