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The Carbo-Load

It was touch and go with the scheduled long run today. After the cross training yesterday, my right hamstring kept “pinging” me. I grabbed the hamstring support and took it with me just incase I had to put it on during my run. Pre run fuel at an embarrassingly early hour in the morning, 3 hours before exercise (believe it or not, I naturally wake up to eat this - no alarm needed: 1/2 of a Sprouted wheat bagel with 1 TBS peanut butter. Doesn’t taste good when your eyes are closed and you are munching in your sleep. [...]

By Joanne|2010-04-21T07:07:16-04:00April 21, 2010|Breakfast ideas, Quick Meals, Running|15 Comments

Chili Con Crab in Kabocha

Feeling pretty good this week. The 8 1/2 mile run on Wednesday didn’t cause any aches or pains. Thursday’s workout was 45 minutes of Elliptical + 45 minutes of weights (back, triceps, shoulders, abs) + 3.32 mile run with fur face. I’m doing an experiment regarding workout fuel. I’m trying to figure out what to eat before a workout that will work for my pre-race meal. I get up so early that there is not time for that 3 - 4 hour window of eating before I workout and I want to experiment to see what works well with [...]

By Joanne|2010-04-15T16:46:41-04:00April 15, 2010|Exercises, Quick Meals|12 Comments

It was a first

My first half marathon. The conclusion = Joanne is a lazy runner, explained at the end of the post. Last night, I was thinking what a fool I am, almost ruining my first half. You see, I brought my new bike home and couldn’t leave it alone. Don’t I fall off it? It’s my first bike with the clip in shoe-to-pedal configuration and when I put my left shoe down, it went right out from under me. However, a bruised hand doesn’t stop one from running, right? Could have been worse. Marathon morning: Up at 5:15, had some water and [...]

By Joanne|2010-04-11T18:00:33-04:00April 11, 2010|Running|20 Comments

Adjustments Required

I had my entire Saturday planned out: Walk with Shane, breakfast, get fitted and pick up our bikes, Vitamin Store, health food store, groceries, do some cake decorating, relax. Nutritional plans were to eat every 2 hours (small quantities, lots of carbs) and have a water bottle with me at all times. We left at 11 am for a fitting and didn’t get home until 1:45 pm. No vitamins, no health food, no groceries, no cake decorating, no relaxing, NO WATER, NO EATS. I was STARVING! When we finally got home, both of us were famished. I cooked up a [...]

By Joanne|2010-04-10T19:58:35-04:00April 10, 2010|Food thoughts, healthy cooking, Running|7 Comments