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NPR Host Peter Sagal Offers Life Lessons Learned While Pounding The Pavement

Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! is also an avid runner and author of 'The Incomplete Book of Running.'
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Peter Sagal, host of NPR's Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! is also an avid runner and author of 'The Incomplete Book of Running.'

Public radio star Peter Sagal has not always been the dedicated long-distance runner he is today. After competing on his high school cross-country team, 25 years would pass before he took exercising seriously again. What started out as a goal to get healthy, led to 14 marathon finishes. Today, Sagal talked about the lessons he's learned, and how his running helped him get a handle on life during hard times.

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Steve Kraske is an associate teaching professor of journalism at UMKC, a political columnist for The Kansas City Star and has hosted "Up to Date" since 2002. He worked as the full-time political correspondent for The Star from 1994-2013 covering national, state and local campaigns. He also has covered the statehouses in Topeka and Jefferson City.
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