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No Easy Miles: The 2015 Flower City Half Marathon
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
Review: Sakyong Mipham’s Running with the Mind of Meditation
Two runners. The same, first marathon. Two injuries. And two totally different outcomes.
April Training Update
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
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
None But Ourselves Can Stop The Time (Redemption Song, Second Verse)
After four marathons, I thought I knew a thing or two about preparation. Follow a tried-and-tested program. Study the race website and the course maps. Use a checklist for packing: medicine (ibuprofen is my friend) and assorted medical gear (lube … Continue reading
Redemption Song (First Verse)
Just two weeks after Burlington, I let Tessa talk me into riding 100 km in the Rochester Tour de Cure, my first-ever long-distance bicycle ride. So it was back on the bicycle, which served the dual purpose of keeping my … Continue reading
Battery in Burlington
If you had told me as I was hobbling around on the Monday after the Mountain Goat that not only would I run Burlington but that I would come in just 28 seconds slower than my New Jersey time a … 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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Tagged fitness, long-distance running, running injury, Syracuse Mountain Goat, Syracuse NY
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When the Going Gets Tough . . .
The problems began almost immediately after I posted my last blog. And by problems, I don’t mean the disappointment of not getting into New York via the lottery.
Humblebrags and Future Plans
My 2013 running season was so unbelievably successful that I am already worried that this year will be a let down. It is certainly going to be hard to repeat last year’s achievements. So if you’ll indulge me for a … Continue reading
Posted in The Flat-Footed Fox
Tagged ARC of Onondaga Half Marathon, Empire State Half Marathon, hanson's training, long-distance running, New Jersey marathon, New York City Marathon, Rochester Marathon, Syracuse Half Marathon, Syracuse Mountain Goat, Utica Boilermaker, Vermont City Marathon (Burlington)
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Bruce Pegg 