15 miles? Done! Phew.
Shawn, one of Zak’s college buddies up front in the red there, is my running partner. He’s training for a triathlon and we’re debating on doing the Rochester Marathon together, but his tri is a week after the marathon and he’s trying to convince me to do the Corning Wineglass Marathon with that’s a few weeks later but is about an hour and a half away from home. I can’t decide!
Our first leg was just shy of 9 miles and we came back to refuel and rehydrate.
15 miles on the docket for this morning. I’m running today with the same group I ran with a few weeks ago.
I carried this tub’o melon around with me as I gathered my gear.
And even managed to read this tid bit about watermelon and its awesome metabolism boosting capabilities in this article in Prevention mag!
I got a free 1 year subscription to Prevention from Stonyfield Farm thanks to sending in some licked clean yogurt lids. It’s a nice mag with lots of good stuff.
Now I’m finishing up my banana and AB drizzle –
I’ve sat at my desk today all today like the old days when I had a “real job”.
I broke for lunch and ate at my desk. When we’re child free here, not a single second can be wasted.
A giant salad made up of just about every vegetable in my fridge. Red leaf, green leaf, boston bibb, carrots, raw corn cut off the cob (have you tried this yet?? SO sweet and juicy – GET ON IT!), tomato, green pepper tossed in homemade Italian. And some Green and Black dark chocolate that I took a bite out of before I snapped the pic.
Check out this email I that was waiting for me from Zak’s Aunt Ellen when I got home from my bike ride this morning!
Funny you should mention a juicer. The other day I was thinking that you might like my Dad’s juicer that has been looking for a new home, after having sat on my basement shelf for some time now. It is an ACME Supreme Juicerator Model 5001. My Dad was definitely ahead of his time as he was using flax seed oil, some raw foods and other nutritional ideas back in the day. You are welcome to try it out and see if it meets your needs. If it meets your needs you may keep it. If it doesn’t, you may still keep it!
Call us crazy, but we don’t have cable television. When we moved into our house four years ago we decided we would just use old fashioned rabbit ears and skip cable to save some money. Let me be clear that this was not my idea, but I went with it.
Turns out it was one of the best things we ever did. We watch way less TV because of it, and the girls watch movies from the library or shows on PBS. I like that they aren’t subjected to the advertising on TV. With the new converter boxes the digital signal comes in crystal clear and we have a few more channels to boot.
I’m still on the fence about running the Rochester Marathon this year, which is in mid September. I trained for it last year, but really it was all about just doing it AND I used it as motivation to have a guide and a schedule to make sure I was getting out there and exercising daily to help me stay on track with losing weight.
I was excited to get up and go for a long bike ride this morning. I love running but riding is great too. I love how much farther I can go in less time, riding through town and through the neighborhoods in the early morning hours when it’s quiet and there’s hardly any traffic. In just under an hour I managed to go 15 miles.
Before I left on my ride I finished up the last of the cut up watermelon, so I spent some time this morning prepping more melon among other fruits and veggies.
Today started with nice and easy 5.28 miles in just over 40 minutes.
While I was on my run, Zak picked breakfast from our tiny berry patch the backyard.
Those little red berries in the back are currants, there are also red raspberries, small cherries and some black raspberries hiding in the pile too.
Whoops! Lucky for you we’re vegetarian so you are pardoned Mr. Slug.
Zak and I ate fruit for breakfast together standing on the deck since the chairs were still wet from last nights rain. I busted out the watermelon for a little more pink.
My camera has seen better days.
This is what my apple with cinnamon looks like when I don’t have my contacts in.
I passed on a morning work out to “run” to the grocery store for fresh produce.
Mama needs fruit!
Mmmm blurry cantaloupe.
And fuzzy coffee with a notebook as I made notes on the new digital camera I’m going to go buy this morning with my stash of cash I’ve been saving to buy a Garmin.
Oh well, who needs a Garmin anyway?
Waking up hungry, I ransacked the fridge for a bowl of pre-run watermelon.
A bit of foreshadowing for more PINK yet to come this morning perhaps?
Watermelon partially digested, I laced up my sneakers and hit the pavement for 32 minutes to run 4.18 miles with Jillian.
Upon my return as I approached the house, I could hear Maxine crying from the street (windows open). I ran up the stairs and snagged her from the bedroom. We came downstairs to do some yoga to stretch and cool down.
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