bpmojo

you beat me to it! I was just about to wish you good luck on your sunday long run as well

I want pictures of you eating all those in one sitting. stat.

8:50- 2 dates, 1 TB coconut butter 1 hour 15 minutes workout on total gym + Abs (v-ups + planks) 10:30- recovery pudding 11:50- 1/2 serving natural vega in water 1:05- (had lunch at thai restaurant) -vegetables and tofu in spicy curry sauce, stir fry thai basil eggplant, brown/wild rice 3:40- pineapple, 2 clementimes 6:30-bowl of homemade applesauce, handful of cashews 7:15- Salad w/ mixed greens, celery, sprouts, red pepper, beet, mushrooms, radish + "Moroccan sweet potatoes and vegetables" (sweet potatoes, butternut squash chickpeas, onion, carrots, raisans, cinammon) + 2 slices bananna bread + kukicha tea I was pretty darn pleased with the bananna bread that I made last night. I used the recipe in Veganomicon but modified it to be way healthier, still very tasty and my family like it as well (my dad put earth balance on top of it...he said he always puts butter on bananna bread??) My grandfather came in today looking forward to many a chess matches with him before I go back to austin, my goal is always to beat him once when he visits : ) Also looking forward to my long run on sunday - 20m!, hope its as nice outside as its been lately then!

8:15- 2 dates, 1 TB coconut butter 1 hour run with 1 minute sprints every 10 minutes + lower body bodyweight exersizes (3 x 30 squats, lunges, calf raises) 9:30- recovery drink 10:30- Green Smoothie w/ Spinach, 1 serving vega, pineapple, frozen bananna 2:00- large salad w/ 3 cups mixed greens, sprouts, radish, celery, carrot, dulse, guacamole, hazelnuts 6:15- steamed kabocha squash + few slices of Seitan O'Greatness + bowl of homemade applesauce 9:00- 2 slices pecan pie (the last 1/4 of the pie!- ack!) + kukicha tea jeez i went to get my passport today and was in the post office for almost exactly 3 hours! I know its because of the holiday and lots of people are off work but I didn't feel like dealing with it again and I needed to get it filled out cuz I'm going to india in may. However the woman working there was rather amazed at my green smoothie that I brought in hehe and was suprinstly pleasant...I still wouldn't want to wait 3 hours to get that pleasantry but still.

BONUS POINTS IF ANYONE CAN NAME THE BAND WHOSE LYRICS THE TITLE OF THE THREAD IS AN ALLUSION TOO haha that was right out of the water from the tri I did in the fall heres a more recent acutal running *with shoes* photo. This is at the last minute or so of a 20k and the guy behind me is 64 and is one of the top masters running in austin. ack- 3 times as old as me and just as fast...must get faster! http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v156/142/76/57801315/n57801315_30881063_4524.jpg haha thanks robert

haha ummmm some might say, but until I get fast enough where those seconds really count I'm keeping it

BONUS POINTS IF ANYONE CAN NAME THE BAND WHOSE LYRICS THE TITLE OF THE THREAD IS AN ALLUSION TOO haha so my dad found my 8th grade track photo. which is kinda funny because that was the last time I did any sort of competitive racing ..until now. back then I always came in last in my races (mile and mile 1/2) cuz I didn't care about them( but loved pratice) ...but now I do care haha. http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sctm/v171/142/76/57801315/n57801315_30901183_8261.jpg not that much different now, just a wee bit more hair http://photos-315.ll.facebook.com/photos-ll-sctm/v126/142/76/57801315/n57801315_30814444_1667.jpg

forgot to load this up yesterday. I tired making tofu scramble for the first time yesterday and It was good but didn't turn out the way I was trying to. there's a veg cafe in austin that make the BEST tofu scramble that tastse more like popcorn chicken i guess 10:30- 2 dates, 1 TB coconut butter 30 minutes easy running (4 miles?) 11:15- bananna, dulse 12:15- green smoothie w/ 3 leave romaine, 1/2 serving vega, pumpkin seeds, orange, frozen bananna. 3:40- large salad w/ 3 cups mixed greens, radish, celery, sprouts, beet, carrot sunflower seeds + 4 brazil nuts 6:40- tofu scramble, few pieces of Seitan O' Greatness , leftover green beans almondine, sherry cooked mushrooms, orange juice and maple syrup glazed baby carrots from xmas dinner 9:00- 2 slices pecan pie (1/4 of the pie-ack!)

