It was an odd day today...I was hosting an Epicure tasting party at lunch time (I got all my coworkers hooked on Epicure years ago, so it's a good way to introduce the new products). That means I drove to work (silly, really, since I live less than 2km away) as I had food, product and pans to serve it all in. I made the new Meatloaf mix (which was a hit!), Gravy mix (equally popular, and way less sodium and crap than those packaged brands), Fettuccine Alfredo (okay, except the pasta clumped up in the slow cooker, so was kind of unappealing) and Mac & Cheese (a big MISS). I also made an apple/cranberry crisp, to showcase the new Fruit Crisp Spice blend. Rather than just have a lunch of bits & bites, I went downstairs to our deli (after the launch) and bought a veggie sandwich on ciabbata. Filled the hole. Yummy!
Came home, unloaded the car, changed and went to Boot Camp. Only 3 of us showed up tonight. Are you kidding me?!?! It was +3, for crying out loud. I guess everyone else wanted to be downtown to watch the torch run. Trainer Josh wasn't available, as he was covering for another trainer, so we had Trainer John. I met him last year, when Josh was "interviewing" him to join the Survivor team. He was really good, actually...way better than the last two subs we had. Kind of felt bad that so few of us were there, but he pushed us through our paces anyway.
Started with a 2km run to warm up...despite it being really nice downtown, it's blinking cold down by the river, in the twilight. Returned to base, all toasty warm to start Tabata training. This is the 20 seconds of intense followed by 10 seconds of rest, repeated 8 times, or for 4 minutes total. I actually like this, as the rest of the hour flies by!
We did Tabata of:
push-ups (holy mother...4 minutes of push-ups is HARD!!)
alternating lunges with weights
boxing punches, with weights. I had to drop mine after the 2nd 20 seconds, but I just punched faster.
We then did a full minute (or was that two?) of butt kicks, to ramp up the cardio again.
Returning to tabata, we then did step-ups, followed by kick-backs.
To end the class, we did heel crunches (just like a regular crunch, but reaching for your heels, so you work the obliques as well).
Some stretching and then th 6pm class was all his!
Driving home, I realized that the Olympic torch potentially stood between me and my dinner! You see, I had to cross part of the route in order to get home, but beat the torch by mere minutes (I could see the police lights just down the block). As a native Calgarian, I do still fill with pride when I think about the Olympics, and what a blast they were. We have the Tower lit tonight, which makes me tear up every time! And the young girl who lit the cauldron in '88, lit the cauldron tonight, to mark the days end of the torch run. It's hard to watch the news while crying!
Dinner was fast and DELICIOUS! I fried a piece of tilapia in a tsp of evoo. Meanwhile, I got the water boiling to cook some orzo pasta. After the fish was done (less than 3 minutes per side), I pulled it out to settle, and into the pan went a clove of garlic, some grape tomatoes, some kalamata olives and some chili flakes. Once the tomatoes started to give up their juice, I added some parsley and the fish. Served it all over the orzo and topped it with some crumbled feta, with dinner being done in about 10 minutes, start to finish. Have I mentioned that it was delicious...and very light, and very filling at the same time. Looks like a lot of food, but it's on my small plate. My dinner plates are too big for my dishwasher, so it turns out, and I hate running the thing only to find out that nothing got clean, because the bars got stuck on a plate!!
Going to tidy up dinner, figure out something for lunch and go to bed. I was up far too late last night, and far too early this morning! I am beat!!!
Later,
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