Finding Radiance

I am so tired! I decided last night to let myself take a day off from exercise today and sleep in a little, which was kind of nice
I was out late last night doing dog training and then shopping for that last minute outfit.  FYI – we don’t own a dog, just this [...]

Happy Monday!  Waving ‘hi’ to all the new readers – there have been a ton over the past week!
It felt really good to hit the gym today.  I did a power lifting workout!

Chin ups:  2 sets of 2, 1 set of 1
Squats:  3 sets of 8 with 85# barbell

Superset:

Stationary lunge:  3 sets of 8 with [...]

Another good night of sleep.  Maybe there is something to the 5HTP stuff, but more on that later….  At the gym a little early and had a great work out.  After a warm up, I hit the weights:

Chin ups:  2 sets of 3, 1 set of 2.
Barbell deadlift/row combo:  3 sets of 10 at 55 [...]

Yay!  My first day of the weekend.  I was up early, though.  Ooops.  I was at the gym before 7 a.m.!  I decided to start with some stationary bike.  We got talking about our planned 100-mile ride this summer and it got me itching for my bike.  Come on spring!
After a little warm-up biking, I [...]

Monday and back to work for most people, although I started back yesterday.  My Broncos are done for the year…. sigh….  time to put away the fan apparel for the year (except the snuggie – too cold to put that away).  Now I need to root on my adopted team – The Saints!
Headed out to [...]

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 [...]

Thanks again for all of you offering to send me pumpkin LOL!  We have 5 4 cans left.  No worries, we find more
I was just going to hit the treadmill today, but then I decided to dink around with weights.  I missed my lifting and it’s been 10 days, so that is long [...]

Well, tomorrow is the big day!  It seems as though people are either excited about Thanksgiving or panicked about it.  Too many people letting the thought of too much food get in the way of the real spirit of sharing with friends and family.  My personal philosophy is to have a plan, but if I [...]

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 [...]

Thanks for your comments on yesterday’s post.  I felt a little silly actually putting that out there, but there it is!  I’m back to my usual self today
You know what Sunday morning is!  Gingerbread…

And here is proof that I actually eat these things:

Chomp!!  Still sticking by my Broncos – even though they [...]