Redemption

How to redeem yourself from a run failure: Up your mileage and dominate it!  Such is what I decided to do today.  My training called for another week exactly like the last two: 2 3-mile runs, 1 2-mile, and 1 4-mile.  So boring, so I decided to do 2 3.5-milers, 1 2-miler and a 5-miler.  Take that, mental aversion to running!!

• Mile 1 – 9:20 Note: I may or may not have pretended it was the half marathon and high-fived a few tall weeds as I ran past… 
• Mile 2 – 9:04
• Mile 3 – 8:57
• Mile 3-3.5 – 4:37 (9:15 pace)
• Total = 31:59 boo-ya!

Yesterday’s eats and massage must have paid off!

I sipped on a BRIGHT GREEN smoothie on my way to get a massage from my mom — free massages feel so much better 🙂  And my calves were much less sore afterwards, thank goodness.

Massage was followed by a big plate of green, with some yellow bell pepper, carrot, hummus and pretzels

Mid-afternoon, Joey and I shared a Chocolate Chip Brownie Larabar and it was just heavenly.  Healthy never tasted so good.

Dinner:

Curried Shrimp and Rice (adapted from here):

• 1 sweet potato
• 1 lb. shrimp
• 1 cup brown rice
• 2.5 cups chicken broth
• 2 carrots, sliced
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 3t curry powder
• 2T olive oil
• 1/4t pepper
• 2t dried basil

1. Poke sweet potato several times with a fork, place on a cookie sheet and bake for 40 minutes on 350
2. Cut potato into 1″ cubes, removing the skin
3. Heat oil in a pan, add onion, garlic, carrots, potato, cook 8 minutes, stirring occasionally
4. Add curry, rice, broth and pepper.  Bring to a boil, reduce to low, cover and simmer 15 minutes
5. Add shrimp, cover and cook 7 more minutes until shrimp look opaque 
6. Sprinkle with basil, dig in!

The recipe called for russet potatoes and white rice but I thought sweet potatoes and brown rice would be better.  Yum yum, I LOVE curry!

 I also love evening walks in the summer, which is what followed dinner 🙂  It’s nice to get up and move around after eating a big o’ bowl of curry.

Now on to this morning’s breakfast — is this post all over the place or what today?

A glorious run deserves a glorious post-run breakfast, hence the return of the oatmeal pancake (Kath’s recipe)

 I topped this bad boy with banana slices (I probably used 1/2 a banana in all — some mashed into the batter, the rest on the top), PB sauce (1T PB + 1T almond milk, microwave 30 seconds, stir, pour), mixed berry compote and peach jam.  I ended up swirling all the toppings together and it was so magical, sighhh

I crossed off ALL the things on my to-do list today and am in a blissful mood 😀

And with that I’m off, see you all tomorrow!