I'm Virus Free!

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Now that I have your attention (what did you THINK this post would be about??), I'm happy to announce Google has reindexed all my sites and everything is now virus free. Denaharris.com, LessonsInStalking.com, and KissMyKittyButt.com are all active again.

And the new permanent URL for this blog is www.denaharris.com/blog. 

Thanks for everyone's patience with this. I can't tell you what a relief it was to log on this morning and find my site up and running. Whew!

Dena

 

How My Flat Iron Wrecked My Morning

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I hit the ground running today. Out of bed by 6 and straight to the laptop where I pounded out the final edits on my book proposal and hit the SEND button, sending them flying across the electric miles to my agent in California. Then a quick check of e-mail before I prepared a marinated asparagus that must sit for 8 hours in the fridge. Hopped on the treadmill for 3 quick miles, showered, blew dry and... the world came to a halt.

My flat iron, the most treasured possession of any curly-haired woman living in the humid South, was dead.

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Furman Training: Run Less Run Faster

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I've spent the last couple of weeks researching various training programs. I'm running the Chicago Marathon on October 11th, which means my "go" date for summer training is June 21st... right around the corner.

After reading and discussing the matter with several knowledgeable running friends, I've decided to put my fate in the hands of the Furman marathon training program. My friend Thad, known in the blogging sphere as Runnerdude, posted a recent entry about the program.

The appeal of the program is that you only run 3 days a week. The flip side of that is these are focused (read: hard) runs. No casual chit-chatting with fellow runners on this program. The first run is intervals on the track and the pacing charts are brutal. The second run is a tempo run, usually run at 70-80% effort. The final run is the long run but unlike most programs that encourage you to do LSR's (long slow runs), this program keeps you moving at almost race pace. And the mileage is insane. Week one kicks off with a 13-miler and I think we do our first 20 miler by week 4. Most programs spend all summer building up to the 20 miler.

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You Found It!

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Congratulations! If you're reading this you most likely made it here from my old Blog address. Please remember to bookmark this blog addres -www.denaharris.squarespace.com/blog- and delete the old "blogsbydenaharris" address from your cache and bookmarks.

I'm going to hold off posting for a couple of days in the hopes of giving everyone time to migrate here. If you've made it, I'd love regular readers to leave me a quick "I'm here" message or shoot me an e-mail so I know everyone is on board.