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Podcasting is a media so perfectly suited for the running lifestyle. \xa0Just as we schedule our runs in advance, we can schedule what we listen to ON those runs, in advance. \xa0\nWe can multi-task the time we spend out on the roads and by listening to a podcast, exercise our brains and feel a camaraderie with the podcast host or producer: especially hosts and producers who are fellow runners like the podcasters you just heard: real people with a shared passion for this sport we love so well.\nWhen I first started producing this goofy little podcast about running, five years ago, the idea of clipping on a microphone and apparently talking to yourself while out on a long run seemed like a ridiculous idea; but today there are over 70 running podcasts listed on the runningpodcasts.org directory! \xa0This idea of recording a podcast and listening to other podcasters completes a mode of communication and conversation not possible with traditional old media; such as radio (for example). \xa0\nThe other really cool thing about podcasting is that it allows for the artistic expression of thoughts, opinions, and observations of our lives. \xa0You know me as a middle aged, middle of the pack, slightly asthmatic runner from New England who appreciates good wine, like Bordeaux, Malbec and Cab Franc, who enjoy\u2019s a great baseball game with the Worcester Tornadoes or my beloved Boston Red Sox, and likes to rock out to amazing music, like that from Great Big Sea, Jim Fidler, Matthew Ebel or the amazing Paul Durham and Black Lab\u2026these are all elements of my life that you\u2019ve heard on this show: when I\u2019m tasting or talking about wine and telling you about the grapes I\u2019m trying to grow, when you hear me at the old ball park singing \u201cTake Me Out to the Ball Game\u201d or when I present for you some amazing creative commons pod-safe music on every episode of this show.\nI think that\u2019s one of the things I most appreciate about running podcasts; that they\u2019re NOT always just about running: they\u2019re about the lives each of the podcasters are living: it\u2019s better than so called reality TV because there\u2019s no pretense involved: we are who we are, for better or worse: but we have this one thing in common: a love for running and for living our lives to the top.\nThese podcasts we produce are a permanent record of these lives we are living; audio files that will be heard long after you and I have run our last road race, and shuffled off this mortal coil. \xa0They are important because they document the way to live as the good animals we were meant to be; and it sets a good example to anyone who listens now, and in the far future: of how to live a life of meaningful joy.\nThat\u2019s why we produce these shows\u2026because I\u2019m telling you this fellow runner: something you already know deep in your heart but something that we have somehow GOT to get across to others, be it through personal examples or \xa0a moving pictures expert group dash 1 audio layer 3 standard digital encoding formatted file downloaded to your iPod:\xa0\nLife is short, but it should be long enough and to take to the roads and become a runner is one certain way to live that life to the top: which is exactly what is expected of us all.\nShow Links:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe song \u201cThe Real You\u201d was by Black Lab at