The Sun Gods Listened!!!

I woke up this morning and the sun was coming up.   There has been a lot of grey skies recently, which is such a downer.  This truly made my morning; awesome running weather too! ♥ 

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The alarm was set for 6am so that I had plenty of time to eat and get my butt over to the park by 83am.  I stumbled to the kitchen and decided that it was easier to make french pressed coffee than put a big pot on.  I love the texture of french pressed coffee, there’s something so smooth about it.

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Breakie was an easy decision as I got a mailbox surprise yesterday that I just couldn’t wait to dig into this morning.  The wonderful people at Crofters sent me a bunch of their Superfruit Spreads to sample:

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I hummed and hawed over what flavour to try first.  It was a toss up between North America & Asia.

Asia won.  Both yumberries and raspberries are native to East Asia and have been used historically for maintaining and restoring health. The Chinese know the yumberry as yang-mei. Once you’ve tried this brilliant red fruit, it’s easy to understand how the name yang-mei made its way to yummy and onward to yumberry.

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For some reason I always end up having a complex carb + peanut butter before each run.  This morning’s combo was a toasted Ezekiel English Muffin with crunchy organic peanut butter & jam. 

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Deeeelish!  And it held me over the entire run.  :) 

We got in 11.3K LSD in 1h50 mins.  I was totally into it and felt great.  The sun was soooo nice.  It was a rather blustery day though and the wind made it challenging at some points.  I’m feeling much better about it all and am glad that I  made the decision to stop stressing over the schedules and just follow the RR one.

I made a stop at the Mall and then headed for home.  Was nice to get in the door by Noon and know that I have the rest of the weekend to spend cleaning and with hubby.  Or should I say cleaning with the hubby. LOL. :)  I know I’m missing a great time at Lesley’s with the girls but I gotta get organized.  Hope you have a blast ladies!! xoxo

Lunch was mini pizzas and watermelon.

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Basically the same toppings as last night – tomato paste, seasonings, salami, onions, mushrooms & cheese.  All toasted up in the oven.

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Side of juicy watermelon.  I haven’t had this in forever, probably since last summer. 

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Gorgeous pink color!

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And, apparently I’m not the only one who’s enjoying the beautiful day….
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This post is turning out to be waaaay longer than planned. I’m off to clean and enjoy the day with hubby.  Happy Weekend!

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