Anyway I had a blast.  The weather was pretty good, in the 50’s & cloudy.  I just wish the sun was out, but oh well, ya can’t have it all.

The girl in front of me below were playing a game of cat & mouse the entire last half of the race.

That’s okay…

Can you believe my 10 year old daughter took this video on her camera Grandma & Papa gave her for Christmas?  Thank you Boo!

Make sure your volume is down, some kid I don’t know is yelling my name.

Blossom Trail 10 K

It’s rude to count people as you pass them…out loud!

I guess my post worked!  He caved…

<3  Mizuno Women’s Wave Rider 13!!!  <3

I’m in love!

I went to Sierra Running Company in Fresno, and was fitted for shoes.  These kicks are sweet!  I have narrow feet so these fit like a glove.

And so far, no knee pain at all!

It’s been another fun week over here and this weekend is going to get even better!

I will be running my first 10K tomorrow morning.  It’s the Blossom Trail Race in a little town called Sanger, CA.  Wahoo!  Can you tell I’m excited!?  Nerd alert!

Anyway I thought since I haven’t been posting about food in like forever, I’d show ya what I’ve been munching on.

Chicken stir fry with veggies & brown rice.  One of my favorites!

Egg & cheese on a toasted W.W Arnold Thin.

Mixed organic greens with mushrooms, sweet cherry tomatoes & Trader Joe’s FF Balsamic dressing.  This stuff is so amazing!  It doesn’t taste like bottled dressing at all.  So good we bought a whole case of it last week. 

Canned pineapple.  Although I just cut up a fresh one today.

And my favorite juice, Simply Orange with extra pulp.

And of course I’ve been eating my famous banana with breakfast every morning.  My day is just not complete without it.  LOL!

So the funniest thing happened this morning.  My dog, Pookie is known for not being the brightest bulb on the tree.  Seriously!  Anyway Alisa let the dogs out like usual and they were out there for the longest time.  Finally she came inside and said “I think Pookie has a bone stuck inside her mouth”.  So I ask if she’s choking and she replied “no, she just can’t close her mouth”.  So my husband said just call her inside.  So in walked the dumbest dog ever!  Sure enough, she had a bone stuck in the furthest part of her jaw.  I wish I would have taken a picture, but I was too busy eating and laughing.  Here she is~

Look into her eyes…so you see any sign of intelligence?  Major lol’s!  She’s sweet as pie & I love my little dog!

Catch ya on the flip side with a race review!

Nite bloggies,

Yep, I got him yesterday and can’t put it down!  I had to name Slim because well, he’s not slim, but he’s gonna help keep me slim.  So cheesy, right!  Oh well! 

Naturally, I was excited to take him out for a spin even though it was a chilly, breezy & 51* and the sun was hiding.  We until we were on our way home!  Of course it would have ta play games like that.

I ran 2.78 miles in 24:53.

Mile 1 8:58

Mile 2 9:52

Mile .78 6:29

Since we were in Reedley, we had to check out the new Fresh & Easy that just opened yesterday.  It reminds me of Trader Joe’s so I am super excited to have a store like that so close!

Lunch was a 6 inch Veggie Delight on whole wheat from Subway.  Loved it!

I was not about to let that sun go down without enjoying it, so I hopped on my bike and did a 2.6 mile loop in 12:04 minutes.  My average pace was 12.3 mph.

Watch out hubby, I am starting to have feelings for Slim!

Since I’m really lame and haven’t blogged in a while, I thought I’d entertain you with my life this past week.

I ran the Race Judicata 5K Saturday.  Yep, I really need to get my butt in gear if I wanna run a half marathon for my 30th birthday.  I did take almost a minute off my time from last Sunday.  So I guess that’s a start, right!?

We got up at 6am and the husband was like “you actually paid to get up early on a Saturday, drive 45 minutes there & back, to run in the cold”!?!?!?  Nope, you paid for it, honey, but thanks! 

There were a lot of fast runners!  They totally smoked me.

