Finding Radiance

Happy Halloween! I was up way too early for my Goblin Gallop on Saturday. Finally a race that is about 4 miles from home, so I can sleep in, and I woke up too early. Sigh… Last pink item of the month! My jammies I made up a pre-race breakfast of banana custard oats topped [...]

We were up early for the race today.  This race benefits the Special Olympics New York and is one of the bigger races we do.  It was also my very first 5K 2 years ago, so it is a little sentimental. Had pre run fuel of banana oats topped with cashew butter and jam.  Plus [...]

My first post injury race!  Woke up at 6:30 to make some brekkie and coffee.  I used to do the 1-minute muffin before races, then I moved to protein oats.  I had those today.  I skip eggs on race day. This bowl had oats, pumpkin, 1/2 scoop whey protein isolate (plain), 1-1/2 tsp of molasses.  [...]

Up early this morning, although not that early since the race was pretty close to home.  I woke up around 6:40.  Made a delicious prerace breakfast: cream of wheat 1/2 cup pumpkin cinnamon 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder cranberry sauce and almond butter on top. So good and really good race fuel.  With cafe au [...]

Happy Halloween everyone! Race day!  The Goblin Gallop 5K.  250 runners, which was probably 100 more than last year.  It was fairly warm in the mid 50s at least.  I had trouble sleeping, so I was up way early.  Had a nummy cream of wheat with banana, vanilla protein powder, nut butter and a drizzle [...]

Just a quick buzz by – John did a PR for this 5K  race (hills and all) 26:24!! He rocks!  Done by a person with asthma, too.  I’m so proud! Going out for a bike ride now because his time makes me feel like a lazy butt   Catch you later…. Pin it

Got up this morning expecting rain, but it had passed through during the night – yay!  I didn’t really want to race in the rain (that is not so fun). Fueled up with my standard prerace meal – a 1 minute muffin (although 1 time I did oatbran): Ingredients: 1/4 cup ground flax meal 1 [...]

So, I’m not going for any time stuff tomorrow morning. Just a good Turkey Day 5K run. I’ll be glad to burn the calories. It’s early, at 8:30 am – likely to be chilly, but looks like no snow. Yay! I did okay with eating today. Fine up until dinner, then I had fries with [...]

Well, the weather was fairly crappy for today’s race. It started cloudy and 40ish, then it started to drizzle. John decided not to walk the 5K, because he didn’t want to be miserable. Me – I paid entry, so the cheapie that I am decided to tough it out LOL! It was cold when we [...]

My next race is tomorrow. Not sure what to expect. It should be really nice weather, and the race doesn’t start until 10 am, so it won’t be too cold. Fell into some candy corn tonight. Went to my parents’ house, where my nieces were staying over. They made S’mores, and I just had a [...]