Joan Benoit Samuelson won the Boston Marathon twice and was the first Olympic Gold Medalist in the Woman’s Marathon. She is an inspiration not only to women runners, to but all runners who suffer from overuse injuries with hopes of recovery. She continues to be an amazing athlete, a passionate proponent of children’s charities, and a true legend in every sense of the word.

A detailed description of the Boston Marathon course for the 111th running of this world famous event.

This episode is all about the knees...runners knee is the most common runners injury. In Fdip#89 we talk about how it happens and what to do about it.

Lactate Thresholds and what they mean.

Should our children run road races and marathons? Is it safe? Is it even a good idea to let our kids join us on the road?

Non-runners need a goal to slowly move them off the couch onto the road to the point where they can carry their bodies a mere 196,850 inches from a starting line to a finish line. This is the C25k running plan.

Steve Prefontaine was a runner, and an artist in motion: all beauty, and passion, fire and guts encased within a body that sought perfection. www.bumrushthecharts.com www.newenglandpodcasting.com Fdip Blog of the week: beenthererunthat.blogspot.com The song “Pre‿ by Phil Wells: http://www.garageband.com/artist/PhilWells

You have to have respect and be considerate when you’re in a relationship with a significant other….but most of all, you have to be sympathetic to their needs, and mindful of the way they’ll feel when you’re out on the road.

Thanks to new media and portable technology and the technological advances made in the last decade, you can take to the roads and listen to whatever YOU want to listen to, and if you learn something new along the way, you can tell your friends that you heard it on a podcast.

Runners have a gift. To enhance our performance with anabolic steroids and muscle-building drugs is to deny that gift. If you pollute your body with steroids you are cheating, and become a fraud. Steroid abusers can never enjoy the pride of personal, natural achievement in athletics.