Whoops! Dessert’s the best part!

I forgot to include my dessert and snack last night!

Dessert

The cafeteria had Slab Stone Ice Cream and it was incredible! I wanted Vanilla but they were out so I got chocolate ice cream with chocolate chips and reese’s pieces.

YUM!!

Snack

Then later in the night I had an unpictured string cheese and some grapes and strawberries!

Breakfast

More Quaker Squares. No picture. And a special K bar I was given in sports nutrition yesterday. That was really good!

Lunch

Nachos, cheesy bread, sausage/pepperoni pizza.

Then I was still hungry since my breakfast wasn’t very big so I got two pieces of Supreme Pizza.

Running

I didn’t run today because I have some side pain on my right, above my hip bone. I guess where your appendix is maybe? Not sure. But I think I just pulled something when I was trying to change my form yesterday. Coach Krieger told me I hold my arms too close to my body and let them get lazy so he told me how to use them and I tried to do that. I must’ve pulled a muscle maybe. Anyway, It hurts a lot and I didn’t want to test it running in case it was something else.

Dinner

We went to Olives and they have a new “create your own pizza.” Yes I have had a lot of pizza but you could get a whole pizza and medium drink for one meal on the meal plan. Which is a great deal considering you can rarely get anything that filling for that price.

I got artichoke and sausage.

Snack

Had some apples with cinnamon sugar on them.

On our 9th anniversary alex and I painted a plate. Like it?

That’s all I have for you!!!

New PR, that’s exciting!!

Breakfast

Lots of quaker Oatmeal squares and a banana bread muffin my dad made!!!

Lunch

Check out all that white and brown!! For you dad! 🙂

 

Here’s a little more color.

Running

NEW PR NEW PR NEW PR!!!!! I had 3xmile repeats today on the track. I ran then by myself. Look at what I did!!!

mile 1: 6:12!!!!!
mile 2: 6:41
mile 3: 6:41

The first mile I went to fast considering I still had two miles left. But it was pretty impressive! So that means I am faster than a 6:12 miler because if I just raced the mile, I wouldn’t have more to run after and I would be racing other people. How exciting!!

My half marathon is April 11th!! 11 days from today!!! AHH!! So exciting!!

Dinner

Before picture

After picture. You can obviously see what was good and what wasn’t.

Check it out dad, there’s some color!!

The spinach with cottage cheese on top is amazing and I definitely plan to get it more often.

American Idol

Definitely feel the guys are stronger than the girls and there will be a guy winner this year.

Q&A

Q: What’s your fastest mile?

Q: Who do you think will win American Idol?

I had great eats today!

Breakfast

Tried Almond Butter for the first time!! Not sure how I feel about it yet. Maybe it’s just the brand that I’m iffy on, maybe other almond butter tastes better.

I forgot to say that yesterday before my run I had an incredible Banana Bread muffin that my daddy made! It was yumm!! Perfect for right before a run.

Lunch

Double Deli Sandwich with ham and turkey as well as american and swiss cheese. Cheese tots and fried green beans. I didn’t eat all the tots because I traded more of them for more fried green beans, sooo good!! And I only ate half my sandwich. It’s too filling for the whole thing.

<—delicious!

Running

Had 9 miles planned but only did 8.5 because poor Megan is still having shin pain. I hope she gets better!! Did the first 5 miles with Alex and last 3.5 with Megan! I split up each run on my garmin but I added the times together to get the average pace.

 

here’s the two runs broken down:

5 miles in 41:06 @ 8:13 pace

mileage	time
mile 1	8:23
mile 2	8:31
mile 3	8:26
mile 4	7:58
mile 5	7:46

3.5 miles in 31:43 @ 9:03 pace

mileage	time
mile 1	9:12
mile 2	9:09
mile 3	9:02
mile 3.5	4:20

total: 8.5 miles in 1:12:49 @ 8:34 pace

Dinner

Dinner was incredible!!! They had White Chicken Nachos and the recipe was from a place in St Charles 🙂 I also had a piece of ham!

I absolutely love black beans!! They are so yummy. I think those are the only beans I really like.

1 1/2 cups of Orange Juice

Snack

At 8:30pm I made a green monster!!

2 handfuls of spinach
lots of frozen mangoes, papaya, pineapple
fresh strawberries
milk

Better than the one yesterday but really need some fruit juice and sherbet would be good too! I’ll have to try that this weekend and get a small thing of sherbet since it won’t keep in the freezer.

Would you like a weekend recap? Good.

Saturday

Breakfast

Delicious Quaker Oatmeal Squares. The cinnamon flavor!!

This was my first time trying the oatmeal squares. I’ve seen them around a lot and thought they’ve always looked good. Well now I know that they taste just as good! 🙂

Yurbuds

I went to check out the Yurbuds kiosk in the mall around lunchtime and got to try out the product. I want to say right now that if you have not tried out these earbuds then you have to rush out and do so! They are guaranteed not to fall out of your ears and I have ran with them twice so far. I took them on my 4 mile progressive run where I was running extremely fast and they didn’t even move then I ran with them on the treadmill for 3 miles and usually headphones fall out of my ears more on the treadmill than the road and they still stayed!! Check them out

They are also trying to help raise $1 million dollars for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure and are going to donate $10 from your purchase to the foundation!

Running

Had to do my 4 mile progressive run, but I was more excited to do the run so I could try out the yurbuds in action!

4 miles in 20:10 @ 7:32 pace

mileage	time
mile 1	7:49
mile 2	7:51
mile 3	7:08
mile 4	7:20

Dinner

yummy spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner!! And a piece of garlic bread, but i ate it before the picture could be taken!

Blindside

Watched Blindside with the family. I love this movie. It was my second time seeing it and still amazed me. So funny and a must see. But you can make your own decision to see it! 🙂

 

Sunday

Came back to school and was not happy about that.

The drive home was really nice. Good music was on the radio and new songs actually. The weather was great. I got back to school and hit up the grocery store to get something for dinner and grab milk. I bought ravioli, easy mac and milk.

Once I got to my dorm I had to make 2 trips from my car of which I had to park far away to bring in all of my stuff.

Running

Unpacked a few things and went to the rec center to do my 3 miles on the treadmill. I was supposed to do my 9 mile long run but since it was already dark out I am doing that today and switched my workouts for the day.

Once The Amazing Race came on the TV I started cruising on the treadmill and it made the time pass so much faster even though it was difficult running and reading subtitles that sometimes didn’t make any sense haha.

3 miles in 25:21 @ 8:27 pace

The time was probably faster because the treadmill starts counting before you even get up to speed and start running.

First Green Monster

I came back and did my first attempt at a green monster

1 cup milk
2 cups spinach
1 whole banana
4 small frozen strawberries
4 frozen pineapple chunks

Definitely had too much banana but was still good. Next time I want to use a juice instead of milk to get more fruit flavor.

Dinner

With my green monster I had the Full Circle ravioli I picked up at the store for $0.89.

Wish the ravioli would’ve been meat filling instead of cheese. They weren’t very good but I still ate most of it. However I was still hungry so I had some combo crackers.

You can never go wrong with Combo’s!

Then I just waited for alex to get back from the Alabama relays!

Q: How was your weekend?

Good morning to ya!!

I am hoping to open my own OpenSky and I wanted to get my readers input on it! Would you like me to open one and share the products I love? It’s something I’m really excited about doing and hope you all will be too!!

Have a lovely day today and I’ll have a post for you later tonight!!