Woohoo, I survived the No Excuses Memorial Day 5K! And considerably better than last year, PR’ing at 9:23 minute miles. I know that’s not too impressive, but good for me and hopefully I can do better next weekend at the Fleet Feet Women’s Fitness Festival. I started this morning as I usually do, with a monster smoothie.
Organic carrots, organic spinach and organic frozen blueberries with hemp protein powder, maca powder and some splurge ingredients.
NuNaturals Pure Liquid Clear Stevia does wonders for veggie loaded smoothies and I need to order some more soon.
The end result was a sweet, chocolaty delight that tasted more like a dessert rather than a veggie-loaded breakfast. I had this about 2 hours before the race and it worked out perfect, not too filling, but energizing and kept me feeling full even after the race.
After breakfast I coated myself in this.
This morning was overcast and cool, but I wasn’t taking any chances considering I usually get sunburned the worst when it’s slightly overcast and I don’t think I need sunblock. This generic Target brand sports sunblock works great, BTW, it sprays on and spreads nicely without being stinky and seems to last for hours.
We literally got there minutes before the race started, I barely had time to visit a disgusting porta potty before getting in line.
But, that worked out well. During the race, I felt much better and more energized than last year. I remember feeling labored and struggling a bit to keep running through the entire race last year and it seemed effortless this year. But I joined the race late last year with little time to train and wasn’t a runner before. I had more training time this year and felt much more comfortable keeping pace through this one.
After the race, I looted the free snacks.
I only ate the banana (well half since the other half was mush :-P) and stuffed the other items into hubby’s work bag for his emergency breakfasts.
Heh, I color coordinated my shirt with my shoes and iPod, so girlie! Last year hubby and I, being racing noobs, wore the race t-shirts to the race thinking that’s what everyone does. But found that hardly anyone did that and kind of looked like dorks. Plus it was just a generic t-shirt not cut for a lady’s figure and looking like a baggy sack on me. I wised up this year. :-)
I was feeling pretty good when we got home and made a huge salad for lunch topped with mango salsa, nutritional yeast and pumpkin seeds.
And watermelon chunks for dessert, yum! Hot dogs and hamburgers say Memorial Day to some, but watermelon does it for me. :-)
For dinner, I had leftover salad from last night and corn-on-the-cob that hubby grilled in the husk.
Light, but I was saving room for a splurge dessert.
Cafe Gratitude Frozen Nut Milk Dessert, or ice “cream”. :-) It’s essentially the Ben & Jerry’s for raw vegans, yum! The texture was a little different from traditional dairy-based ice cream, but the flavor was amazing. The chocolate bits were nicely distributed through the dessert and it had a very rich and creamy flavor. Now, it’s not cheap, $8 for that a pint. But this was a once-in-awhile splurge and totally worth it. There are several recipes for similar nut milk creams in Ani Phyo’s books that I’m almost tempted to get an ice cream maker for. But, I rarely crave ice cream, so probably not a good idea to add another kitchen appliance that we’ll probably occasionally use.
omg that ice cream is a splurge, indeed! just think of how many over ripe bananas you can buy for that LOL kidding. you deserve it!
and no to an ice cream maker, you have your Vita Goddess. I think it’s good enough, I mean it’s only for Scott in my house that i am making it for or trying to even remotely impress. And since he could care less, I just use the V w/ frozen nanas. I realize though this is limiting for some…
“Plus it was just a generic t-shirt not cut for a lady’s figure and looking like a baggy sack on me. I wised up this year. :-)”
HAHA!!!
Yes. All race shirts are cut for men and they are too baggy and make good sleeping tshirts but not racing shirts.
Love the pink shirt youre in and the photo of you. More of those please!
xo
Congrats on the PR!!!!
That “ice cream” sounds very interesting– love that list of ingredients!
you did so good at your race! good job christine :) looks like you had a great weekend! hope you have a great week too.
Hi Averie, yeah the ice cream was a major splurge for me! Not something I’ll be regularly buying, but fun to try. Agreed on the ice cream maker, I understand one is needed to make nut milk based ice creams, but am happy with banana ice cream.
I look terrible in plain t-shirts, they’re very unflattering. At least with the 5K this weekend they’ll have ladies shirts. :-)
Way to go on the 5k girl and I LOVE the smoothie combo you had! Thanks for the tip too on saying about the berry blend for smoothies, I never think to put my frozen berries I get to put in smoothies, I always just throw them in oatmeal or cereal, I always just put bananas in my smoothies!
Loving that kick butt salad too ! Mango! Yes Please!!!!!!!!!
Oh cupcakes are yummy! Yes you need to make some soon, but icecream has my heart, and that icecream looks good!!!
Have a great night girl! xoxo
Yea! Congrats on the race!! I have yet to do one….well I am not a good runner so I am not sure how far I would have gotten :|
This smoothie looks divine! I must try this combo :)
Ahhh this ice cream……I can taste it now. How delicious is it?? YUM!
XXOO