Food & Fitness – 03.29.15 Weekly Recap

This is a new type of weekly series that I will be posting that will recap my workouts, food, and any other fun things to note about the previous week. These will be a bit more personal, but maybe you will find it interesting?

Maybe you won’t. You can give me your honest feedback. Either way, it’ll be like an online journal for me to keep track of my training and recipes that I made and liked.

So round 1, here we go! Things from the week of March 29:

WORKOUTS:

• Sunday: Core Power Hot Yoga Fusion. Super sweaty and awesome.
• Monday: Hill workout! 2 mile warm-up + 5 rounds of hills + 2 mile cool down. Total = 8.0 miles; 9:11 min/mi pace. I ran into (figuratively, not literally) my little brother during my cool down. He was going for a stroll around Lake of the Isles. We set up happy hour for the next night.
• Tuesday: Core Power Yoga Sculpt. I got there late (as in, a few minutes before class started), so I was stuck right next to the heater in a super crowded space. It was a good workout, but I essentially had to run out of the room for fresh air afterwards. The picture above is from my refreshing walk back home.
• Wednesday: Tempo workout! 2 mile warm-up (~9:20 min/mi) + 2.5 x 10-minute tempo intervals (~8:20 min/mi) with 1-minute rest in between + 2.25 mile cool down (10:00 min/mi). Total = 7.5 miles; 9:15 min/mi pace. I was really soaking up that cool down (AKA: going slow), not my strongest performance.
• Thursday: 45 minute elliptical. I didn’t know I was doing my long run on Friday night until later on Thursday evening; otherwise I’m not sure I would have done this.
• Friday: Long run! 17.0 miles; 9:20 min/mi pace. This run felt great! I could have gone a few extra miles if I needed to, but I was glad I didn’t have to.
• Saturday: Core Power Heated Power Yoga. Perfection.

I have been feeling some pain in my left foot and ankle during my runs recently, so I have been limiting my running to workouts and long runs only during the last few weeks. It felt much better this last week, so I’m hoping to increase the frequency this coming week. I didn’t get as much strength training in as I would typically like (just the sculpt class), but did get some great yoga sessions in. Overall, a good set of workouts this week.

FOOD:

I tend to have the same skeleton of meals – smoothies for breakfast, fruit for morning snacks, salads or soups for lunches, vegetables for snacks, and vegetables with eggs for dinner. I just make sure to switch up the fruit, vegetables, and protein from week-to-week. Sometimes I’ll get inspired by a new recipe and make that, but the variety in fruits and vegetables keeps me interested.

With that said I usually eat the same thing everyday throughout the week, but I really don’t mind because everything tastes good.

• Breakfasts: Smoothies consisting of 1 cup unsweetened almond coconut milk, 1 scoop Sunwarrior vanilla protein powder, 1 tablespoon chia seeds, 2 handfuls kale, 1 frozen banana, and ¼ frozen avocado.
• Mid-Morning Snacks: 1 navel orange.
• Lunches: This paleo detox salad with some quinoa added in.
• Afternoon Snacks: Sugar snap peas, mini sweet bell peppers, and hummus.
• Dinners: A mixed bag this week depending on what my plans were. The majority consisted of sautéed vegetables (cabbage, kale, mushrooms, broccoli, and peppers) with poached eggs, but then there were some happy hours in place of dinners too.
• Indulgences:
  • Tuesday night happy hour at Lago Tacos (chips & dips with a carnitas taco) on a patio!
  • Wednesday night wine and appetizers at La Grolla (Carpaccio di Manzo and Capesante) on another patio!
  • Some post-dinner molten fudge cake filled cookies. I got the cookie dough free at work and then stored the package in my freezer. I sneak them for dessert every so often. You’re not supposed to eat them raw, so don’t do that. Ummm… don’t judge me.
  • My brother’s 30^th birthday celebration on Saturday night that consisted of smoked pork sandwiches, German potato salad, baked beans, and tres leches cake. So, so, so, so, soooo good. Everything.

OTHER THINGS:

My aunt Linda is doing a 30-day Just J.Faye challenge where she is doing a workout from the blog everyday! This makes me so happy. She started with the burpee run, which is (in my opinion) one of the hardest ones. I’m excited to hear about all her experiences.

I hope you are all having a lovely Easter!

Did you get to any patios this week? Have you run outside in shorts yet?