Radio Blogs: Fred The Runner

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tell about Yeah, they talk better than they say about it.
These are the radio blogs on The Fresh Show. Okay,
like running in our diaries, except we say them aloud.
We call them blogs. I'm going to take this one,
dear blog. I'm I think I've talked about this before,
but I'm going to revisit because I think that there
is a scam out there. I think there's a scam.

(00:21):
I think that the world is full of liars, and
I want to confront it right now when I use
my platform for good. People who say they like running
are lying. People who say they like running are lying.
They're not telling the truth. It is. It cannot possibly
be nor will it ever become enjoyable for me, and

(00:43):
I'm trying so hard. I'm trying to make myself a runner.
I want to like it. It's outside, if the temperature's nice,
there's stuff to look at. You know, you've got you know,
different roots you can take to see different things, if
you're in different cities. You know. It's a way to
explore and also great workout, get a little tan, little

(01:06):
vitamin D. There's a lot of things I want to
like about this, except for the actual running part. I
hate it. I hate it, and it's not getting easier,
that's the other thing. And then depending on the day,
I'll have like a couple of days where I'm like, Okay,
I'm getting the hang of this. It's like I'm extending
my little like I'll do like at first, I started
doing three minutes and then two minutes off, and then

(01:27):
it was four minutes and one minute off, and then
five minutes in one minute, and now I'm up to
like six or seven minutes one minute off, and it's torture.
It's torture.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
So I could see you, like running by my front window,
you know, in your little outfit down the.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
My outfit, I use. I'm shirtless now I just go
straight up shirt no. But there are some people that
are running on the lake shore that are shirtless, and
if I look like them, i'd be shirtless too. If
I look like them, i'd run naked. Yeah, I either
go I usually go south or whatever point is. I
just I don't like it, and I want to I'm
going to keep trying it. But like people out there,

(02:03):
they look to be enjoying themselves. It looks to be relaxing,
mind clearing. I want to like this. You guys, it's
just not getting any easier.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I think, keep going. What is that saying? I think
two weeks makes a habit, right, If you just something
for two weeks, that'll create a habit for yeah, twenty
one days.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
It takes.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
That's what I've read because I there was a phase
where I was in my fig giral era and I
was running, and I got off the treadmill and I
would actually feel that runners high they talk about, and
it felt good if I feel.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Good about fifteen minutes after whatever effort I put in,
that's true. But and I like it much better outside
than I do on the treadmill.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
See, I'm the opposite.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I can run way faster and farther on the Really.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
Yeah, I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
I don't know if it's like my asthma, like with
the outside factors, or if I'm worried I'm being judged by.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Like people on the street. Getting in. My trainer pointed
this out, that treadmill is kind of helping you too,
because it doesn't stop moving obviously.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
So I need the help.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
It's not well, no, it's not still working out, but
I mean it's not unlike if you stop running on
the ground and you don't move anywhere. If you stop
running on the treadmill, you're gonna fall in your face.
So like it keeps you, keeps your legs moving, and
I think it kind of helps it whatever, but I
don't know. It's not clicking. Yeah, and I'm not happy
about it. And I was just curious, like, can you

(03:16):
actually tell me? Can I No, I was really waiting
for your guidance. I was of all the people, I
was waiting for you to tell me how to start
enjoying it more. I don't even know when you run marathons,
how do you enjoy it? I don't you know? And
if I just don't know, why you run? And if
you can walk, you know, be.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
A walker chasing you?

Speaker 1 (03:41):
Running from is the real question. And the runner's high.
Like Gideon keeps telling me, like and this guy runs
marathons and stuff and he's running along and he'll be like,
you know, you got a problem you got to push through. Well,
first of all, you run it with Gideon, He's like,
run at your pace. Well, my I can walk faster
than I can run, but he wants me running. So

(04:01):
I'm like, dude, this after like a while, this is
as good as you're gonna get. He's like, I'd rather
you do that than walk fast. I could walk fast
faster than I could run at this feed he has
me running it. But he's like, I want you know,
I don't know. I want this. I want this to
get hard for you, like really hard, because you're never
gonna grow, you know, if it doesn't get really hard.
And he's right, because I mean, if you thought about
where we started a year ago and where we are now,
and the running thing is a relatively new component to

(04:23):
all this. But I people just are texting now once
you eat your first runner, how you feel different. I've
never gotten it. You never have yet, I've never gotten
I've gotten a hide afterward. Like after any workout, after
any workout, fifteen twenty minutes later, I do feel great,
There's no doubt. Even if I feel terrible during the workout,
there's no doubt about that. But I've yet to find

(04:44):
this thing where like I get out there and I'm running,
and then all of a sudden I find like a
second wind, and I'm like, I could run like the
wind now, Like no, No, it just gets harder and
harder and harder until I want to fall over.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, and that's hard.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
Set a destination like the chick full in a different neighborhood,
you know, right, so the taco bell up north, run
as fast as you can there, enjoy that food.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
And then right, thing is he's trying to like combat
this this like mental game with me because I'm such
a goal or oriented person. I think it's probably because
we work in numbers here every day. It's like trying
to be number one, and you know, how far are
we from number one? How did we get there? And
like like that makes any sense? Like the way that

