Tapering WAIW

Yay! I can't believe we are halfway through the week already and only 4 days away from my first half marathon!  And it's what I ate wednesday. 

 

My breakfast is a new favorite, oatmeal minus the oats. 

covered in peanut butter obvi

 

This took me from 6:30 to 10ish. Then I scarfed an apple and had some mint tea because my work is freezing.

My favorite tea. Perfect for a person with a restless stomach.

 

Lunch:

Tuna salad made with greek yogurt instead of mayo. Filled with edamame, carrots, green peppers and craisins.

and half a KIND bar. 

 

For dinner I made one of our favorite dinners, black bean burgers.  They are really easy to make and so flavorful.

cooking on the griddle.

 

black bean burgers with carrots and......blue box mac and cheese. Pick your battles ladies haha. Today I chose to give in to Matt's request lol.  Next time I'm going to make homeade mac and cheese and see what he thinks.

 

I will likely be having a nice square of dark chocolate later tonight along with some almond butter!

 

After dinner I did a short abs workout and took this little man for a walk.

"my toof is stuck on ma lip"

 

I've been taking it easy this week, trying to rest my legs before the big race. I ran 2 miles on Monday along with an abs and arms workout and ran 3 miles outside yesterday.

 

 

 

Tomorrow I'll be at the gym doing upper body and 2 miles again and then resting on Friday and Saturday before the race. I'm so ready for it to be here. I'm ready to prove to myself that I can do this!

 

 

 

 

 

 



Easily Influenced

Hey everyone. It's been a while since I last posted! Where did I leave off?? The 5k I think.  Going into the 5k I wanted to take it slow and run a comfortable yet quick pace. I was worried about trying to go all out and straining something right before the big race. So that was the plan....that isn't exactly what happened.

 

The gun went off and I took off with everyone around me. I looked down at my watch at one point and I was running a 7.54 pace. SLOW DOWN!! haha. I really had to slow it down a bit. I ended up finding a semi comfortable pace at around 8.30.  It was just so hard for me to slow down when everyone around me is going so fast. I'm really going to have to work on this for the half marathon. I'm too easily influenced (fyi I was actually told this by a supervisor at one of my college internships. oops. I guess if my friends go jump off a bridge, I'll be right behind them.)

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Megan Coffin

Newark DE

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25

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3/18 19-29

5K

26:19.7

26:25.9

8:28/M

 

I finished 42nd out of almost 200 people, and 3rd in my age group. I was very happy with it. Matt kicked major butt and finished first in his age group.

 

The rest of the week went as usual, and then came Saturday morning. Matt and I woke up early for our "long run." We both took the mileage down this week to start tapering and resting out legs. We ran 8 miles!

 

9.50 pace!

 

I decided to wear my little fanny pack thing this week to test it out for the race. I'm thinking of having my GU Chomps in it so I can just eat them during the race without having to carry them in my hand the whole time.

 

Sporting my eagles gear for the start of the football season.

 

When I got home from my run, I refueled with a smoothie, did some packing, ate lunch and headed out the door. I went to my friend Chelsea's family Pig Out.  They have it on their farm every year and it's amazing. Her dad slow roasts beef, ham and turkey and everyone brings a side or dessert. There is also a truck of beer...that's right a truck.

 

Unfortunately the weather did not hold up.

 

Running from my car. I literally got there 2 minutes before it started pouring.

 

Luckily, the whole thing was held in their huge barn.  And after the rain we saw a double rainbow!

 

Later that night, Chelsea's dad somehow managed to lite the bonfire.

 

 

Me and Chelsea!

 

 

We hit the hay early and I got an amazing 9.5 hours of sleep!  We woke up to a gorgeous day and wished it had been like that the day before.

 

 

 

I got home right before the Eagles game started today.  I watched the beginning and then snuck in a quick yoga workout around half time. My legs have been really tight lately. I needed to stretch so bad. I found this really great website where you can do online yoga workouts in the comfort of your own home.

 

http://www.doyogawithme.com/yoga_classes

 

I did the 53 minute Level 2 yoga/pilates fusion and loved it.  Hope everyone had a good weekend. This time next week I will be able to call myself a half marathoner! (and will get to put a cool 13.1 bumper sticker on my car....I mean that's why I'm really doing it).

