Wednesday: Run and Gilad

Today, Ivan appeared to be completely healed from the dastardly croup. It really was a terrible and rather scary illness. Ivan went to sleep in a state of reasonably easy breathing and complete exhaustion. He slept pretty late, allowing me to catch up a bit. Honestly, though, I will tell you that I woke up wearing my haggard mother face, complete with eye bags, blotchiness, and the look of a peevish turtle who might just snap.

I drank copious amounts of tea and had a breakfast of cereal (Kashi Vive and Kashi Summer Berry Granola). They used to be my favorite quick breakfast, especially when Kashi had out their Cocoa Beach Granola. It is truly delicious, and overall, I find Kashi products to be great. There is no beating their fiber content or their sugar when compared with most any breakfast cereal. Anyway, this morning, I decided that I am enjoying my oatmeal with protein powder and a splash of soy milk even more. It is such a great breakfast. GREAT!!!

After pulling myself together a bit, I strapped on my Garmin 310xt and headed out to run. I had the thrilling experience of finding out that my old neighborhood run is longer than I thought. It is more like 3.6 miles as opposed to 3.2 miles. For a while, as I was in the home stretch, I thought it was going to be four miles and I was very excited. But no. I like for my mileage to be flat, so now that I have the luxury of the Garmin, I may alter my route to be exactly four miles.

I ran pretty well, and my current goal for now, may be to even out the middle part of my run, so that all my miles are run at the same pace. I have a really long and really hard hill in the middle of my run, and I may begin sprinting it, in an effort to improve my hill attacks. The Garmin is already inspiring me to greatness.

After my run, I did a great Gilad workout, that focused on my abs. I made Salmon Burgers for lunch with a Recipe that I got from Chris Carmichael's Food for Fitness. They are one of my favorite meals and come to think of it, a lot of meals in his book are amazing. He has a healthy Fettucini Alfredo recipe that is a staple at Sloan manor. I also made a blue cheese cold slaw with a vegan mayonaise, and feel quite healthy. I spent the evening writing oh so polite thank you notes. Oh so polite.

I am now dragging myself to bed with the anticipation of an exciting trip to Green Hills tomorrow where I will go to Teavana. Oh friends, have you been to the mighty Teavana?