The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-318 – Barefoot Traveler Jake Brown
 
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Intro Bumper:
 
Hello my good friends.  I’m grateful for you.  Even though I don’t know you.  Sometimes I wonder who you are.  My voice, tired and somnambulant drips wearily into your semi-circular canal every fortnight, and yet we have never met.  It’s like that old saying, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there does it hear Chris’ voice?”  Am I making a noise?
 
My avatar and I have been pushing out the RunRunLive podcast for over 7 years.  Do you and I have the 7-year itch?  My computers tell me that some thousands of you download these episodes.  I don’t know if that means my slippery words are actually worming their way in, around and past your tympanum.
 
It could be some wrinkle, some fold, some chaotic echo in the interwebs – a ghost protocol in the machine and maybe I’m just talking to me.  You know what?  I’m ok with that.
 
I’m grateful for the opportunity, the breath and the energy to spew forth this endurance sports manifesto every couple weeks.  Boo rah! Hooray for us, you and I the ghosts of the roads and the tracks and the forest trails.  The echoes of the footfalls in the dim mornings.
 
We live!
 
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How much fun are we having?  If you’re not having fun, you’re not doing it right!
 
On today’s show we have an interesting chat with Jake Brown who is running around the US barefoot meeting people, having adventures and promoting the universal good.
 
In section one I’m going to revisit Fartlek runs because, let’s face it after 7 years of podcasts I’m out of running topics to talk about!
 
In section two I’ll share some thought on the role of travel in formulating your life.
 
My training has been interesting over the last two weeks.  When I last talked to you coach had thrown me into a high-mileage week and I did not respond well.  I was over-tired and all my runs were awful.  Classic over training symptoms. The hot and sticky weather didn’t help either.
 
But we rectified that by backing off for the last two weeks and I’ve bounced back.  This week has been good and my energy level is back up.
 
The warning signs are very obvious.  My runs were a struggle. My heart rate was elevated. My sleep patterns were off.  My old injuries started flaring up.
 
The Buddha said ‘when the universe wants your attention it throws a pebble, if you don’t listen it throws a rock, if you still don’t listen it throws a brick and if you still don’t listen it throws a wall’  Your body is very good at telling you when you’ve done too much.  You just have to listen.
 
I also was trying to work the Miracle Morning routine into my life at the same time.  This meant getting up early to practice a morning routine of meditation, affirmations, reading and writing – but when combined with the heavy workout schedule it just led to sleep deprivation – which made me stupid.
 
I couldn’t remember anything.  I was cranky and short tempered.  I had