Pink Hair

Yep for the first time ever in my life I dyed my hair a color other than brown, black or blonde.  I went in to get my hair platinum over the weekend and decided to add a little pink.  Just for fun!  I mean you gotta live a little right?   It eventually washes out which is comforting to my Mother who thinks I am off my rocker.

That being said I LOVE it and it will be perfect for my race in two weeks!

With two weeks left before my marathon I really want to focus on eating the right stuff which means oatmeal with almond butter, banana and chia seeds in the morning.  Normally I am a toast and almond butter person but its time to start packing in the nutrients.

Later today I am going to be making some Healthy Bites from the Cotter Crunch cookbook!  I have been waiting to make these for about 2 weeks because I was waiting to get my favorite protein powder Muscle Nog.  It finally came last weekend so I am all set. 

Today I did 5x 800m repeats at 8.8 speed on the treadmill.  I am not really sure how fast that is.  I am new to the treadmill thing so I went with something that felt fast but bearable. 

Tomorrow Arms
Wed- 5 mile Tempo
Thurs- 5 easy
Friday- Legs
Sat- 10 miles around 8:30 pace
Sun- Rest :)

How was your weekend?  Ever dye your hair a funky color?

Happy Monday
xx
Sarah

SNEAK PEEK!

SOOO I just wanted to show you a little sneak peek of the photoshoot last night.  It went so well and I am so happy with they way the photos are looking.  I am supposed to be keeping it all a secret but I just wanted to share a little.  These are just a couple of raw images.  I took a picture of the picture with my phone so that is why they are a little grainy.

Can't wait to show you more!!

Super tired this morning.  Just going to do back and biceps(P90X) and then I am off to get my hair done.  Blonde!  I am pretty excited about it.

Any fun plans for the weekend?  Besides my hair I plan on enjoying the nice weather and relaxing.  Also thinking about getting a spray tan?

Do you spray tan or do you think it's lame?  I don't really get them that often, actually almost never but with my new blonde hair I feel like I should be tanner?

Have a great weekend!
xx
Sarah

Strawberry Mint Seltzer

Yesterday I made a Strawberry Mint Seltzer drink.  I got the idea from a POST that Hungry Runner Girl wrote.  It was in a magazine clip.  It said to blend fruit with seltzer water.  I was thinking what a great idea.  So this is how I did it.

Washed the fruits.

Throw it all in the blender and add seltzer.

And Voila! Your very own real fruit seltzer drink.

I would have to say it was pretty good. I will be making this again with all different kinds of fruit.

Off to do my 5 miler.  How about you?  Running or Cross training day?

XX
Sarah

Great Weekend

All in all I would have to say this past weekend was great. We had beautiful weather and it was Scott's 30th Birthday.  As for my running....well I was super busy so I didn't get all my miles in.  I ran....
5 on Monday
Legs Tuesday
17(was supposed to be 20) on Wednesday
Back and Biceps Thursday
Friday (I was styling a commercial and had to be there early so no workout)
4 on Sat which was supposed to be 5 but was too lazy to go the last mile
Sunday rest

So I missed 9 miles this past week.  oophs!  That's ok I am going to make up for it by going 8 tomorrow instead of 5.  I ate way too much this weekend and feel a little sick.


Back to the eventful stuff!  Ivan got to play with Franklin the pig.  Joey is a friend of ours and this is his pig who hangs out in the back of the hardware store.  You can read more about him here.  He's pretty famous :)

We spent a lot of time outside.  We even took Ivan on a motorcycle ride which was pretty awesome. I made Scott his favorite kind of cake.  Vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and chilled it.  We ate it with ice cream.  Oh so good!

Earlier in the day we ate at Jimmy's diner which was southern goodness.  Can you now see why I am going 8 tomorrow.  Yes I ate WAY too much this weekend.  Need to burn some cals!

One thing we love to do is sit on the stoop of our apartment building and watch the people walk by.  The Flea market started here in Brooklyn and it is only a block down from us so there is a lot of people watching. PS not the best picture of us.  We just woke up from a 2 hour nap which is something else we like to do on Sundays :)

Back to business.  I have 3 more weeks until my Long Island Marathon.  My longest run is over and this Saturday I will be doing 15.  I will try to throw in some tempos and repeats to keep my legs going but I am not focusing on a PR this time around because I have only had 6 weeks to train.  This one is for fun!

