Pumpkin Season '10 and Race Season '11 !!!

Ahahaha it has been a while since I blogged about anything! Sorry...but Limo and I are in the process of starting up a joint blog/website that will capture everything going on in our lives - which will be a lot! The tentative name of the site is Runspire.com but that'll probably change since neither of us is too fond of the title right now. What do you think? We will also sell our own line of running-inspired t-shirts, greeting cards, and Kenyan goodies online. I really, really want to market my raw truffles and energy bars, but I am far too busy to start that yet. Hopefully I will begin to share my goodies in the Spring! They are incredible, if I do say so myself ;)

Well enough about that. Right now life is going smoothly, or as smoothly as it can go in grad school! Between reading, writing, and grading exams and papers I am kept crazy busy but it is all fun. In less than two weeks I will be racing Ironman Arizona, and to be honest I am not very excited about that. I'm still trying to figure out why I feel so ill all the time; the doctors have told me everything from hypothyroid disease to toxic mold poisoning to chronic fatigue syndrome. Who knows but it better go away fast.

After that race I will take a few days of offseason, then begin to build for ULTRAMARATHON season!!. I could not be more thrilled to be getting back to my all-time favorite activity. The Bandera 100K is January 8, and the following month I will race the Rocky Raccoon 100-miler. Rocky is going to be a blast, 'cause at this race last year I ran the 50 which was my very first ultra. I fell head over heals in love and don't see myself stopping anytime soon :). After Rocky I will begin to build for triathlon season '11 which is as follows:

New Orleans 70.3

Ironman St. George

Ironman 70.3 Hawaii

*maybe* the BSLT 70.3

San Francisco marathon - sub-3 baby :D

Ironman Wisconsin

Ironman Hawaii

Ideally, Ironman Cozumel...but I gotta make some serious $$ first.

So that's my race season! I'm stoked :D


On another note...mmm there really isn't anything new in my life besides this! Training, racing and school takes up every spare second of my time. Most of my friends tell me that I don't HAVE any spare seconds, but I do manage to make them so everything works out. But only one more month 'till Christmas break, and then it will be time to hit the kitchen for some serious experimenting with food. I cannot wait to perfect my stuffed pumpkin recipes. I am currently in the process of baking pecan pie inside pumpkins for a less-sweet take on pumpkin-pecan pie. Also thinking about stuffing the cute gourds with cheesecake, and obviously apple pie!. Then there's pumpkin oatmeal, pumpkin-quinoa risotto, pumpkin protein pancakes, pumpkin-butter swirled butternut squash bread with walnuts, pumpkin tofu curry soup...and other non-pumpkin-y stuff too ;). I really miss my seed crackers, edamame hummus, and multi-flavored coconut and nut butters...haha I LOVE cooking and baking, especially with raw foods :)

Now I'm getting hungry. Let me go make some yummy Kenyan tea for Limo and I...be back with more soon!