San Diego Rock n Roll Marathon 2014

Since this race happened a looooong time ago, June 1st, I'm going to do a quick recap with lots of pictures.  If you want a more detailed and entertaining recap go to Steph's blog and read her recap!

The day before the race we met up with some awesome runners for a PRO Compression shake out run.  We met some fun gals and 1 guy ;) and ran 3 miles with them along this beautiful beach!

 Sock Selfie!

 Sarah was so awesome and fun to meet, she set up a little refreshment table and raffle while we were running!

Kristin aka Stuftmama was the cutest and led the crew on a fun run and brought some goodies for us and PRO Compression swag for a raffle.

 Jump to race morning, after Steph and I wandered around and went potty a few times we needed a quick picture before the race started.  As we were getting our picture taken we got photo bombed by these two crazies... Sarah and Monica  I was trying to figure out who was creeping over my shoulder!

 Tall sock twins rocking our favorite socks as always #keepittight

 I loved this part of the race, it was through a huge park and was so pretty!

 We ran the race.... it was Hilly, Humid, and Hot as hell, is how I'd describe it! 

After the race we went into the stadium and watched the Aloe Blac concert for a few minutes!

Kaden and Kenna kicking back, watching the concert.

 After we got all showered up Jake and Steph took us to one of their favorite places to get fish n chips, it was yummy!  I never drink soda but for some reason after a marathon I have to have one, so Steph and I had a toast with our Dr Pepper :D

 We wandered and hiked around some beaches for a while, I think I was a little tired by this time!

My bib and medal, I worked hard for that thing!  I loved running this race with my best lil friend!  We finished in 3:37, it wasn't what we'd trained for but it's what we were able to do that day.  You never know what your body will give you on race day or how the weather will affect you.  It ended up being 78% humidity and 80ish degrees and sunny.  Hard conditions to run in.  I am grateful for this experience and love running and learning from each race I do!

The winner of the Flip Belt from Utah Run is.....

JOSH WRIGHT!!!! Congrats on your new Flip Belt thanks to our friends at Utah Run! Good luck running the Ogden Marathon, you're going to love using your Flip Belt to carry all of your running stuff during your big race!!

If you're in need of anything running related for your upcoming race get to Utah Run in American Fork, they have everything you need!

20 Mile Shower

On Saturday Steph and I had 20 miles on our training schedule for our San Diego Rock n Roll Marathon training.  We had been watching the weather all week and hoping the weather would cooperate so we didn't have to run the whole thing in the rain.  Between Damon Yauney's weather lies all week and my "smart phones" weather reports I was left wondering and confused as to what the morning would bring.  I woke up at 5 and from what I could see it wasn't raining, I checked my phone and it said the temp was in the 40's, so I dressed in a long sleeved shirt, running skirt and my favorite PRO Compression  socks, boy was I grateful for those later in the morning when my legs were still warm!  As soon as we got out of the car to start our run the sprinkles started. We hit the half way point and turned around, then it really seemed to come down.  

 This picture is from our pit stop around 6 miles, it was wet and raining pretty good.

 We hit 14 miles and were freezing and needed to fuel up so we stopped in the heated bathroom along the Murdock Canal Trail and maybe spent a "few" minutes in there drying off and warming up.  I've never been so grateful for a hand dryer until Saturday!  Except maybe the one time in the bathroom in New York when we got a little silly and had some fun with the high powered dryer, lets just say I lost my gum ;) 

 Yup, we finished all 20 miles and took a wet picture of our soggy shoes and always amazing PRO Compression socks!

 Steph looked at me and started laughing and asked what the heck was on my face!  As we were running along I got slapped in the face by a branch and was sporting some petals on my face for a few miles!

Many people would think running 20 miles is a crazy, horrible endeavor and why would anyone do such a thing to themselves.  I'm not going to lie and say its all Skittles and rainbows and easy peasy, but it is my favorite run of the week and I love a good challenge!  A long run is where you push your mind and body to a different extreme then your daily runs.  I feel such a sense of accomplishment in myself that I can truly do hard things.  It is really hard, at times I wonder if I can really get all the way back to the car when its freezing and raining and I'm 10 miles from getting warm.  Or when I run out of energy and my legs feel like dead weight and I don't know why in the heck I do this to myself.  There are great runs and pretty craptastic ones but us crazy runners always come back for more!  I love getting to run with my RBFF Steph, we can laugh and be silly, we can talk about anything and help each other through lifes ups and downs, we can run in silence and our own thoughts when we have nothing to say or we're struggling and its okay.  Its not very often you find a friend that's more like a sister that loves to run as much as I do and also do other fun things together and with our families!  We also love to organize group runs when it works out.  I have met some of the most amazing people through running and pacing and look forward to this pacing season and all of the adventures to come! 

