There's been a lot going on in the last week and half and I haven't even had time to share it all!
On November 18th I participated in a 3-1/2 hour CrossFit Fundamentals class. I'm hooked! I went back the very next day and did a WOD that was spending 30 minutes determining your one rep max deadlift. I had never done a deadlift before, so I had no idea what to expect. I started with 95lbs (you are only lifting the bar from the floor to a straight standing position, mostly using your lower back muscles and hips to move the weight, allowing for much heavier lifts). I then tried 115, 135, 145 and finally 155 pounds! I was proud as a peacock to have lifted that much on my first night!
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| My friend Billie & I after we totally ROCKED the Turkey Day 5k |
That was only the beginning of what was to become an incredible week of accomplishments for me! I had been planning on running the Turkey Day 5k on Thanksgiving morning for the 2nd year in a row and while I had been pretty excited about it, in the weeks leading up to it I felt very unprepared and not ready. There were over 800 runners! What a rush! I was convinced this was going to be one of my worst 5k races. Last year I finished it in over 35 minutes. That's about what I expected this year. You can imagine my shock and astonishment when I finished in 30:06! That's over 2-1/2 minutes faster than my record. Also, it was the first time that I have ever ran the entire time. NO walking! My next 5k will be under 30 minutes and I will bring home a trophy before the heat of summer in 2013 stops me from running. Mark my words.
After the race we had Thanksgiving lunch with some of Husband's family. I had deviled eggs, veggies with homemade ranch, turkey, potatoes & gravy, sweet potatoes, fruit salad, cranberries and even a paleo cake that his Aunt made for us!
I have since done 2 more WODs at my local box (CrossFit Jackson) and I felt a sense of accomplishment after each one like never before! Husband has been CrossFitting since April and since he works 3rd shift, he attends the 7pm class (would be the equivalent of me going at 6am). Since April, I have been making dinner while he's gone to the gym and when he would get home (after 8pm most times), I would either have already eaten dinner or we would eat together. He really wants me to workout with him at 7pm, so I had to figure out how to make and eat dinner in that time frame. Since this is the first week we are trying that schedule, I spent time this weekend cooking up a ton of food so that all of our meals would be ready to heat & eat. Here's what I made:
Chicken Salad (with homemade mayo, grapes, salt & pepper)
Spicy Pulled Pork (I skip the sauce) Served with green beans
Smoked Beef Brisket with steamed broccoli
I also made 10 hard boiled eggs and baked a cookie sheet full of bacon.
We are nearly out of boiled eggs and the bacon is gone, so tonight I will fry up a pound of pastured pork sausage together with a dozen eggs and portion it out in the fridge for the rest of the week. We like to heat it up and top it with Frog Ranch Salsa.
These Blueberry Muffins by PaleOMG were pretty good! However, an entire cup of almond butter is a lot of money and when I think of it that way, they weren't good enough to warrant that kind of spending for a dozen muffins. Also, if I were to make them again, I would put an entire cup of blueberries in them because you can never have too many blueberries in your blueberry muffins.
The recipe says it makes 8-10 muffins, but I easily filled all 12 muffin cups. Also, it didn't say how far to fill the cups. As you can see, I filled mine about 3/4 full.
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