Finding Radiance

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 coffee.

Then [...]

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 [...]

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 of [...]

Race day for the Silk & Satin. There were 1000ish runners for this race!
Got up at 5:15 (ugh??) to get breakfast and coffee. Decided against showering.
Breakfast of champions!

Oat bran with banana topped with cashew butter.  I didn’t add any protein powder today, maybe I should have.
Got to the race sign up around 7 [...]

What a soggy day today!  For some reason, rainy days make me really snacky.  No weight workout today as I have the race tomorrow and I want to rest my hamstring.  Feels much better, though.
I was going to pick more blueberries with my mom today, but it was raining all day, so nixed that.
Lunch was [...]

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 egg
1 tsp brown sugar
1 [...]