Looooove you girl!

So yesterday after my run, I showered, and then sat in my robe and towel for four solid hours getting work done. I had an urgent meeting a friend to meet for shopping, so I wanted to get done asmuchasIcould. Success!

Oh, and I also made this little gem of a breakfast:

That would be overnight oats layered with banana softserve, Oh She Glows style.

dreamy

a cherry on top!

While shopping, I bought this shirt from Von Maur:

It still has the tags on…what do you think, yay or nay?

After a couple hours of shopping which involved several stops, I finally headed home

Did you see lunch anywhere in the mix? I didn’t either. All the sudden it was 4:00 and I realized I hadn’t had lunch, which is totally unlike me! Stomach pangs reminded me that I shouldn’t do that. So did breaking into the first thing I saw as an “appetizer”

We were going out for Indian food around 6:00 and I didn’t want to spoil it, so this worked perfectly with some salsa…and a beer.

Indian Food!!!

Started with the honey gobi – cauliflower (frackin’ delicious)

and the main course was Baighann Bartha with some whole wheat naan (roti?)

Amazing, I can’t lie.

When we got home, Shane had some work to do, and I had a sudden burst of energy! I cleaned up the kitchen, painted my toes, and munched on a few of these for dessert:

Wow.

Little bursts of deliciousness!

Headed to bed fairly early for a weekend but 11:00 felt like it was 2 in the morning for some reason!

I woke up hungry for breakfast.

Oats n coffee (with blueberries!) for me.

and pancakes for the husband.

Well I’m off to get a leg workout in, work a little, and then SHOP s’more!

Have a wonderful Saturday, guys and gals!!                

I am loving this cool front moving in the past couple of days! It’s still going to get up to 90 today, but this morning it’s in the 60’s! Perfect for running…

Quick and Hilly 7 6 Mile run

Since the end of May, I’ve been jumping on the trail to run my longer runs. There’s ample shade and minimal hills, and with the heat we’re having this year, it’s the only way to make it bearable! With the cooler than normal temps this morning, I took it as a chance to change up the scenery and run my fall 7 mile route.

Mile 1: 9:28

Mile 2: 8:58

Mile 3: 8:55

Mile 4: 9:17 (lots of hills!!)

Mile 5: 9:06 (the hills continued)

Mile 6: 8:35 (the hills flattened out + a burst at the end!)

Total: 6 miles in 54:17

What’s that? That’s only 6 miles? Apparently it’s been so long since I’ve run a long (6+ mile) run off the trail that I forgot the route was only 6! I needed to go an extra block through (ISU) campus to make it 7. Ah well Good run either way.

About an hour before leaving, I munched on some Great Harvest 9 grain bread with a banana + PB + maca combo topping:

And when my Camel bak was dry (I threw it in the wash since it got drenched after my last longer run) I was off!

The run felt pretty good even though I had a pretty quick negative split run yesterday!

Yesterday at work was a food day – and the Great Harvest Bars I brought in got gobbled up STAT. My teammates know how to demolish some food! haha

I did a pretty good job of staying away from the food table. I grabbed up some hummus and crackers, plus half of a peach GHB bar, but that’s about it. For lunch, I ate an egg salad sandwich I threw together the night before.

This was seriously a little of this and a little of that. I have no specific measurements, but the ingredients were 1.5 hard boiled eggs, chopped, some greek yogurt,hummus, some mustard, vinegar, sea salt, cayenne, pepper, and lemon juice. Ta-da.

It was good! A little heavy on the cayenne, but still really good!

I didn’t have any clients to train after work yesterday, so Shane and I decided to go on a bike ride!!

Twas a beautiful day

(pause for dramatic effect)

Do you know how long I’ve been trying to get this man to go on a bike ride with me?

All. Summer. (we stopped at Jewel and had some technical difficulties with the bag on the way home )

It must be the lack of cigarettes. For those of you who missed it, my husband has been an on again off again smoker. He quit right before we got married, but started back up about a year ago. As of today, he is on Day Six of being smoke free. This is pretty dang monumental, folks. And he hasn’t even been being a jerkface!! haha

After the bike ride, my girl Missy came over to drop off Arizona, her puppy aka Niko’s bestie to play while she went to a meeting.

Meanwhile, the hubski cooked dinner on the grill!

Chopped sweet potatoes, carrots, onion, and ‘sparagus:

burger on a GHB 9 grain slice.

Nomtastic.

Dessert was an undocumented slice of paradise. I warmed up the other half of the GHB bar, and topped with with a scoop of frozen yogurt. Sorry you can’t witness the beauty of this simple dessert. A. La. Freakin. Mode.

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Well I’m off to do a little website work, train a client, clean, and then get my shop on! I spent the better half of this morning (before my run) browsing fashion blogs, and now I’m inspired to go spend $$!! ha

Any plans for the weekend? I have lots of work to catch up on and get my booty workin’ on some CEC’s.             

I think the addition of a 1 year old spaztastic dog made these two appreciate each other a little more:

They’re secret lover-buddies.

Lata Tayta’s!

Good morning to yooouuuu! That was sung in the tune to a “good morning” song my pastor once sang during a summer church camp way back from my youth. That song brings back bad memories of unreasonably early mornings, unseasonably cold weather, and unbearably tight pants (I forgot to bring any long pants at all, thus ended up sharing with my best friend’s pants who was half my size, bhaha.) Flashback over!

This morning’s breakfast was a big ole waffle fail! After this morning’s 4 miler, I wanted waffles like nobody’s business. Once I heated up the waffle maker, I realized we were out of whole wheat flour. I didn’t let it stop me, and used oat bran flour instead.

waffle fail. It came out a mess and stuck to each side of the waffle maker, but I was determined to eat it anyway. Is that so wrong?

But with a topping of G.Y. + almond butter + vanilla stevia and a side of iced coffee, it can’t be too bad, right?

Right! So back to the run. I was actually excited to go on my run when I popped out of bed this morning. I had downloaded a fresh play list (think Drake, Eminem, Enrique and Do or Die – when all else fails, Do or Die makes  awesome running music imo) and the weather was amazing. I started out the door just as the sun was going up, and the clouds were literally glowing. I think I like it!  Oh yes I like it!

The run stats weren’t too bad either! 4.25 miles run with an avg. pace of 8:59 – hey that’s still under a 9 min/mile!

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Yesterday wasn’t too busy for a Wednesday, and included working at the BIC and training two clients – one of which was a newbie! Her session went wonderfully, and I think she got a lot out of it. Job<—satisfying.

Lunch was a mexican fiesta atop a bed of romaine:

Think the innards of the other night’s enchiladas + a whole ‘nother tomato (I just wrote strawberry…wtf?)

I made dinner after I trained, and it was simple and delicious!

Brussels:

Sweet potato fries ever so lightly coated in a mix of EVOO, PB, and S&P:

Plus some morning star chick’n nuggets (so does leaving out the “e” in chicken the vegetarian way to spell it or something!?)

I’m late! I’m late! For a very important!…unit meeting.

Today’s “food day” at the BIC where we all bring in something. I was a bit lazy after training last night, so my contribution will be something from Great Harvest Bread. Probably just as well

Ciao!