(05:29):
we get to number one even is anyway, doesn't make
any sense whatsoever. But he won't tell me. I'll be like,
how much longer in this I forget what he calls
it effort or whatever. I'll be like how much longer?
And he'll be like, not much. And finally he yelled
at me. Then that yelled at me, But I got
a very stern talking to He's a coach, right, he's
coaching me. But he was like, stop asking me how

(05:50):
much time he goes? What you asked me ten times?
How much time we had left in this particular thing,
and what did you never stop doing? And I'm like, what,
he goes, you never stopped running. He's like, so just
run and like stop asking me how much time is left.
I'll tell you when it's over. But like it's not
as though you stopped working, so like, don't worry about it.
As much time is as much time. But like me,

(06:11):
if you were to say to me, like to Ruvio's point,
like okay, when we get to that building over there,
that we're done with this effort, well then I would
I would probably be able to handle that a little
better than just running not knowing like when this is
going to end. But I think the other thing is
he's not telling me because he's extending the time, like yeah,
we started it four and then we went to five,

(06:32):
and now I think we're up to like seven. And
he doesn't necessarily want me to know that he's moving
the time up because he wants me to look back
on it and go, look at what you did. But
I just I really want to like it. I really
really do.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
It's just not I say, like most running is like
at a in the beginning, is like a conversational pace,
like you could just have a like if you run
with other people, you could just be having a conversation
with them, and that's the pace he should be at, Like,
you shouldn't be going harder.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
This there's no conversation. I mean he's having a foo
on conversation. This man, this man reading a book. He's
like he's doing his taxes. I mean he must be
so bored.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
Yeah, and I'm crying because I can't breathe.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
And it can't look good. Like people who are sitting
on the bench eating their ice cream watching me run by.
They must be like, oh, this poor guy, Like, oh,
you get the short shorts. I normally just like a
banana hammock kind of thing. Yeah, you know, I have Lululemon.
I don't think they're running like workout short like running dams,
but they're working out shorts. They have a little underwear

(07:33):
built into it, you know. Oh yeah that was a
legging as we're talking about. Yeah, I'm running in leggings.
That's why people are looking at me. I think it's
not because of my form. The other thing is it's
crazy is I don't think I know how to run,
which I know sounds I know this sounds nuts, but

(07:53):
like like Phoebe, I was running the first six months
I did this almost. I was running like almost heels
like first, like there's a form, like you almost are
the way I was, it was described to me, is
like you're supposed to be leaning forward and moving your
legs kind of up and down, but not necessarily I
don't know, Like it's almost like a controlled fall if

(08:15):
you're doing it correctly. And there are people that like
Gideon is one, but there are people that you can hire.
They will watch you run and then to help you
with your form. And I didn't realize how important that
would be until I was trying to run like miles
at a time, and like if you're heel striking, for example,
and running, then you're essentially putting the brakes on every step,
so you're working against yourself. So like if your form's

(08:36):
not right, then you're not efficient, and then you're not
gonna be able to it's just that much more like
work for your body, and then you get tired faster.
But I didn't know any of that, Honestly, no one
ever taught me that, Like, no one's ever like this
is how you run. I'm like, I just made it up. Yeah,
I made I made it up. Someone's chasing me. I
would better get away, and then I just whatever it takes.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, I'm proud of you, though I'm trying to run
a little bit too. I have a jogging stroller for
that reason. Everybody made fun of me when I got it,
but I was like, no, I want to be more fit.
I want to be more active. And a lot of
the thirteen live in my neighborhood, so I see them
all the time. Really, They're like waving from like wherever,
and I'm like, it's me.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
You could just breathe and run, yeah, but you want
to see me. You want to see me in my
best form. If I can see, like coming the other direction,
a really really hot girl, then I'll just I'll be
like I'm looking like I'm about to win the Olympics.
And then as soon as she passes me and can't
see me, that's when I need to be like defibrillated
or whatever it is, like get them clear. You know,
she never sees that part. But like, even if I'm

(09:35):
really struggling, if I see a hot girl all of
a sudden, I have to like find it within me
not to look as bad as I probably look. And
then as soon as she passes and it's like, Okay,
I'm dead. I died. Sorry, But and yes, I hope
to get to a point where I'm running on that
thing shirtless, because some of these dudes, like sir, they
look a certain kind of way and they're running around

(09:55):
with their shirts off. They earned it. Me. I would
just scare. I think I would scare children. Oh no,
I think I would scare children. I think I would.
I think people might think it was like a running
solar panel. I think it's positive. I mean, yeah, walking charger. Yeah. No,
people will be like, oh need can you plug into that?
Or like what, oh wow, my phone's a little bit low. Wow,

(10:16):
that's cool how they have like moving chargers. Now, no,
that's a white bre