Hello. Fancy meeting you here! :)
My workouts this week have been strong and solid. There is no doubt in my mind that not running in Sunday’s race was the right decision.
I will never let myself feel a twinge of guilt ever again when I listen to my body!
Monday I ran an 8km– on my own time- and I saved $35! My legs felt really good after a day of rest and stretching.
Tuesday was a lovely rest day once again. I have actually changed my Spring Training Plan around a bit to include MORE rest days! I have found that since my workouts have been quite intense and involve strength work, my body craves more rest. I have been taking about 2-3 rest days per week. This is a big thing for me because in the past I used to never let myself take rest days. Three cheers for being good to the body.
I have been doing some light stretching/yoga on my rest days for about 10 minutes or so, followed by about 5 minutes of meditation (Enya + lights out + laying down = bliss).
Today was a great 3 mile interval run:
- 1/2 mile: 6.2 mph, incline 2%
- 1/2 mile: 7.2, incline 2%
- Repeat intervals until 3 miles are done
- Total time = 27 mins for 3 miles
Something that excites me: I haven’t had to use my knee sleeves while running. I wonder if that is because my leg muscles supporting my knees are stronger due to the strength workouts? I am very happy about this. I hope that I can keep it up when I hit the pavement come spring.
I capped off my run with the Booty Camp Fitness Intermediate workout and a ton of stretching.
I was a hungry, hungry hippo for lunch!
Green Goddess Pizza with Vegan Parmesan Cheese
Ingredients:
- 1 Ezekiel Tortilla Wrap
- 2 T tomato paste or pizza sauce
- 1-2 cups baby spinach
- Pinch sea salt, to taste
- 1/2 Avocado, sliced
- 6 cherry tomato, sliced
- Leftover sprouts
- basil and parsley , to taste
- 2 teaspoons 3 Minute Vegan Parmesan Cheese
Directions: In a food processor process the spinach. Stir in tomato paste and salt. Spread tortilla with spinach mixture. Add sliced avocado, tomato, vegan parmesan cheese, and seasonings. Broil in the oven for about 3 minutes on low- watch carefully! Serve immediately.
3 Minute Vegan Parmesan Cheese:
This was really tasty. The green sauce was a nice change and was a fun way to sneak in some greens.
These Ezekiel tortillas have really grown on me. I don’t mind them at all anymore and the thickness is kind of fun to chew.
Talk about a thin crust!
My pizza had a soft belly so I folded it into a sandwich. Mmmmm.
Little known fact- I used to hate avocado! When Eric and I went to Mexico late in 2007 I got hooked on the resort’s guacamole. There is no better guacamole than fresh from Mexico! Once home, I decided to buy avocados and I was hooked ever since.
With Japanese Sencha green tea and a discount, bruised pear which was worth way more than I paid for it! It was at the peak of juiciness.
My snack this afternoon will be an Adore Glo Bar.
Back to work I go. I have 150 more Glo Bars to make and then a late afternoon business meeting. I need to get everything finished for the Hockey games tonight!! Going to be ‘hum-dingers’ as my dad would say. ;)
The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.
Joseph Le Conte
That is probably the most delish pizza pic I’ve ever seen!!! I’m allergic to parm so I def need to try your pseudo-parm!! :)
-Lauren
Is avocado the best food EVER! I even incorporate them into my smoothies every so often. :)
My fiance is absolutely in LOVE with your glo bars!!!
Glad to hear that! :)
I must try avocado in GM’s I think I had a bad experience once and have been scared to try it again.
Where is the FL meetup? the link doesn’t seem to be working!
http://ohsheglows.com/2010/02/22/size-healthy-extravaganza/ that should work :)
Bruised pears are always the juiciest and sweetest tasting!!! Don’t judge a book/pear by it’s cover :)
Glad you have had some rockin’ workouts this week!! Doesn’t it feel great??
I agree- Eric looked at it and said Ewwwww. I say Yummmmm.
I think avacado has been growing on me, too!
The pizza looks wonderful, I will try that soon!! And yes, strength training, especially glutes, quads and hams support your joints by building up the muscles around them. Quads especially help the knees be stronger. Good for you Angela!
oh, i’m totally interested in a florida meet-up! except i live in colorado… :(
that green goddess pizza looks amazing! i definitely want to try it soon…maybe friday night? also, thanks so much for instigating the “size healthy” movement! i’m lovin’ it!
ROAD TRIP! Ive always wanted to go to Colorado… ;)
The pizza looks delicious!!!
The pizza looks so good, even to me who doesn’t like veggies! I’m going to try the vegan parm on my kale chips. I do something similar with nutritional yeast, but I am excited to try yours!
Oh thanks for reminding me to make kale chips…I still havent made them yet! I’m a bit scared :\ lol
Looks delicious!!:-) cc
Glad to hear that you made the right choice with not doing the race. Sometimes you have to listen to yourself! That pizza looks awesome.
I had an avocado with my lunch today as well (vegetarian “ham” sandwich, mmm). I noticed you only used 1/2 the avocado…does the other half store well? I always figured it would go bad easily so I just eat the whole thing :p
It stores just OK…2 days max and it browns a tiny bit. If you leave the pit in the avocado it is supposed to help prevent it from spoiling as quickly! :)
that trick also works for guacamole… after you mash and mix it all up, put the pits in there. it will keep it from turning brown… we had some the other night at my parent’s house, and my mom put the leftovers in the fridge with the pits. the next day it STILL wasn’t brown!
Your pizza looks amazing!
Rest days used to be such a challenge for me too. It took an injury to realize how necessary they really are!
Delicious looking pizza. I love avocado anywhere and everywhere.
That pizza looks amazing!
Yay for running without a sleeve. Stronger leg muscles can 100 percent help reduce knee pain. The focus of my physical therapy was to build up the muscles around the knee so that it properly tracked and therefore stopped hurting. I can notice a huge difference in my knees when I don’t strength train compared to when I do.
Pizza looks amazing!! I am having a hard time finding anything Ezekiel!
Funny on the avocado – I also didn’t start loving it until my mum made me some tomato, avocado, and cheese sandwiches for a trip I was going on and I loved them. Other fruits/veg I didn’t used to like but now love – bananas (as a runner not sure how I lived without these!), broccoli, beets (in a salad), eggplant, rockmelon, nectarines, and apricots. It just amazes me that there are people who don’t like any (or not a lot) of fruit and veggies. Seriously – who wouldn’t love fruit . . it tastes amazing and is so good for you! :)
i would love to join the Toronto meet up. I have never been to a blogger meet up before. Nor have I ever met any of the bloggers that I read.
But unfortunately, that is when i am in Cuba. Oh well. Maybe next time!
But great suggestion!!!!
the pizza looks so healthy!
I haven’t gotten onto the avocado boat, maybe i just need it in a recipe a certain way for me to get hooked, but i just haven’t really tried experimenting with it thus far.
While you’re road-tripping to Colorado, you should stop in Montana! It’s almost Canada, anyway… :)
I must say that the I’ve never thought of processing spinach into my pizza sauce. Guess what’s for dinner tonight? ;)