Rollin’ On Foam

Hahahaha well I guess my last post really didn’t fool you guys!

Ryan actually spent a lot of time writing that post…he has been excited about writing that for a whole year since last April Fools day he asked if he could and I sort of sighed and said “maybe next year”. Well last week he brought it back up and said I told him that he could a year ago and so I finally relented. How funny is that?! Thanks for the laugh, babe! ;

On a different note, I am very happy to tell everyone that the Blogger Dessert E-Cookbook is ALL DONE and ready to be purchased at the donation price of $10!!

People, this “book” (it is a Word document) has 85 pages of amazing desserts that I have been drooling over for a week now!!!!! Everything looks amazing and I have spent the past week putting many hours into making it presentable and professional. It is only $10 and remember what an amazing cause your money is going to! All you have to do to get a copy of your very own is to first donate $10 to my Team in Training fund and then send me an email to HelpJennaRun@gmail.com telling me you made your donation and you would like you e-cookbook. I will send you a reply with the attachment when I get the email (could be tomorrow afternoon if you do it after I go to bed…aka 6:30 eastern time). Easy as pie! 🙂

And now—–look what came in the mail for ME today!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you Abbie!!!!! I went from not knowing really anything about a foam roller to doing some major research online all day and apparently this little tube is a miracle worker when it comes to muscles. I read online about how it can help shin splints, too, and so today after I swam I gave ’em a roll! It hurt like the dickens because I was rolling RIGHT ON my shin splints, but I think it might have helped? Afterwards I pulled on my knee socks with ice packets stuffed inside (I’m cool, I know) and walking down the stairs was actually a bit less strenuous. I’m looking forward to experimenting with this thing more in the future and, who knows, it might just be an answer to my prayers!

This morning on my way to work I had a breakfast sammie for a snack!

This is a toasted Rudi’s bagel with 2 egg whites and a babybel cheese….all melty and delicious. Not quite like the breakfast sammie that Ryan so eloquently described in my previous post, but it was pretty durn delish. 😉

Around 8:15 I had oatmeal for breakfast (duh)!

The combo today consisted of:

• 1/2 cup oats cooked in 1 cup water and a pinch of sea salt
• 1/2 scoop chocolate protein
• 1/3 cup Zoe’s Honey Almond Granola (love this stuff on top!)
• 1 HUGE scoop Naturally More

I love adding granola because it gives the oatmeal such a delicious crunch! I try to get a little oats, a little granola and a lot of peanut butter in every spoonful! 🙂 In the later morning I also enjoyed a Kom-rob-your-bank account-cha, courtesy of my mama who had come to Greenwise to shop!

Now I had planned on just having an apple and an Odwalla bar after work and on the way to the pool to swim…….however……and this is NOT a joke……we made pizza and I of course can never turn that down (and it is free!)!!

The pizza was a spur of the moment decision and Mallory (my co-worker) and I topped some of our leftover italian dough with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, feta cheese, gorganzola cheese, sliced tomatoes, caramelized onions, olives, mushrooms and artichokes. Basically we used everything we could get our hands on!!!!! We baked it at 425 for 12 minutes and could hardly wait to dig in. Most of me (okay pretty much all of me) really wanted to just bag my workout and instead gorge myself on gooey hot pizza but I knew I would regret that decision later. So, I instead gorged myself on ONE slice of pizza and called it a “pre-workout snack”. 😉

(it was actually a pretty big slice…not gonna lie)

I was a little worried about swimming lap after eating the pizza slice only 30 minutes before, and maybe I just have a stomach of steel, but it actually worked out really well and gave me tons of energy and no cramps! I had a great 30 minute swimming session, too.

Here was my routine put into a workout form for yall in case you want to try what I just did!

*I swam freestyle the entire time*

Warm up: 50 meter swim

200 meters with 1 minute recovery in between each 100

200 meter kickboard drill

200 meters with 1 minute recovery in between each 100

200 meter kickboard

200 meters with 1 minute recovery in between each 100

200 meter kickboard

The whole thing took me 30 minutes to do and I actually am pretty proud of myself because during that first 200 I was totally dying. I really had no idea how I was going to go on and it was SO HARD! After the first 100 I wanted to quit because I was panting so hard but I just kept going and at the end of the workout, I could swim the 200 meters rather effortlessly. I’m working myself up to being able to swim a fast, easy (??) 400 meters because that is what the triathlon is, but I think it’ll take me awhile!

When I got home from swimming I tried my last Better Whey of Life yogurt with strawberries!

This was my first time trying the plain yogurt variety and I have to say, I like the fruity ones better! Very unlike me but I think it is because while I DO like plain yogurt, I like my plain yogurt to be of the thicker Green style. Overall I was impressed with Better Whey of Life yogurt and would not hesitate to buy the fruity flavors at the store when I can find them!

And then for dinner tonight I actually DID have my first meat since February—–salmon (oh how I have missed thee!)

My mom was SO nice to make me my favorite salmon dish and put it in the fridge before she went to work this evening! Everything about it was absolutely perfect and I relished each and every bite!

Tropical BBQ Salmon

• 1/4 cup pineapple juice
• juice of 1 lemon + zest
• 1 tbsp chili powder
• pinch sea salt
• 1 tsp cumin
• 2 tbsp light brown sugar
• 4 salmon fillets (about 6 oz each)

Combine the pineapple juice, lemon juice and salmon in a plastic baggie and set in the fridge for about an hour to marinate. After an hour, preheat the oven to 400 degrees and remove the fish from the bag. Combine the brown sugar, chili powder, lemon zest, cumin and salt together in a bowl and then rub this mixture over the fillets. Place the fish in a baking dish sprayed with nonstick spray and bake for about 10-15 minutes depending on how well done you like your salmon.

She also made my favorite spicy veggie slaw from this cookbook (amazing!)

I inhale this stuff like its nobody’s business. This is the side dish I most often request my mom to make and it has been made countless times for birthdays and special events. Basically it is just a mixture of all sorts of veggies (cabbage, bell peppers, carrots…) and mixed with spices and canola oil mayo. I LOVE it and this cookbook! My parents actually ate at this restaurant in Anguilla, which is my DREAM!! They said it was fab., obvi. We have made countless dishes from the Blanchard’s cookbooks and the pages of the books (there are two of them) are stained with love! I highly suggest checking them out!

And then there was dessert of course—

Thank you, Kristen!!!!

Well that was a doozy of a post alright! I hope everyone has a happy Humpday evening and a great Thursday morning! Remember to email me at HelpJennaRun@gmail.com for your copy of the fabulous Blogger Dessert E-Cookbook! You won’t regret it! =)