The definitive online resource for the self-coached runner.
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The definitive online resource for the self-coached runner.
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May 19, 2026
Pragmatic Borrowed Truth: Further Discussion on the Ultimate Leash
<p>In this episode, Steve invites Carl Stones back on the podcast to talk more pragmatically & specifically on the topic of "borrowed truth" that Steve introduced in Episode 7's inagural On the Leash. </p>
May 11, 2026
The Dojo (Part II)
<p>Please listen to The Dojo (Part I) if you haven't already. It will clarify much of what is discussed in this episode. </p><p>After recording the dojo episode, something nagged. Not that anything said was wrong — something was missing. & the missing thing was close to the center of what makes a dojo work. This episode names it: the dojo, equal to its sacredness, is refuge & laboratory. The safe place — not the easy place — to test value, intention, will & risk in a container that matters deeply, but is not ultimate. Part Two of the dojo series.</p><p><strong><br>In This Episode</strong></p><ul><li>Why safety was the missing piece — & why it's not the same as comfort</li><li>Ukemi: the martial art of falling safely, & what the runner's version looks like</li><li>Winnicott's potential space — the container that makes genuine experiment possible</li><li>Refuge & laboratory as the twin faces of the dojo — distinct & inseparable</li><li>What safety adds to each of the six elements from Part One</li><li>Why the code must account for failure, not just for values</li><li>The hardest thing the dojo asks: not effort, but return</li></ul><p><strong>The Core Distinction<br></strong><br></p><p>The dojo is not an arena. In an arena, every test is ultimate — the result is the final word. In a laboratory, the result is information. The experiment reveals something true without destroying the experimenter. The container makes that possible. Without the container, you cannot afford to fail. & if you cannot afford to fail, you cannot genuinely risk. & if you cannot genuinely risk, you are not training — you are performing.</p><p><strong><br>Referenced in This Episode</strong></p><ul><li>Ukemi — the foundational practice of every Japanese martial dojo: learning to fall before learning to fight</li><li>D.W. Winnicott — potential space, from Playing and Reality (1971). The space between inner & outer reality where genuine play & genuine risk become possible</li><li>The dojo anatomy from Part One — six elements: Place & Time, Threshold Ritual, Code, Tools, Lineage & Renewal</li></ul><p>For the full resource guide — books & online resources across the dojo tradition — see the show notes for Part One, or download the Resource Guide below.</p><p><strong><br>A Question Worth Sitting With<br></strong><br></p><p>Before you go out: what is your ukemi? Not the concept — the practice. When the experiment fails, when the training block breaks, when the race reveals something you weren't ready to see — what is your practiced relationship to the ground? The dojo is the place you build that relationship. Not on race day. Now, in the ordinary seasons, when the stakes are real but not ultimate.<br>That is what the container is for.</p><p><strong><br>From Part One — If You're Just Joining<br></strong><br></p><p>This episode assumes familiarity with the six-element dojo anatomy introduced in Part One. If you haven't heard it, start there — the anatomy is the foundation this episode builds on. Both the Dojo Anatomy Worksheet & the Resource Guide are linked in Part One's show notes & remain relevant here.</p><p><strong>→ </strong><a href="https://oyo.run">Part One — Your Dojo: A Container for the Self-Coached Runner</a></p>
May 7, 2026
On The Leash: Borrowed Truth
<p>“On the Leash” is a recurring series within the OYO.RUN podcast that examines control structures, power dynamics, and constraints that shape runners and their training. </p><p>What is a leash? A constraint, a limiter; something that impacts your freedom - of movement, of control, choice. This series will continue to point at this one fundamental insight: “we don’t get to choose whether we have leashes - the question is whether we can see them operating and work with them consciously:’ </p><p><br>In this episode we explore the idea of borrowed truth. </p><p>You must realize that the journey of self-coaching is one’s unique, idiosyncratic pursuit of your own truth. The truth living in your blood & bones, pumped as air through your lungs, felt as power & fatigue in your relation to ground. <br>This is what we do it for, ultimately. <br>Sure, we want to get faster. <br>But we really want to know: know what we are made of, what we can withstand, what we are here on this planet to experience. <br>& what we learn is our truth. It's not borrowed, it's an authentically earned truth. <br>Don’t let your truths go unexamined, lest they not hold water. <br>If it’s real, it can take the pressure. <br>& please remember, what is your truth is not meant for others to experience. <br>They have their own truth to explore.</p><p>Godspeed. </p>
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