🌈🍭🌈🍭🌈🍭made a fun breakfast this morning: pride bagels and a rainbow of fruit. Here’s to starting off the week with some fun food.
Who else thinks kale chips are the best way to eat kale? ⁣ ⁣ Haven’t had kale chips? Here’s a recipe to try: ⁣ ⁣ Kale Chips⁣ ⁣ Preheat oven to 275 on the convection setting. ⁣ ⁣ In a small bowl mix 1 part Trader Joe’s 21 Seasoning S
Here’s Lizzy. She’s almost 2 1/2 and she thinks these are tomatoes on her bathing suit. 🍒 New suit day because we heard the pool is going to open soon. It’s actually the right around the normal opening schedule for most pools in up
An XL salad for #tacotuesday (yesterday). This one was 👍🏻👍🏻 thanks to a mango chive salsa and chipotle seasoned black beans. Also those peas are like 🍬 and, if you can believe it, so is our homegrown lettuce🥬. What’s your favorite summer
Staying refreshed and hydrated on these 90 degree days. 🌈 🍉 🍈 🥭 🍑 🍇 🍃 🌈
#meatlessmonday Grains & Greens bowl. Kale, roasted sweet potatoes & red onions, rice, lentils, Greek yogurt vinaigrette with tarragon, and our very own, homegrown hot pepper. Cold dinner for a hot night.
How to dessert. Today Amy wanted to bake so we made a strawberry upside down cake and piled on all the fresh berries, whipped cream, and mint. We used a cupcake recipe Amy found @delish, used half of the batter to make cupcakes and the rest for this.
Summer snacks by the pool. Heading home after a weekend way upstate. Des and Amy haven’t been this happy in months. #coldlocalcider #freshsourdough
Happy Father’s Day to @heppo160! 🥇it’s almost impossible to get kids ages 2, 4, and 7 in on picture, but we did to. Lizzy’s on the phone. #fathersday

Race Report: Vassar Cross Country Invitational

Bec
Race Reports

Yesterday I got the chance to run in a college cross country meet – something I haven’t done since my Mount (St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, MD) days. And believe me, it was every bit as hard as I remembered it, and just as much fun. Part of the reason it was so hard is that I’ve been sick all week. That’s something I put on the back burner and ignored the morning of the race. But the main reason it was so hard is because I went out too damn fast. Way too fast, especially for the level of training I’ve been putting in. Since my very first cross country meet in 7th grade, I’ve always been a start at the back and work your way to the front kind of runner. But racing triathlons has turned me into a go out hard and see how long you can last kind of runner. Midway through the race yesterday, I was reminded that tactic usually only works if you’re in really good shape.

Forgetting that I’m not “fit”, I bolted to the front of the race, where I lasted for all of 2.5k’s. Lucky for me, the race was only 5k, so I managed to hold off all but three girls who passed me. And my blowup was conveniently overshadowed by record-setting performances by the SUNY New Paltz girls. I’ve been training with these girls the last few weeks and knew they were ready to run fast. So it was no surprise when Teresa and Amanda, the top two girls passed me in the last half mile or so. Both the New Paltz men’s and women’s teams took home the first time at this meet. You can read more and get the complete results in this article.

How did I end up running in a college cross country meet anyway? Well, my friend and training partner Justin happens to be a track and cross country coach at Vassar and the head coach at Vassar, James, I know through cycling. Since there was an alumni division in the race, they welcomed me in. Too bad my teammates from The Mount weren’t there to fill the starting box (see photo above, far left).

As for the competition? New Paltz, Vassar, Marywood, Bard, Scranton, Stevens, Pace, Culinary Institute of America(!) and a few other local schools. 

--Bec

 

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