Hey guys! As I type this post, I have a belly full of guacamole, and some shiny new PRs. But let’s back up.

Let’s start with some of the few food pictures from yesterday.

I actually really like these! The blackberry flavor was a lot stronger than I was expecting-in a good way! The chia seeds in this make it some much more fun too.

That awkward moment when your spinach and egg scramble is mostly spinach. I topped it with avocado and pesto. I LOVELOVELOVE that I can make scrambles in the microwave!

I made chia seed pudding! I’ve been snacking on it over the past few days, and I just finished it. I simply soaked chia seeds in my chocolate almond milk, and then stirred in cocoa powder, and topped it with raisins, coconut sugar, and dried unsweetened coconut. I’m definitely starting to see why Gina loves toppings so much!

One problem I have when I soak chia seeds in almond milk is that they get kind of bitter. Is this normal? Am I doing anything wrong…?

As for workouts yesterday-I started the morning with a 3-4 mile run. I tried out my new inserts. The good news is they didn’t hurt my toe. The bad news is one of them was in my shoe quite right so it hurt my foot, and since I didn’t wear my anti-blister socks, I had some massive foot burn. I ended up cutting my 4 miles a little short since I thought I might possibly feel a tiny bit of something in my calf, but it ended up being fine.

Also-you know what made my day yesterday? A 4 hour lab ending 3 hours early. That my friends is winning.

So I returned to my dorm early and blew a huge bubble-which I just had to capture on camera.

 

In the evening was flag football practice. I rolled my ankle again at the beginning of practice. Rolling my ankle all the time is starting to get really old! I rolled it later that night again too…I guess I could probably wear an ankle brace for football, but it seems ridiculous to wear it 24/7. Our football captain baked us zucchini bread too! Which I didn’t get a picture of because it was pretty dark already.

Today, I was planning on sleeping really late and taking a rest day. Huh. I woke up at 7am, ready to do SOMETHING so I decided to go to a 10am Crossfit. 

I LOVE being awake before everyone else on campus. On the weekends especially, it’s just so quiet. Plus, it’s so beautiful and calm outside. 

I spent a relaxing morning reading before heading to Crossfit.

At Crossfit today, the strength portion was finding your one rep max for clean and jerks. My clean PR is 2 years old. Granted, I haven’t really tested it in a year. And I never really tried for a clean AND JERK one rep max, so I didn’t know what to expect. 

Well, I finally have a new clean PR! I don’t know what my heaviest jerk was, but I was able to jerk the weight I cleaned so I know that’s a PR. It was only a 5 pound PR, but I ran out of time to try heavier. It actually felt pretty good, and I think I could have made heavier cleans, though probably not jerks.

I finally started a list on my phone of PRs. My PRs are almost entirely from September 2013, so it was a pretty good month! To be fair, a lot of things I haven’t tested PRs in in a year, or wasn’t sure of the PRs. However, a lot of the PRs listed I didn’t specifically test for a one rep max, they were just part of regular strength training, and I haven’t failed any of the lifts.

The WOD today was a 2k row. When I was doing crew, I never actually did a 2k test! I think I was way slower today though than I would have been in a 2k test because a)I was rowing more then and b) I didn’t have an entire rowing team cheering me on and scary coaches looking over my shoulder. 

It was funny, because I heard some guys talking afterwards about how one of them had done a WOD that was a 20 minute row, and that was insanely long. For crew, we had 4 sets of 5k rows! I don’t really miss those marathon workouts.

I made it back to my old dining hall for brunch, the only good meal they do, and ate copious amounts of guacamole.

Which is another, and probably more accurate way of saying I made a Mexican salad. 

And this picture doesn’t begin to show much much guacamole is actually there. 

Wow, I really can’t think of a good way to end this post. Have a great weekend guys!

What was your last PR?

Hey guys! I wasn’t planning on posting tonight, but I’ll pop in quickly here to do a short recap of the day.

I began my morning with a 6am wakeup. I went to bed at 12, so this wasn’t an ideal amount of sleep, but I didn’t sleep too soundly so I was ready to get up and start my day. I ate a date, dressed quickly, and headed to the gym for my first gym workout of the school year!

