Running Into Purpose
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Songs and messages from John Richards and your favorite artists fueled with inspiration and emotion…(inspirmotion?) to keep you moving whether you run, walk, bike or just dance to The Runcast.
- Margo Cilker - Lowland Trail
- Local Natives - Just Before Morning
- Grandaddy - The Town Where I'm Livin Now
- Kristin Hersh - Ms Haha
- Elizabeth M Drummond - Crisis
- Bass Drum of Death - Find It
- James and The Cold Gun - Chewing Glass
- Tycho - Time to Run
- Barry Can't Swim - Dance of the Crab
- Deeper - Tele
- Girl Ray - Up
- Bombay Bicycle Club - My Big Day
- Ghost of Vroom - Still Getting It Done
- Small Paul - Live Along
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Runcast with me, your host and fellow runner, John Richards, also the host of |
| 0:05.5 | the morning show on KexP, which provides these podcasts and you, the donors out there, I assume you |
| 0:11.7 | all are, you pay for these podcasts, so I appreciate y'all very much. You go to Kexp.org for more |
| 0:17.8 | information on how to do that or listen to my show or check out the archive. |
| 0:21.3 | It is a week. I'm not going to lie to you. That has been difficult for me. I actually posted about |
| 0:26.2 | this. If you follow me, DJ John Richards, I hope you do on Instagram. I told a little story about |
| 0:31.2 | just letting everything catch up to me. And I haven't talked a little bit about running. I said, |
| 0:35.9 | I was running 100 miles per hour, and suddenly I had to stop. |
| 0:40.2 | So as I record this, I'm also in that struggle and hearing from so many people who also struggle with depression. |
| 0:48.6 | With dealing with grief, my sister passed away not too long ago, and it really hit me how much that community and music really |
| 0:55.8 | does heal. And the other thing that heals is running, and that's what this run cast is all about. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm starting to get back to running where it's not sporadic around the injury. I've been taking |
| 1:06.7 | care of my calf. Thanks for all the well wishes. You fellow runners know a calf is like a, |
| 1:12.1 | like someone's sick in your family. You're checking in. Hey, how's your buddy the calf? Well, |
| 1:16.3 | you know, okay. Uh, getting better. I'm going to PT and I'm doing all the exercises and I got my |
| 1:22.1 | mileage back up. Did five miles and some change just before I sat down to record this. |
| 1:27.9 | Yeah, I'm a little sore, but I'm on it, and I'm headed towards a big race, I hope, in the |
| 1:32.9 | spring, as I've talked about, because I need that goal, I need that running, I need that |
| 1:36.4 | community, and I know all those things will help heal through music. |
| 1:41.1 | So let's get to it and start on the trail as I'm starting to train a little bit |
| 1:44.9 | on trail running. This is Marco Silker in a song called Lowland Trail here on the Runcast. |
| 1:50.5 | Cattle pushing high up the canyon side looking for a lowland trail. Got miles before me miles behind. looking for my lowland trail looking for a lowland trail |
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