Hi friends!
Yes, it’s Sunday and I’m blogging! 
I’ll use a weekday for ‘blog maintenance day’ sometime this week instead. I think my list of maintenance/admin items is getting so long that I’m avoiding it somewhat. Still want to design a custom banner, a logo, a BETTER tagline, a new profile picture, add a few more ‘pages’ and I really want to buy the Headway theme so I can drag and drop things to move them around on the blog. Ah well. When I get to it, I get to it!
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Last night for dinner I broke out my HUMONGOUS salad bowl again. I used to eat out of this every day for lunch over the summer when I was home during ‘business hours’. I miss my monster salads! It takes a long time to chew through an 11″ diameter salad so I don’t eat them as often at the moment.
This one had half a box of spinach, some leftover tofu, spiralized carrots, kalamata olives, sundried tomatoes, nutritional yeast, dulse, pepitas and a drizzle of Goddess dressing. Mmmmm. Brendan would be proud.
And on the topic of veggies, I found something today that I have been looking for since summer and am SOOO excited to have found it:
Pre-cut organic kale! Now I can make kale chips even faster than before! Wahooo! So you know I immediately got busy baking all kinds of veggies. Eggplant chips, kale chips and a batch of roasted red peppers, mushrooms and zucchini (for use maybe on a pita pizza later!) My eggplant chips got a little more done than I meant them too, but they were still great and I ate them ALL!
Looks a little weird, but tastes great! (Much like a green smoothie!)
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So reader Beth has keen eyes, noticing immediately that yesterday’s post was categorized under “Marathon Training” and inquired as to whether I had decided to run another half-marathon. Yes and no. A couple of my favorite people to hang out with (and run with) are aiming to run a full marathon in May. So being the sucker I am for a new challenge here and there, I’ve decided to join them in the training and see where it takes me.
I’ve chosen not to register for the race until after I’ve surpassed about the 15 mile mark in our training. I’ve done five half-marathons previously so I know I can tackle the 13.1 mile distance. But I want to see how I feel physically after going beyond that. If at any time it ceases being somewhat enjoyable or determine that the rest of my exercise is suffering (or knees aching, etc.), then I’ll know now is not the time. And since the registration fee isn’t cheap, I don’t want to spend that money and then have to drop out only to have wasted that money.
This will also give me an opportunity to put some of the Thrive Diet principles to good use. My goal is to do this marathon injury-free and recover as quickly as possible from my long runs so that I can continue with my regular training during the work week. I love my Physique 57 and Tabata training and yoga enough that I don’t want to miss out on those sessions.
So I’ll keep you posted on how it goes! The countdown is on: 16 weeks till 26.2. (eeek!)
– Shari B. =)
P.S. if any of you like to read Runner’s World magazine, I noticed on their website that they are offering their subscription for A DOLLAR an issue, which is 80% off the newsstand price (and a great deal), so thought I’d mention it.
