My running song of the month

23 May

I’ve been thinking about regular post ideas for my blog and I thought how about a running song of the month post.

Basshunter - Now You're Gone

My favourite running song of the month.

I love my music and I love running with music inside on the treadmill, it helps ease the monotony. I tend not to run outside with music unless I am running with a group of people and I can always see someone and am not generally running across lots of roads.

So here it is.

My favourite running song of the month is:

Basshunter - ’Now You’re Gone‘

I play this tune when I need a real rocket in my pants to finish my run or feel good and want to push. I’ve linked to it below on iTunes so you can download it or listen to it. The words are a bit crazy and he is going on about someone he misses and he’s been waiting by the telephone but I don’t tend to listen to the words just the beat :-)

Now You're Gone (Radio Edit) - Now You're Gone (feat. DJ Mental Theo's Bazzheads) - EP

Let me know what you think.

What’s your favourite song to run to at the moment?

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Should I do a Facebook Page or not?

21 May

I’ve been wondering whether to set up a Facebook Page for The Girl that Runs – what do you think?

Facebook logoIf I get no replies then I know not to :-)

If I set up a page, would you follow or is the blog enough?

Thanks and happy running!

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Great Pea Soup Recipe

18 May

I love my food.

Pea Soup - yum

Taken from Thoroughly Nourished Life’s website

I love good food, and that doesn’t mean unhealthy food.  Although I do like some unhealthy food, but I eat a lot less of it these days.

Now that it’s getting cold and dark in Queensland I have found myself craving soup and there is nothing better than getting in from a run and having a nice bowl of soup. It reminds me of being in the UK on the wintry nights. I put a soup recipe by Bellaxthree on here a while back which I still make in batches and love, but I saw another one the other day that Amy who writes the blog Thoroughly Nourished posted. It’s a great Pea soup recipe and I am intending on making it this weekend.

I’ve listed the basics here but you can see the full post on Thoroughly Nourished’s website.

Pea Soup – makes two servings

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups frozen peas

1/2 large zucchini, diced

1 clove of garlic, crushed

1 small brown onion, diced

1/2 tsp dried thyme

1 cup vegetable stock

Method

Put all ingredients into a large saucepan and bring to the boil.

Simmer for 15 minutes or until peas are cooked through.

Remove from the heat and blend to desired consistency.

Serve with crackers or crusty bread.

 

I think this soup will freeze well so might double the batch.

 

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Awesome new @bodyscience compression tights!

17 May

I got a lovely surprise from BodyScience, a brand new pair of their new season compression capri pants.

Body Science Compression pants

Here they are – my new compression pants :-)

I’ve generally only ever used Skins in the past so I was like a kid with a new toy trying them out. When you initially feel them they don’t feel like compression pants, but when you put them on you get that awesome holding it all in feeling :-) I love the fact that unlike the unisex Skins I normally wear that they don’t come right up to the waist too – they are cool looking and have a folder over flap on the top of the pant which gives a bit of breathing space. I was a bit worried I’d have a muffin top over the pants but not a muffin in sight – awesome!  They don’t feel as tight as my Skins but that might purely be a sizing issue or the way they are designed.

I haven’t been able to run in them yet as I am still recovering from my bout of flu but I used other machines such as the elliptical trainer and they were very comfortable.

They have green striped and pink striped pants as well so I’m tempted to buy the matching pairs so I have all three :-)

Happy training!

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Sick again and missed the Mothers Day 4k :-(

13 May

I am feeling sorry for myself today.

For the last 4 days I have been stuck in bed, (or when not I should have been) with a cold. I have been training so well and was all set for the Mother’s Day race which took place today without me participating. My friend ran and did very well but I had to stay away and was not happy. I’ve been training hard and was so annoyed that this week had to be the week I was sick. It seems to be going round at the moment so I was very unlucky.

I really wanted to do the Mothers Day as it was for a great cause and I was finally going to race again, but alas it was not to be, and hey for all the mothers out there – Happy Mothers Day! My mother has to get used to having her Mothers Day card on the Australian date as I never remember the UK date!

Happy Mothers Day mum! Hope you got the card! 

The body never lies

I must admit I felt really lethargic in training about 4 days before I got sick, I figured it was all the training I was doing catching up with me, now I know better. My HR was up as well so I should listen to my body more often! If I had slowed down earlier I might not have been so sick for so long!

My favourite item at the moment is currently the tissue which is helping me get through the day as well as strepsils and my all important Nespresso machine! I’m also addicted to would you believe, Semolina – it’s stodgy and awesome as I am finding I want to eat story food whilst sick, a salad just doesn’t cut it – give me soup, mashed potato and semolina and I am a very happy sick girl!

I am over being sick but almost there. I figure when you get to the tissue phase it’s on its way out so I am preparing to be better and to get back into my trainers!

Here’s to another week of training once I get better!

Have a good week.

 

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Gluten free protein cookies recipe using @BodyScience Body for women Shaping Protein

8 May

Body Science kindly sent me some more products including their banana flavoured Body for Women Shaping Protein as I loved their summer berries flavour so much. I decided to adapt a friends protein cookie recipe using the protein and a few extra things and they are delicious, so I decided to share on my blog for you to enjoy as well.

Makes 25 cookies

Before photo

Pre baking

Ingredients 

I large egg

1 1/2 cups of natural peanut butter – I used a light option but there is no getting around that peanut butter is quite high in fat and calories!

1 1/2 scoops of Body Science Body  for women Shaping Protein banana flavour

1/2 cup of natural sugar – I used Natvia and only used 1/4 cup instead of half as I don’t like the taste of too much sugar/sweetener

1/2 cup of Almond meal

1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup desiccated coconut

1/2 small banana

Cookies cooked

The final product – yum

How to make 

Basically all you need to do is beat the egg and add all the ingredients together then use about a teaspoon of mixture and roll together into a ball and put on a baking tray into the oven on 180 for 12 minutes and hey presto.

They work out about 125 calories a biscuit so don’t go overboard

Enjoy!

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Mother’s Day 4k race a week today !

6 May

It’s been another good week of training and I am feeling reasonably good. I have upped my weights work and am running a fair bit as well as my mixed cardio. It suddenly dawned on me today that this time next week I will have run the Mothers Day race in Brisbane.

I entered the 4k this year instead of the 8k as I have been concentrating on short distance, and this will be only my second race this year as I have been shying away from them a bit.

I found last year when I was racing fairly regularly that I got myself in such a panic and got so nervous before the race that it wasn’t worth the stress quite frankly. I don’t know why I got so nervous its not like I was likely to win! The only person I compete against is myself at the end of the day as we are all shapes and sizes, backgrounds and experience when it comes to running. So I decided to go back to basics and run because I enjoyed it and to not put any pressure on, but I decided the Mothers Day race would be a good one to run to gauge how my training has been going.

So another week of training, maybe not quite as hard but looking forward to it.

Happy running and happy long weekend if you have one this week.

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