Running Around Normal

Goooood morning! How has your weekend gone so far? Going great so far here:)

I’m currently digesting a big bowl of banana oatmeal:

Mmmm! To make this I just heated up 1 c. water, 1/2 c. oats, 1 T flax, 1 T. chia, and 1 smashed organic banana on the stove until boiling, then simmered, and added a handful of raisins. Topped it off with some coconut almond butter syrup! To make this, just heat up a little coconut butter, almond butter, and coconut milk in the microwave,stir, and poooour on. SO good, but SO filling. I could only eat about 3/4’s of it.

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Yesterday I ran in the first 5k of the year! It was at our city’s zoo – the Zoo Stampede run.

(finisher’s medal)

The race wasn’t until 10:00, so I woke up around 7, and made a stabilizing and filling pre-race breakfast made with these ingredients:

Brown rice flour toast – one piece with Earth Balance and organic jelly, and the other with my usual pre-workout snack used as a spread! This spread consists one a half a smashed banana, 1 T. almond butter, cinnamon, and maca.

And then a fresh mango!

Mmm. First one of those of the season, too

After hanging around a little while, the hubski and I drove over to the zoo to get our race faces on!

Unfortunately, I forgot to bring the memory card to my camera, and the only pictures I got were after the race:

Booo:(

Albeit not being able to document the race with photos, it went wonderfully! Seriously it couldn’t have been a better day. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and it wasn’t extremely cold (mid-upper thirties.) And right before getting in the starting line, I saw Christine (from Fly Runner.) That’s all I saw of her though, because I’m pretty sure she was one of the first few through the finish line!!

After I got my race bib and t-shirt, I had about a half hour before the start, and decided to jog a warm up mile or two. Can you believe this is the first time I’ve actually “warmed up” before a race?! Usually I just use the first half mile or so of the race to warm up, and go from there. Anyway, the warm up must have helped a lot, because the race went great!

My goal was to hold a 9:00 mile for the race. Since my training has really been focusing on distance and mileage as opposed to speed, I wasn’t trying to break any personal records. But to my surprise, I was holding an 8:36 mile quite easily the whole way through! It was really just a nice, relaxing, fun, quick run! The course wasn’t very flat, either! There were probably about 5 hills throughout the course, and I handled them quite well (for me) for not doing any hill workouts. During the last three 10th’s of a mile, I really booked it, and came in 27:03! It’s not a PR or anything, but it’s MUCH better than I had hoped I’d do

My mom and dad came to watch, too, and afterward, we all went out to lunch at Fiesta Ranchera, one of the Mexican restaurants in town:

BYOK (Bring your own kombucha)

I went with the ever-impressive veggie fajitas w/ guac – LOVE iiiit!

Afterward, we did a little shopping (only to come out unsuccessful – boo:( ) and went to Fresh Market for some goods.

After separating and putting away the groceries, Euchre sounded fun!

My dad and my dog who is OBSESSED with him.

And vice versa

Me and my ma Us girls ended up kicking BOOTY in euchre, btw. Oh yeah, that’s right!!

The parental unit left shortly after, but the husbski and I weren’t ready to stop the shenanigans. Oh, Saturday. I was super pumped to see Alice and Wonderland, so Shane and I decided to go check it out in 3D!

Shane was just going to have movie popcorn for dinner, but since that ended up being my dinner Friday night, I made myself a pre-popcorn dinner before hand:

This salad was amazingly easy and amazingly tasty. Contained spinach, cucumber, avocado, button mushroom, 1 egg and 1 egg white, and goat cheese.

And of course I munched on some popcorn at the movie as well

It was actually my first time seeing a 3d movie! It took my eyes a bit to adjust, but when they did, I loved it! The movie was pretty good, too. It kept my interest for the whole duration, which is saying something for me.

Now I’m about to go meet my friend, Heidi at the gym for some legs and running, and then to the coffee shop! It’s pretty much become a tradition that we gym it and grab coffee afterwards at least once a weekend The rest of my day will be spent doing mounds of laundry and mounds of cleaning! Nothing like putting all that stuff off until Sunday

Have a fabulous end to your weekend, all!