Hello! How’s your weekend going?
Mine is great because I get to run and eat. It’s kinda my thing.
I’m also pretty excited that my lil strawberry plants are fruiting! I feel so freaking fancy that I grew actual, edible non-gmo fruit. Someone give me a hippie card asap!!
I also eat string cheese – string style. But like, 3 strings for the whole thing.
So, I did back to back long-ish runs because I have a lot of races coming up in May and if I’m being honest… just felt like running a lot.
I made the usual, required stops after my run on Friday:
What I ate before my long run: oatmeal in a jar and iced coffee.
I ran around Orange County and saw some pretty things 
It was a little gloomy and looked like it was almost going to RAIN (crazy) when I started. But, the weather can’t stay bad in the OC because we pay a really high “sunshine tax” so the courts won’t allow it.
After my run I drank this Suja Purify Juice. This is very similar to my favorite detox juice from the juice bar, but I love that this has the actual nutrition stats on the back – I’ve always wondered about that.
Bonus: Beet juice is great for endurance exercise. Runner’s World article on beet juice and running.
I’m actually going to be running the Rock N Roll San Diego Half Marathon / Marathon with Suja and I’m really excited about it! I love juice and San Diego and running. Makes sense.
It also makes sense to use this discount code if you want to come too.
And I balanced out the juice with some cookies. At least these were gluten free, free of the 7 common allergens and
On manager’s special.
Question: What is the best thing you’re eating or drinking this weekend?
I had a really really good smoothie from Tropical Smoothie!
I love beets! I’ve never tried them in juice-form, but I also read that article about beets and running.
Best thing I ate/drank was a dark chocolate covered strawberry, accompanied by a glass of Beaujolais.
LOVE suja juice but sadly way too expensive to justify. Going to make a chorizo chili tonight and hopefully that will be the best thing I eat this weekend but we shall see 🙂 very cool strawberry plant btw!
I had a DELICIOUS pizza last night! YUM! It was revolting against me though in this morning’s run!
I reduced gluten and sugar for a month so no cookies for me but I did have Eggs Royale for breakfast this morning and it was amazing!! Once you get out of the habit of eating chocolate and biscuits, you actually don’t crave it anymore!
Those cookies look amazing! I got in 7 miles yesterday, funny how I now consider that my “long” run… 🙂 But I’m just happy to still be out there running.
That’s awesome that your plants are fruiting so quickly! I tried to grow strawberries once and I got 3 green strawberries in total.
I love reading your blog! I’m a novice runner and your constant happiness and joy about running inspires me to carry on running further each time. (Though sometimes it’s hard living in England where it rains a lot so I do a lot of treadmill stuff!)
This weekend I was in a little seaside town called Bournemouth and I went to a fish restaurant and had moules, scallops and a panna cotta for pudding. Delish!
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I just had beet, carrot, and orange juice today from Whole Foods!!! It was really really good!!! I have a 10 miler tomorrow 🙂
More like what is the best thing I’m not eating?! I’m on vacation in NYC so indulging a bit in chocolate cake ,chocolate chip cookies and froyo. Good thing I got in my long 30km training run yesterday before I left. I love reading your blog. I feel like we are the same person. I am in love with running and being active but equally if not more in love with eating. It’s a tough balance to uphold. Wish I loved exercising just a little more 😉
Pizza!!!!!
Mahi mahi with back lentils and homemade plantain chips & salsa! Haha…pretty sure AZ has one up on CA as far as sunshine tax goes!
Love fresh strawberries! I went to Chipotle for lunch… yum.
Chicken piccata with a potato croquet for dinner tonight, so good!
Also, I just tried Nuun watermelon, it might be my new favorite flavor.
Fresh grilled chicken and fresh buttercream icing (not together..) yum!
I pretty much hoarded the table’s serving of potato bread before a meal at a restaurant, today. Whatever, everyone else I’m with. I need carbs. 😉
I’m hoping to get some tacos soon, so that will be awesome.
Cute strawberries. Watch out for birds! We planted some strawberry plants last year in our vegetable garden and before we could pick any berries the birds took them all! My daughter was very sad!
I love a good sale, I found powdered sugar (which I use for frosting, I know it isn’t healthy) for $.48 today at Target on clearance.
Cute strawberry plants! I once tried to grow blueberries and they almost fruited, but then failed 🙁 I have a black thumb.