Kinda busy

It's been awhile and as my friends Lady Gaga and Beyonce say....I've been kinda busy...Let's recap shall we...

The last time I wrote I was about to settle down to watch the last episode of the Bachelor.  Since then, the bachelor has picked his lovely lady and my pick! Thank goodness I loved what Ryan used as an analogy for their "journey".  The bachelor is like a cruise with everything provided for you for 6 weeks and then after the 6 weeks are over...it's like they put you in a lifeboat with no supplies and you are forced to work through it and decide your future! I am so team Ryan and Trista...they are so cute! Anywhoo....After the 3 hours of the Bachelor...I hopped into bed and made it to a 5:30 spin class.  I love this instructor and the music is soo good.  I worked all day and then headed back to the gym for a 3 mile run in preparation for NYC half.  The rest of the week looked like this: 

Wednesday-Body Pump in the AM before work and then 3.5 miles after work outside in the gorgeous weather.  

Thursday-4 mile speed workout out.  I am not going to lie...this was tough and i felt soo good getting through it!! 

Friday- After a long day of work I headed onto the beautiful blue  with an amazing chicken salad sandwich (curry..Yum!) from .  The Jonesville Store is so delicious and in the cutest building sooo close to my house (score!)  After getting into Manhattan Michelle and I subwayed it up to the UWS and met her bro and SIL for a drink at Amsterdam Ale House where I feasted on a Guiness and espress vodka (my favorite!).  We hung out after the drink and watched the SU game (i.e. I fell asleep)

Rufus

Saturday- Woke up and took this amazing Pup for a walk (or he took me for a run...details details).  We stopped at  where I picked up some bagels and some AMAZING tofu veggie spread (aka vegan cream cheese).  OK i'm the farthest from a vegetarian but i am in love with this stuff.  It tastes so much better than cream cheese and it has vegetables in it...SCORE!   After some bagels and preparation for the day, Michelle and I headed to pick up our race packets for the .  We also stopped at  where I purchased the most fabulous basic tees...now if spring would just hurry up and get here...hint hint...We also meandered around Union Square and headed up to the UES to drop our bags off and grab lunch at on the UES and ate some amazing Pad Thai.  It was delish as was my  Thai Iced Tea.  YUM YUM!! After getting our fill of food we headed to  to get some lovin for our fingers (aka manicure).  When we walked in there was a little girls birthday party going on so they told us to come back after the party.  Luckily for us we were a block away from Central Park and so we wandered over to the Resevoir and walked around until we stumbled upon a bathroom right near my #1 chill spot in Manhattan .  We walked around and went to my favorite picture taking location 

 

The glass window room (Yes I am VERY technical) is my go to spot! We hung out for a bit then headed back to  and drank some coffee and chilled out some more.  After nail time we chilled out for a bit and had an amazing dinner with Ronny guy at Pio Pio.  It was delicious but not as delicious as . I was fortunate enough to have a Groupon for 16 handles and being the frozen yogurt fan (ok freak!) I tried a ton of flavors and fell in love with scooter crunch.  It was so amazing that we went back on Sunday!! After a 16 handles coma I headed to the haven known as the couch and dozed off only to be awoken a few hours later for the big day! 

Hello Monday!

Another Monday done (almost...not until the bachelor is over!)

So what's been happening...let's see!
After Snow day last Monday...I went to body pump and got my 6 mile speed workout run in (Only one more until the NYC 1/2 marathon!)

Tuesday I had CPR after working all day and was really craving the infamous Shamrock Shake...so i stopped on my way home and got one before heading home.  I overslept on tuesday and only got to run 3 miles in the am(needed 6 for the day)...therefore after the Shamrock shake I hopped back to the gym and got in a few more miles( with a deficit of 1.25 miles due to the unhappy stomach due to said infamous shamrock shake).

Wednesday, Body pump in the AM and then ran the last 1.25 afterward to get the 6 i wanted to get in on tuesday!

Thurday, I went to 5:30 a.m. spin and i'm not kidding but it was AMAZING.  Music was great and it was a great start to the day!

Friday A.M. I got 5 in on the treadmill o'fun.  I went to happy hour after work then headed to Date night with my wonderful husband.  We headed to a bar/restaurant where we had gift cards then headed to my favorite store Book heaven a.k.a Barnes and Noble.  I sat, read People Magazine and then headed to Friendlys for a beautiful Reese's Piece's Sundae to share with said wonderful man.  It was delicious and such a great way to end the work week.

Saturday,
I slept in (Ok so in my terms that means 7:45 a.m.) then ran some errands (i.e.- Eyebrow wax! :-) ) then caught up with some friends on the phone for awhile and finally got my butt out the door for a run! I had 7 on tap for the run but the route I wanted to run was 7.52 so i got 7.52 on the books.  After running, I finished a shamrock shake(damn you shamrock shakes...is it St. Patrick's day yet??) then took a nap for a hot minute before heading out the door to babysit for the evening!

Sunday was spend the day with the husband day! It was a complete workout free day and we had a great day.  Grocery shopping and preparing some Pork ( Pork...the other white meat = love! <3 <3) It was an amazing recipe from Can you stay for dinner = amazing recipes=yum!   It was great and loved just putting it in the crockpot and then getting things done around town.  We went and visited a new baby and then headed home for the rest of the day! I made cupcakes and cookies (brought them to the baby and baby mama).  I was starving when we got back to the house after baby visiting, I was starving and an amazing chocolate cheese quesadilla was presented to me from the husband.  I WAS going to share with him but it was just so good!

