Slow and Skanky Six

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I discovered how to write in colour! Yeah, I’m a bit of a retard when it comes to computers, hence why it’s taken me a whole month to realise that I don’t need amazing html skills to write differently on WordPress – I just needed to click the button that showed the rest of the toolbar. Oops…

Today: I woke up – after a slightly dodgy nights’ sleep (I had to open my window, despite it being sub zero outside, cos it was SO HOT indoors!) – to wind and rain and cold!! MISERABLE. And for once, I actually felt like I was lacking a bit of motivation to run; that never happens, even in bad weather. In fact with bad weather, it usually has the opposite effect – I feel mega proud of myself if I’ve run in the snow or something, it”s like a bigger achievement. SoI thought I’d go out anyway, cos normally I get over any humps I’ve had about the run after the first 30secs. But not today – the whole thing felt like it went really slow, and my face was freezing off too! And I accidently changed the setting on Garby, so she was squeaking at  me at every mile, but not giving me my pace time. Very frustrating!! I was quite relieved when I’d finished. I did 10k (6.2miles) in 52mins (I’d decided lying in bed last night I was going to do 6, so that was what I did! However, I threw out the plan to do a fast/pace run type 6, and just did it slow). Garby stats:

• Lap 1 – 8.12
• Lap 2 – 8.04
• Lap 3 – 8.20
• Lap 4 – 8.29
• Lap 5 – 8.38
• Lap 6 – 8.26
• Lap 7 – the last 200m or so, to make it up to 10k – 1.53

 

Oh, and I almost forgot – prerun, I tucked into a square of Lindt, a cheese square and a nice juicy apple It was surprisingly filling! When breakfast time came round, I really wasn’t peckish….BUT, when I’d been running, I’d had one thing on my mind, so I was (in my head, if not my stomach) dying for breakfast:

Silky smooth and runny….dreamy!One question to PB fanatics tho – what do you do with all the oil on top!? I gave the mix a good stir, put the lid on and shook it about, but there was still loads of liquid at the top. Are you meant to drain it!? Anyways, a cold, miserable day always calls for hot peanut butter banana oats. Oh yes!

In the mix – 1/2 cup oats, 1 cup & 1/4ish milk, a banana, cinnamon, and 1 v big tsp of PB cooked into the mix, then another v big tsp over the top. I also stirred in some toffee caramel yogurt, and sprinkled it (or dusted?) with the crushed bits at the end of my Fru-Grains box (there’s not much left now )

Oh it was SO good! Just as I had imagined!! The PB flavour ran throughout, with extra PB-ness on top…and with the banana too (today the banana cooked PERFECTLY), it was just AHmazing!! The only downside was the yogurt didn’t quite work; one or the other I think, not PB and yogurt at the same time – but that was only swirled in the middle, so I just ate that first

But holy yum!!

Then it was lecture time (social psychology, which I love); surprisingly good! I love my lecturer. He’s from Cananda so he has a wonderful accent, and he says really American-y phrases, like ‘super awesome’ LOL! It’s comic to me I suppose you had to be there…

When I got home, I finished off the last of my papaya chunks while I got lunch cooking:

 I tried to keep lunch on the less filling side today, cos I’ve got to have dinner at 5pm (I have an evening class) so I didn’t want to get too full. On the menu:

Roasted all together – chickpeas, brussels, broccoli, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, cabbage!

I also made a dressing; I got a tsp of the weird PB oil, and mixed it with soy sauce, agave nectar, and the cinnamon spice blend I use lots:

I mixed it with a little bit of water cos it was a tad thick, then poured it all over the veggies and chickpeas, and baked for 20mins. Sadly, I made the sauce too thin, so a lot of it got left in the pan..but what was on the veggies (and my fingers after I cleaned the pan with them :p) was DELICIOUS! Sweet and salty and all together brilliant! I served it all with some spinach:

Can’t get enough of the green stuff!!

It was a really good lunch

And now I have exactly 1hr8mins to get the rest of my prep work finished for tonight, before I need to go make a start on dinner! Have a good afternoon