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Mumpkins

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Good morning blogging world.  I’m sitting here at 5:30am, rather wide awake enjoying my cliff kids bar and cup of coffee.  I’m about to head to morning swim practice.  I just thought I would type the first line now ha.  J

Insert 5100 yards here.

450 warm-ups
15X50s Freestyle drill (5-1 arm, 5-swimming with closed fists, 5-1 arm)
2X700 Freestyle
14X100 Interval Freestyle
500 kick
2X300 Pull

8:30am-I had been thinking about what exactly I wanted to make for breakfast.  I do that a lot when working out but mostly during swimming.  I had told myself that I wasn’t going to use pumpkin because I was saving that for other occasions such as dinner tonight.  But alas-my cravings got the best of me.  Today I made chocolate pumpkin protein pancakes.

1/3 cup fiber one pancake mix
1 scoop protein
2 tablespoons Hershey dark cocoa
½ cup canned pumpkin
¼ cup milk

Then I topped with PB2 and  6 ounces of Greek God Yogurt.  It was very tasty and I am so pleased with the outcome.  Everyone who said cooking with pumpkin makes your pancakes/cake/muffins so moist, you are right!  I have never had anything more delicious.

Insert a one hour 7.5 mile run.  I ran up and down a two story hill and around a one mile track.  I ran four times around the track and the hill is right in the middle so I just veered off course and ran up the hill for that portion.

After my run, I snacked on the frozen strawberries to cool my body down.  Do you enjoy frozen fruit?  I keep buying them for smoothies but then keep eating them whole.  I would have taken a picture but they were gone in about 2 minutes!

12:30pm Lunch at Lehman Dining Hall.  Today I just wanted the stuffed chicken (stuffed with stuffing) and raviolis.  I had a lot but my body was hungry.  My boyfriend skipped breakfast.  :O  He was very hungry by noon!  I would be too yuck.

2:00pm-Modern Algebra.  Insert lots of proofs but my teacher decided not to give us homework which means I basically have no work for the rest of the week.  Just studying.  I love having rest Sundays and getting all my nonmath homework done hehe.

Insert a 40 minute run.  I did a lot of cardio today but Mondays are my hard training days for running and swimming.

5:30pm-My boyfriend and I decided we would make dinners together on Mondays.  Today we made grilled Tilapia, cooked spinach and shockingly Pumpkin Muffins!

The grilled Tilapia was seasoned with a bit of red pepper and red wine vinegar and when making spinach I always add lots of garlic and onion powder.

To make the pumpkin muffins (which I have decided I named Mumpkins) I’m going to make humerous names for all my pumpkin creations this month. I added 12 ounces canned pumpkin and 1 package of cornbread muffin mix.  Aram was skeptical at first (he always is when it comes to my cooking.) but he loved them!  I loved them too.  He ate them plain but I added a couple tablespoons of Orange Marmalade.


Cheers to Yummy Pumpkin Muffins

Then off to teach swimming lessons.  It’s week three which means only one more week to go.  I enjoy teaching the lesson; it’s just another thing on my plate.  For our annual trip to Puerto Rico, we are required though so I would rather suck it up and teach lessons then not go…besides I don’t have much work this week anyways.

Question for you:

What is your favorite type of fish?

Mine is Salmon, although I’m generally a fan of all seafood.  :)

Relaxing Day 1

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It was pouring rain this morning. I needed to get in a run before swimming.

What is a girl to do? I ran through the rain! I never run in the rain because I fear I’ll get too cold, but today I did it. I was rather proud of myself you know. I felt accomplished hehe. Not only did I run in the rain, I had a great run. I time myself every so often a certain running route, more or less so I can see if I’m getting anywhere. Today I shaved an entire minute from my best time. It’s about a five mile loop, so about 10 seconds per mile! It must have been the gigantic pancake from yesterday.

8:00 Breakfast between running and swimming. I had Hershey’s sinless dark chocolate pancakes.

I made the pancakes last night. :)

Saturdays are my most intense day for working out because swimming and running are so close. I have about an hour in between and then we go to the gym for an hour. Then we go swim. So in reality I have about 2 hours between actual running and swimming. I won’t lie-sometimes I kind of flounce around in the gym when I’m with the team.

Insert swimming 5000 yards of solid freestyle today. Today’s practice was rather boring. First, we started off with an exciting turns demonstration from our assistant coach. That part was rather interesting-although the pool was so chilly. Then the main practice today was 5000 yards of just freestyle.

800 free warm-up
800 pull
2X400 free
3X200 free
5X200 interval free
4X250 interval free

Like I said, it was terribly hard to get through practice mentally today. I was freezing cold and my body was not agreeing as far as swimming was concerned.

1:00pm for lunch my boyfriend and I made clams, salmon, and sweet potatoes. The clams are stuffed with cheese and crab meat. I like them almost as much as stuffed mushrooms. I topped my sweet potatoes with a little bit of sugar free syrup and Chobani Greek Vanilla Yogurt. I’m collecting all my giant Greek yogurt containers and holding my coffee in them. They make great containers. Perhaps I’ll take a photo for the next blog.

Then off to a neighboring town where I went on a pumpkin buying spree. They had canned pumpkin and I ended up buying 15 cans…they are out near me boo. I also bought pumpkin scone mix and pumpkin spice coffee.

Then Aram and I went to Ponderosa steak house! I’m not going to lie to my blogging friends. I don’t like Ponderosa because it is a classy restaurant. I enjoy it because I can get a big juicy fatty steak. I like as much fat on the steak as possible and here is a place you can get it.

What is your favorite buffet style restaurant and why?

I enjoy Ponderosa when I’m feeling a giant fat piece of steak. I also like Golden Carrol.