The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-317 – Tim Lee Qualifies for Boston
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Intro Bumper:
Well hello my friends. Welcome to episode 4-317 of the RunRunLive Podcast. I hope you’re doing well and enjoying your summer – or your winter – if you’re on the other side of this rock we live on. 
Today I’m going to change up the format a wee bit.  Because I can.  Because it’s my podcast and I can do whatever I want with it.  But it’s not about me.  It’s about you.  And I hope you can get something, some small glimmer of insight into your own soul from listening to me do things and talk to people and ask questions. 
That’s my purpose here.  That’s how I find fulfillment.  I use my, albeit miserably poetic, communication skills and my passion for endurance sports and my love of learning to give you the spark to do your own thing and have your own adventures.  I’m the poster child for proof that the everyman can work adventure and learning and struggle into his life. 
And if I can do it and so can you.
I don’t care if you give Audible.com your credit card.  I don’t care if you get your razors and ointments and unguents from Harry’s. I don’t care if you use stamps.com or legalzoom or mailchimp – although I think mailchimp has a better sense of humor than constant contact – I just want you to get up off your bum and do something, learn something, feel something.  Live.  Have an adventure.
So…anyhow…I’m going to lead right in today with my interview of Tim Lee who qualified for Boston just recently using the plan I laid out in my latest book ”MarathonBQ – How to qualify for Boston in 14 weeks (with a full time job and family)”. 
This is not intended to be self-promotional.  Don’t get me wrong - It tickled me to death that he was able to do this, but I thought you folks could gain some value from Tim telling you he didn’t think he could do it, but he did!  He took a leap of faith, went outside his comfort zone and surprised himself. 
People always act like there’s some sort of secret code to running faster.  There isn’t.  All you have to do is consistently run more volume and more quality.  That’s it.  There are lots of plans that embody this.  Actual most plans embody this.  My philosophy was to look at that concept and distill it down to the simplest, direct path from where I was to where I wanted to get to – which was a qualifying time. 
After Tim I’m going to give you my overly long race report from the Olympic triathlon I did after we last talked.  I might even sneak in some music.  Because I feel like it.  
Again, I don’t do race reports to be self-congratulatory.  I do race reports to understand that truest crucible of our sport where that daily mental and physical training meet the reality of race day.  It’s where we are laid bare.
I’m coming to you live from a hotel in Atlanta Georgia where I’ve been hired by the local shadow government to take care of a couple bad apples.
It’s hot and humid down here.  Coach is ramping me up and has me doing 1:30 worth of work every day.  It’s hard to squeeze in.  Even if I go out in the morning it takes 30 minutes to stop sweating after.  And your clothes never dry. You know I wear the anti-fashionable tech short-shorts and even those won’t dry.  It’s super icky. 
I wasn’t going to climb back into wet clothes so I washed them out in the tub and dried them in the hotel’s laundry room.  But my Hokas are totally stinked out and slimy.  It’s not pleasant. 
Coach has me doing some surge runs and I’m playing with my pace to see how my heart responds and to see if I’m ready to increase the quality of my training and get some speed back.
The other thing I’ve been working on is trying to get 8 hours of sleep.  I know I hint at being a bit of a wizard at time management, but hav