How s-l-o-w-l-y things seem to drag when you’re soon to be going on holiday. Every day seems to crawl by…I know I shouldn’t complain though. I’m very grateful to soon be on a beach in Mexico applying another layer of suntan lotion…
It couldn’t have come at a better time as well. I feel a bit frazzled. And I know Ben is as well with all his travelling and hard working he’s been doing lately. So bring on the cocktails!
But first I have the small tiny little Bristol half marathon to get through first…I’m strangely looking forward to it. It should be great to do such a big race in terms of numbers of people. Cheddar Gorge half was under 200, whereas this one is around 20,000! Even Reading was only around 15,000 I think. So a lot of people!
What’s crazy as well is that when we get back from our holiday the ‘big’ training begins. Marathon Training. Those words just look scary to me. Marathon? Whoa. It’ll be less than two and a half moths until the big date when we get back from Mexico. I already have two races planned to help the training along:
End of October: Great South Run (10 mile road race – very popular, should be brilliant)
Mid-November: A nice and local half marathon (Gosport Half)
December 22nd: Marathon
Annoyingly enough our work Christmas party is the night before. My work always do a really good Christmas do. Last year’s was in Bruges for the weekend. This year it’s at a beautiful stately home in Winchester. Unfortunately Ben and me will opt out as it just wouldn’t be a good idea. Not with a 9.30am start the next day. I’m not too sad… *sobs*
Anyway, like I said I’m feeling a bit frazzled with work. Definitely in need of a holiday. I’ve been using my workouts as a bit of a escape. Seriously, I can’t think of anything important during those tough spin classes. My mind is purely “this hurts” or “I’m tired” or “when’s it over”. And running is like a cool breeze flowing through my mind. It just wipes all that stress away. For the half marathon I plan on just putting on some music and enjoying the scenery. I do enough introspection and worrying in my daily life to allow myself to get bogged down by unnecessary thoughts for 13.1 miles.
I haven’t really posted much about food lately. Mainly because it’s all been a bit samey and not interesting at all.
However, as it’s Wednesday (WIAW: go check out Jenn’s blog!) I did stumble across a quick meal that I just can’t get enough of at the moment. It was after I’d gotten in from spin and my body was like FEED ME. We had a lot of vegetables in the fridge that needed to be used and I just thought “what the hell”. So it was pretty much a meal with everything but the kitchen sink.
This delightful mess is a three egg scramble with lots of stir fry veg, mushrooms, sun dried tomato and diced trout. With a side salad of course – because you can never have too much veg, am I right? 
What made this was the trout and the sundried tomatoes. The tomatoes were in oil so this helped increase the flavour as well. I loved this. And good healthy omega oil from the fish as well!
Another meal that I’ve been enjoying is gammon steak.
I grilled the steak and had this with cauliflower mash with goat’s cheese mixed in (heaven) and broad beans…and maybe a sneaky bit of beetroot (it needed eating). Oh how I miss eating gammon! I’m on such a meat kick at the moment.
And at work it seems everyone can’t stop bringing in cakes. Not that I’m complaining!
Hello oat and raisin cookie. How I love thee.
Sadly our cake stash in our freezer is quickly going down. This is not good. My mum came over the other day for a catch-up…and we had the last slices of Victoria sponge. I almost cried. Well, that just means getting/baking more I guess!
As my last point, I’ve just started reading Gone Girl after it seemed the blogging world exploding with how amazing it is a while ago (I’m so behind the trend). I couldn’t wait to get stuck in. I’m 17% through (God bless the Kindle) and I’m not massively keen. DON’T HURT ME. It’s just that it reads a bit like a comedy romcom style book but so clearly is not. I don’t know how to take it if I’m honest. It just seems a bit odd. I shall persevere though.
Have a great week guys!
When’s and where is your next holiday?
What’s your latest favourite meal?
Do you use exercise to switch off or switch on? Sometimes a long run is quite cathartic to think about different things, but usually I just like to stop thinking and shut off from the world for a bit.
What are you reading at the moment ? Have you read Gone Girl? Thoughts?
I hated Gone Girl, disliked both characters from the get go, hated the writing style and was annoyed at the ending!
Glad I’m not the only one who found it amazing!
Who didnt find it amazing that should say!
I’m glad I’m not alone then! I really am struggling with it. It’s pure curiosity of what happened that makes me keep going.
Cauliflower and goat cheese= awh yesssssss
Best combo. Yum.
Exercise is the best de-stressing tool for me. It helps me think through whatever has gone on at work in my warmup and then put it all behind me as I power through the tough part of the session, forgetting it completely and instead, feeling great about what I’ve achieved! Not sure I could work as a teacher without working out now!
Yeah it’s the best way to just wash away stress. And after a hard work out you feel invicible and ready to tackle the world.
Never heard of that book if I’m honest, so I must really be behind, ha! I shall have to check it out. too bad about your Xmas Party- maybe treat yourself to a nice meal out just the two of you instead?
I bet you are super excited for Mexico now, very jealous! We were supposed to be going to Hawaii later in the year, but that will be next year now instead with the move to London in the next few weeks. I love switching off during running and just listening to some music and looking at the scenery! I’m reading mountains of the mind right now, it’s pretty interesting, about why people choose to climb mountains.