Gourmet Runner

This week was pretty interesting, fitness-wise. I decided last week to drop my mileage, give my head a break from too much running, and really focus on cross-training and stretching instead. How did I do? Monday : 45 Minutes of yoga, 30 minutes of upper body and abwork Tuesday : 1 hour of P90X Plyometrics Wednesday : Ran 6 Miles Thursday : 45 Minutes of Yoga, 30 minutes of upper body and abwork Friday : 1 hour of P90X Plyometrics Saturday : Ran 8.5 Miles Sunday : 45 Minutes of Yoga, Walked 2 Miles Total Mileage: 14.5 Running (16.5 total) So...that's about half of my normal mileage, but I felt pretty great about it. Managed to get in 3 yoga sessions, 2 interval workouts (P90X) and 2 strength training sessions in. This week: I'd like to keep my mileage low. Aiming for around 20 miles this week, and again focus on cross training. Then I'll head back into running mode! Ok, now I know you're all just sticking around to see if you won a box of BumbleBar Jr...

If you read my  Bar Review  a while ago, you'll know I think a good energy bar is a hard thing to find! One bar really stood out above the rest in terms of taste and nutrition: BumbleBar.  BumbleBars are organic sesame bars, and are gluten-free and vegan. Yay! So far, so good. Additionally, all their ingredients are real and recognizable. But the real test--how do they taste? The verdict?  Delicious , even after a tough run! The lovely folks over at BumbleBar sent me 5 bars to test, and lucky for me they happened to all be flavors I had never tried before. I received: - Chocolate Crisp - Chocolate Cherry - Awesome Apricot - Original Peanut - Amazing Almond I'm such a fan! Hands down, my absolute favorite was the chocolate crisp. Unlike some of the other bars, this has crisp rice as an ingredient, and it really does taste like a (healthier) chocolate rice krispie treat. Amazing! The original flavor is very sweet--thanks to brown rice syrup-- with a vanilla/...