Mud Girl Run

Today started off great! Samantha and I went to do the mud girl run, and it was so much fun!

It wasn't to far from my place so she made her way over for 7:30 am and we were off!  We got our race kit which was a bag, headband, tattoo (above) and a $40 gift card for hello fresh (groceries are sent to your home with the recipes so your meals are set for the week). It was a bit cool in the morning which was great.

We had to take a few pictures before getting started

We wanted to be sure to be at the start of the run, so we went right to the front before it started. They had some great music playing and a guy was working on getting us excited to start. We did a count down and we were off! We did run but we also walked quite a few times. It was mostly grass that we were walking/running in and it was tall so it was harder to run, especially since the ground was uneven. We did good though! Apparently there was 20 obstacles, some that you had to go over and some you had to go under. There was water pits with a bit of mud, but since we were the first wave going it wasn't quite as muddy yet so we didn't get overly dirty. There was a slide, nets to climb on, rope and wood to walk on, which the wood was more of a teeter totter. There was a spot that we had to walk in bubbles, a blow up tube was had to crawl through, a few pits with cords low to the ground that we had to crawl, and one part that had a heavy brick type of thing that we had to use our arm muscles to lift it to the top and lower it back down. It was so much fun!

I find this one didn't have quite as much going on then the other mud run I did, but it was so great that it was girls only, and that it was also going to a good cause, breast cancer. They did have a pretty good set up, but more food around would have been good, and more things to buy. I did buy a pink tshirt and I really wanted the hoody but all they had left was x-small and small, and we were the first wave to go and they were already out of the bigger sizes, that makes no sense!  I'll see if I can get it online. It was a great way to start a beautiful day, we had such a good time and we finished it in 50 minutes.

What's next on the agenda. Well we were talking on the way back home and she's interested in doing a half marathon with me so going to check out to see when we can get our ticket for the Ottawa race. It's been on my bucket list for a while, I mean I live in Ottawa and I haven't done the Ottawa race yet so it's time!!  I haven't done a half marathon in quite some time, so it will be a good push for me to get back into good shape. I really do miss running! I still run but not as much as I use to and I miss running. Now that I have a treadmill at home, I don't have an excuse of bad weather to stop me. I told her about the army run as well, it's a must! They have amazing shirts and it's a fun run to do.

I haven't been blogging as much but I do want to change that, I miss it. I for sure need to get back on track with healthy eating and keep up with exercising, which I definitely need to run more! I do eat pretty healthy  most of the time but I need to do better so I can get back into better shape.

Hope everyone is enjoying their weekend!

Summer

It's been a while again since my last post. It's been a busy summer. With working quite a bit of overtime, we went to bluesfest and got to see a lot of amazing bands like Bryan Adams, Greta Van Fleet, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews Band, Beck, Colin James, Dear Rouge, Three Days Grace and Rise Against. It was a lot of fun but we were so tired and exhausted. We had taken the first week of July off, and we did things around the house. I did a lot of de-cluttering, we did a bit of shopping, and the Thursday night it was Bryan Adams, the following week we were back at work and saw all those bands so it was a bit of a tough week.

My cousin came down our second week we took off over the summer, the week of August 6th. We went to the Highland games, and went to check out the Mosaic here in Gatineau

The highland games was a lot of fun, but it was very hot outside, so we went into the shade as much as possible. My cousin's daughters and a friend of theirs were with us as well. The Mosaic it was just one of her daughter's and the friend, and it was amazing to see, it was so beautiful there. Again a very warm day but it was harder to find shade. We went to cool down in the Rideau mall after and did some shopping. We went to visit my brother, did more shopping, saw a few movies, and they headed home, than I took some time to do more de-cluttering and doing things around the house.

I went to my brother's on Friday night for game night. I love that they have game night every Friday. It was a lot of fun and my niece did my nails as well, I have a light pink and I love it! Yesterday I had to do some overtime at work and did a few things at home and relaxed. Today I spent most of my time in the kitchen. I started off with making a potato salad, I love cooking the potatoes in the oven, they are a bit more crisp. I added green onions and celery, along with some cumin, paprika and some pepper. I did use mayo and a bit of dijon mustard.  The next thing I did was try out a recipe I saw on Facebook, although I changed it up a bit.

I first started with my mandolin to slice the zucchini but it was to thick and didn't work as well so I than switched to a carrot peeler

It worked a lot better! So I greased the muffin tin with coconut oil, than added zucchini strips in each one like that first one I did, so it's kind of like the crust for the quiche.

Than I stuffed each one with a bit of red onion, tomato, mushroom, and some fresh basil. In a bowl I whisked 10 eggs with a big splash of almond milk, some salt and pepper and a bit of smoked paprika. I filled each cup with the egg mixture

Than topped it with a bit of herb goat cheese and put it in the over at 400 for 30 minutes

They turned out great! I haven't tried one yet but I'm sure they will be delicious! They really did smell really good!  The rest of the zucchini, I cut into bite size pieces and I'll be able to add them into salads. This  past Friday I put together a delicious bento box for my lunch

The Quinoa crackers were really good, well they were extra crispy but tasty. I topped it with the peppered goat cheese (top right container), just below that it was a mix of chicken and kielbasa, to the left of that a kale salad, and above cucumber and blueberries. It was a delicious lunch!!  I haven't had kielbasa in so long and it was on sale so thought why not.

So for the week, my muffin quiches will be my breakfast with either fruit or toast, lunch I am thinking more bento boxes with some potato salad, veggies, I'm thinking shrimp, or fish, and a salad. I am also still exercising, I'm doing spinning, some running, weight exercises and walking. Next weekend is the mud girl run, so I'll post something after to let you know how it went and share a few pictures.

The summer has really gone by fast, I know it's not done yet but we are getting towards the end of August already so going to keep enjoying the beautiful weather as much as I can.