Healthified Whole Wheat Surpreme Pizza

The reason I named my blog, "feeding my running addiction" is because not only do I love to run but when time permits I also love to try new recipes and or healthify others.  Some recipes turn out great and others have been epic fails!  My favorite "fail" was a time Steph showed me a recipe for some already healthy cookies that looked and sounded really good. If I find a recipe on a blog or website where there are comments or reviews I like to read them and make sure its going to be good and worth my time and ingredients.  This one passed the test as far as the comments went, so a few days later I had some spare time and decided to make them and share some with Steph and her family.  Since they were already a very healthy cookie I followed the recipe to a T and didn't  try to change anything.  I baked them up and they looked and smelled good so I ran some down to Steph's house while they were still warm so she could try them.  I love sharing the things I make with friends and family but I usually try something before I share.  In my excitement I waited to try the cookies until I got home.  I got back home from my delivery and took a big bite of a soft, warm cookie and nearly threw up, they were disgusting, just not right!  I spit it out and was so disappointed and sad I didn't get to enjoy a yummy treat.  When I was at Steph's she had invited me to go to the store with her a her daughter and they came to pick me up shortly.  When I got in the car  I said how disgusting the cookies were and that she needed to throw them away STAT!!!!  She said, "I know, they were horrible, but I didn't want to be rude and say something!" We had a good laugh and decided that recipe wouldn't be repeated ever again!

 

My goal is to share a recipe once a week, only the good ones though!  Here is one of my families favorites, it is a

Whole Wheat Supreme Pizza.

When fueling for a long run or race I am nervous to eat at a restaurant because of a few previous  experiences that ended badly.  I won't go into detail but it made for some very uncomfortable moments.  For a few years Steph and I have used this "recipe" to fuel us, and our families of course ;) 

 

For the crust we like to use the Rhodes 100% whole wheat bread loaves. For some reason the picture is side ways, but you get the idea.  I have found it at Reams, a local grocery store. 

In the morning spray a pan with cooking spray, set the frozen loaf in the middle, spray the top of the loaf and cover loosely with seran wrap. Make sure no air can get in or it won't rise and will harden the bread.

 About an hour before we're ready to eat I get all of my veggies chopped up and prepare the dough.  The veggies I like to put on my pizza are; onions, green peppers, mushrooms, spinach and fresh tomatoes

 This is the dough all nice and puffed up!  If you have young children,  that might be tempted to touch or disturb your rising bread you might want to put it somewhere they can't reach it.  If it pops it will not rise and there will be no carbalicious supper for you :(

 Spray a pizza pan with cooking spray and set aside.  Sprinkle flour on your counter and use a rolling pin to flatten the dough as much as you'd like.  I like a thin crust pizza, so I get it quite thin.  Once it is at your desired thickness place it on the pizza pan, trim the edges if needed, and put in a 350* preheated oven for 5-6 min for thinner crust and 10 min for a thicker crust.

After you cook the crust a bit, take it out of the oven and spread pizza sauce on it, then sprinkle however much cheese you desire on it.  Next, I like to use Turkey pepperoni and Turkey sausage all over the pizza, then I can put whatever veggies on that I want and leave them off the kids part, since according to them pizza should NOT have veggies on it!  Here is the beautiful creation in the oven!  The stuff on the bottom rack is the leftover dough that I made into garlic bread and the kids used the leftover pizza sauce to dip it in. 

Ever since I was little my mom always made a yummy salad to have with pizza, so the tradition carries on and I like to make a nice salad with our pizza.

Just for fun, here is a picture of Nicolas and Jackson after an Easter egg hunt the young women did last night at our church.  They had so much fun and got oodles of yummy candy!  May

 the sugar rush of the weekend begin!

 

Here are a couple questions for ya....

 

What is your favorite carbo loading meal?

I guess you know mine if you read this loooong post ;)

 

What are your top 3 favorite Easter treats?

Mine would be Mike & Ike Jellybeans, Reeses Peanut Butter Eggs, and Reeses mini eggs....Yummy

 

I love SPRING

 I absolutely love Spring time every year!  After a very long, cold winter its so nice to see the world come back to life again, to be able to go outside without 5 layers on, for the kids to get outside and play, and my most favorite thing is to finally get a break from the treadmill and run outside!  I LOVE running in the spring!

