Monthly Archives: April 2015

No Easy Miles: The 2015 Flower City Half Marathon

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

If Montgomery Burns designed a half marathon course, I imagine it would look a little like the Flower City Half Marathon: two nasty hills a little past the halfway point with a short section of cobblestones on the second to mess … Continue reading →

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A Brief Biography of God Part Three: The Midlife Crisis

Posted on April 23, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Somewhere around 9,000 years ago, give or take a few thousand years, humans began to abandon their hunter-gatherer cultures. They started to domesticate livestock and cultivate crops, which meant that they could stop wandering the land and start to build … Continue reading →

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Photo Essay: Running Rehoboth

Posted on April 21, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

For the third year in a row, I went on vacation while preparing for a race. Two years ago, I was in the middle of Boilermaker training, shredding a perfectly good pair of shoes on the hard cinder railbed of the Danvers … Continue reading →

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Review: Sakyong Mipham’s Running with the Mind of Meditation

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Two runners. The same, first marathon. Two injuries. And two totally different outcomes.

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April Training Update

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the message was lost. For want of a … Continue reading →

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