RtNP#17 The Dream Inspires

This is my documentary on the Worldwide Festival of Races run that I did on oct 11 2009. I took part in the Dream Inspires event, held in Oxford Uk, where I ran the 10k distance.

Sorry that it took so long to put the episode together and I also apologise for the audioquality which is a bit poor in some parts. This is the first time that I have done a recording/editing project of this proportion and it has been a challenge but also interresting and I did learn a couple of new tricks to try to get it as audible as possible.

Running together and meeting the people were great and it's a memory that I will keep in my heart forever.
I hope you can sense the athmosphere of joy and friendship as you listen.

In this episode ..
..you can hear me talk about my trip to Oxford as I run by myself around my home but you can also hear parts of the recording I did while running together with friends along the Thames and in the city of Oxford

Links..
..to things mentioned:

• The video of the Dream Inspires event

 The Music ..
.. is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network, at music.podshow.com
In this episode you can hear:

• Future Daze - After The Rain
• Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way (intro, outro)

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Back home

I returned home safely earlier this evening after a fantastic holiday in Oxford, UK.

Thanks to everyone that made it a special and memorable event.

Thanks also for sharing your photos, my photos from the race didn't turn out too good, I'm afraid. Probably because my glasses were all wet and fogged up because of the rain, so I didn't really see what I took pictures of. I more or less just pointed the camera in one direction and pushed the button, not the best way of doing it.

I had the recorder going for the whole race and I listened through the audio last night in my guesthouse and once again on the bus this morning. That left me with two main thoughts:

• 1. I had such a great time running with you all. It was really fun. and
• 2. How...! am I going to edit this into something that will be interresting to listen to.

I ended up with 2½ hours of audio and the quality is both good and not so good. Soundlevels are all over the scale, some of the conversations are a bit hard to follow and there is also a lot of noise. - Useless? - I hope not. I have a few ideas.

All of it has great value for me to listen to, because I was there and this is what I experienced but for a regular podcast listener it is probably not so interresting.
Anyway I'm determined to give it a try, we'll see if I can succeed. It would be fun to be able to share our run from my perspective with you all.

Hopefully the next edition of the Running the Narrow Path podcast will contain audio from the Dream Inspires Run.

RtNP#16 Busy Times

Sometimes there are just not enough hours in a day, or maybe it's the way we plan our days that is wrong. Anyway I managed to record on a run and this is what came out of that. Hope you'll enjoy it.

In this episode ..

..you can hear me whine about a hectic week as I go running in the forest for what might be the last time for the season.

The Music ..

.. is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network, at http://www.music.podshow.com/
In this episode you can hear:

• Ty Hall and the EZ3 - Pirates Gold
• Charlie Crowe - 007 (bkgr)
• Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way (intro, outro)

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Interresting run in the forrest.

I had a great time in the forrest today. The weather was beautiful, a bit windy but that didn't bother me. I started out on my favourite loop, the one that I call the Oaktree - Yellow house loop. As it turned out I ended up running only parts of the planned tracks but that only made my run more interresting.

Usually I'm all alone in the forest but today I met a lady on the path in the middle of the forrest. I said: "Hi" and she replyed: "I'm lost. Can you help me?" She was out looking for mushrooms and got lost. I gave her directions for how to find her way back to roads that were familiar to her. From what I understood she was far away from where she thought but knew the location I pointed out to her and should find her way back to her car from there. I asked her if she had found any mushrooms and she had found some but for the last hour or so, when she found herself lost in the woods she had lost interrest in the mushrooms and stopped looking for them.
I hope she made it to her car allright. I'm sure she did. From the point where we met and out to the road it was less than two kms and a path or small road to follow all the way. Fairly easy if you don't panic or something.

After a while I came to a place where there is another path going in to the forrest, a path that I always thought looked so nice and often wondered where it leads to. Today I decided to find out.
It turned out to be a wonderful detour to my usual loop. I took me back to the track after a while. Going this "new" path is about the same distance, I think, but keeps me off roads and on nice soft paths instead so this might be my new regular Oaktree - Yellow house track.

