Epic seems to be the theme of this weekend!
We went to Epic last night, had an epic night, and woke up this morning for an epic run which turned into another epic morning 🙂
Even though we had our fair share of fun last night. . . I woke up feeling good and ready to get a weekend sweat on. I may not have my long runs anymore, but I still like a good sweat.
I woke up slowly with coffee and half a Chocolate Crunch Power Bar (new to me, I liked it), then headed down to the gym for a quick run while Zach finished up work. Our plan was to head up to my favorite park and run a few miles together as well.
So I jumped on the treadmill and took a VERY easy first mile, followed by 400 repeats of 7.1-7.3 (400 on, 400 off) until I hit the 5k mark. I finished in about 28:35.
I then did 50 sit ups and headed out with Zach to continue to the work out!
old pictures
It was SO nice to have Zach with me for the afternoon run. Not only was it PERFECT running weather (high 50’s, low wind), we stayed at a pace that was very manageable (about 937), kept switching up trails, and before we knew it 3.5 miles were done. WOOT!
Pretty impressive considering Zach rode 30 miles yesterday and I had already ran on the treadmill, THEN given my legs a break, which normally equals lead legs.
Seriously, what a perfect morning! 🙂
We went grocery shopping right after (smelly and all) and picked up some necessities. We’ve been bare bones here in the apartment with Zach gone for four weeks, so this was a big grocery week.
But more importantly, we picked up goodies for me to bake Zach his birthday cake
More pictures and recipe to come soon, but this one looks CARAMEL good!
Question fo the Afternoon: What birthday cake would you have baked for you if you had your choice of ANY?
Working out together is the best! Looks like you had a great day! 🙂
Absolutely!
Looks like fun. I would have chocolate cake with chocolate frosting or strawberry cake with cream cheese frosting. Now I’m hungry for cake! Thanks 😉
Oh the strawberry cake with cream cheese, YUM!
Yum! I would definitely bake a gluten-free chocolate cake with raspberries and something fun like Maca Powder sprinkled on top 🙂
Great Post! Thank you for sharing!!!
What is maca powder?
love your socks! i have bright teal compression sleeves i like to wear with hot pink tye-died spandex.
Runners are all about the colors 🙂
Damn, beast twin. Beast. Sounds like you and Zach are having an awesome weekend! So happy for you that he’s back! Is his birthday today or tomorrow? Either way, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZACH!
It’s actually Monday (11/11, how cool is that?) But I’ll send him a happy birthday from twin 🙂
Aww he must have had a pretty cool birthday in 2011! Thank you 🙂 I’ll try to send another happy birthday on Monday!
ooh I wonder what that cake will be! I’d probably want a fudgy chocolate cake with lots of layers, chocolate mousse frosting and maybe some chocolate shavings, basically any cake with an absurd amount of chocolate 😉
Ok that sounds amazing!
Haha. I was helping a friend move today, and they moved VERY close to that park!!!
Really? We love that park!
What a great morning! Way to do a double whammy workout 🙂
THanks! 🙂
I’m not a big cake fan, but if I could make a cake it would be vanilla with white chocolate and raspberry filling and cream cheese frosting. 🙂
That sounds AMAZING!
I would bake a yellow cake with funfetti frosting. Well, for me it’s all about the frosting so it doesn’t really matter what kind of cake.
I couldn’t agree more, I am ALL about the frosting, and Zach is about the cake!
That park is gorgeous. And if we’re indulging I’d have to go with German chocolate!
I normally am not a huge German chocolate fan but our wedding cake maker had an AMAZING one!
There’s a french bakery in Charlotte called Amelie’s that does an AMAZING gluten free almond cake 🙂
Oh my gosh this sounds GREAT!
Of course, I’d probably prefer a gluten full cake any day
Way to work it out! I’m not big on desserty stuff, but there is a custom cake bakery here that makes some pretty tasty birthday ones.
Love me some Birthday cake…