Since I’m doing Crossfit and lifting a lot there, plus running and spinning for cardio, I want to use my gym workouts as time to work on certain lifts or exercises. I haven’t done a 1 rep max deadlift in over a year, and I started the morning with a shiny new PR of 205 pounds. It’s not a PR by much, but I didn’t exactly try 210 because I didn’t have time. But I’ll take it! I then worked on cleans from the hang position since we don’t have bumpers to do it from the ground. 

I also spent a few minutes on the assisted pull up machine. I’ve definitely gotten stronger from Crossfit, and my goal is to be able to do a pull up by Thanksgiving. I wanted to see roughly how far I had to go. Well, I’m about 55 pounds away from doing one. So that’s something to work on. I finished with a few minutes of abs, and 8 rounds of HIIT on the rowing machine. 

Post-workout chocolate milk was a necessity, as was this photo.

I had a 9 am class-Ochem. I actually really followed what was going on, and felt on top of things! It was a little stressful, because I kept expecting for the moment to come where I’d be completely lost. But it’s Day 2, so there’s still plenty of time to get lost. Fact: half the words that come out of my mouth during the school year is how hard Chem is and how much is sucks. I had 10 minutes until my next class, so I grabbed a quick pick me up-a small latte. Again, I drank maybe half. Which is annoying since I feel like it’s a waste of money, but what can you do?

After class and before spending time doing research, I took a moment to refuel.

In case you’re wondering, that’s a hard boiled egg in that bag.

I’ve been bad about taking pictures lately because my days have involved more snacks, which I normally don’t bother to photograph. But another snack looked like a combo of these things:

Plus a Thinkthin Divine and some super dark chocolate.

I actually spent some time doing my Chem reading. I feel unbelievably on top of things right now. I’ve not sure I’ve ever read my Chem textbooks before. 

I then headed to flag football practice.

I learned how to throw perfect spirals (hah) and catch a football. I want to be a receiver; I’m pretty good at catching since I’ve played softball all my life, and I know for a fact that I’m terrible at pulling flags or blocking. My hands were DONE by the end-pink and kind of swollen and very tired. I need to steal my sister’s wide receiver gloves. 

I headed straight to the gym afterwards for a quick Spin workout. I used an old playlist with HIIT in the middle (which is killer) and did about 30 minutes of the workout I had made. I’m officially in Spin teacher training mode. I need to figure out a date to sign up to be certified, but I want to wait until after my race at the end of October. My school is opening up a second gym (exactly the same as the current one) in November, and I would guess they’ll need more Spin teachers. Until I do the certification, I want to try and make a class for myself at least once a week.

I wasn’t super hungry after Spin since it was kind of late, so I hate a simple meal of yogurt and portabella mushroom soup in a mug-the best way!

Like my subtle coordination in decor? If the food isn’t interesting, then I can at least try to make the picture interesting. 

I liked this flip-the hazelnut flavor really came through!

After dinner, we had a Progressive party in my dorm to meet people and eat food in the RAs room. I actually snapped some pictures of this!

Hot chocolate.

Frozen Greek yogurt, berries, bananas, and chocolate fondue.

I have a really hard time passing up free food, even if I really don’t need it. This is definitely something I need to work on-I consume a LOT more sugar this way, and late night food. And if I eat late at night I sleep horribly, so that’s fabulous. Tips for passing these things up would be much appreciated!

If you’re wondering why this post seems so disjointed, it’s because I was interrupted in the middle and coerced to go to late night. They have a new menu this year-I got some things to share with friends, although I may or may not have dominated the cookie (unpictured).

You better believe I dominated those veggies though. I’ll take what I can get. 

Well, it’s getting late. I don’t have class until 11, but I’m going to an 8am Crossfit, and I have a feeling that in the morning I’ll regret that cookie. Tomorrow is kind of a rough day in terms of workouts-8am Crossfit, PM 6 mile hilly run, and then flag football practice again. Flag football isn’t really taxing, but it means I need to get my run done earlier, reducing my between activity rest time. Ok, this was definitely not my best post ever, but such is life. Have a great rest of the week! It’s almost the weekend (sort of).

Do you pass up free food? Doesn’t free stuff taste better?