The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-325 – Butch – Quadruple Bypass and Sales!
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Hello my friends and welcome to episode 4-325 of the RunRunLive Podcast where we do talk about the transformative power of endurance sport.  How are you doing?  Getting your training in?  Did you have a good week? 
It seems like everyone is in their full on fall racing season.  I’ve seen lots of reports and pictures coming in from Marine Corp and New York and all the other great fall races. 
My training is going well.  It’s had a couple bumps this past week but I’m on schedule for the most part.  I’m just finishing up weeks 5 and 6 of my 14 week plan.  I’m pretty strong. 
I’ve been getting 5 runs in a week with 3 hard workouts, speed on Tuesday, Tempo on Thursday and long on Sunday with recovery runs on Wednesday and Friday.  I’ve been doing an easy 45 minute spin on Mondays as an active recovery from the long run and taking Saturday as a rest day. 
I banged out a nice hilly 17 miler on Sunday with my running buddies.  My speedwork was going great until I had to travel this week and had a bit of a fail on Tuesday morning.  In the running section today we’ll talk about how and why and what to do when you have to walk away from a hard workout. 
I forgot to tell you something interesting that happened to Buddy and me when we were out running in the woods.  One of our routes is a rough single path trail that cuts behind an apple orchard.  It was a gloomy, rainy afternoon and as I was running down the trail there was a flash. 
I figured it might be lightning but it didn’t seem to be a lightning storm and there wasn’t any thunder.  When we returned back through the same spot I paid more attention and sure enough it was a camera trap. 
Maybe you’ve seen these in wildlife photos where they catch the elusive pink-spotted-highland-hyena or some such thing in a photo by rigging a camera along a jungle trail with a motion sensitive trigger. 
Someone caught Buddy and me “In the wild”.  Might make the news as a Sasquatch siting.
Maybe they were just trying to stop me from stealing apples.  It was a good year for apples in New England.  I even got some apples off my own trees in my garden.  The secret is that you have to prune them in the spring.  My wife said “You don’t know how to prune an apple tree!” I said “Sure I do, I watched a YouTube video, I’m an expert.”
In today’s interview we talk with Butch Bellah who is a successful guy who came back from a quadruple bypass to become a runner.  We talk about lots of things including sales as a profession.  I’ve done a number of things in my career and one of the most rewarding has been running sales organizations. 
I hope you enjoy it.  To balance all that selling frothiness and enthusiasm I’m going to include a piece on my experiences with meditation in section two.
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I was down in Atlanta this week and Tuesday morning I had that speed work fail.  I rolled out and hit the hotel treadmill at 4:30 AM and from the start I was struggling.  I really had nothing.  I had to be at work for 7:30 so I was crunched for time as well.  I did a couple 800’s and decided it wasn’t my day. 
It was still only 5:45 at this point and breakfast didn’t open until 6:00.  When I walked by the breakfast area they had coffee out and there was a lady setting up breakfast.  I tapped a cup of coffee from the coffee dispenser.
Now, here’s something personal about me.  I like a dash of skim milk in my coffee. That’s my first choice. That actually is the only milk or cream I ever drink is that dash in my coffee in the morning.  I’m not going to debate nutrition with you.  You can do what you want.  I don’t drink milk, except that dash in my coffee.
If I can’t get that dash of milk I’ll have my coffee black.  What I won’t