This morning, I made it out of bed only 10 minutes late to Body pump.  Went elipiticalling for 15 minutes and then got the day started.  Husband worked tonight so I was a bachelorette (while watching the bachelor..ha!) and made myself a tortilla bowl using leftover pork, black beans, salsa, cheese and plain non-fat yogurt and topped with Frank's.  It was delicious...
Which brings me to where I am today...watching the bachelor and waiting for him to pick the final lady...til next time...

Amazing Amazing Musical Montage

Ok so i will write more in a bit but I want to post this amazing video I saw on Healthy Tipping Point this morning.  You can watch the video here.  I am in awe of this man.

This week has been a week of MUCHO singing.  Thursday night I went to see Ladysmith Black Mambazo.  They were amazing and so trance-like!

I also went to a Musical Comedy in NYC for a friend's bachelorette. Girl Talk was a funny start to our evening out.

Sunday, The husband and I went to see   The Lion King.  It was soooo amazing...Which lead me to this amazing video:
Born this way love. The gentelman sings the entire song without accompaniment(Only his body) and incorporates an amazing message! Check it out!!  

Snowy Stratton Sunday

Well vacation flew by! I had an amazing vacation filled with lots of working out, relaxing, and spending time doing what i love (baking, family, running).  We got pounded with snow over the weekend.  We got over a foot of snow on Friday and that only meant one thing for me.... 

Skiing Sunday!!!  

The husband had to work on Sunday so I headed up to Stratton Amazingness with some friends and got out there!! They got hit with over 8 inches of snow Sunday morning and it was powdery goodness.  The following picture was taken while going down one of my favorite trails, Lower wanderer.  It goes under this amazing bridge and past amazing condos.  I especially love this one bench made out of skis.  Need to remember to take a picture next time.  

We stopped at Bob's Diner on the way to the mountain and I feasted on french toast with corn flake crusted on it.  So good and helped me make my way through the powder.  I definitely got air several times.

Back to work today.  I slipped while trying to make my way into my building due to the ice however i did not fall and safely made it into my classroom.  Work was busy and my boys kept me on my toes (as usual).  After work I headed to spinning and then body pump.  I was completely drained after pump and headed home to a solitary meal of Chik'n patty (boca style) and spinach.  I also ate an apple with pb and some PB whoppers.  Now i will watch who Brad picks( it's taking a lot to keep my mouth shut on who he picks)

Life on the run

Found this on a blog and I thought it was fun! 

First run: The first time I can remember running and truly running was when I was a junior in high school and they had us run the mile.  We always ran the mile in gym class but this was the first time I truly "ran". 

Longest run on the treadmill: 10 miles

Scariest run:Getting lost on my boyfriend(now husband)'s birthday.  I was out of fuel and had no idea how to get home.  I waved to some random strangers and finally a gentleman pulled over and brought me home safely.   

Prettiest run: Maui, Hawaii 

The slowest race: Boilermaker 15k my first 15k 

The fastest race: Stock-adeathon 2010.  or Spac Rock n Run 

Worst thing about running: Having to stop due to the call of nature

Best thing about running: Endorphins 

Places I have run: NY,VT,HI, FL, MA,Spain, Canada, DE, PA, 

Coolest run: NYC 1/2 marathon...running down broadway...indescribable 

Furthest run from home: Spain

Running injuries: Black ToenailS, shin splints

Life on the run is…energizing, amazing, indescribable 

Oh Happy (Thurs)DAY

Good morning! I am loving the fact that I have woken up before 9 every day on vacation this far.  I feel pretty accomplished doing so and I feel that I tend to get more done and don't feel as lazy! Hooray!!

Last night was so much fun! I met some friends at Home of the amazing salad bar and caught up for a bit before heading back to mi casa and hosting book club.  We read The Five Love Languages for this session  We ate delicious food, drank wine , and chatted the night away.  I had a lot of fun hosting and look forward to our next book club although we don't know what we will be reading yet.

This morning, I woke up bright and early and went to My second home for a great butts and gutts class.  My butt and gutt was talking to me after this class.  I came home and enjoyed this lovely concoction.

Homemade cherry sourdough bread with banana peanut butter = Happy Amy

I have a busy afternoon and evening on tap...time to drink more coffee!!

Manic Monday ....time to reenergize

Happy President's Day! Just want to take a moment to thank Washington and Lincoln for being born and giving me a vacay! :-)

Started off the day right by sleeping in until 7:06 A.M. (What has my life come to??) and then drinking some tea before cleaning the snow (more really?!?!)  then heading out to Body Pump.  Body Pump was great as usual but super hard.  I worked in my 5 mile tempo run around body pump and it was pretty craziness! I ran 5 total with 3@7:47 pace.  I managed to get in 3.5 before i set up for pump then hopped back on for .5 before pump started.  Did pump then ran the last mile after pump.  Pretty crazy and tiring not going to lie.
Came home and got my eat on and my girlie came to visit.  We went up to Saratoga and ate at Cantina.  Chips were delish as was the Sangria I drank with it and the chips.  I hopped on over to Plum Dandy Yogurt and ate wonderfully amazing Chocolate Cherry Yogurt.  It was so great.  Got my shop on at Target and then headed home to make these beauties
  This was my second attempt at granola bars and apparently they were better than the first time.  I will make a third attempt ASAP.

Also made PB and enjoyed some amazing mac and cheese.  Rented Eat, Pray, Love and you might ask how do you know if you are really obsessed with Pretty Woman and Julia Roberts....When you are watching her in another movie and comparing it to PW.  Yes that is what I did.