Fare Yee Well Hannah!
By Brit Chick Runs. Filed in Uncategorized |Tags: Epic Green Monster, Epic Monster, Marathon, Squash
Hello!
Ok, so I have to do a super quick post today – I’m about to take Hannah to the station, so she can catch a train to the airport, where she’ll catch a plane to La La Land! More commonly known as Los Angeles 
Home of the famous! LA is the first stop of her 3month long gap ‘year’ – though she’ll be back home in about a week for 2 or 3 days, before leaving for Africa..or New Zealand..or Australia…I have no idea :p ANYWAY – if you see a girl who looks about 17months older than me with shorter hair and responds to the scream ‘HANNAH’, assume it’s my sister!
So without further adieu – My Day
Weds, 11pm – finish watching Rude Tube (best. show. ever.), and consume about 1 pint of water in a short space of time (bad idea!)
1am – get up.
4am – get up.
7.15am – alarm
7.30am – eat 2 tsps wheat germ, 1/2 a rice cake and a Power Bar (I know they’re sports food, but I would seriously eat one just for kicks, they are SO good)
8am+ – leave for run!
Run 5miles – my brain threatened to throw a wobbly for 3 strides, but I pushed any feelings of stress down and continued with a smile (Is the maca powder kicking in already!?)
Mile 7.5 – I had my first ever taste of a GEL!
I’ve been scared of gels for a long time, cos they look….well, weird. And I thought they’d taste like Bonjela or something gross and weird – but not so! It was DELICIOUS!! I’m not even joking, it was just, so so sosososo tasty. Maybe I’ll become a gel addict now?
9.40ish – finished TEN miles (9.28min/mile pace, 1hr 34) Then I went for a 15minute stretch down walk – I sure needed it! Jillian yesterday left my legs super stiff today :s
9.55am+ – Hug Chika, give Chika a handful of treats, give Chika an ear-scratch (her favourite thing in the world). kiss Chika, leave Chika.
10am+ – BREAKFAST! I was craving cold green things today – so I did almost the exact same thing I did after my 14miles on Sunday – a Green Monster, and a no-milk Epic Green Monster
Green Monster =
- 1/2 c. milk
- spinach
- 1/2 banana
- 1/3 tsp xanthan gum
- 1 tsp cacao powder
Milkless EGM =
- 1 c. cereal
- 1/2 c. yogurt
- 1/2 tsp xanthan gum
- 1 scoop Vega vanilla-almond smoothie shake
- 1 tsp maca powder
- 1 and a bit bananas (frozen)
- more spinach
- dates and almonds as toppings
yes, that is a sherry glass
Well. An incredible meal! The EGM was super duper thick, the GM was all fluffy and light and wonderful
11 – 12am – helped Hannah with Tig
12am/pm – 12.30pm – packed up some lunch – gran-grown butternut squash fries, with celeriac fries and a tiny mini gran-grown courgette, all roasted in rosemary and garlic:
On the side, I had a Clif bar and some Bear Granola nibbles (portable cos I knew I wouldn’t have time to stop for a proper lunch) -
Straight after the picture, I swapped the small Clif bar for the big man version 
(the mini version has nowhere near as much carb – and I’m trying to eat carbily this week, for my impending TWENTY MILE run on Sunday! [which I WILL ace and WILL kick butt at!]
12.30pm – 1pm – freak out and search the house manically for Erica’s certificate of insurance – I needed to register her with uni (which starts on Monday), so I can park there without getting £50 in fines each day :/ Eventually, I found said certificate beneath a pile of papers by the printer. As you do.
1 – 1.20pm – throw on some slap, public-appropriate clothes, and gather up my belongings
1.20-2.20pm – drive the hour to uni 
2.20 – 2.24pm – realise my car park card has vanished from my purse. I felt sad
2.25 – 2.45pm – register Erica (£20 down the drain….), buy a new car park card (£8 also down the drain :’()
2.45-3.05pm – decide that I probably should eat something for lunch, despite a sincere lack of hunger! I also bought myself my trashy paper
3.05 – 3.15pm – I went in search of a soya cappuccino – apparently, they do NOT exist on campus, despite me going to 4 different places! Gah. *sadface*
3.25 – 4.25pm – I hate to sit through the most boring, dull, pointless welcome back talk/meeting EVER. Such a waste of an afternoon!!
4.30 – 5.25pm – drive home like a maniac to a)avoid rush hour traffic and b) to take mon sister to the station for her train!
5.28pm – drop a mushroom down my sleeve.
5.46pm – leave for the station, and say goodbye to Hannah! She even said ‘love you’ as she left, which is extreeeeemly rare, and even more extremely lovely
6.03pm – get home, and pump out some more of this blog post
Question: What do your days normally look like? Do you like to keep busy?
Ps – Once again – I am so so sorry for being so slow at email replies at the moment! I am reading them, fear not – I’m just slow and have a disorganised inbox 
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 5:44 pm |
I much prefer to keep busy, and it would sounds as if I am all the time- wake up, check email/pilates/breakfast, go to work, yoga, work, afterwork errands, dinner, bed- but there are times when work is super slow, so I end up having tons or NO downtime. It is a strange schedule to keep but I like the change.
The roasted vegetable lunch looks wonderful!
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 6:15 pm |
You do have a busy day! I think it’s good
no-one wants to twiddle their thumbs 
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 6:05 pm |
Wow! You had a very full day. I am enjoying your note of the mushroom dropped down your sleeve.
haha!
Busy is always better in my life. Without a doubt I am more organized when I am busy than when I have loads of time.
