What a week!

Happy Friday, a 3 day weekend and it began with an hour on the bike trainer and will likely continue with an afternoon run, I love these double days!

Oh my, what have I just done? For years I've thinking about running an ultra and now I am committed to a 50K. I just registered for the Afton Trail Run in July. Now to figure out how to actually train for this so I don't embarrass myself! There is a 9 hour limit so I figure I will be fine and worst case I can stop after the first 25K loop if I need to. I honestly don't think the running will be a problem but I am concerned with fueling and not upsetting my GI system. Any advice?

"Exercising"

I guess this is what happens after a week of good news and excitement. The workouts of last weekend and then a nice 10 mile run in sun and warmth earlier this week along with time on the bike have inspired me and helped me arrive at an important decision. After being recruited about a month ago and then three interviews I was called on Tuesday and offered a new job using my graduate degree! The pay and benefits are better and even though it was posted as full-time they are willing to hired me part-time. Best yet it is within the same organization I am currently at so I keep my earned PTO and seniority. Strangely (or maybe not) the only thing against the job was longer commutes and less time to workout. Yes, that's right I almost turned down a great opportunity because I am scared or missing workouts! Is there something wrong with me? or am I just a runner!

In other news we are halfway through an elimination diet trial for O since she has many GI issues (I'll save the full details), continues to be small, always bloated and complaining of "tummy hurt". We started with dairy elimination and of course I had a tough time coming up with dairy free dinners even though I try to limit it since I am sensitive as well. So in attempts to use up some ingredients in the kitchen I came up with this super easy curry.

Chickpea Spinach Coconut Curry
1 small onion diced
2 cloves garlic minced
Spinach leaves torn - I used about 1/2 bag
1 can chickpeas
1 can diced tomatoes
1 can coconut milk - I used lite
2 tsp curry powder
1/4-1/2 tsp tumeric
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes (or less)
Salt to taste

Heat oil and saute onion and garlic until soft, add spinach until wilted. Add remaining ingredients and simmer 20-30 min to reduce. Serve with rice.

Unfortunately 1 week into the 2 week dairy elimination I am seeing little improvement meaning we will likely need to continue with further testing and/or elimination trials.