Yesterday Steph and I had 20 miles on our training plan for Rock n Roll San Diego Marathon.  We drove up to Provo and parked and ran up to our favorite running trail, The Murdock Canal Trail. This is one of my favorite views from our run   

 

Pretending that we were "trail" running.  Running on a paved trail is trail running right!?

 

 On a little refueling stop Steph was feeling her jams and I snuck a picture of her getting her groove on!

 

 Of course the #tallsocktwins have to get a foot selfie in!  I love my PRO Compression marathon socks.  I'll post a link below for a discount code on the Sock of the Month!

 

 

 We saw some interesting things on the trail, including a huge group of almost naked men running real fast in only shorty shorts.  I need to learn to not be so self conscious if my running skirt feels to short ;)

 

Selfies aren't my favorite so when we finished I asked a nice fella to take a picture of us.  I should of taken my juice pouch off!  It was funny, as we were running along and chatting with a couple different groups people we talked about how far we were going and they assumed we were going far, is a fuel belt a dead giveaway that you're doing a long run?

 Its amazing what our bodies can do, we pushed ourselves hard and finished our big 20 mile run.  It wasn't easy but its such an accomplishing feeling to put in the work and finish such a long run!

 

 DONE!!!!

 

 

All winter long, except for most Saturdays, Steph and I have been running on the treadmill at the gym.  We are at the gym every morning at 5 and do an hour of weights and then run 8 or so miles on the treadmill in the cardio cinema room.  While I'm grateful to have the treadmill to get my runs done, it starts to get very monotonous and I start dreaming of running outside every day!  We're thinking that its getting light enough that we'll start doing our daily runs OUTSIDE this week, YAY!!! I'm so excited and love running and chatting with my RBFF :)   

 

As you know I love PRO Compression and am an Ambassador for them.  Every month they have a sock of the month special that is 40% off and free shipping.  This month they are doing something pretty awesome! They are helping 2 amazing organizations...

 

How great is that, you get to help a good cause and get some cool socks for you!!! I'd have to say that's a pretty good deal! 

Choose anything purple and a donation will be made to Team in Training.  Choose anything powder blue and a donation will be made to Train 4 Autism.

Use promo code SOM4 to get 40% off and FREE shipping.

You can also choose to get the brand new red, white and blue marathon "tube sock."

Go to PRO Compression and order your socks or sleeves and you'll have them in a few days, they ship fast!

Tutus Rock & Hills Kill

Chances are if you've been on Facebook or Instagram today you've seen the story about Self Magazine bashing runners for wearing tutu's while running.  If you haven't read the story you can here. They posted a picture of a couple of ladies running a marathon wearing tutu's and  said runners think they'll run faster if they're wearing a tutu and called it BS.  The magazine had contacted Monika Allen asking for her permission to use her picture.  She was excited about being in a magazine until she saw that they actually used the picture to make fun of her and other runners that run in tutus.  Monika had been diagnosed with brain cancer and was running her first marathon shortly after being diagnosed and while undergoing chemotherapy.  She has a business that makes tutus and donates the money to a running charity for girls.  It makes me so sad and upset to see things like this happen.  We should all support and lift each other up and have some fun in life!  I personally have ran a few races in a tutu and had so much fun!  The times Steph and I have worn tutus we were cheered on and supported by other runners and spectators more then races where we didn't wear one.  Tutus and dressing up for races aren't for everyone or for every race but no one has the right to make fun of someone for wearing one!  I'm going to try harder to be more loving and accepting of people that are doing what they love and in their own style!

On a lighter note, I decided to dress like a giant watermelon to go to the gym this morning.  Getting dressed at 4:30 am you don't always make the best  fashion choices.  It really didn't seem too bad until I put my shoes on as I was headed out the door and that just put the green factor over the edge!  I wore these awesome PRO Compression socks along with, green and pink shorts, a black tank, and these shoes.

Yes it was a little over kill!!!  If you need some of the best compression socks or sleeves go check out PRO Compression  and if you use the code SPRING you can get any of the socks on their Sock of the Month page for 40% off and free shipping!  Steph and I started out by working out our chest, triceps, back and biceps then we headed into the cardio cinema room to do this great hill workout we saw on Sweats for Sweets Instagram.

