The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-354 – Thor Kirleis – UltraRunner Vs Lyme Disease  (Audio: link) [audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4354.mp3] Link epi4354.mp3 MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - http://www.marathonbq.com/qualify-for-the-boston-marathon-in-14-weeks/ Hello my friends and welcome to episode 4-354 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  How’s everyone doing?  We got our first snow on the ground up here in New England this week.  It’s been a mild winter so far.  In today’s show we have a good long chat with my old buddy Thor about his experience with Lyme Disease.  This is part of my series on athletes who have been challenged and have had to reconsider the role of running in their lives.  In section one I’m going to drop a piece on selecting a HR monitoring device (based on a listener question) and in Section two I’m going to share some timeless wisdom by Peter Drucker.  This past Sunday I raced the Mill Cities Relay.  They gave me the ‘long leg’ of 9.5 miles and I was on a solid male senior team with 4 other guys from my club. I’ll talk more about that race in the outro, but I’m running well and everything is cool with my training.  I’m looking forward to the spring season.  … When you join me for my call with Thor today I want you to listen to his attitude.  He’s super positive about life even when this insidious disease is tearing at him.  His positive attitude is infectious, (horrible word-play unintended).  When I ask him how he coped he just stayed positive.  That’s the lesson here.  The things that impact your life have no meaning other than that which you give them.  You can either ‘feed the good dog or feed the mean dog’ as the old story goes.  So stay positive.  Be that infectious force for those around you.  You deserve it and they deserve it too. On with the show! The RunRunLive podcast is Ad Free and listener supported.  We do this by offering a membership option where members get Access to Exclusive Members Only audio and articles. Yes, we are still working on setting up the separate podcast feed for the member’s content.  Most recently I recorded and uploaded the first chapter of the zombie novel I’ve been writing for 30 years.  Member only race reports, essays and other bits just for you! Exclusive Access to Individual Audio Segments from all Shows Intro’s, Outro’s, Section One running tips, Section Two life hacks and Featured Interviews – all available as stand-alone MP3’s you can download and listen to at any time. Links are in the show notes and at RunRunLive.com Become a member … Section one – Heart Rate Training Devices - http://runrunlive.com/heart-rate-training-devices Voices of reason – the conversation Thor Kirleis – UltraRunner Vs Lyme Disease From Thor on 12/7/2016 – “This morning's run, a 3.2 mile plod of really slow loop, marked 13 years of covering at least a mile on foot each and every day. I used to say that it is my Streak Running anniversary, and it used to be through 12 years, but illness robbed me the ability to run for long stretches of days between then and now, though it never dragged me so low that I could not complete a mile even if walking (though I did come close two or three or four times to not making even a mile). So while I am now back to running, still with some challenges related to illness, I'm still motivated to celebrate my health (ironic, huh?) with a mile a day (I say even more fitting). This will be the last time that I explain how my streak isn't any longer official, because to me it was never meant to be "official", as in qualifying for this list or that list or anything other than me celebrating each and every day my health and ability to prance and play, and now sometimes walk... for 13 years!” Section two 5 Prctices of effective executives - http://runrunlive.com/the-5-practices-of-effective-executives Outro All-Righty-Then, you and I have battled off a host of nasty internal pathogens to the end of episode