9 Mar

Update

Posted by kshadburn in Uncategorized.

So, back in December at the Pasadena Triathlon Club End of Year party I won a couple of things:

# 1  - A personal Chi Running lesson from Steve Mackel

#2 – Aero Disc wheel covers (here is a picture of me very excited about getting the big black discs…)

#3 – This hot guy…his name is George and he came home with me…hopefully it wasn’t because of all the cool stuff I won…

With the Pasadena Triathlon coming up on March 20th, I was ready to cash this stuff in!

So yesterday, George and I did a 2 hour Chi Running session with Steve. He went through all the fundamentals and watched us and we learned how to run up some hills and stuff. Is that the worst summary ever??? If you want to know more, you should schedule a lesson with Steve, going rate is $150 and I have to say it was a GREAT experience and I really want to see what it will do for my running form.

The second item is the areo disc covers, I sort of promised myself I would never use these until I got faster…but being that they were free…screw it! I am going to use them! George got a set too so this week I am going to go out to their shop and have our wheels fit with the wheel disc covers. I will be taking them out for a test ride this weekend (because you never do anything new on race day) and then I will use them for the Pasadena Triathlon. The disc covers are from one of our sponsors www.wheelbuilder.com, they have a bunch of other awesome wheels that I can’t afford but they look very cool!

As for the hot boy, I get to have him for the rest of my life so I cash that in all the time!

I am going to attempt to run today, I am not really feeling it because it looks cold out :-( I know all you east coasters probably want to ring my neck because cold is 57 degrees….But I am also thinking of baking another cake and would like to pick up some more baking supplies as I am REALLY getting into this. So don’t be surprised if you get a bundt cake from me…because I just can’t eat all of them myself. Made this one on Saturday for a friends birthday, Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese frosting:

It was yummy :-D

9 Mar

Monday Run

Posted by kshadburn in Uncategorized.

Big FAIL!

I got all dressed up and went home.

Awesome.

Actually, turned out to be a fairly good idea. You see, on Sunday I toppled over on my bike because i am retarded. I was coming into a stop, and I usually clip out my right foot first. This time I decided, in my wonderful wisdom, to click out my left foot. Well, when I finally came to a stop I didn’t lean the right way and I went down. Got a little scraped up on my knee, but got back up. The last couple of days my lower back has been killing me, and this morning I came to the conclusion it was because I fell and probably tweaked my back a bit. I had PT today and I am feeling better. So if I would have run I probably would have screwed up my back even more. And I also would not have been able to make this:

Lemon Dream Pound Cake, that I refuse to eat. Why you ask?

2 1/2 sticks of butter, 3 cups of sugar, 6 eggs, 1/2 cup of sour cream, and a crap load of flour. I think I know why they call it a pound cake now…

I also screwed up a bit, even though I sprayed the crap out of the pan part of the top got stuck. So I just evened out the part that “was removed” and used some garnishments to make it look a little better. It tastes wonderful (i ate what was in the pan)…just isn’t as pretty as I would like. It would have also been better if I could have covered up the whole top with thick gooey icing, but the recipe calls for a glaze. Some cakes have all the luck!

Today I got 5 oranges from a co-worker who has a tree, so I will make the same cake but replace all the parts that say “lemon” with the oranges. This time i might use grease and flour for the pan, I think that pound cake might be a bit too much for poor Pam.