You Have Some Dirt On Your Shoe, Were You Going to Eat That?

the half marathon is exactly 7 weeks from today. the BHE and a friend and i ran 10.4 mls this morning. i'm doing about 3-5 mls twice during the week and then a large mile number run on the weekends. and my fund raising for the leukemia and lymphoma society (as part of this race) is already all done. people have been insanely generous and supportive.

$286.74 spent so far on the new diet. this includes all the staples that we'll use in many dishes (hemp seeds, lemons, quinoa, etc) plus a fancy grater and a new blender. when we were looking for some of the wackier ingredients, we out hippie-fied even whole foods store, so i'm feeling pretty smarmy about that. :) they only had ground amaranth and we needed whole seeds, herumph herumph, herumph.

so...we'll see how it goes. so far all we've tried from the recipes in the book are "direct fuel bites" which we ate before and during running. blended dates, lemon juice, and coconut oil all chilled and cut into squares. actually quite good. and we didn't fatigue during the run, so they did their job. but the rest of the day we ate normal food (left over cheese pizza, hummus on pita, thai soup, salad) as sort of our 'last meals' before we officially jump on this vegan crazy wagon.

i'm excited, but i really cannot believe how granola we are being. on second thought, i don't even know if we can eat granola on this diet...