Hi blog buds!

Hope you’re having a great and FIT day!  My day has definitely been active. In fact, I’m pretty tuckered out now and ready for some couch time!

It began at o’dark-thirty, in the clouds and rain, for a meet-up with one of my clients for a run session.  This was the scene on my drive over:

Luckily after the first mile the rain moved out and from then on it was just 55 degrees and overcast.  We did seven miles.  The last time I ran seven (or more) miles was way back on March 13 (gotta love the Garmin GPS training center software) and that was ultimately the 14-mile day that I knew I would NOT be running that marathon after all!  Since then I’ve done a few fivers here and there, and maybe two sixes.  It felt great to get seven in, and it also felt great to have it DONE at the end.  I was in need of some serious stretching after this one.  To think that I would have had to turn around and run that same seven again to hit the 14 mark that I’d done during training a few times made my knees hurt just thinking about it.  Seven is just dandy right now if you ask me!

After the run, I even had a coconut water – another one of those things I haven’t had in a while.  Today was just sweaty enough that I felt I could use the electrolyte replacement during the drive home.  (Sorry Whole Foods employees for my stinky post-run wandering in your aisles!)

The rest of the day was spent painting walls in our guest room, so my arms also got a nice workout today as well!  We have a special guest coming for a visit soon (MSP’s mom!) and I’ve been unhappy with the yellow paint color I put on those walls 5 years ago.  Goodbye crazy bright ‘need your sunglasses’ yellow…

Hello ‘goes with everything’ taupe-y gray color:

Luckily I finished this can of paint, so I get to take a break.  Plus it’s time to eat some dinner.  I think tonight I’ll have a repeat of the other night, which is some spiralized garden fresh summer squash (thank you for sharing your crop Heather!) drizzled with some creamy avocado dressing, and my first taste of the TOMATO WRAPPER that I made in the dehydrator.

I love the unique look of it!

I stuffed it with some cucumber strips and arugula, drizzled inside with the same avocado dressing, and tied it up with a thin celery ribbon.  The wrapper was so good:  like a sweet sun-dried tomato.  Delicious.  Maybe this time I’ll try making it into rolls that look like sushi, if it will stay rolled up well enough.

I had seconds on this one for sure!  Can’t wait to experiment further with other dehydrated wrappers – I’m thinking zucchini next maybe?  Or pumpkin?  Too many ideas, too little time!

Have a GREAT evening friends!

– Shari B. =)

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