 

 

 

 

 



WAIW

I'm so happy it's already Wednesday. Gotta love short weeks! And gotta love What I Ate Wednesday! I know it's all your favorite day of the week lol. 

 

I started out my morning with one of my new favorite breakfasts. The 2 ingredient pancake!

1 egg and 1 banana. That's it. Then feel free to play with other ingredients. I added blueberries to mine before cooking, and then almond butter and pumpkin butter to the top. My friend Chelsea got me the pumpkin butter for my birthday and it's like crack. It's sooooo good.

 

I had a handful of trail mix a while later to get me through to lunch.

Morningstar veggie patty on a deli flat with provolone cheese and spinach. Apple on the side. I'm running a 5k race today after work so I wanted something with carbs for a bit more energy! 

 

When I got home from work I ate an apple cinnamon greek yogurt.

 

I'm getting ready to go into Wilmington for the 5k tonight at 6:30.  When I get home I will most like be chowing on some boring salad, so I will entertain you all with a much more exciting meal, last night's Cheesesteak Stuffed Peppers.  Another pinterest recipe of course.

 

The recipe was so simple. Saute onions and mushrooms, add roast beef, stuff peppers, cover in cheese and bake.

 

Cheese on the bottom

 

Stuff and top with cheese.

 

Ummm hello. These were delicious.  Matt loved them too! Success!  I love when I find recipes that we both like. 

 

Ok time to go change and stretch.  Fingers crossed we don't get rained on!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Weekend In Pictures

I've had such a nice relaxing Labor Day weekend. It started out with roasting some marshmellows and having a couple of drinks by the bonfire.

 

Champ had a good time too

 

Saturday I woke up for my long run.  12 miles in 2.00.28! Right on track for a 2.10 finish...hopefully.  The only bummer of my run....some rude person decided to take my frozen water and GU chomps from beside my car.  I realized this after mile 10 and was furious because I was so thirsty. I finished my run, begged some random couple for some of their water lol, and sped home to get my recovery smoothie

Thoughts of this smoothie usually get me through the last bits of my long run. "finish and get your smoothie" haha. 

 

After I washed up I had some baking to do for our friends Joe and Cara. They just had a baby and we were going to meet her later that day. I couldn't go empty handed so I made her some oatmeal muffins

Before they were baked. The top row has blueberries, raspberries in the middle and craisins and walnuts on the bottom.

 

Grabbed a quick lunch before we headed out:

 

Egg white scramble with ham, spinach, zucchini and green peppers. YUM

 

Later I munched on my birthday gift from my sister to hold me over until dinner:

Pretty much the best gift ever. Custom made granolla bars from Youbars.com! Check it out!

 

On Sunday I woke up to sore legs. I did a quick 40 minute arm and ab workout before we headed out to Chadds Ford Winery with Matt's sister and husband.

 

haha seductively sipping his wine slushy....best idea ever!!

 

Unfortunately the weather was CRAP. It started pouring on us and they didn't have any indoor seating. We headed home, but not before stopping somewhere very exciting!!!!

I popped my whole foods cherry haha.

Grind your own nut butter station. I had never been in a whole foods before Sunday, and really wish it wasn't so far away from my house. I just walked up and down every aisle oogling all the food goodies. I didn't buy much, just some trail mix, but I loved seeing what everyone was talking about.

 

For dinner I made Matt and "man meal."  I cooked pork ribs for the first time ever. I cooked them in th crockpot with some bbq sauce and onions.

Ribs, potato salad made with greek yogurt and salad. The ribs were pretty good.  Matt loved them so I think I earned some major wife probs.  This is a thank you for him always trying all my weird food that I make him eat.

 

We had a nice relaxing night after dinner, just hanging out and watching a movie. 

 

This morning I woke up to more rain! Our gym was closed today for the holiday, so I called my rents and asked them if I could use their treadmill after I ate breakfast.

 

For breakfast I made one of Tina's two ingredient pancakes for breakfast. All it is is one banana and one egg! So simple. I also added some blueberries and cinnamon to mine.

I topped mine with peanut butter and pumpkin butter.

 

Then I was off to my parent's house to run 5 miles. I finished in 49.30 and my legs were not very happy. They are still a little sore from Saturday so the run was difficult.  Matt and I are currently putting a bunch of our wedding pictures in frames and hanging them around the house!! Then we are off to a rainy day bbq.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



WAIW Kale Edition

Happy Wednesday and WAIW. 

