TGIF!! I don’t understand how some of you work 9-5 Monday to Friday. It’s tuckering me out!! My shifts usually vary in time, but I’m doing a more normal schedule this week so I can go away this weekend. The anticipation probably isn’t helping either!
No early a.m. workout today, was saving my energy for a bike ride after work in some sunny weather! Yup! The sun has finally come out. Jeez, about time!!
Breakfast was an oatmeal ‘n’ yogurt parfait. No fancy parfait glass, I don’t think they make them big enough to hold this beast of a breakfast 
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup water
- 2 tbsp soy protein powder
- cinnamon
- strawberries
- yogurt with stevia and vanilla etract
- Some cereal remains (fibre worms!)
My morning snack featured more yogurt in the form of yapple sauce.
It kinda looks like baby food, but it’s got a major yum factor! Yogurt, apple sauce, cinnamon, stevia and muesli.
Lunch was a good ole’ turkey and tzatziki pita with a naval orange.
This is one of those meal combos that I never tally up the calories in my head for (it’s actually happening less and less these days!). But sometimes, it can come in handy, especially when a meal turns out to be too low in calories. This lunch clocked in at under 300 calories, which for me, is way to low for a meal. I didn’t realize it until I was getting serious hunger pains two hours later. I just assumed I would accidentally eat more calories when I stopped calorie counting, but that hasn’t always been the case! Guess the pendulum swings both ways…
I had some afternoon reporting to do, so I inhaled my new favourite PowerBar when I got back to the office.
These usually fill me up, but I was too hungry for just a bar at this point. When I came home, I had a pretty substantial pre-bike snack.
Two pieces of wasa crackers. One with chai marmalade and the other with cashew almond butter and two smooshed dates.
As well as half a kiwi.
I’ve seen some pretty wonky ways of eating kiwis in the blog world (ahem! with the skin!). But this is how I eat mine. Cut in half and scooped out with a spoon. Anyone else do this?
Now, onto the bike ride. Chris and I made plans to head out together. We actually haven’t been biking together since my first time out. I only wanted to do an hour, since I still feel like I’m in a bit of a “recovery week.” But we ended up going off my favourite route, and biking for an hour and 45 minutes. Ugh. I mean, it would have been wonderful if that’s what I (and my poor muscles) had been planning for. But I was not digging it.
After an hour into it, we got to this gas station that I knew was still a ways from my place. I sort of broke down and freaked out on the side of the road. I guess not the way most people would react, but sometimes my nerves and anxiety get the best of me. I wanted a fun and short bike outing, and instead I was on the never-ending one (and running low on water to boot!)
Anyways, in the end, it was still a good ride. It was warm and sunny, and the route we discovered was a pretty good one – 40k in total. We didn’t go that fast either. I don’t think my body is quite ready to push it yet anyways, just need a couple more days 
Supper was late and well needed!!
Bowl o’ protein for the quads!
- 1/2 block tofu, crumbled
- onion
- red and green pepper
- mushrooms
- cumin, curry and chili powder
- salsa
- scrambled egg
- cheeeeese
Then Chris magically showed up again wanting nachos. He ended up biking almost three hours total today including the distance between mine and his place! Crazy boy… He got a well-deserved mountain of chicken nachos.
I may have had one… or five.
I also drank half a blueberry beer.
I gave the other half to Chris. You know, to balance his meal out with a little fruit 
Well that’s all from me today! I’m seriously falling asleep as I type this. That bike ride took what little energy I had left!!
Can I just say it again? TGIF! I’m going to two cottages this weekend. I’m so excited!! I haven’t had a weekend off in over two months! It will hopefully involve:
- swimming in jellyfish-free waters
- eating fresh sea food
- penny candy
- reading lots of magazines
- running on some new and fun trails
- spending time with my mom and the extended fam
What will your weekend involve?
Blueberry beer???? I am all about the blueberries now!
I would love some nachos, too!
I have a 3-day weekend, since I am taking Sunday off so I don’t have to work on tri day!
Sounds like a busy day! I’ve never eaten kiwis with a spoon (though I think that’s a good idea!), I usually just slice them. That sounds like a crazy long bike ride! Your recovery dinner looks delish, though
Your weekend sounds so fun! I have no idea what mine will be like yet 
Oh… I just thought of a retarded long loop; when your up to it.
If we went around Mactaquac then back to Lincoln and that Oromocto loop we did tonight and came back through Rusagonis to New Maryland… I bet we’d have over 100kms never travelling over the same ground twice!!!
So I took my Bottom Bracket out after I got home… the bearing are Pretty gritty. I was reading reviews about the bottom bracket I have and apparently they are common to fail. Worthless seals it seems.
Sounds like its time to upgrade!
http://www.superflycycles.com/servlet/-strse-330/Enduro-Zero-Ceramic-Road/Detail
Apparently these ones last forever from the reviews I have read.
Oh thank God. I thought I was the only one in the blogosphere that didn’t eat the kiwi skin. Thats how I eat mine too…Cut in half and scooped out!
Happy Friday to you!
So many people struggle with packing those types of lunches, and of all the blogs I’ve seen, I think you really have it down.
You do a great job of packing healthy, transportable lunches. You should do a post on it, I think
I know that seems random but I’ve been meaning to tell you that for a while!
Here’s to a great weekend!!
Chris, you know I will always <3 you… My legs however, hate you.
I just eat the whole kiwi!
I laughed at your parfait comment- I have had trouble fitting mine into my glass so went out this morning and bought an extra large one purely for my breakfasts! Though I can see it being filled to the brim regardless of size…
Sounds like a rough but incredible run- glad you have a fun weekend ahead of you!
Sounds like your going to have a fun weekend!
I find that when I don’t count calories I tend to eat less as well.. I wonder if its subconciously? No clue!
That’s how I eat my kiwis! That blueberry beer sounds right up my alley!!
Have a blast this weekend
Mine includes lots of lake time!
you have such a fun weekend planned! that is great. sorry about the minor freak out on the bike ride. at least you came home to a fanfreakingtastic protein bowl! yummo! funny, before i read your description of the kiwi photo i thought, “eating kiwi with a spoon?” hah.. i just peel it, slice it, eat it. and i am loving the wormy breakfast! have a BLAST this weekend, you deserve a nice getaway!
Kiwi skin freaks me out too! And the M-F, 9 to 5 thing…sucks, not going to lie
and I even work at a cool place (a museum)!
This weekend for me involves gym time (hurt toe means no outdoor cardio, stair climber only BOO), a trip to Costco tonight, and a visit to BF’s dad’s house for coconut shrimp and an MMA fight on TV (yeah…guess which one I’m more looking forward to??)
I eat my kiwi that way too! And my cantaloupes too….
maybe because I am a minor, but I have never heard of blueberry beer.
awesome bowl of protein!
I thought that’s how everyone ate Kiwifruit.
When you buy packets of gold kiwifruit here you get a free kiwifruit spoon. On one end it has a knife for slicing the kiwi and the other end is a spoon for scooping. Very handy if you want to take a kiwifruit for lunch!