Farmers Market and Weekend Training

So my Saturday plans did not go quite as expected… I did not ride the new Northstar train I had won tickets for the Grand Opening.
My neighbor who I invited to join me with her two boys discovered on Friday at 4PM that they had a birthday party to attend at noon and the train would not be back to the station until 1230 so that 30 minutes overlap was too much for them to manage in their schedule. It was too late to find 3 others to go with me so I went with a different plan for the day.

I went to the Farmer’s Market and got lots of yummy things to eat for the week. I was so surprised by the variety of vegetables I could still get there. I got lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli, leeks, onions, sunchokes (Jerusalem Artichokes), carrots, celery, brussel sprouts and some chicken for me and stock and pork chops. I am thinking some potato leek soup is in store for me this week.

The sunchokes are new to me so I am learning how to cook them. I have only used them in salads right now but I have read that they are very good sautéed with some olive oil because they get really sweet and earthy tasting. I am also going to clean and chop up the celery I have so that I can freeze it and have it for the winter to make sauces and soups.

After I was done gathering all the yumyums at the market I went to kettlebell class and did lots of snatches for an hour. We did the SSST (Secret Service Snatch Test) which is 200 snatches in 10 minutes. We did 10 every 30 seconds; the gals were to use a 16k (35#) bell and the guys a 20k(44#) bell. I started with a 16 but after 4 sets (40 snatches) I dropped to the 12k (26#) bell and did the rest with that one. My arms were sore Sunday from all those snatches. Because of that event in class I decided that doing the Max Vo2 was not a good choice on Sunday. So I need to find another weekend (maybe Thanksgiving) to do that on my own. I will have to get an 8k (18#) bell from Michael that weekend if I plan to do the Max.

I have also been fighting this stupid sinus thing since before Halloween and I am so tired of it. It makes it so hard to breathe at times and yesterday I had such a horrible headache I thought I was going to die. I thought it might be from wearing my new glasses and my eyes not used to having them on all the time that caused it but once I took some sinus meds at home the headache went away and ad.vil did not cut it when I took that at work. I ended up going to bed at 830 and not working out because I felt so horrible. If it that headache comes back again today I will call the doctor and get an appt to see if this is an infection or not. I just can’t shake it and have had head congestion for over a year now that doesn’t go away.

After I was done Saturday wearing out my arms with snatches I ran out to Woodbury and got some more Advo.care from Brad. I just got the MNS.-E supplements to get me through until I start the 24 Day Challenge. I also stated my concern to Brad about no coffee the first 10 days of the challenge. He said as long as I don’t do milk based coffee drinks (latte types) I can still do my morning coffee. Yeah! I have emailed Casey to see if she could do the measurements for me this weekend when I go up to see Ruby for her 2^nd birthday on Saturday. I emailed Brad to get the measurements that I need to get done so I will have what he is looking for regarding this.

Peace Out