 

I managed to get a whole day of eats in pictures...almost, with some of my other favorite meals this week at the end.

Breakfast Smoothie

1/2 cup plain nonfat chobani, 1 banana, 4 frozen strawberries, 1 tbsp PB2, 1 tbsp almond butter, almond milk to get everything moving.

 

Snack:

Almond Flour Muffins! I used this recipe and added some spices, craisins and walnuts. I used egg whites instead of eggs and made them into 6 muffins instead of 4.  I had mine with some pumpkin butter and it was delicious!

 

Lunch:

I've been big on salads lately.  This one was made with spinach, egg whites, black beans, carrots, string beans, avocado and some balsalmic dressing. I also ate half a KIND bar with my lunch.

 

Snack:

unpicuted unsweetened applesauce before my run. easy on the stomach.

 

Run!

5 hot miles!

 

You like my awesome hair??

 

Dinner:

Ham, Sauteed Kale with black beans and some Annie's Mac and Cheese

 

For my late night snack I had some raspberries with cottage cheese and some dark chocolate.

 

I've been loving kale lately and decided to try kale chips last night.  And guess what? Matt actually liked them! I couldn't believe it!

I cooked the kale chips at 350 for 15 minutes and they came out perfectly crispy. I had them with my favorite buffalo pulled chicken. I cook some chicken breasts in the crockpot all day, and then mix it wiht Frank's Red Hotsauce when I get home. Then I made a blue cheese sauce (2 tbsp blue cheese, 3 tbsp plain greek yogurt, 1 tbsp white vinegar) to put on top.

 

Sunday we went out to dinner with my parents for my dad's birthday and the special of the night was seared tuna....umm yes.

This was amazing. I love seared tuna. Whenever I see it on a menu, I order it.

 

 

 

In other news. 2.5 weeks til the big race!!! Let the countdown begin!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Weekend Happenings

This weekend has unexpectedly been a lot of fun. We didn't have too much planned going into it, but we ended up doing a couple of spur of the moment things that made the weekend perfect.  Friday night Matt and I were at dinner when we got a call from one of my friends from college who just so happen to be passing through Delaware.  We left dinner and went to main st. to meet her and her fiance for some drinks! 

Stephanie and Chase at our wedding. Can't wait for their big day in June!

 

I definitely enjoyed the sangria that I had, but stuck to just one knowing I would be waking up early Saturday for my long run. I was up at 5:45am eating my half bagel with almond butter before heading out to the park.  11 miles was tough. My hips and knees were really sore after I finished, and they still are today. Overall, I think my run went really well thanks to the cool weather.

I finished with a 10.01 pace, my fastest yet! I stopped twice to chug my water/coconut water mix and have a GU Chomp. 

Notice how it was 9am with no sun.  I hope the day of our marathon can be the same way.

 

When I got home I was starving so I whipped up a smoothie to refuel.

1 scoop protein powder, 2 spoonfulls cottage cheese, 1 spoonful peanut butter, a bunch of frozen raspberries. 

 

When Matt and I were both done running, had showered and eaten lunch, we randomly decided to go to the circus down the road.  I saw it on my way home from work on Friday and thought it would be something fun to do during the day.

ELEPHANTS! They were so cute. 

 

 

Tigers!

 

We had a lot of fun, but I'm pretty sure that we were the only people there without a child next to us hahah.  It will be fun to go back one day when we have kids though.

 

After the circus we went home, had a snack and then went to our friend's house for some pizza and marshmellow roasting. We had a great time catching up with everyone and it was nice to let loose a little. We got home around midnight and I passed out! I was soooooo tired.  I slept so well last night. 

 

When I woke up this morning I decided to do a strength workout after lunch. Matt and I both took advantage of our free weights in our basement.

 

This is my serious face....or my poop face. Can't decide which one.

 

Champ usually just hovers around and gets in the way when we work out, but today Matt decided to use him haha. Champ Squats!

That's a 25lb squat right there!

 

We just got back from seeing The Campaign (which was hilarious) and are getting ready to go meet my parents for my dad's birthday dinner.

 

Hope everyone had a good weekend. 3 weeks and couting until the big half marathon!