On one of the new paths I met a runner (I don't think I've ever met one in the forrest before) He was followed by a girl (his daughter?) riding a horse. So I stopped for a little bit not to scare the horse. It was a nice break to the usual lonliness. And also fun to realise that other runners/riders also like the nice paths around here.

At one point I had to turn back because the path I was following kind of faded out into nothing. I went back and made another turn and found myself back on the road i usually run.

I didn't manage to run the full loop today because I found that I had been out a bit too long and we were expecting guests so I made a shortcut and ran the main road back home. My run today turned out to be 8.5km and even if I had hoped to go a bit longer I was really happy with what I accomplished.

I had such a great time today, exploring new paths and I found it quite interresting to meet theese people. It seems that I'm not the only one to keep the paths open.

RtNP#15 A New Thing

I think most of us are using different equipment to help us with our training. And even for a short run around the block it might take a while to get ready because we have to strap on, not only our shoes and running clothes but also several technical devices. If the "things" are helping us getting motivated, it's a good thing.

From now on I will be strapping on a new thing for every run I do and I sure hope it will make my training better.


In this episode ..

..you can hear me try out a new gadget which I hope will be useful in my training. I'm also talking a little about what the Worldwide Festival of Races means to me.


Links ..

.. to things mentioned.

• The Buckeye Outdoors
• The Worldwide Festival of Races
• The Dream Inspires event

The Music ..
.. is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network, at http://www.music.podshow.com/
In this episode you can hear:

• Soulfège - To Be Free (xrpts)
• The Coffee Tribe - Gonna Get Back
• Charlie Crow - 007 (bkgr)
• Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way (intro, outro)

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Listen to this episode here.  (right click [save-as..] for download).

RtNP#14 Updates

I suspect that I have a number of listeners that might not be interrested in running but listens to this podcast every once in a while to keep up with me and my family and what we are doing. So in this episode there are a few updates about us, besides the running related things that I also talk about.

In this episode ..

..you can hear me running a bit too fast to be able to speak properly. Or maybe I'm not in such good shape after all. You can also hear my daughter play a tune on the cello.

Links ..

.. to things mentioned.

• Buckeye Outdoors Training Site
• Worldwide Festival of Races
• WWFOR Run in Oxford
• The Extra Mile Podcast

The Music ..

.. is from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network, at http://www.music.podshow.com/
In this episode you can hear:

• High Child - I Tell All My Secrets To My Guitar
• Charlie Crow - 007 (bkgr)
• Doug Astrop - Hannover Street (bkgr)
• Matthew Ebel - Lost My Way (intro, outro)

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Injured :(

Apparently I hadn't trained enough to do a half marathon. I did complete the race but at the last part of the race my knees started to hurt. It seems that I injured my left knee during the race and I have had problems running since then. My right knee is ok again and hopfully the left one will heal soon. On todays run I managed to run for about 4 - 4½ kms before I felt the pain. I guess that's good because earlier the pain started much earlier.

Any ideas how to heal faster, anyone? I've tried most things, such as massage, ice and heat, liniment, stretching, rest and prayers. What else is there? I guess healing takes time and patience, but it is not fun at all. I have been running three times a week almost every week since December, struggling through snow and cold without a single problem. And now, when the weather is warm and nice and I really would enjoy running - I cannot.

I guess I should make myself a recoveryplan. What if I do my old leg strengthening program and stretches daily. - That have helped before. I should probably shorten my runs too, to a distance that I can run without pain, That would be 3½ - 4 kms based on my experience today. OK that's what I'm going to do, and now that I've written it down here, I can't cheat, can I. I guess I could log it all on Buckeye Outdoors too, that might make me even more disciplined. Yes my decision is made - recovery plan starts tomorrow, and I'll be back running as usual in notime. (I hope)