Finding Radiance

Weekend!  Put your hands together everybody!  I so wanted to sleep in the morning and go to the gym a little bit later, but the garbage truck woke me up and I couldn’t get back to sleep.  I got up about 15 minutes later than usual.  The gym was pretty quiet today, as usual on [...]

Thanks for the nice comments yesterday about my flashback fat feelings.  It just nice sometimes to admit to these things and know you aren’t alone.  So, I hit the gym for run day today.  I set the treadmill at 5.5 mph and just chugged it out while listening to my player.  I had downloaded Casandra [...]

Thanks for the insomnia suggestions…. hmmmm…. narcotics, booze…. s*x….and kids.  
You know that carb loading I did yesterday led to a fabulous run today!  6 miles without even batting an eye.  How about that?  I think I might be becoming a runner…. I got on the hamster wheel and spent 2 miles getting [...]

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Bitter cold this morning.  One of those days where the stairs crack and pop on the porch    I headed out to the gym for my run.  [...]

I woke up with a little bit of a food hangover today LOL.  Anyone else??  I ate a lot of food yesterday, but you know what?  I enjoyed every single bite.  I ate what I wanted, enjoyed it,and feel absolutely no regret.  And that feels really good!  I like that food is not an enemy [...]

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Off to the gym this morning to workout.  It was really weird there today, as I overheard one of the new owners talking about pallbearers and funerals, and the other owner wasn’t there.  [...]

Woke up this morning to a nice view out the window:

Oh wait, wrong picture….

I headed out to the gym in the snow, because schools were just delayed at the time, so I figured that the snow would end soon.  I did the following workout:

Chinups:  2
Romanian barbell deadlift:  3 sets of 8 at 75 pounds

Alternating sets:

Barbell [...]

Hello and happy Monday!  I am glad you enjoyed my winter pictures from yesterday.  I love my camera (even though I drool over DSLR!).  I made up a lifting program to do for the month of December.  It will be 2 alternating workouts for the next few weeks.  Today:
Big muscle group start:

Chin up (I am [...]

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 lait.
The temperature was about 30 or [...]

Thank you for all of your input on canning/storing pumpkin!  I can’t believe that some of you have lots of pumpkin in your stores!  I think part of it is how much pumpkin gets sent to small towns in upstate NY versus other parts of the country.  My sister is on the lookout in Saratoga [...]