Hannah

Recent eats

Hi and thank you. For all of the kind words about my brother and his illness! I am happy to report he is feeling a little bit better. Out of the past 48 hours, he was asleep for 46. Cray. He is making sure to have foods/drinks like crackers and Gatorade to keep his strength up so he can heal. 🙂 I can’t wait until he comes home for Christmas!

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I wanted to share some recent eats:

Coffee with Hannah ❤

Quesedilla Dinner:

Pepper + onion + mushrooms cooking..

Chicken cooked with spices (cumin, garlic powder, salt, pepper, chili powder, and paprika)

Chicken pulled to fit properly in the quesedilla

Flour tortilla

Cheese

Put it all together and press!

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Other eats:

BLT + corn

Hot chocolate + whipped cream!

In the middle of making coooookies

Finished product ❤

Vanilla iced coffee

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Now I will leave you with a picture of Hannah and I 🙂

We were goofing off with my camera. And Lily.

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What is the best thing you ate this week?!

Treadmill workouts

Hi!

Though my family isn’t sending out any Christmas cards this year, Hannah and I decided to take some festive pictures Sunday morning. . .

A picture with the lovely Lola

A picture with the family cat, Callie. She is 16.

We would have done a picture with each of the pets (dorks?) but we had to leave for church. I was sitting in church and noticed I had cat and dog fur all over myself and I laughed because it was fun to take goofy pictures.

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Has anyone tried this coffee?! It is more like adult hot chocolate to me… so delicious!
I got it from Walgreens for like $2.99 and I may have to go back for more soon 😀

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Want to hear something crazy? My last 5 runs have been on a treadmill… by choice. I’m not sure why, but I have been loving the dreadmill lately.

I even managed to do a long run (11 miles) on the dread on Friday last week. Strange.

Since it is getting cold outside, I thought I would share some treadmill workouts that I like. I usually do treadmill runs to music. It makes the time pass faster.

Workout #1: Intervals- Warm up for 5-10 minutes at a comfortable pace. Run 1 minute  at your 5k pace (or faster if you choose!) and then 1 minute and 30 seconds at half marathon pace. Repeat for 20 minutes and then warm down for 5-10 minutes.

Workout #2: Fartlek- This is the perfect workout to do to music. Fartlek means “speed play” in Swedish and that is just what you do. Play with your speed (and incline) throughout the run. If a fast/upbeat song comes on, run as fast as you can during the chorus. If a slow song comes on, I put the incline to 5%.

Workout #3: Hills- Complete an easy 10 minute warm up. Set the speed to your half marathon pace and raise the incline each half mile until you reach 45 minutes. (Or however long you want to run for.) Warm down for 10 minutes on 0% incline-yay!

Workout #4: Long run- Fill your iPod with music, grab a magazine, get a treadmill with a TV, bring snacks + water, and run slow and long. Try not to lose your sanity ;). Also, try you keep your stride similar to running outdoors so you don’t injure yourself.

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Sometime in the future I’ll post some p90x workouts for all of my weightlifting buddies (if anyone is interested!).

Hope everyone has a great day!

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