Sunday 8/31/08

Photo of the Farmer’s Market raisin bread loaf.Nike Human Race 10k @ Randall’s Island – 6pm tonight! Breakfast: Coffee, OJ, banana, peanut butter, whole wheat bread with smart balance and raspberry preserves, Farmer’s Market raisin bread (2 slices).Snack: Mom’s homemade fudge (not pictured). Pre-race/long run fuel. Obviously.

Saturday 8/30/08

Dinner: apple (not pictured), whole foods salad – spinach, bell pepper, celery, sesame broccoli, chickpeas, cranberries, baked tofu, blue cheese, and a splash of miso dressing.Late night: whole wheat bagel with cream cheese (1am – was starving!)Breakfast: coffee, banana, peanut butter, vita muffin, calcium supplement.Snack: Dunkin’ Donuts latte lite (while walking to Farmer’s Market, sorry [...]

Lunch, Dinner, & Cupcakes!

Lunch was an office pizza party – veggie pizza, salad with balsamic vinaigrette, and a small scoop of cheesy baked ziti. yum! Snack: Chocolate vitamuffin a spoonful of PB while waiting at the bus station for my mom. Dinner: Fred’s (puppy dog-themed!) Restaurant on the UWS. I had a great salad: spinach, red onions, wild [...]

Breakfast 8/29/08

Breakfast: The usual coffee w/ fat free half-n-half, apple, OJ, and a promax protein bar. We’re having an office pizza party for lunch!

Late night

The Central Park Track Club workout went pretty well – 2 miles warm-up, 1.4m “pick-up”, 3 x 600m hill charges (600m recovery), 3 x 400m short hills (400m recovery), 2-3 miles of cool-down. Total: somewhere between 9 and 10 miles Afterwards I was wiped out. Refuled with some OJ and 1/2 pb sammy on the [...]

Thursday 8/28/08 – Busy Day!

New Peanut Butter Review: I’ve been buying Trader Joe’s PB for a few months now (can’t beat the $1.29 price!), but I was at Whole Foods yesterday and decided to give that brand a whirl.Price: $2.19 for 16oz jarDescription: All natural PB – Just peanuts and salt!Consistency: The oil seperates to the top, so a [...]

Dessert!

Edy’s Slow-Churned Cookies & Cream bar (the last one!)

Pretty Salad and Carbs

After my salad, I was craving carbs! I had 1 cup of Kashi Heart2Heart, a Kashi Pumpkin Spice granola bar, and 1/2 peanut butter LaraBar. The base of my salad is spinach and red/yellow bell peppers. The four corners consist of approx. 1/4 cup scoops of: black bean salad, sesame broccoli, BBQ tempeh, and feta-blueberry [...]

A sweaty run ends with…

After cleaning the bathroom, taking out the recycling, and some other odds and ends – I hit the road for an 8 mile run down the West Side. My right hamstring and IT band were giving me some trouble, but the weather was gorgeous. I stopped near Broadway & 86th to stretch and get some [...]

Breakfast Wed 8/27/08

Today is a Megan holiday! I am taking the day off of work to get some sleep, clean my apartment, and hopefully go for a run in the beautiful weather. Yesterday, an early birthday surprise arrived from my mom: 4 boxes of VitaBrownies and a basket of Vitamuffins. For breakfast today, I had a latte [...]