He wasn’t used to free time. He had started running at 3:30 A.M. before work. In April, he ran the Boston Marathon for charity. Friends had told him to start slow, to pace himself. Skaggs complied, though this went against all his instincts. He was still fresh at Mile 21 and finished in four hours, nine minutes, with energy to spare. “Bad tactics,” he thought. He’d violated his own creed: Never hold back.
