And now it\u2019s October: we\u2019re more than 80% through the end of the year "getting back to where we once belonged\u201d, and for me\u2026I\u2019ve come upon a bit of a road block.\n\xa0\nTo best understand this road block, we have to talk about the philosophy of Nietzsche\u2026and I know, I know\u2026I said I wasn\u2019t going to talk about philosophy on Phedippidations\u2026but there\u2019s just no other way, and I promise you that this is related to running.\n\xa0\nIn order to understand the nature of this \u201croad block\u201d, we have to spend some time talking about Friedrich, since to a great extent it\u2019s because of him that I\u2019ve come to this.\xa0\n\xa0\nI told you at the start that this year\u2019s journey might not end so well\u2026and there\u2019s still plenty of time to finish strong, but getting past this point is proving to be\u2026well, difficult at best, impossible at worst.\xa0 I\u2019ve reached The Wall.\n\xa0\nLinks:\n\xa0\nBoth opening and closing themes songs were by Jim Fidler at \n\u201cThe Curra Road\u201d was composed by Ger Wolfe at \n\xa0\nONLY IF YOU LIKE IT: Phedippidations is supported monthly through the kind financial support of listeners who clicked on the ONLY IF YOU LIKE IT button at SteveRunner.com to subscribe to Amazon Payments or Paypal to send me a dollar a month for my podcasting efforts.\xa0 \xa0\n\xa0\nThank you:\n\xa0\nDeborah, Michael, David, Mary, Cheryl, Vance, Gordon, Scott, Roberto, Mark, Terence, Evelyn, Al, Brad, Joerg, Martha, Jill, Rob, Jim, Wendee, Tom, Katie, Joseph, Tony, Richard, Vera, Robert, Dino, Louis, William, Christiane, Erik, Trey, Margaret, Martin, James, Doug and Russ\n{}