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.
Prepare yourself for a blow by blow my almost unbelievable day.
Remember way back to my Breakfast Part I and Breakfast Part II this morning? Yup, me too. I was good to go until nearly 1:00.
This is CRAZY TALK. Most days, especially days when we stay home and don’t go anywhere, I’m ready to eat NOW and lunch is typically on the early side.
Today for lunch I made a lettuceless salad.
An entire zucchini, shredded
An entire ear of corn, raw and sliced off the cob
An entire avocado, diced
A bunch of grape tomatoes, sliced in half.
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.
Me and my new best friend.
Canon PowerShot SD 960 IS.
Lunch went unphotographed because we got home starving and waiting the hour and a half for my battery to charge would have been a huge joke.
My eyes tend to glaze over when I read about what people are eating without pics. What can I say, I’m a picture person. Without pics I would otherwise skip this but for food combining purposes I’m going write about it today. I’ll keep it brief.
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?
I finished The Raw Food Detox Diet while we were up north with Zak’s family at their cottage for the holiday weekend.
This was the only food picture I took all weekend!
I’ve seen this in my local health food stores but have never been interested in trying it. I rarely buy drinks when we are out, I usually only bring my own water. But after seeing this on many raw food blogs, I was feeling a little “rawdy” when I saw it at a new health food store we stopped at on the way up north on Friday.
Zak wanted to swim laps at the pool this morning so I was home with snoozing offspring and left to my own devices with a family room workout. I cranked out 45 minutes of cardio and resistance training a la 30 Day Shred, Levels 2 and 3, plus some extra push ups and planks just to make sure I was really suffering.
Sweaty and satisfied? Check. On to a spankin’ new breakfast.
Overnight Oatbran, an idea I stole borrowed from Homegirl Brooke and with a few clickety clicks realized it started with SnackFace Kailey.
Party in the park!
We had fun at the park today with rulers and colored pencils learning about vertical lines, horizontal lines, diagonal lines, and the different kind of shapes we can make with these lines. Good stuff.
Maxine wants to hear that last bit on “vertical lines” one more time though.
We worked on our balance and poise a bit too.
Running short on time, I threw everything portable I had into a bag before we ran out the door. We had a small lunch at the park, lets call this Lunch Part I.
Out the door first thing this morning for a 4.2 mile run in 34 minutes. I took it easy and just enjoyed a jaunt around the neighborhood. A perfectly cool, sunny morning with my girlfriend Jillian.
Once I got home to find everyone still sleeping, I decided to take a cool down ride and rode the long way to my little grocery store to pick up coffee knowing we were out. After I read Master Your Metabolism a few months ago and along with listening to Jillian talk on and on about the pesticides that conventionally grown coffee beans are covered in, I decided it was worth it to make the switch to organic.
We had a great day at the children’s museum today, despite having all the children of the city there to join us. It rained all day and apparently we weren’t the only ones who had the brilliant idea to find something fun to do indoors today.
I’ll spare you the 100 photographs I took and instead share just a few of my favorites.
First up!
Guess who tied this shoe?? (Hint: NOT ME!)
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