<p>Idad, how about some pre-made soups or stews frozen in ziplock baggies? Throw in the pot, reheat, enjoy and then lick the pot clean. :)</p>
<p>Pizzagirl, thanks, that’s about 6 minutes slower than my 5k times from back then… So everything is relative. 
You’ve been constantly improving and training steadily - you will get there!</p>
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<p>Yesterday was a very good lifting day.</p>
<p>I think if you can manage to eat like a French woman that’s the way to go. I gained a few pounds with our California trip - wine every night, and some tasty cooking, and Bouchon bakery twice, but I’m almost back where I was.</p>
<p>Mathmom, I have the Bouchon Bakery cookbook. If I were going to be in California I would have more than two trips.</p>
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<p>Yep. That would definitelty work. The only problem is that I don’t have any frozen soups or stews at the moment. I’m do to make a batch and I’ll freeze some in baggies.</p>
<p>Washing a couple of pots and pans is no big deal. The campsite I go to has HOT showers and a big dishwashing sink/counter area outside the shower building. There’s actually a water spigot right at the campsite, but probably not a great idea to wash dishes there and attract bears!</p>
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<p>Powdered eggs? Yuk. I think I’d rather cook real eggs. Fortunately, [Munroe’s</a> Family Restaurant](<a href=“Shop – Twin Mountain Snowmobile Club”>http://www.twinmtnsnowmobile.org/logopics/Monroes.jpg) serves a down home breakfast in the shadows of Mt. Washington! Three eggs over easy and a side of bacon or sausage and I’m good to go!</p>
<p>iDad, no doubt it’s a little different if you have to carry it all on your back for how many miles. I didn’t think you were going to rush out to buy powdered eggs. ;)</p>
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<p>Smokin’ fast, BB!</p>
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Agreed. My 5K goal is 30 minutes . . . </p>
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Assuredly dumb question here, but how hard is it to get the food out of the baggie? I have had a hard time getting frozen food out of tinfoil - should I just be using plastic baggies?</p>
<p>I think BB was just doing a training run! Just think how fast she could race a 5K!</p>
<p>Finished a recovery week with 31 miles. This week will be a little bit of a challenge due to a business trip where I will be on my feet for most of days working in a retail store!</p>
<p>“Unofficial 5k in 23:56. Yeah!!! Finished my mileage at a more relaxed pace. The Beer Trail had warning signs all over about being a zoo next Saturday”</p>
<p>Whatever the Beer Trail is, I think you need to do it! That’s a great time, you must have felt really good. I agree, if it was a race with all that adrenalin going on (as long as it was before the beer, not after), you would fly.</p>
<p>BB, no beer trail for me next weekend, but I have got one picked out. :)</p>
<p>Another exercise video for you today… here’s the TRX Lunge that I love. I didn’t do any weight with it today, but will in the future. I decided to film some videos today. And I’m playing with the Ubersense app on my ipad which is for coaching and reviewing films…</p>
<p>[TRX</a> Lunge - YouTube](<a href=“TRX Lunge - YouTube”>TRX Lunge - YouTube)</p>
<p>Final tally from the Jersey shore: 2 cheesesteaks, one slice of pizza.</p>
<p>This is a significant improvement over past years, where I was eating pizza and soft pretzels and ice cream almost every day, and probably 3-4 cheesesteaks during the week.</p>
<p>We did have cocktail hour every night, and I probably ate more ice cream than I should have (Kohr Brothers’ vanilla/orange twist is amazing), but it could have been worse. </p>
<p>Tons of walking and splash time in the ocean getting beat up by the waves helped mitigate the damage.</p>
<p>My back even survived a couple of roller coaster rides. 
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<p>What I would do for camping is move it from the freezer to the fridge the day before I leave and then put it in the ice chest unfrozen. Frozen stuff in my cooler stays frozen for days.</p>
<p>Hops, that’s the first time I’ve heard of Ubersense (not surprising as I am without iPhone, iPad, etc, lol), so I looked it up. Sounds like a cool tool.</p>
<p>Busdriver, we call our local park trail the Beer Trail because everyone riding it eventually ends up at the Red Hook. Can’t have any beer now - have to do homework and write some stuff for a client </p>
<p>Gosh…just about anywhere could lead to Red Hook, right? We often ride the Burke Gilman and unintentionally just end up at Red Hook. I don’t know how that happens!</p>
<p>I’m afraid my imminent “beer trail” may not involve and running or bilking – it’s called “George Street” and is known best for staggering (A popular Celt bar/band street in St. John’s that is legendary for shenanigans.)</p>
<p>I did try to use the lure of a brewery that’s on a beautiful bike trail to get mch out on an afternoon bike ride yesterday, but it appears he prefers to keep his Sunday pints separate from his newfound recumbent riding 
which I think made our tradeoff evening bike ride a wee bit more vigorous for him. His feet are sore again and it was a short ride. I can only conclude that his feet just aren’t getting used enough these days! Perhaps the rugged trails of Newfoundand will straighten him around (or convince him to never travel with me again…)</p>
<p>So, I practiced eating like a Frenchwoman yesterday…though realize same could quickly devolve into eating like a fat Frenchwoman :)</p>
<p>Back from a brief vacation in which we mostly walked at the pace of a 91 year old using a walker! :eek: And sat in the car and drove 1300 miles, round trip. Thank goodness for the hotel fitness room.</p>
<p>I did discover the fitness room is good for something else…it’s pretty much soundproof and located at the end of a hall. I went in the early morning and practiced my flute, which I generally travel with. After a while a young woman came in and used the treadmill at a pace of about 120 beats/steps per minute. It’s march tempo–I can play to that! So we had a symbiotic relationship for a while.</p>
<p>When she quit this other chick came in and was RUNNING on the treadmill. I didn’t have anything for her so I just played a little bit more of what I liked and left, after telling her she could turn on the TV now. Interesting morning. :)</p>
<p>The hotel breakfast was full of carbs and no fiber, so I had to eat their lousy eggs and that’s about it. I did have an apple with peanut butter on it. :)</p>
<p>And there were many excellent meals in restaurants. ;)</p>
<p>And this morning’s workout is going to be a basement crawl space trip to check for water. I know it rained copiously while we were gone and it smells sort of…dank. :(</p>
<p>It would be nice if it rained while I was actually home and could see where this water is coming from. :rolleyes:</p>