Author Archives: Bruce Pegg

About Bruce Pegg

I write about running, music and spirituality.

Semper Currens IV: Dialing it Up

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Week Three Training Wrap-Up It’s been a pretty good week overall. Like last week, I went gentle and long, completing my mileage in three longish runs. Fortunately, this has been a gorgeous week in New York, with temperatures in the … Continue reading →

Semper Currens III: Horses for Courses

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Week Two Training Wrap-Up After running hard at the Boilermaker, I figured I would start the week gently, so I didn’t run run until Wednesday. Then I went long and slow on a very humid Saturday–one of my favorite routes … Continue reading →

Posted in Semper Currens, The Flat-Footed Fox | Tagged Hanson's Marathon Training, marathon training, Marine Corps Marathon, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Team Fox, Utica Boilermaker, virtual running, virtual training | Leave a comment

Boilermaker 2015, or The Tale of the Traveling Chocolate GU

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

At the end of the Vermont City Marathon, I had one package of Chocolate Outrage GU left in my fanny pack. It stayed there for a couple of weeks until, one morning, Tessa decided to head out for a bicycle … Continue reading →

Posted in The Flat-Footed Fox | Tagged GU energy gels, Utica Boilermaker, Vermont City Marathon (Burlington) | 4 Comments

Semper Currens II: All About That Base

Posted on July 12, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Week One Training Wrap-Up Only one week in, and already I’m going off script! But there’s a method to my madness.

Semper Currens: The 2015 Marine Corps Marathon Virtual Trainer and Run

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

What does semper currens mean? On October 25, I will be running in the Marine Corps Marathon in Washington DC. This will be my seventh marathon and the biggest competitive marathon I have run to date. It will also be … Continue reading →

Posted in Semper Currens, The Flat-Footed Fox | Tagged long-distance running, marathon training, Marine Corps Marathon, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Team Fox, virtual running, virtual training | Leave a comment

Return to Burlington: The Road Goes Ever On

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

I was late getting to the start line. Very late. Tables and chairs had already been stacked up underneath tents. The last empty gel packets and banana peels had been picked up and thrown into the garbage bags, which were … Continue reading →

Posted in The Flat-Footed Fox | Tagged Flower City Half Marathon (Rochester), half marathon, long-distance running, Vermont City Marathon (Burlington) | 1 Comment

A Brief Biography of God Part Four: Life Support

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

After hanging around the planet for millennia, messing with humans only to have them mess right back, our favorite Supreme Being took just a couple of hundred years to go from from comfortable middle age to life support.

Posted in A Brief Biography of God, Grains of Sand | Tagged Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Friedrich Nietzsche, fundamentalism, God, John Fowles, Mary Anning, metaphysics, Neil deGrasse Tyson, religion, The Bible, Ussher's Chronology, William Herschel | 1 Comment

Review: Steven Wilson (The Egg, Albany NY. May 21, 2015)

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Bruce Pegg

Last night, I dreamed that a skinny Englishman with long, lank hair, nerd glasses and an awkward stage presence took every riff I ever loved from every band I worshipped as a teenager and seamlessly wove them together into an … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews, Thoughts from the Guv'nor | Tagged concert reviews, Hand. Cannot. Erase, Porcupine Tree, progressive rock, Steven Wilson | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in The Flat-Footed Fox | Tagged Flower City Half Marathon (Rochester), half marathon, long-distance running, Niagara Falls International Marathon, running and pooping, Utica Boilermaker, Vermont City Marathon (Burlington) | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in A Brief Biography of God, Grains of Sand | Tagged Answers in Genesis, anthropology, Christianity, fundamentalism, God, metaphysics, myth, The Bible, Wesboro Baptist Church | Leave a comment