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Support The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society!

My friend Melissa is running a marathon next month in January – and that’s a feat in itself, something I still can’t wrap my brain around (I was unwell for much of October, throwing off my running plan… again….). She’s taking donations to support cancer research, and I wanted to throw this information on my [...]

26Oct2008 | Mur Lafferty | 1 comment | Continued
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Back into running

A little over 13 years ago I quit smoking. As it’s still something I find myself craving, and also something I don’t mind other people doing around me, I don’t think of myself as a non-smoker, more like an ex-smoker.
In the same vein, I realized that because my attempts to get into running have been [...]

27Sep2008 | Mur Lafferty | 11 comments | Continued
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Various updates

Sigh. I suck at blogging. Just something that I forget to update. So here’s lots of updates from me:

Playing For Keeps: We’ve reached over 12,000 listeners. We have pint glasses and tshirts available, and on Jan. 1 I launched the book in print. It’s going quite well and I’m really grateful to all the people [...]

7Jan2008 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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Hello World, I’m back

Two weeks off, well, much of anything. With travel, insomnia, and some health stress (that turned out to be nothing, don’t worry), I had two weeks of non-exercise and non-writing. I even tried some days to get up early, but my body wasn’t having anything of it. Even yesterday I set my alarm … and [...]

11Oct2007 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued
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Running again.

I started running again this morning. Last night I chatted with Shannon Farrell and Dree Gideon about motivation and the like, so we agreed to support each other. They’re both well past me in the training, as today was day one, but we have to start somewhere.
I’m doing the coolrunning.com “Couch to 5K” plan along [...]

26Sep2007 | Mur Lafferty | 0 comments | Continued