My First Mud Run!!!

Yesterday Matt and I and two of our friends drove to Morristown, NJ for the Warrior Dash!! I started our my race day morning with a big smoothie:

1/2 frozen banana, 1 container vanilla chobani, blueberries, strawberries, 2 tbsp of PB2 (I'll talk about this later in the week), splash coconut milk.

Lunch:

Egg whites, spinach, zucchini, squash and cheese!  Apple on the side.

Then we were off.  We drove 2.5 hours and got to the race 1.5 hours early. On their website we were told to get there an hour early. Boy am I glad we got there when we did. We parked our car and then got in line for the shuttle to the race area. This is when we saw our first obstacle of the day:

We waited in this line for an entire hour until we finally got on a bus.

When we finally got to the actual race, we had about 20 minutes to check in and get our bibs, go to the bathroom and check our bags.  Lets just say it didn't happen. Instead of starting at 3:30, we started at 4.  This race was really poorly organized. Matt and I were both really frustrated by the time we finally reached the starting line.  All that frustration went out the door when we started our 3.2 mile run.  Most of the run was through the wood and most of the obstacles were at the beginning and end of the race. Here are some pictures that Matt got of a few of the obstacles.

I loved the obstacles! They were so much fun and I definitely woke up sore this morning.  The run was a little harder. There were some huge hills to go up and they were pretty difficult with mud and rocks caked in your shoes.

We Made It!!

We got these sweet hats along with our medals and a tshirt (that Matt is sporting). Other than a couple scrapes and bruises I made our pretty well. 

Week Setup:

This week is going to be a little different for my running schedule.  Matt and I are heading to OBX on Thursday, so we want to try to get our long runs in before we leave. The weather looks....horrible this week. Every day is in the mid 90's.  So here is what I'm going for:

Monday: 7 miles (later run around 6pm)

Tuesday: Strength and Crosstrain

Wednesday: 4 miles on the treadmill

Thursday: Rest

Friday: 3 miles on the beach

Saturday: 3 miles on the beach

Sunday: Rest and drive home

I skipped a running day from my training plan today so that I could do my long run tomorrow and not be dead. Instead I went to the gym this morning for some stregth work and crosstraining.  I started out my workout by doing this arm workout:

Repeat 2x:

Barbell Bicep Curls (10lbs)

Dips

Front Shoulder Raises (8lbs)

Hammer Curls (10lbs)

Lying Tricep Extension (10lbs)

Upright Row (15lbs)

Crossbody Hammer Curls (10lbs)

Overhead Tricep Extension (10lb)

Side Shoulder Raises (8lb)

After completing this I did 15 minutes of ab work and then moved to the elliptical for 25 minutes before heading home. 

It's currently pouring and starting to storm so I'm going to go before I get electricuted!



Free Things Friday

Hi everyone! Happy Friday! Today was definitely the day of free stuff. I stopped by Starbucks after lunch to get my free Refresher

It was alright. Everyone in my office agreed that it had a weird aftertaste. I think I'll stick to coffee for now.

Matt also hit up some freebees today. He dressed like a cow and got a free chick fil a meal out of it.

That is my husband ladies and gentlemen, be jealous haha.

After work I ran to the grocery store and then did a quick workout when I got home before Matt started dinner on the grill.  My workout included the awesome ab workout I did yesterday from Pinterest. 

For dinner Matt grilled himself a double cheeseburger and grilled me a yummy veggie burger

Plopped my veggie burger on a salad and then had some sweet potato wedges that I cooked earlier in the week. We started out eating outside, but the bugs were just too much so we finished our meal at the dining room table.

Skinny Pina Colada: coconut water, pineapple juice and coconut rum. 

After dinner we ran some errands and then went to main st. for our friday treat

Peanut butter and chocolate foyo with strawberries and dark chocolate chips.

We are just sitting down now to watch 21 Jump Street and then we are going to get ourselves ready for tomorrow. We will be traveling to Morristown, NJ (about 2.5 hours) tomorrow with our friends Pat and Beth to compete in a Warrior Dash.  This is basically a mud run on crack.  We will be jumping over fire, climbing up walls, all that good stuff. And then afterwards we get a beer and a turkey leg haha.  I signed up for their facebook updates so hopefully I'll get some good pictures out of the deal!



Mud Run, Muffins and Curry

Today Matt and I were up at 5:20am....on a Sunday.  I think we are crazy.  Matt was running a mud run in Milton, De and I was tagging along as photographer.  This didn't make me too happy because I really wanted to be running, but unfortunately it was a 3 person team thing, and Matt was just filling in for a person who had backed out.  I got some pretty good pictures of Matt and his team though, so I guess I served my purpose.

They were supposed to be tinker bell and the lost boys, but I'm pretty sure Matt is the only one who attempted to dress up lol.  Thank goodness for goodwill.

heading into the mud pool

After!

I may have been a tad biased and taken a million pictures of Matt. Oops.

We got home around 1:30 and were both soooo dead.  I made a super quick dinner, thai chicken curry. 

Super easy and delicious.  I used the same recipe for this thai coconut curry shrimp and just replaced the shrimp with chicken.  I also added some frozen bell peppers and broccoli and served everything over brown rice.  For dessert I had half of one of these babies:

Pumpkin Banana Muffins:

2 mashed bananas

1 cup pumpkin

1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce

2 eggs

2 cups flour (I used whole wheat pastry flour)

1/2 cup oats

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2/3 cup sugar

1/2 tsp ginger

1/2 tsp nutmeg

1 tsp cinnamon

Handful of chopped walnuts and craisins (optional)

Combine wet and dry ingredients separately, then add dry to wet.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees and bake for 25 minutes or until cooked all the way through. 

Matt and I both loved these. I'm always looking for things to make with my old bananas.

Schedule for the week:

Monday: Run

Tuesday: Gym strength + cross train

Wednesday: Volleyball Double Header

Thursday: Gym strength + intervals on treadmill

Friday: Drive to Harrisonburg, VA to pick up some wine barrels for the wedding...you know the usual haha.