Then we went to Roller Town to celebrate the little ones 10th birthday per her request.

Uh, yeah I really need to work on my “hang 10” sign or maybe new some gang signs…whatever.

That’s better.

I skated for about an hour.  I took skating lessons as a kid and pretty much grew up skating, so it was a lot of fun.

Then I got board and started taking some “My Space” pictures.  You know the ones when people take ghetto, cheesy pictures of themselves in their messy bathrooms, slap it on there and call it “cute”.

Well here’s my imitation~

Ok, ok here’s a real on taken by the husband~

Then we ventured over to Ma & Pa’s house to continue the celebration.

Then I officially signed up for this~

Here’s the course map.  Oh lordy, what is wrong with me.  If anyone know’s how to train for this, please help a sista out.

Here is the course map~

http://www.marinemudrunlemoore.com/Mud_Run_Course.html

Uh…HUSBAND!!!!!!!!!

That’s what you get when you hand your camera to your husband to take pictures while you light the candles on your little one’s cake.  Very funny dude, very funny.

But to make up for it, he ordered this for me today~

I think we’re even, don’t you!?

From here.  It was a better deal than Amazon.com, if your like me & can’t wait a few extra days to get your new toy.

Now if only he doesn’t screw up again…wait, if he does, that might mean he’d have to cave and get me the new kicks I’ve been eyeing.  Hummm…

It’s been a busy but great week so far!  I think I’ve finally got my running mojo back!  I did a very small 5K race on Valentines Day~

Not my fastest, but not my slowest either.  I did quite well for not running  at all since the 4th.  My leggies felt like jello the last mile & I was shaking after, but it was all good!

I guess that’s all it took to get my mojo back because I found a new trail to run on & it’s only a 6 minute drive from my house.  Tuesday I ran 5 miles.  I was diggin’ it, so I ran it again today!  The hubby was intrigued so he asked if he could join me.  I was happy he asked!    So he loaded up his bike & we were off.

Lately I’ve been thinking about riding my bike.  I really want to exercise outside with my husband, so I got it out, dusted it off and my hubby replaced the tires on it.  Then we went on a 2 mile ride with the family before dinner.

Mike found this on craigslist.com for me last spring for $30.  Sweet!

I thought riding a bike would be a piece of cake compared to running, but uh well yeah, I was totally wrong.  Man I got my butt kicked, but in a good way.

Mike was not diggin’ his racing bike today.   So when I went to our local bike shop to get tires for mine, I noticed a used bike outside for sale.  I told him about when I got home and he was interested.  So we headed back to the bike shop.  He liked the looks of it & took it for a test spin.  When he got back he was totally liking it so he made the owner a deal.  He ended up with this~

In exchange for his old one for only $20!  Sweet!

Now that the weather is nice, it’s supposed to get cloudy & rain this weekend.    Just in time for a 5K I have on Saturday.  Oh well I’m happy to enjoy it while it lasts.

Off to take a bubble bath and relax for another active day tomorrow!

Are you ready for one of the most random posts ever????

Here we go……

Well this winter weather has got me down, me thinks.  The sun won’t come out and now it’s raining.  I haven’t been running, which keeps me sane, but I did manage to round up my daughter yesterday evening for a 2 mile run while she rode her bike.  That helped a lot.  I can’t wait for spring!!!

I have exciting news though!  Since I will be turning 30 in April, I want to run my first half marathon!  I haven’t decided on a location yet, but it’s really fun looking for one.  I’ve been toying with this one.

Santa Cruz, CA.  Totally my style! 

Anyway I’m getting ready to start training for the Mud Run in May so I’m going to start working on my training plan today and I will post it as soon as I have it done.  If anyone has ever trained for something similar to this, please feel free to leave me a comment and let me know what you did to train.  I’m looking for a few strategies. 

General Mills & MyBlogSpark contacted me about their upcoming release of single digit grams of sugar per serving in cereals advertised to children under 12.  Of course I jumped on board!  I feel this is a move in the right direction and can’t wait try the new cereals out myself when they come out.  Click here to get your $1 off coupon.