the half marathon in november I did in 1:41 (7:59 pace) , and the 20K in december I did in 1:37 (7:53 pace) and I know I'm a better runner now and will hopefully be better in eight weeks and I know for marathon that pace would be slowed down so i guess I'm shooting for 3:30:00ish? havent acutally thought about that before.

Ya I'm thinking skip the 1/2 marathon as its supposed be a realllllly fast one and I don't feel like dropping another $50 for a training run but I'm leaning towards still doing the 30k and may switch week 3 and 4 depending on how I'm feeling/recovering. I didn't realllllly start running/training (mainly just an aspect of my general fitness) until the late summer/fall when I did a sprint tri and ran for cross country and did a half marathon in november and a 20k in december.

9:30 - fruit salad (pineapple, clementime, pomegranate, apple, pear) + peppermint tea 11:45- 3 dates, 1 TB coconut butter 5K Tempo Run ( 20:30...42 seconds faster than last week!) 12:35- recovery pudding 1:35- 1/2 serving natural Vega in water 3:15- *Christmas Dinner* - Autumn latkes from veganomicon, homemade applesauce, Seitan O' Greatness (recipe someone posted on the forum while back) , green beans almondine, sherry cooked mushrooms, orange juice and maple syrup glazed baby carrots 7:15 - raw blended salad soup (spinach, celery, cucumber, sprouts, tomato) + very large slice of homemade macrobioticish pecan pie My goal was to get my 5k under 21 and I went 30 seconds under so I was pleased with that. I was also pleased with the pecan pie, very tasty indeed. Tasted pretty similar to regular pecan pie but not as sweet, which means I could stomach to eat a very large piece hehe.

o yea guess it does sorta seem like that. The workout listed above would be my big sunday workout. Througout the week I have a variety of running (hills, tempo, medium runs) and some swimming and light biking thrown in as well.

So I am going to be running the Austin Marathon on Feb. 17th and am mapping out my training/races before then and wanted to see what you guys throught, especially the timing of the last few long runs. I am generally following a training plan found in a texas endurance magazine so this is mostly based off of that. The marathon is 8 weeks away, so week 8 will be the weekend of marathon and week 1 is this weekend. {EDIT} this is only my big weekend workout, i have a mix of running workouts (hills, tempo, medium distance) and swimming/biking tossed in during the rest of the week. Week 1 - 20 Mile long Run Week 2 - 30K (18.6m) Race (super hilly and challenging, supposed to be fantastic training for the austin marathon, which is pretty hilly) Week 3- 21 Mile long Run Week 4- 3 hour Bike Ride Week 5 - Long Run 22 miles OR RACE A HALF MARATHON Week 6- taper week 7- taper Week 8 - MARATHON! I haven't signed up for the 30K or half marathon yet and so I guess I'm just wondering should I skip the half marathon and just do the long run? I've read that your supposed to peak 3 weeks before the race so you have a good taper period and I think getting up to 22 would be good. Also the 30k falls on the last day of my cycling team's winter training and that day and the day before we're gonna be working on race tactics and whatnot which would be really good cuz I've never done any cycling races before. So i guess if I do end up racing the 30k I would need to take it real easy on saturday and then mabye just show up later on sunday after the 30k? might be too pooped though.

I had blood work done last week, results should be in soon and I'll post em up. I think this is way interesting overall though.

