The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-321 – Steve Chopper live from Cape Cod 
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Hey people.  How are you?  I’m tired.  I was out in San Diego this week as my ‘Abundance Tour’ continues.  Since we last talked I was in Phoenix, came back home and drove down to the Cape to see Steve and then was back on a plane out to San Diego this week.  This week I am going to be in Boston, but I have a conference in the city that I’ll need to drive in for a couple days.  And I’m speaking a this one so I have to come up with a talk for that and get ready.  Then the following week I’m back out in San Diego for another week-long conference that will require me to leave on Saturday.  
So…When I came off my epic adventure out in Portland I woke up to find all this travel and I’ll be honest it stressed me out.  This time of year is when all of the conferences in my industry happen.  It’s not hard work but you’re on all the time and talking to people.  Many times I’ll be out late entertaining and up early for the events – it can wear on you if you don’t pace yourself.   
I thought about it though and remembered how lucky I am to be able to do all the things that I do and decided to try to rewire my thinking process.  I decided to call it “The Abundance Tour – 2015.  Like a rock and roll tour.  I’m going to get T-shirts made with the venues and dates on them, right?  It helps but I’m still exhausted. 
I managed to get out and run almost every day last week in Phoenix including my favorite run up Camelback Mountain before the sunrise.  One of the days the event had an impromptu 5K which was fun for me! I just treated it as a fun run and chatted up clients because I didn’t want to be ‘that guy’ – the guy who tries to hammer everyone else in a fun run.  
This week in San Diego I was unable to get out at all.  I was unable to do any of my daily practice.  And it bothers me.  But I’ll be back on the bus soon enough.  
Today we will have a recording that I made sitting at the table in my Cape Cod house with Steve Chopper.  Steve is cycling from Concord MA to Yorktown on a folding bicycle and he’s calling it the American Revolutions Tour.  I met him as he was cycling down to my place from Provincetown and we rode 50 or so miles on the Cape Cod Rail Trail. 
In The first section I’m going to talk through something that came up this week which is the situation where people have bad workouts late in their training cycles and it freaks them out.  
In the second section I have a piece that tries to summarize my reading and learning about how to access deeper portions of your mind and potentially the universal mastermind.
The thing I discover about myself with these conferences is how much of an introvert I am.  Having authentic interactions with other humans all day and all night is exhausting.  I’ve been practicing trying to actually listen to people instead of ‘waiting to talk’.   Trying to ask questions instead of trying to demonstrate how smart I am.  
When you do this, amazingly enough, it’s not as exhausting.  When you let go the need to make it some sort of competition or sell something you can connect better and people remember you and you remember them.  
 
On with the show!
Section one - Running Tips
Am I ready for my goal race?  http://runrunlive.com/am-i-ready-for-my-goal-marathon
Voices of reason – the conversation
Steve Chopper 
The American Revolutions Tour
Hi guys,
I'm cycling from Old North Bridge, Concord, down to Georgetown. These are pretty fitting start and end points chronologically for an adventure taking in the main places from the War of Independence. I'll be putting together a travelogue (as my one from last year cycling the Danube to Budapest is almost done).
I'm doing it on my 2 speed fold up Brompton cycle (pic