So clearly I have not been blogging. As with many good intentions, sometimes they never come to fruition, as was the case with blogging about the majority of my marathon training for the NYC marathon on Nov 1. My husband told me every good blogger would blog about wondering if I should start my blog back up, but in a slightly new revised format. Yes, husband. One of the main reasons I did not blog this season was because I was busy planning for our wedding! It was on August 15, 2009 and we have been enjoying 6 weeks of wedded bliss! And blisters. Yes, blisters I say. I am on track to run on November 1…Despite my best efforts to sabotage myself with kicking hand weights, changing to the wrong shoe mid-season, massive ovarians cysts (yes ladies, they are very common)…you get my point.
Thursday Date
This morning my ladies and I had a great training run. We have a standing appointment at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park every Thursday morning at 6am. Depending on the week, we’ll throw extra morning group runs in for good measure. My ladies are my good buddies Jinny and Laura and recently on occasion Kim. We all met in 2007 through Team in Training when we trained for various marathons during the fall season and are all at it again! With TNT, our awesome coach, Coach Jim, gives us a monthly schedule to follow, including some sort of wonderful Thursday session. At times this session is an easy pace, but more often than not it’s something including strides, sprints or a tempo. Many times the girls and I would meet, bleary eyed and tired usually from not getting enough sleep due to creating culinary concoctions involving Laura’s weekly CSA box or Martha Stewart, look at each other, proud for waking at such an ungodly hour and be completely content with an easy loop (3.3 miles) and as the season went on we became happy to make it a 5-mile loop. I’m sad to report that very rarely did we actually follow what was on the schedule for Thursdays. (Sorry Coach!) But this morning was a horse of a different color! Despite Laura only getting 4 hours of sleep a night for the past 3 nights because she, in a moment of pure joy, agreed to make a WEDDING CAKE, for a REAL wedding (Laura we are so proud of you and know you can do it!), we followed the schedule perfectly! And it rocked and was awesome! We all completed one loop at marathon pace (9min/mile) and a second loop at tempo pace (8min/mile)!So between the great run this morning and my lunch break spent perusing various baking/cooking recipes, it occurred to me how closely related running and food were connected in my life. Not only because by running I can indulge in some amazing treats without guilt (like the bag of candy corn I am obsessively eating, it is october 1 after all), but it’s pretty much all my ladies and I talk about when we run. In fact, we do everything but put a business plan in writing while we are running for the bakery we are going to open.
So what I would like to propose is a slightly revamped “jenni-in-training”, one that transforms into a blog about running and food - in the same way I have transformed as a runner. My blog will focus on recipes, pictures, entries about eating foods that help with running and also foods that help to make you feel better after a 20 mile run. Especially like the 20-miler we did in the cold rain last Sunday. The pot of Tuscan White Bean and Cabbage soup I whipped up REALLY helped to easy my pain and warm me up! It will also be about running in general and how anyone can do it at any level and how it can change your life, physically and also your outlook. So check back often, run regularly and eat well!
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