Saturday In The Park ... and also Thursday!

Run You Clever Boy, And Remember

Thursday June 8, 2017

It was a gorgeous day, and I have to get back to running around 3 times a week regardless.
So, after strength training, it was a quick 5+ km clockwise around the park, 9+ km door to door.



Saturday June 10, 2017

More great weather, wooo!
14+ km around the park counterclockwise, 18+ km door to door.

-tak! thbbft!

#np_yyz - 2017/06/07

#np_yyz - Wednesday Morning 6:25AM - 2017/06/07 - #8

good morning Toronto, good morning Mom, good morning #np_yyz #prday!  fuck yeah!

Today's workout and results:
Burpees 53 / 70
Push Ups 70 / 70
Mountain Climbers 70 / 70
Bicycles 70 / 70
Squat Jumps 70 / 70
Hill/Stair Sprints 2 / 10

rules are - do as much as you can, in whatever order/grouping you want, in 30 minutes

Missed a PR, because I forgot how many burpees I had done in my previous PR ... ah well, there's always July!

-tak! thbbft!

Saturday *Morning* In The Park

Run You Clever Boy, And Remember

Saturday June 3, 2017

12k+ around the park, clockwise.
Surprisingly good times - typically under 9 min/km.
Schedule got juggled, because the World Quizzing Championships was at 1pm.
So, I decided to get the run in before - as part of my reason for doing this is to get out in the sun - and do strength training in the evening.

Felt fine during quizzing ; did some grocery shopping at Whole Paycheck afterwards.
Started dinner when I got home (beef short ribs, which take a while in the oven).
As such, didn't get down to the gym until after 8pm, was again feeling a little sluggish, and it showed.
That's twice now where I hadn't eaten for a long stretch (8+ hours at least) after my long run, and both times I was performing a couple of notches below.
What I learned : I need to eat reasonably soon after my long run.
Thankfully, the short ribs were fucking delicious.  I should have bought (and made) more.


Recipe : Lazy Beef Short Ribs

Ingredients:

• 700g beef short ribs (preferably grass fed)
• assorted spices (I used salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion flakes, smoked paprika)
• ~100ml chicken stock
• avocado oil

Steps:

• preheat the oven to 400F
• line a baking dish with foil
• cut the ribs up into 1-bone chunks
• coat the ribs with a little avocado oil
• season generously
• put ribs in baking dish and put in oven
• after 15 minutes, flip ribs over, add chicken stock, cover tightly with foil and turn oven down to 275F
• let ribs bake until very tender, at least 3-4 hours more, depending on how you like them (3 hours for a little chew, 4 hours for meltingly tender)
• pour off the cooking liquid, and use as a jus/sauce.  NB - pour off some of the fat if you wish, I just poured it onto my veggies for extra flavour!
• enjoy!

-tak! thbbft!