Today I made a pecan pie for christmas dessert tomorrow, It was my first time make a non-raw pie, so I hope it turns out good. Here was the recipe http://vegan-vanguard.blogspot.com/2006/11/perfect-vegan-pecan-pie-part-2-pie.html I ran out of brown rice syrup and threw in some barley malt syrup, but in post cooking should of used agave because it might give it too much of a malted taste but well find out tomorrow. speaking of which, think I'm gonna do another 5K tomorrow and try to get it under 21:00 9:45- 2 dates, 1 TB coconut butter 1 hour upper body circuit training on Total Gym + 15 minutes ab workout 11:30- recovery pudding 12:45- Green smoothie w/ 3 leaves romaine lettuce, 1/2 serving natural vega, 1 TB pumpkin seeds, orange, frozen bananna 3:30- large salad w/ 3 cups mixed greens, carrots, celery, sprouts, parsley, sunflower seeds, nutrtional yeast, cucumber, beet 6:30- 2 bowls of spicy cabbage/chickpea/tempeh stew + a buncha oven baked sweet potato wedges 7:30-8:30ish- more baked sweet potato wedges + strawberries, pineapple and a buttload of cherries.

10:45- 1 pear + peppermint tea 11:45- thrive diet energy bar 1:00- 2 dates, 1 TB coconut butter 40m bike ride medium intensity 5:30- thrive diet recovery pudding 6:30 - 1/2 serving natural Vega in water + 2 bowls of spicy cabbage/chickpea/tempeh stew 9:30- raw blended salad soup (spinach, celery, lemon juice, cucumber, tomato) + 1 spoonful steamed kabocha squash It was cold outside today on the ride-ack~! my little teeth we're chattering, I had on my bib shorts, top and sleeves but I think think I'll wear a jacket or get a baselayer or something for nextime. Otherwise felt good to get out on a (relativly) longish ride.

20 minute Winsor Pilates DVD w/ Mommy 9:30- 3 kiwi, 2 cups of papaya 12- large salad w/ 3 cups mixed greens, celery, fennel, radish, cilantro, carrots, beets,sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds,sprouts + 3 brazil nuts 3- smoothie w Acai sorbet, 1/2 serving natural vega, 2 TB carob powder, 1/4 c soaked almonds, frozen bananna 7:15- okra in spicy curry sance and skillet cooked whole wheat bread (ate at an indian restaurant) 9:10- 1 apple, 1 orange.

10:45 - 1 date, 1 bananna, Training - 1 hour trail run with 8 mild hill repeats + 10 minutes of lowerbody bodyweight (3 x 30 lunges, squats, calf raises) 12:45- thrive diet recovery pudding 1:45 - Green Smoothie w/ 3 leaves collard greens, orange, frozen bananna, pumpkin seeds, 3/4 serving natural Vega 5:45- large salad w/ 3 cups mixed greens, beet, fennel, carrots and guacamole (2 avocados, tomaote, onion, lime juice, cilantro, sea salt, cayenne pepper) + 1 kiwi 8- leftover homemade seitan wheatballs and ezekiel spaghetti from last night. felt good to do some lower body stuff, even if it was just a few bodyweight things. There's only one hill around her and its nothing, just a mild hill in a park. But I forgot about the high school stadium bleachers. Next time i wanna do a run with some hill work I think I'm gonna run to the stadium and every lap of so do a bleacher sprint as well. I think my girlfriend has mentally committed to doing a 5k race in 13 and she is starting a 12 week training program this week which is awesome but tonight we were at a party and she was telling someone that she was gonna run it, so that means that she's acutally down.Hopefully she sticks with it because I know that sticking with regular training would just make her feel so much better, not to mention understand me more.

8:45- thrive diet energy bar Training- 1 hour light intensity ride, probably about 18m 10:45- 1 apple, handful of dulse, 3 soaked almonds 12- Green Smoothie with collard greens, 1/2 serving natural vega, avocado, kiwi, pear, frozen bananna. 3:45- large salad w/ 3 cups mixed greens, celery, fennel (!!), radish, brocoli, beets, sunflower seeds, mushrooms, carrots + handful pecans 7:15- homemade Seitan meatballs and marinara on ezekiel sprouted grain pasta. 10:10- 16oz of Silk Soy Nog In general I try to stay away from gluten but I really wanted to make this recipe for seitan meatballs that I had at a potluck a while back and also stumbled across the ezekiel pasta when in the grocery store with my mom and thought I'd suck it up and make something that hopefully the whole family would enjoy- and they did! I was glad it turned out well, this was my first time making homemade seitan and I was a little apprehesive, but gosh darn its easy! here's the recipe if anyone wants to check it out http://vegan-vanguard.blogspot.com/2007/11/veganmofo-and-vegan-meatballs.html later that night me and my friends watched one of the best christmas movies ever.... "Die Hard" and celebrated the season...hence the soy nog haha. Just got back from midnight screening of sweeny todd, which was a pretty good adaptation if i say so.