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 6:25 pm |
What a cute green spoon. Yes, I love to be busy. If I’m not, I’m watching the clock, opening the cabinets and refrigerator a million times. Not good!
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 6:30 pm |
I love keeping busy, busy, busy! love having things to di, people to see etc… but i also love chill time too, at night usually.
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 6:43 pm |
Can you taste the maca in your EGM? I have some maca because I’m all for the benefits….but…it think it tastes disgusto.
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 7:34 pm |
I actually can’t! I dread to think what it does taste like, cos it smells RUM. But I think I add so much other crap to my mixes that the flavour gets masked
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 7:28 pm |
I hope Hannah has a fab time in LA! It sounds like you had a bit of a manic day which is the exact opposite of my day today!
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 7:48 pm |
I have the day off work morrow, but already have a whole list of bits and bobs to do, some nice (manicure/get tickets for book event) and some less nice (buy parking vouchers/post parcel) and some a bit scary but exciting (run 10 miles for the first time…!)
I like to keep busy, though, and the older I get the more I understand the old biddies who used to get up early even on weekends so as ‘not to waste the day’
I loved your post yesterday – we have a lot in common, especially the half neat freak/half messy heap bit. I still don’t know how I manage to be both! Jx
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 7:54 pm |
Yes, I totally get that thing too! If my sister sleeps in past 9am, I start to tut and think ‘but she’s wasting the day!’ Old beyond our years!!You’re gonna kick butt on the 10miles
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 2:13 pm |
I did
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 8:15 pm |
I’ll be in LA this weekend for a wedding!! I’ll keep my eyes peeled for someone who looks like you
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 9:45 am |
Haha that would be AMAZE if you saw her!! have a great wedding
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 8:20 pm |
Phew…a busy day indeed! Love the 5.28 pm
You’re too funny!
I like to keep busy as well. There are far too many exciting things to work towards and fun things to do…well not all of them exciting and fun but they gotta get done anyway
The monsters look great!!! I tend to hide my Maca in smoothies and EGMs as well…I don’t want to taste the stuff, but it is sooooo good!
To Hannah: All the best and have lots of fun on your travels! Sounds like a fabulous 3-months-gap-year to me!Take care and stay safe
Thursday, October 7th 2010 at 9:32 pm |
You definitely had a busy day!
Your lunch looks really interesting, I might try a similar lunch this week. Have a great evening!
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 12:58 am |
WOW i think I got tired just reading about your day.
Other than taking Hannah to the train is that a ” normal” or “busy” day for you?
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 9:47 am |
Well it’s hard to tell – when I begin uni again on Monday, all my days will be 10x busier! Since I’ve been off for the summer, it’s varied – run days/work days are often much busier, but I also get quiet days too. Depends what Im doing, cos I’m the food shopper for the family too, and `i normally have riding to fit in, dog walking, cooking, reading..I keep busy
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 1:17 am |
All the best to Hannah! Her journeys sound super exciting
You’re sounding much more upbeat, and you have no idea how happy I was to read your optimism for the 20-miler. Yes, yes – you will ace it!!
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 3:48 am |
Save travels to your sister!! And L.A., how FUN!!!
Girl… you make me CRAVE squash. Forreal. May have to roast some up tomorrow..
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 6:21 am |
LaLaLand??!! Where I live??!! : )
If she needs anything, let me know!!!!! : D
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 9:48 am |
Ooh maybe you’ll see her!! LA can’t be that big :p
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 8:03 am |
I love how green your breakfast was!
Just a question, I bought some tofu and I have no idea what to marinade it with. Any suggestions?
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 9:51 am |
Soy sauce, bit of maple syrup, cinnamon..that’s one of my favourites
Veganomicon has an awesome one:vegetable broth (3/4 c.), 2tbsp soy sauce, 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar, 2tbsp liquid smoke (no idea what that is…), 2tbsp olive oil, 2 tbsp maple syrup, 2 crushed garlic cloves <- i've done that lots of times, it's delish!! (those ingredients are for 2 servings btw) 
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 9:53 am |
I really cant believe you liked the taste of this particular gel – it almost made me gag and…ahem…i had to be superfast on my way home to get to the loo just in time. i really dont want to get personal, but – no side effects like this? i consider giving it second chance….
One more thing – you are doing amazing and there is no need to worry or feel the urge to justify yourself because of the marie-claire article.
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 9:57 am |
Nope none! I loved it! Maybe it’s worth giving another shot – I mean, if it gave effects like that to every person, it wouldn’t be on the market…And thank you
that means a lot!
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 10:29 am |
do your days always start the night before? 11pm?
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 10:42 am |
No – I just wanted to bring up that I saw Rude Tube and drank too much water before bed, which explained why I had to get up twice in the night :p
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 2:00 pm |
Yes, I love to be busy and keeping a list of what I need to do helps me stay sane on those busy days.
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 4:49 pm |
Your green monster looks so vibrantly colorful. Love it!
I like keeping busy, but I also like days where I have absolutely nothing planned (like today.) It feels good to refresh.
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 5:25 pm |
Your GM’s are always SO green and thick!! Makes me wish all my xanthan gum, frozen bananas and protein powder weren’t back at school. My brother and I never say I love you either- I do love him, we just don’t have that kind of relationship!
Friday, October 8th 2010 at 5:57 pm |
I think the camera makes them look extra vibrant
Buut I do OD on the spinach somewhat 
Saturday, October 9th 2010 at 12:38 am |
Gels are great! But I kinda think anything would taste delicious after 1+ hours of running:) I like staying busy, otherwise the day seems to drag on.