Eating plan:  EAT MORE VEGGIES! Seriously was lacking this last past week and I can tell. Salad everyday I tell you.

Workouts:
Mon-8
Tues- Arms
Wed- 5
Thurs- 5
Friday- Arms
Sat- 15
Sun- Rest

How about you guys?  How was your weekend?  Who is watching Boston today?  I AM!

I am also watching Skinny Runner on her Man Up Week.  This women is truly inspiring!

Happy Monday!
XX
Sarah

20 Turned into 17

 So Wednesday I headed out to do my 20 miler which I failed to mention that I was going to go and run it on the treadmill.  I think I left that part out because deep down I knew I was nuts for thinking I could run 18 on Saturday and then just 4 days later do it again but go 20 miles.  Needless to say I stopped at mile 17.  I could have gone the whole 20 but I just didn't want to.  My legs felt fine, but mentally I had checked out.  So 17 miles was it and I was happy with that. 

This was my post workout pic at the gym.  I was surprisingly cold so I threw on my sweatshirt and jacket.  Can't you tell how happy I am with myself.  Ha!

Yesterday I had to head into the city to have a meeting about a commercial shoot I am styling today. Their office was right by Grand Central which is great because they have Two Boots Pizza which I LOVE and I never get it.  So I had a slice of the Larry Tate and a pop.  It was a real treat.  I was tempted to get a cupcake from Magnolia Bakery because it was right there and smelled so good but decided to go without.

But more importantly what is really on my mind is finding some new Cacti for our apartment.  They are my favorite and I really want a tall one like in the picture below on the right side of the couch.  Don't you just love this setup?  I wish my living room looked like this.  Someday :)  Anyways this photo was posted on Design Sponge. It is the new offices of Refinery 29.  Isn't it great....   So this is what I will be doing Saturday.  Looking for this plant.

Have a great weekend!

xx
Sarah

Pre-Long Run Fuel

What do you eat the day before your long run? I am running my long run(20) today because the rest of my week is pretty busy. So yesterday I tried to eat good.  I try to eat good everyday but I pay even more attention if I am running long the next day.

Starting off with my breakfast of oatmeal, chia seeds, almond butter, banana and cinnamon.

For lunch I had sushi but forgot to take a photo.  I had 3 pieces of salmon sushi with brown rice and a tuna avocado roll with brown rice.  I am not gonna lie, I was still hungry after this so on my way back to the train I went past this soft serve fruit place.  I had the frozen banana with peanut butter, pretzels and chocolate chips on top.  It is delish! 

For dinner I made a new recipe from my new cookbook THE FEED ZONE.  I made the chicken fried rice which apparently is Lance Armstrong's favorite post workout meal.  It was way good and super easy.

And that's it!  ......... no I ate more :)  I had grahams and milk followed by frosted flakes in my cup of leftover milk.  I always need a sweet treat after dinner.


So we will see how it goes. I am off to do 20.

What do you eat before a long run?  Anything special or just play it casual and eat the usu?

XX

Sarah

Easter Weekend and a Baby

I would have to say that this was one of the better weekends. My morning started off with 18 miles on the treadmill which normally I would want to keel over and die from but it was actually a great run.  I also ate a Lara Bar on this run to test it out and it wasn't too bad.

Next up I am trying to be part of Cotter Crunch's Adventurous April.  So I tried these Go Raw Lemon Super Cookies.  They are actually pretty good.  Next time I will try their original flavor.

I also tried this new Grape Chia Seed drink.  Ok it's good.....but I don't totally love it.  I don't love Kombucha a whole bunch so this was better than that but still similar.  There is Kombucha in it too.

We had a super low key Easter which was great.  I made biscuits and gravy and we ate that around 2 in the afternoon.  Then about an hour later we continued eating.  WAY TOO much food yesterday.  Luckily the weather was super nice so we took an evening walk.  And then ate some more :))

 But the most exciting thing that happened this weekend is that Heather had her baby!!!!  Francis Ann Mullin was born Friday night.  She is so adorable and I can't wait to get to MN to meet her for myself.  All of her kids love her and want to hold her all the time. So cute!  Henry who is 5 insists on being by her side everywhere she goes.  I just can't get over how adorable her whole family is and I am so excited for them!  This is her crabby face below. She is just too cute!

 

How was your weekend?  Anything fun or crazy happen? 

Did you get out for a run?  How was it?

XX
Sarah