Peter Sagal, the very fast-on-his-feet host of the weekly NPR news quiz “Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” and the author of a new meditative memoir, “The Incomplete Book of Running,” was half an hour late for an appointment to buy running gear on a recent Tuesday morning.
And all because Mr. Sagal, in town to tape a pair of shows at Carnegie Hall, had gone for a run. The five-mile tour took him from his hotel on the Lower East Side to Brooklyn via the Manhattan Bridge, then across the Brooklyn Bridge back to square one, Ludlow Street, with a time-gobbling course correction along the way. Which is to say that somewhere in Downtown Brooklyn Mr. Sagal got a little bit lost.
After a phone call to apologize and reschedule, followed by another brief detour for a shower and breakfast, Mr. Sagal, newsboy cap on his head, arrived at Urban Athletics on the Upper East Side. He was almost immediately drawn to the footgear display and pointed out a gray and blue sneaker, the Brooks Adrenaline GTS, that has supported him for 15 years through 14 marathons and thousands of miles of midlife crisis pavement pounding. He has 30 pairs of assorted vintages and in assorted states of disrepair.
“Like a lot of people, I find a running shoe that works and I stick with it,” said Mr. Sagal, 53. “You know, when I met David Sedaris, the one thing he asked me was about my shoe size.”
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/style/wait-wait-dont-tell-me-npr-host-peter-sagal.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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