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#runstreak recap: Boilermaker or Bust (Days 148-189)
This part of the #runstreak story began at the moment I crossed the 10K timing mat at the Boilermaker. It’s usually a great moment. Two-thirds of the race is over, the really hard parts of the course are done, and all … Continue reading
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#runstreak Day 366
I celebrated the New Year this morning with a quick two-mile run around the neighborhood. I was slow, bloated by bad food and one-too-many glasses of champagne, but I got out there on a dank, windy day and kept the … Continue reading
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#runstreak Day 40: It’s Just a Number
Forty days. Today, I’m celebrating the continuation of my longest ever run streak.
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Life Gets in the Way (Part Two): The 2017 Flower City Half Marathon
Nine marathons. Nine half marathons. Eight Boilermakers. You might say I’m an experienced runner, but I would say I don’t feel like it most of the time. You might say I’ve seen a lot, but I would say that I … Continue reading
The Best Laid Plans: Marine Corps Marathon 2016
It wasn’t the way I wanted to finish my 2016 running season. But this year’s Marine Corps Marathon ended up being an appropriate conclusion to such a frustrating, confusing and trying year. As I sit here, reflecting upon and analyzing the … Continue reading
Review: Sakyong Mipham’s Running with the Mind of Meditation
Two runners. The same, first marathon. Two injuries. And two totally different outcomes.
366 Words About Nothing
This blog is about nothing. Well, not exactly. It’s about something. But just as Seinfeld was a show about nothing that somehow managed to fill 180 episodes with something, this blog will try to make something out of the nothing … Continue reading
. . . the Tough Lie Down (With Ice Packs and Ibuprofen)
The Mountain Goat got off to a great start, with Team Love Nugget out in force: Tessa, my daughter Carolyn and a work colleague, Gina, all came out to see me off, and my other daughter, Hannah, texted me just … Continue reading
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Rolling on to the Roc, Part 2: Once More Around the Lake
Just 6 days after the Boilermaker, I logged my 1,000th mile of the year–a milestone that took me exactly a year to achieve in 2012 took me less than 8 months this time around. I was already on the second … Continue reading
The Starting Line
It’s December 8, 2012. This afternoon, I completed a fairly routine 9-mile run. Under overcast skies, and with the temperature in the low 50s, I set out of the village of Canastota along New Boston Road as I have done … Continue reading
Bruce Pegg 