General Mills & MyBlogSpark were so nice, they sent me 4 coupons to try out their current cereals.  With the help of my daughter who’s 9, we choose these~

Surprisingly my daughters favorite was Kix!  It only had 3 grams of sugar per serving.  Yeah, I was shocked, but in a good way!

Thank you General Mills & MyBlogSpark!

Off to concur my day!

The lovely people at MyBlogSpark contacted me & offered to send me a nice selection of their soups to try out a few weeks ago.   Check out the cool loot~

They also sent me a nice XL mug & jump rope I’ll show you in a bit.

As you can see there were a lot to try so I will just feature my favorites.

Italian Style Meatball

I was actually a little hesitant to try this because I am not a fan of meatballs.  But I was pleasantly surprised.  The soup had a lot of Italian seasoning flavor and was quite filling.  The meatballs were very small and not mushy like I thought they would be.

Garden Vegetable

This one reminded me of a Minestrone soup without the pasta.  It has a nice variety of veggies & kidney beans.  The flavor was pretty mild but still good.  I added a little shredded cheese and that enhanced the flavor.  I rounded this out with 1/2 a grapefruit and it kept me full until dinner.

My favorite one of all was the Chicken & Dumpling!  Sorry for the generic picture, my camera ate mine. 

It was creamy without being heavy and the flavor was spot on!  The only thing I think can be improved on was the dumplings were a bit dry on the inside, but overall I really enjoyed this one the most.

It’s funny how the salt content (in all soups) is generally high, but for some reason I can’t taste it?  But then again I love salt lol.

Since it’s been a while since I last checked in I figured I’d show you some love. 

Well let’s see…

Since the weather hasn’t been great, I decided to try out the gym.  So on Tuesday a friend of mine gave me a weeks trial pass so I went that night and ran on the dreadmill.  I did 5 miles in 49:00.  I was shocked I actually stayed on that long!  I was super dizzy & hot after I stepped off.  Is that normal?  Does that happen to anyone else?  

Anyway Wednesday, Thursday & Friday were spent doing yard work at my in laws house.  I help the husband trim a huge tree and did a lot of loading & unloading branches, raking & sweeping.  I love being outside and yard work!  I know, I’m weird.  But what a great workout!  It doesn’t hurt that we rent from the in laws and 3 days of work bought us a month of free rent.  Sweet!

Today was my niece, Blair’s first birthday party.  She was so cute!  Check out her cakes, yes she had 3 of ‘em~

Cupcake just for baby~

Princess cake from Grandma & Papa just for her~

Are they serious!?  I can do this and not get in trouble…

The last one if my favorite! 

This evening has been pretty relaxing.  I made tacos with homemade Spanish rice for dinner, chatted on Face Book and I’m about to take a nice warm bubble bath.  I can’t wait until tomorrow… I’m going to the Disneyland of stores… Target!!!!!!  Yep that’s my favorite one of all! 

Check back real soon.  I’m working on a post about my 30th birthday goal!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! 

After a week of nothing but rain, the sun decided to come out all day today.  It was close to 60* and sooo nice out.

I ran about 2 miles with my dog, Pookie.  Man that little dog can keep up with me!  And then walked another 3 with the hubby & dogs.  The air was crisp and refreshing and the sun was so warm.  Spring is just around the corner.  I seriously can’t wait! 

Tonight Mike is making Albondigas soup for the first time and it smells delicious so I’m sure it will be a hit and we are also having a few friends over to play board games so that should be a lot of fun.

Our plans for tomorrow are to head to Fresno to visit my family and chill out, maybe watch a little football who knows.

If money wasn’t an object where would you live and what would you do all day, every day?

I would live on the beach somewhere in So Cal, go to a sunrise yoga class, surf, boogie board, tan, run, hike, take my dogs for walks on the beach with my husband, shop for fresh produce & clothes and watch the sun set every single day.

Your turn! 

Have a wonderful weekend.