Wednesday: Swim, Gilad and Food Fest

I am on the Far Left

My running group on New Year's day!!

This morning, Ivan and I were out the door and on time to swim.  It was pretty impressive, but as far as I could tell, the rest of the world was also up and ready to be on time to something, because the roadways seemed more than clogged.  Remarkably, we were able to skid our way through the icy parking lot, and I was poolside at 8:30 AM-ish.

In the water, I made a decision to follow Steven's instructions and follow the workout, intervals and all.  Workout as follows:

• 600 warmup
• 8 x 50 drill swim @ 1:00
• 8 x 25 half fast/ half easy @ :30
• 50 swim @ 1:00
• 75 swim @ 1:20
• 3 x 25 sprint @ :25
• 200 swim
• 50 swim @ 1:00
• 75 swim @ 1:20
• 3 x 25 @ :25
• 200 swim
• 4 x 200 pull @ 3:30
• 400 IM
• 400 kick

This was 3600 meters all together, I was heaving by the end of the 400 IM, and I felt like I worked very hard.  After my swim, I felt like I needed to let Ivan swim a bit, so I went and picked him up from the nursery and  stuffed him into his swimsuit and let him hop into the water.  The water was competition-cold and Ivan's little lips were blue, but he swam for a good 45 minutes, kicking and swimming and treading water and kicking with the kick board.  It was impressive.

At home, Ivan took a nap and I got in a Gilad workout and began reading my two newest cookbooks: Deceptively Delicious and Double Delicious.  These are Jessica's Seinfeld's desperate grab at getting her kids to eat vegetables.  I had a never-you-mind sort of weekend with Young Sloan, and realized that he must eat more vegetables.  MUST.  

The basis of her cookbooks is puree's hidden in foods so that your kids are getting great nutrition.  For instance, tonight I came home and made a meatloaf in which I hid a carrot puree.  I am making garbonzo bean egg cups tomorrow, and I also whipped up some sweet potatoes in a hash form to use for sweet potato hash browns.  I am not including the recipes yet, as we have not eaten anything.  I am determined, however to have Ivan eat more fiber rich foods.  If they are amazing, I will begin posting the recipes.  

I am most excited about the carrot puree' Tiramisu!!!

Ivan's nursery school is closed again tomorrow, and we will be hitting the pool!!