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For breakfast I had cottage cheese and some Italian plums that I canned last summer, along with a piece of toast and butter. Then for lunch I wasn’t well organized—had to give a workshop on another campus and didn’t leave time to eat, but I had a Luna bar and apple with me, so I ate those. Was going to head back to work,…

@rheddmobile That’s great about your glucose post hard biking!! @Elise4270 Count me in among those hankering for a taste of your apple challah.. @shanaber I hope your stomach calms down soon! My food today started off okayish, then ended up in cheeseburger-land. I had some overnight oats with walnuts and dehydrated…

I went for another short morning run as part of my taper. Beautiful but not the easiest 2 miles.. Maybe I should get up earlier and drink coffee? Things to contemplate for tomorrow & Sunday. May goal: 70 mi 5/1 2 mi May total: 2 mi 2019 Races: 3/16 Kirkland Shamrock Run 5K 4/13 Mud & Chocolate 4.5 mi trail run 5/5…

I was so close to 80 in April (goal was 70)! But I think I’ll stick with 70 because this weekend is my HM (my first!), so little taper this week then recovery next, and then I’m on a work bike team for Bike Everywhere month in May (and have a 35 mi ride to prep for with kids). So yeah, 70 again. For cross training—very…

@AlphaHowls Just WOW! Tapering here, did 4 early sunny chilly miles this morning. I do love all the birds and gorgeous mountains, if not the hour. The HM starts at 7 am, though, so I’m thinking if I run at 6:xx 3 mornings this week 7 a.m. on Sunday will feel late? No one needs to disabuse me of my wishful thinking here...…

Still working on increasing veggies—I had a banana and bagel for breakfast, Trader Joe’s reduced guilt Mac & cheese for lunch and an orange, and an egg scramble with spinach and roasted cauliflower and zucchini for dinner. And a little chocolate. I was going to make instant pot veggie chili with black beans and sweet…

@taxgirl1 I totally agree about the perfect weather today here—gorgeous! I hope it’s as nice in the Tillamook Forest for @7lenny7! @katharmonic Your Spartan sounds incredible—congratulations on making it through.. I got back from my trip totally beat, but spent most of the day after my super early flight home resting and…

@shanaber I will definitely have to try that IP recipe—thanks for sharing! I am a long way from retirement, but wouldn’t mind traveling a bit less. I’m hoping my colleague (who I left early yesterday, and who did a great job and I think was only delayed an hour getting out) can take more of it on, so there’s a plan in…

Yum, @shanaber I love carnitas! Do you have a recipe for the IP, or do you improvise? I am thoroughly exhausted after my trip, and got up at 3 am for a 5 am flight, so somewhat incoherent by this point. But I’m grateful for two things about that crazy hour—one is that I beat the snow (I’m starting to hear that some of the…

I rarely skip logging, but think this will be one of those (very short 2-day) trips. I had hotel breakfast buffet oatmeal with sliced almonds, a latte, a chai latte, salad bar salad and Hungarian mushroom soup, bread, an amazing fudge brownie, a chocolate chocolate chip cookie, 2 cups of coffee, some cheese, chicken…

@MegaMooseEsq and @PastorVincent thanks for weighing in on my end-of-training deliberations! I am glad to hear it may not be a terrible idea to keep the 11 mile run on Sunday a possibility. I think it might depend a bit on how much this trip wears me out as well, but I feel in pretty good shape training wise. Work stress…

I’ve been doing a good job sticking to my deficit, but it made my fasted 5 miles this morning not too fun, so I think I should probably make my deficit smaller or eat at maintenance for the next 10 days until my HM. Also, I’m off on a work trip, and on this one I don’t have good access to a fridge/stove/time—I made it…

I also struggle with the individual replies, and do all MFP on my phone, mostly on the bus or late at night, so am following all these tricks for keeping track. The people and personalities are not hard at all, and I read everything, but the usernames with numbers foil me too. Still working through a glut of eggs from the…

@hanlonsk Yay for the conveyor belt sushi recommendations! We had a place here in Seattle—Blue C Sushi—with about 5 stores, and it was a total favorite with my family. Then they all closed really abruptly in one day, and we were very bummed! We get to Portland a few times each year, though, so we’ll have to try these. I…

Those pheasant jalapeño poppers look super tasty. I don’t think I’ve ever had either pheasant or jalapeño poppers, so I’m also really curious! Somehow I ended up having ribeye today—hmmm, where could I have gottten that idea? And I’m baking some granola, so the house smells good. Mmm.

