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Rainy day and curry

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 the other of those strawberry pluots plus an egg sandwich:

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Spent most of the morning hoping the rain would stop and cleaning.   Wheeee…..

Then went out and picked up groceries for a little party tomorrow for John.  His birthday is next week, but we are having a cheese, fruit, and veggie thing and then cake (chocolate with chocolate buttercream) tomorrow night with the family.

Stopped and had coffee and a cookie that John had made – a lowfat version of a sugar cookie

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We had a throw together dinner.  Wanted something Indian curry style, so I put together the following:

  • black mustard seeds
  • cumin seeds
  • garam masala
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil
  • 9 ounces of chicken, cubed
  • 1/3 cup red lentils
  • 1 tablespoon red curry paste (hot!!!)
  • 1 can of lite coconut milk

Sauteed the spices in the coconut oil until the seeds popped, then added the chicken and browned.  I had parcooked the lentils and then added them to the pot with the curry paste and coconut milk.  Then simmered while the brown rice cooked.  This will serve about 4 people.  I wasn’t going to use the whole can of coconut milk, but the curry paste is very hot, which is fine by me, but I didn’t think John would like it so I used the rest of the coconut milk to dilute it.

I pan sauteed broccoli to add to my bowl to bulk it up.  1/2 cup of rice doesn’t go very far.

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Quite tasty!  I used the lentils to thicken it instead of ground cashews to save on some fat.  But, I did snack on some!

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Have to get up flippin’ early again tomorrow.  We need to be registered for the Silk & Satin race by 7:30 tomorrow morning.  I hope to be under 30 minutes.  Last year was my very first official 5K and it was this same race.

My time was around 45 minutes, which I hope to better tomorrow 😀

Weather calls for sun with maybe morning clouds.  Should be good if it isn’t too humid.

Hopefully John won’t finish too far in front of me.  I finally got him into running, and now he is faster than me!   D’oh!

Question:  What’s on tap for your weekend?

Breakfast – it’s what’s for lunch!

Rainy and humid last night, but the morning showed some promise so we decided to go for a light run.  I was not hungry when I woke up (shocking) so decided just to head out the door.   It was so humid, which would have been okay, but then the sun came out and it felt so ucky while jogging!  I told myself I needed to do 2 miles, then I could stop or keep going if I wanted.  John had already pulled way ahead right from the start.  I wanted to be slow because of my hamstring and just resting up for race day on Sat.  After 2 miles, I was sweating so bad my forearms were dripping sweat (eeeewwwwww!!).  Now that is sweaty.  I decided on 1 more lap and then walked one.  Turns out I lost count and actually ran 2.5 miles LOL!  John was counting for me.

Had a lighter breakfast today of waffles and blueberries.

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Got right to work and was hungry not long after.  I did not have enough fat or protein with brekkie and wanted something nice and solid in my tummy for lunch.  So my go-to when I want to be full?  Oat bran!  I was feeling nice and cool after my shower and the house was shady in the morning with a nice breeze, so I didn’t mind a hot lunch.

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  • 1/3 cup (40 grams)  oat bran
  • 1 small mashed banana
  • 2 tbsp PB2
  • dash of cinnamon
  • topped with a few dark chocolate chips.

Look how melty they get on top.  Sooo good.

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Had a fairly craptacular day with work.  I am learning a new account which is really frustrating, plus they upgraded their software which created real problems on our end.   On top of that –  a visit to the dentist today and they have to redo a filling because I may have a possible abscess forming, although we are hoping doing the new filling will take care of that and I won’t need a root canal.   Then I find out that there is some damage to my rental property which needs to be taken care of.  One of those days where you just want to cry, you know?

So – I told John I wanted to go out for dinner.  We dropped off a couple library books that were due today and decided on Rock Hill Bakehouse. Very nice place with a politically outspoken owner.  It’s casual there and very airy feeling:

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Flowers at the table:

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They serve local everything here and small company stuff (no Coke or Pepsi products!), so meat is okay here.  I ordered the Grandpa Smith sandwich, which is ham, cheddar cheese, granny smith apple, honey mustard served on grilled cinnamon raisin bread.  Yum!

