It's Breakaway Friday on Endurance Planet brought to
you by the Waddell and Reed Kansas City Marathon.
www.kcmarathon.org. What's more difficult than biking across the United States? Biking across the United States with your 7 and 5-year-old sons in tow. Today on Endurance Planet we hear an audio excerpt from Joe Kurmaskie's "Momentum is Your Friend: The Metal Cowboy and His Pint-Sized Posse Take On America."
Ever wonder how an athletic body works? How healthy "insides" look compared to those of someone who is sedentary or who smokes? Well, why not take a peak? That's what the Bodies Revealed exhibit allows you to do. Filled with body parts of formerly healthy and not-so-healthy individuals, the controversial exhibit is now in Kansas City. Endurance Planet talks with the folks at Bodies Revealed about the eye-opening experience.
The Todd Crandell of 1993 and the Todd Crandell of
2008 couldn't be more different people. One was
self-destructing while the other is realizing his
potential. Today we hear from a man who completely
turned his life around thanks, in part, to a clean
multi-sport lifestyle. Crandell is the founder of www.racingforrecovery.com.
It's Breakaway Friday on Endurance Planet brought to
you by the Waddell and Reed Kansas City Marathon.
www.kcmarathon.org. This week's audio excerpt is
entitled "Sir John", a story about a Pakistani orphan
who finds a father in his running coach. It's taken
from the compilation, "How Running Changed My Life."
Remember your first triathlon? The nervousness, the
fatigue, and ultimately the elation? It's a storm of
emotions. Today on Endurance Planet we hear one
person's account of her first triathlon and all it
entailed.
Every week Endurance Planet listeners get a chance to
pose questions to multi-sport's leading coach, Coach
Troy Jacobson. This week on You Asked the Coach, we
hear about the science behind taking ice baths and we
take a peak behind the scenes where the Spinervals
DVDs' are made. As always, submit YOUR questions below in the comments section of today's podcast or e-mail us at info@enduranceplanet.com.
He splits his time between California’s Sierra Nevada
and the Italian Dolomites. He and his wife run,
climb, and cycle. And they do it all while working.
Today on Endurance Planet we hear from photographer
Dan Patitucci about, what he calls, "passionate
living." www.patitucciphoto.com.
Endurance sports and poetry? Really? That's what we
said when we saw the cover of "The Art of Bicycling"
from Breakaway Books. But, lo and behold, it is a
beautiful, inspiring, compilation. And it's the
source of today's Breakaway Friday audio excerpt on
Endurance Planet. Enjoy. Brought to you this week by the Waddell and Reed Kansas City
Marathon at www.kcmarathon.org.
A group of people line up and begin walking. They
walk and they walk. They don't sleep. And one by one
they give up. Eventually only one person remains.
That's the premise of a book called "The Long Walk" by
Stephen King. It's also the concept behind a race set
to be held in Boulder. Today on Endurance Planet we
hear from the man behind The Extra Mile Endurathon.
www.extramileendurathon.com.
It's a You Asked the Coach edition on Endurance Planet. It's not just athletes that have questions for multi-sport guru Coach Troy Jacobson...fellow coaches submit questions too. Today Coach Troy addresses such a question and he provides an answer to a high-mileage runner looking for an added boost. As always, submit YOUR questions below in the comments section of today's podcast or e-mail us at info@enduranceplanet.com.
It's a brand new Breakaway Friday that will give you a
peak at what it's like to take off on your bike
through some of the most interesting places in the
world. "Spokesongs" is the work of Willie Weir.
Today on Endurance Planet we hear an audio excerpt
from the chapter "India." Brought to
you this week by the Waddell and Reed Kansas City
Marathon at www.kcmarathon.org.
Today on Endurance Planet we unveil a project that's
been in the works for awhile now. An audio magazine
for ultrarunners! Endurance Planet has partnered with
ZombieRunner to offer Tales From the Trail, a monthly
compilation of true ultrarunning stories. Unlike the
bite sized podcasts EP offers each day, these
professionally produced stories will be approximately
an hour in length and available each month for $3.95
on www.zombierunner.com. Meantime, EP's daily
podcasts remain free. And, oh yeah, this inaugural
edition of Tales From the Trail is free as well.
Enjoy!
Today on Endurance Planet, we get down in the dirt
with a Dirty Avocado www.dirtyavocados.com to learn about the sport of
adventure racing and how you can get involved.
It's Breakaway Friday on Endurance Planet, brought to
you this week by the Waddell and Reed Kansas City
Marathon at www.kcmarathon.org. In this audio excerpt
from Breakaway Books we hear from John Jerome's The
Elements of Effort in which he helps us get through
and think about the benefits of winter.
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