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Crutches

By Laura Conrad | Published: January 31, 2010
I got a phone call at 8 AM Friday morning. I was nervous when I realized who it was -- it was the partner of one of the people I was playing the concert with yesterday. The last time I got a call from someone like that the day before the concert, it was the [...]
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New Year’s Resolutions

By Laura Conrad | Published: December 31, 2009
First, a couple of resolutions I'm not making: It's silly to claim you're all of a sudden going to start working on something you've been doing no work on for years. So I'm not going to resolve to learn a language or run a marathon. While there are lots of reasons why weighing 20 pounds [...]
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

By Laura Conrad | Published: November 13, 2009
This book is a memoir by the Japanese novelist Hideki Murakami about the place long-distance running has in his life. I've enjoyed a couple of his novels ( Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood) quite a bit, and I enjoyed this memoir too. He took up running when he stopped running a bar/restaurant/jazz club [...]
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The Boston Marathon

By Laura Conrad | Published: April 21, 2009
The marathons I like are the ones where the winner runs across the finish line looking like he or she isn't even breathing hard. Of course, it's more exciting when there's more than one person at the end and they have to sprint. Yesterday's women's race had the first and second place runners separated by [...]
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Exercise

By Laura Conrad | Published: April 17, 2009
I usually get a burst of energy for improving my exercise habits sometime in April. Often it's after watching the Boston Marathon, but this year it happened a couple of weeks before. I have occasionally been someone who goes to a gym and puts on funny clothes and works out on a machine for 20 [...]
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