Meal Plan

This week, we are having:

Chicken Caesar Salad
Chicken and Dumplins
Curried Lentils and Brown Rice
Stuffed Shells with Spinach and Ricotta
Homemade pizza
Shepherd's pie

Meal Plan

This week, we are having a belated Valentine's feast, which is will be fettucine with shrimp in a white wine cream sauce, caesar salad, and cheesecake.  Yes, we have a cardiologist on call.

The rest of the week is going to be really simple:

Falafel
Pizza
Spicy Orange Chicken Stir Fry
Lentil Salad with Feta


It's my first cheesecake, and I"m following the Joy of Baking NY Cheesecake recipe.  I have had good luck with JOB recipes before, in my timid forays into the baking world, so here's hoping it turns out well.

Also trying out the JOB cinnamon rolls recipe for tomorrow's charity bake sale at work.  Yummm.

Half Marathon Training Program Week 6

This week went much better than the last.  According to Daily Mile, I ran about 24 miles this week, which is awesome.  Also awesome is that my running buddy and I are managing to do our long runs at a much increased pace, and have set an official goal of doing the half marathon in under two hours, which is waaaay faster than my last half.  So, yay for that!  It is good to have goals.

In other news, the weather has turned super duper crappy, so I did a run at the gym on the treadmill today and it sucked.  IT sucked hard.  It is so much better to run with a partner and to run outside.  Please, rain, cooperate with this plan.

Half Marathon Training Program Week 5

I totally failed to follow my training plan this week, or to follow any training plan at all.  Normally my plan s subject to some shenanigans, and that's fine, I flip running days with strength days, do my long runs on Saturday instead of Sunday or skip a day because of soreness.  Whatever.  It all sort of evens out in the end.  I think it's important not to sweat the details so long as you're making the progress you want to make and you aren't hurting yourself.

But this week circumstances conspired against me.  I ran at lunch on Monday, but then got a migraine and went home from work early to enjoy the benefits of Zomig and napping.  Tuesday I didn't really feel up for a run because I was still shaking off the after effects of my migraine.  Remind me to post sometime about how incredibly bizarro my migraines have gotten.  Wednesday there was a horrible ridiculous traffic jam on the freeway coming back from work such that I didn't get home until almost 8 and running was not going to happen. Thursday my running buddy had a last minute work thing and had to bail on me, and rather than run alone I succumbed to peer pressure and ate massive amounts of Indian food.  So.... I didn't run again until yesterday!

Four days!

Something really crazy has happened to me where if I go more than three days or so without running I become this crazed, twitchy, tweaked out person who can't sit still or focus.  My husband was trying to calm me down and keep me from flipping out on Thursday night, but I couldn't even sit still for a back rub.  A BACK RUB.  That's like not being able to sit still for chocolate.  Sheesh.  Then I ran again on Friday and Ta-Da!  All better.

Anyway, As you can see from my new widget, I didn't quite log the twenty miles this week that I predicted last week, but I feel pretty good and the runs that I did do went well.  My running buddy is consistently pushing me to go faster on our short runs, which is totally awesome, and I'm really starting to feel confident that I can run this half much faster than last time.  We'll be doing 10 mile long runs next week or the week after, at which point I think we'll hold the mileage steady and work on increasing our pace for a while.