The RunRunLive 4.0 Podcast Episode 4-457 – Cody Runs the USA for Cancer Families  (Audio: link) audio:http://www.RunRunLive.com/PodcastEpisodes/epi4457.mp3] Link MarathonBQ – How to Qualify for the Boston Marathon in 14 Weeks - Chris’ other show à Intro: Hello my friends and welcome to episode 4-457 of the RunRunLive Podcast.  How is your week going?  I understand from the news that much of you across the US are suffering through a heat wave.  That’s too bad.  115 degrees in Phoenix.  That’s toasty.  Makes it hard to get outside.  I remember one time going running in Las Vegas, in the afternoon, after an all-day meeting, like an idiot, and then I got lost.  I could see where I wanted to be but I couldn’t find my way through all the fences and the buildings to get there.  I remember being seriously concerned for my well-being with the heat.  But, apparently I lived.  Vegas is a weird place.  I am still nursing a sore knee but as of today it seems to be getting a bit better and I’m hopeful.  I joined the gym.  I’ve been lifting heavy for the last couple weeks.  It gives me something to do.  I used to lift in my 20’s before I got into distance running.  I had a guy I worked with who was an actual body builder and was able to learn some basic things that I still have in my tool kit.  Like good form and the different ways to go after the different muscle groups.  Over the last 20 years with running I rarely lifted heavy.  My workouts were always light weight, high rep and mostly body weight.  You don’t need that kind of muscle mass or strength for running.  It’s counterproductive.  The difference is that instead of doing body weight or light dumbbells for high-rep sets of exercises you do fewer reps with heavier weight. For instance instead of 20 reps with 15 pound dumbbells you might do 8 reps with 30 pound dumbbells.  The difference is that the lower reps produce strength and muscle mass while the lower weight, higher reps result in less muscle mass and more endurance.  I have been getting 3 or more bike rides in each week with a longer ride on the weekend.  Typically I‘ll do an hour and change on the weekdays and 2-3 hours on the weekend.  I backed off on trying to run after the previous week’s fiasco.  When I first joined the gym I jumped on the treadmill but it was awful.  I haven’t been on a treadmill in 18 months.  I had forgotten how awful it is.  Then I made a huge mistake and tried to use one of the old LifeCycle bikes in the gym.  The problem is that the angles are so different from an actual bicycle that it really tweaked my knee.  But I have started again this week.  Sunday, I ran an easy 5k on the roads with my club.  We were able to all get together and have a brunch for the first time in a year and a half so that was joyous.  Tuesday, I did another easy 5k on the rail-trail, pain free.  And yesterday I did a whopping 40 minutes of road and rail trail with some hills and trail sections, again pain free.  Pretty happy about that.  I’m so hilariously out of shape that I have to get used to running being hard.  I have to watch out for all the beginner runner things like blisters and chaffing and Achilles tendonitis.  Today we are talking with a nice young man Cody, who is aspiring to do a cross country run to support families dealing with cancer in a child.  It’s a good story.  He’s a positive influencer.  In section one I’ll talk a bit about an observation that all the records for running are falling and why.  In section two I’ll talk about a current phenomena that is being called the ‘turnover tsunami’, but I think it should be called the ‘JobQuake’.  So Ollie is doing fine.  It’s my habit to take him for a walk when I get up in the morning.  This week I got up went down stairs and when I looked out the front door there was a rabbit sitting in the front lawn.  I thought, ‘well that’s going to make Ollie crazy’, but what can you do.  So, I sat to put my shoes on.  When I got back up to put the leash on Ollie, I look