That looks amazing—mmm! Was it tasty?! The ribeye sounds fab too.. I spent a good chunk of the day cleaning and organizing, so had a fairly boring breakfast and lunch—pineapple, a bagel & cream cheese for breakfast and some cottage cheese with avocado and cherry tomatoes for lunch, along with half a slice of pita. I…

Yesterday I was going to have a nice healthy egg scramble with lots of veggies for breakfast, but then my little guy wanted pancakes, so I made some Kodiak cakes instead, and moved the scramble plan to lunch. My healthy veggie-filled scramble has things like chard in it, but I decided to put some Canadian bacon in it, so…

@lporter229 congratulations, and thanks so much for sharing your race with us all! @Elise4270 I keep meaning to snap a pic of my new board, but haven’t unloaded it from the car yet! Soon, I hope! Thanks for the hugs on my fall—it’s definitely not an uncommon occurrence for me even though I’ve been snowboarding for 20+…

@shanaber Yes, vent away! I travel a lot for work and we like vacations too, and I bring quite a bit from home, and make lots of use of grocery stores. My little roller suitcase often has avocados, fruit, espresso, my small stovetop espresso machine, canned tuna, a knife, fork, and spoon, rolled oats & a mason jar for…

I’m curious about all of the answers to this question too—I’ve been occasionally supplementing, but MFP logging has really made me aware that I am generally not near the goal for iron (I don’t eat much meat or fortified things), so I have been rotating between some multivitamins that have iron and straight up iron…

I have been lurking away on this thread and appreciating all of the conversations! But the gardening one sucked me right in :) Probably because I’ve been absolutely neglecting mine.. my favorite things to plant are the low-care high productivity things. So kale & chard, cherry tomatoes, green beans (bush have worked better…

Here in the US Pacific Northwest, the best known healthy foods are probably salmon and berries—these are also some of the foods that are still central in local Indigenous communities (Coast Salish nations). Wild salmon (sockeye, coho, king, and silver are perhaps most common) are especially abundant (and inexpensive!) in…

There was some new snow in the mountains this past weekend, so we thought we’d eke out another snowboarding day, which was lots of fun. My board is 20 years old and one of the bindings finally failed, so I needed to revisit my gear and ended up taking advantage of some end of the season sales and got a new board and…

So the Mud and Chocolate Trail Run today was definitely muddy—in the high 40s and raining for the whole race. But lots of fun! I got to really break in my Salomon Speedcross shoes—they’d never be mistaken for new now. I was really glad I got the waterproof ones, as they kept my feet nice and dry through many many puddles.…

Tomorrow is my 4.5 mi trail race, with lots of chocolate (chocolate medal, chocolate bar for all finishers, etc). I’m excited! Have been reading but not posting so much this week—but working on keeping up! It’s also been kind of wet and gray, so there might be a fair amount of mud tomorrow and the race could live up to its…

I also generally eat back most of my exercise calories, but sometimes not on the same day, and have been losing consistently at expected rates. I run regularly, so there can be significant variation between days with long runs, short runs, rest days, and other exercise, and intense exercise (like running) suppresses my…

Wow, what wonderful advice! @_nikkiwolf_ , thanks for the pacer research for the Vancouver half—that sounds like a great plan to look for the 2:15 bunny. And all the additional resources were really interesting! I’m still working up to the HM distance, but my long run pace is consistently in that range even as it lengthens…

So my little guy thought better of 4.5 trail miles this weekend—he thought it was the same as the 3 mile Mud & Chocolate trail run we did 2 years ago. He was up for instead doing another Color Run the week after my half, and then doing the shorter Mud & Chocolate trail run this summer. He likes repeating things :) So that…

I think these things are always awkward in one way or another—and have heard thought processes around people leaving that are entirely different than mine. Frankly even as a very straightforward person, I have always told people I/we would miss them when they gave notice, even when I’d effectively managed them out and was…

Congratulations to all the weekend racers! Those sound like really tough marathons, @mbaker566 and @midwesterner85. Yikes. So impressive! And congrats on your half, @amymoreorless! I finished up work in Philly yesterday afternoon and flew home last night, all the while feeling like I was coming down with some respiratory…