We started out by warming up for 10 minutes then went into the workout.  Its a 35 minute workout but if you go through it twice, minus the warmup, its a great 1 hour workout!  I wasn't feeling it at first, my legs were heavy and my heart rate was high but I kept at it and was proud of myself for pushing through and finishing it!  I was dripping with sweat and nearly died ;) running up all those hills, but I survived! We are still doing the majority of our running on the treadmill at the gym due to the fact that it is still quite cold and dark when we start running around 6:15 every day.  I am praying for it to start getting light sooner so we can run around Provo and have a fun time chatting and not staring at numbers and trying to distract myself to get my miles in.  I so love running and will run regardless of if its on the treadmill or outside but nothing quite beats running outside!  It has been nice to do our Saturday long runs outside when the weather permits, it keeps me sane :)

I hope all of your running is going well!

What races are you training for? 

I will be pacing the Dino Half in Vernal in May and am training for the San Diego Rock n Roll Marathon on June 1st I'm so excited to run in my favorite place with my RBFF!!!

16 miles turned to 20

On Friday Steph and I were planning our Saturday long run and we decided that since the weather wasn't looking too crazy and the air was clear we needed to run outside.  We've been doing all of our runs on the treadmill and while I'm grateful for the treadmill when its freezing, snowing and dark  it doesn't quite compare to running outside with running friends!  Josh said they (the Jo's) were running 20 miles in Provo Canyon in the morning so we decided to join them.  When I picked Steph up at 5:45 on Saturday morning we decided that we would run 16 since we'd done 20 last week and wanted to be smart and have a cut back week.  When we met up with Josh and Heather we told them of our plan and set off on our run.  The weather was perfect...40 degrees and just a slight wind.  We had to stop and take a layer off then we headed up the canyon.  We started hitting some icy spots and were reconsidering our route when 2 familiar fellas came around the corner, it happened to be Mike and Paul, a couple other running friends.  They said it was really icy so we decided to head to the Murdock Canal trail with them, and boy did we make the right choice!  Mike runs on that trail all the time and it is the perfect place to run!  

This is after we climbed a fence and got to run in the snow for a few minutes.

Our photo op when Lil Mama couldn't contain her giggles. Mike, Steph, Me, and Josh

Me running through this cool pipe.

We finally got Steph settled down and took this fine selfie of our group.  After this, Josh said we'll need to turn around in 3/4 a mile and at that point Steph and I realized we were in for the long haul and our 16 miles had just turned into 20, its a good thing we packed plenty of water and Skittles!  We ended up having an amazing run and I was so grateful for great friends to run with, having a lot of laughs and good chats, and that Steph was feeling her music and sang some good jams for me :)  At the end of our run Steph and I realized how sore and tired our legs were and we promised we'd each do a ten minute ice bath when we got home.  I'd have to say this was the coldest, most painful ice bath I've ever forced myself to do, but I think it really helped!  

I left my PRO Compression low socks on from my run to try to keep my feet from freezing and falling off.  If you need some amazing compression socks or sleeves go to their website and use the code FEB14 at checkout for 40% off and free shipping #keepittight 

New Years Fun Run and PRO Compression Valentines Socks!

This post is a little late but as I looked through my pictures I saw these and had to document this fun New Years Day run!  Steph and I decided that to properly celebrate the end of 2013 and the beginning of a new year we needed to run 13 miles for 2013 and 14 miles for 2014.  On New Years Eve eve we did the 13 miles at the gym on the treadmill, then on New Years Day we dragged our tired self's out of bed too early and joined the Jo's-Jorge+Heather for a lovely 14 miles run around the city.  It ended up being a poor choice because the air quality was horrendous but with the gym not opening until 8 we didn't have much of a choice.  We started up Hobble Creek Canyon and it was quite nice and about 30 degrees.  

This is where we came out of the canyon and the Jo's ended with 8 miles so we took some selfies and carried on.  When we hit this point the temperature dropped to 20 degrees and the air was so yucky we could taste it.  We were determined to get our 14 miles, which we did, but by the time we finished our bodies were not feeling good.  Our throats were burning and we just didn't feel right.  I guess that's what happens when you are basically smoking and running because the inversion is so bad!  I fought off a cold after this run but Steph ended up getting pretty sick so we've learned not to run and smoke ever again!!!!  I so love running outside with my little RBFF Steph and I've missed our fun runs this winter.  We've spent a good deal of the winter running on the tready at the gym trying to be smart and not get the black lung!  I am so looking forward to Spring, lighter mornings and clean air so we can run about the city and have fun once again!     

And just for your FYI these are the cutest stockings I've ever seen!  I NEED these new Valentines ProCompression Marathon socks in my life!

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