I also usually do 15 minutes or so of Viniyoga right when I wake up and/or after my workout but its usually pretty light so I don't really count it as training just part of my daily routine 9:30 - 1 bananna 10:30 - 1 date dipped in coconut butter Training- 5k tempo run (21:10:32...slightly faster than last friday...only slightly) 11:10- thrive diet recovery drink 12:30- green smoothie w/ collard green, Acai sorbet, frozen bananna, 1/2 serving natural vega 3:45- large salad w/ 3 cups mixed greens, celery, beets, radish, cucumber, avocado, tomato, sunflower seeds 6:30 - brussell sprouts, millet and cauliflower "mashed potatoes","fakin bacon" tempeh onions and asparagus stir-fry all w/ tahini mustard sauce. (last two were leftovers) + 1 cup kukicha tea 8:45- 1 apple, 1 clementine Got my mom to have another green smoothie today. This time with two cups of baby spinach, a bananna, and 1/2 cup frozen strawberries plus ground flax and hemp seeds. Think im gonna make her one tomorrow and then teach her how to do it afterwards. Run was pretty good today, would of like to of gone a little faster, want to get it under 21, which shouldn't be too hard, maybe next week.

quitting? just slap on some snow shoes and tackle the road, doesn't matter if your running like a nazi duck, you'll still be a fast nazi duck.

9:35- 1 apple, 1 pear, 1 kiwi 12:10 - thrive diet recovery pudding 45 minutes upper body circuit training on Total Gym 1000 (yes the thing that Chuck Norris did the informercials for) + 15 minutes abs workout 1:35- Green Smoothie with kale, grapefruit, frozen bannana, pumpkin seeds, cilantro, 1/2 serving natural Vega + handful soaked almonds 6- large salad w/ 2 cups butter lettuce, 1 cup mixed greens, celery, carrots, avocado, mushrooms, sunflower seeds, dulse, brocolli, beets, radish 7:45- Acai Sorbet w/ bananna and handful of Ezekiel cereal + 1 cup herbal tea Got my mom to drink a green smoothie today. Well it was more blue/purpleish because it had a orange, bananna, and 1/2 cup frozen blueberries to hide the taste/color of 1 leaf of kale, which probably wasn't the best green to start out with. Probably spinach because it is less bitter and more sweet in the first place. I miss lifting weights and doing upper body stuff. I had been trying to get in a upper body workout once a week, but the few it didn't happen and I only have so much free time and needed to run. The total gym isan't nearly the same, but its the best I have at home without shelling out money for a month long gym membership that I will only use 2 weeks of. I also had a dentist appointment this morning, ZERO CAVITIES!. The doctor just walked in and said "jee thats a great mouth" and walked out basically. The oral hygenist said it was probably attributed to my diet. I love going to the dentist, such an ego boost haha Tomorrow going to the doctors and gonna get blood work done- hopefully my iron levels are through the roof haha (pumpkin seeds don't fail me now!)

very inconsistent. on sunday when i did my long run it was 36 outside and today it was 61! but generally between those two, but i think its gonna stay more in the 50's for the next week.

I did 19 miles (about 30K) on sunday (training for a marathon on feb. 17th, check out my blog for more of my training) and I'm gonna cap off at 22 before my taper. I usually like to do a 30 minute swim the day after my long run, but I don't currently have access to a pool so I biked.

I usually need two days off of running after my long run. Mostly so that my knee(s?) can calm back down and just to make sure everything is good to go. I'm sure you'll be fine to start snow-plowing the roads again tomorrow!