New Year’s Resolutions with Brendan Leonard
BLISTER Podcast
BLISTER
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
New Year’s Resolutions — are you into them, or do you avoid them like the plague? A recent conversation with Brendan Leonard (semi-rad.com) got us thinking that we should take a more creative approach to New Year’s Resolutions and goals, and see if they might become more than a guilt-inducing chore.
Specifically what prompted all of this is that Brendan had committed himself before the start of 2019 to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks — and he did it. So we are reposting here the conversation I had with Brendan on our Off The Couch podcast, and then very soon, we’ll be posting a series of short interviews with some Blister reviewers and other folks we like about their own take on new year’s resolutions, and some of their own creative goals.
Please enjoy, and let us know in the show notes to this episode what goals or resolutions you are setting for yourself for this brand new decade we’re quickly approaching.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- What did you just do, and why? (3:00)
- Defining the rules for these ‘marathons’? (9:20)
- Eating donuts & running (21:01)
- Why did you tell so few people about your goal? (23:10)
- Injuries? (30:35)
- What was the hardest part of the project? (33:18)
- What was the best part? (35:45)
- Funniest moment? (41:10)
- Goals for 2020? (46:20)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Blister podcast, a program dedicated to interesting people, the great outdoors, |
| 0:06.3 | and a bunch of other stuff we like. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth, the founder of Blister, and you can |
| 0:12.0 | check out everything we're doing and reviewing over at Blisterreview.com. New Year's resolutions are not something that I personally have ever really gotten into, |
| 0:26.0 | and they've never been part of my annual preparation for the beginning of a new year. |
| 0:31.4 | But a recent conversation with Brendan Leonard of Semirad.com fame really got me thinking that maybe I should start being |
| 0:39.8 | more creative about New Year's resolutions and goals and seeing if they might become more than |
| 0:46.0 | another obligation or some chore that would almost certainly just become a source of guilt. |
| 0:52.7 | So specifically, what prompted this is that, unbeknownst to me, |
| 0:57.3 | Brendan had very quietly committed himself before the start of 2019 to run 52 marathons in 52 weeks. |
| 1:08.0 | And while I talked to Brendan all the time, I had no idea that he was doing this and that he was |
| 1:13.6 | really, truly, actually doing this until quite recently. And so I recorded a conversation with |
| 1:20.6 | Brendan where I peppered him with questions about how and why he decided to do this. And we got into |
| 1:27.4 | the details and the ins and outs of his |
| 1:29.9 | very creative approach to a pretty big and very cool goal. So anyway, what we are doing here |
| 1:37.6 | in this episode is posting the conversation that I had with Brendan on Blister's running |
| 1:43.6 | podcast called Off the Couch. |
| 1:46.3 | And if you haven't yet checked out off the couch, you should because we keep hearing from |
| 1:51.7 | truly hardcore runners that they really like the show. And I am very happy to report that |
| 1:57.4 | we also keep hearing from people who are non-runners or very, very, very |
| 2:02.6 | occasional runners that they are really enjoying the show too. So anyway, check it out and |
| 2:07.6 | subscribe to off the couch if you haven't already. And then what we're going to be doing is |
| 2:14.6 | very soon, as in probably next week, we'll be posting a series of short |
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