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My choice of side was a lemon pistachio biscotti, which I shared with John.

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With all the problems earlier and the dental appointment, I am going to be working late tonight, so I had better get back at it.  Sometimes I wish I led this life:

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Taper week and garden.

No Y this morning since I am not lifting or swimming.  I actually slept in until a little after 7!!  I wanted to do an easy run today.  I finally understand what easy run means.  Running always used to be hard, no matter what the distance LOL!  Today I did a slow jog and kept it at that pace for 3 miles.  Usually I do intervals or push the last 1/2 mile or so (sometimes because I want to finish), but today I just kept a steady slow pace and it was kind of refreshing rather than tiring.  Interesting…..

Came back to some pumpkin oats topped with Fig Almond Spread.  Yum!  These oats I have now are a bit different than the usual brand, almost thicker – so they take up less volume and makes the pumpkin seem like a lot more than the usual 1/2 cup.

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Did work with the business since my job was a little slow this morning due to the holiday holdover.  Then came in for lunch.

Chobani mixed with Barleans Omega Swirl instead of honey (which turned it purple!), chopped strawberries, and Fiber One cereal.

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I have shown closeups of the garden, but here is a picture of my house on the whole.

house2That’s it for yard space.  We have absolutely no back yard, as there is a shop attached onto the back of the house (where there probably was a back yard at some point, presumably).  So, I get to garden around the front and to the side.  It’s a very big old house, 100 years old.  Bigger than 2 of us need. I actually like it a lot, but it is on a busy street.  We only bought it because of the shop on the back.

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Finally had work to do, and then it was snack time! latte3

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I also made some fresh pesto with porch basil!

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I incorporated that into what was supposed to be an omelet, but turned out more like scrambled eggs.  Pretty tasty, though.

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So, I am going to be working late tonight since it was so slow this morning.  That is one thing that stinks about working on a productivity basis.

Only doing the run today made me really realize how much time this training has taken up during my week for the last few months.   I think I am going to enjoy this rest week!

Question: What do you do with bonus time during the day when it comes by surprise?

Read to Run 5K

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):

brekkie1Ingredients:

1/4 cup ground flax meal

1 egg

1 tsp brown sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp baking powder

Mix together and put in a silicon muffin cup and microwave for 45 seconds or so.  I normally do this with pumpkin, but I didn’t want to open a can to take out 1 tablespoon, so I just left it out.   It made it a little dry, but I spread it with fig almond jam and it was tasty.

We did the Read Run 5K to benefit literacy, always a good cause.  My sister met us there, but my neice decided against the race, since she did 2 last weekend.

John kept up with me for the first 2 miles, then I did an assessment on how I felt and decided to push faster (sorry John!).  My goal was to finish in under 3o minutes – which I did (barely!).  My time was 29:52, or approximately a 9:37 mile.  I was pretty happy with that, although not quite as good as my last race time.   Both my sister and John had new PRs for themselves, so it was a good day over all.

Here is Colleen and I enjoyed some well-deserved java after the race, although I didn’t get my bagel because they only had onion or everything ones – ick!!

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Then I had to come home and work 8 hours after the race!  Oh well, gotta earn the $$, right?

Tomorrow starts NROLW stage 2 – I’m glad to get back to lifting!

Groceries and tomorrow is race day!

Today was my rest day instead of tomorrow since John and I are doing the 5K race at 9am tomorrow.  That means bagel has to happen later!

Here is a shot of our grocery cart tonight.  I think it looks pretty healthy inside and very different from how it would have looked a few years ago:

groceries

2 kinds of yogurt – greek for me, regular for John.  He likes greek, but not as much as I do, so it’s all for me!

In today’s cart for produce:

2  # of strawberries, 1 #  of blueberries, peaches, spinach, frozen broccoli, bananas, spring lettuce mix.

I got the spinach because I am thinking of doing a green monster this week…… maybe….. if I can find the nerve.

Dark chocolate chips for treats. Yum!

Will report back on the race tomorrow!