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Archive for October, 2009
Cary says this is the only grown-up way to eat a candy apple:
Rutabaga, Potatoes, Turnip, Carrots and Onion:
A big hunk of meat:
Chopping vegetables and seasoning the beef. This would make a good back-cover photo if Cary were to write a cookbook:
Flouring the beef:
Tomato sauce with spices:
Into the crock pot:
And ready to cook:
And 8 or so hours later, it was done. If you don’t like the taste of nutritious vegetables like turnips and rutabagas, just cover them in tomato sauce and let them cook for 8 hours. All in all, a very tasty meal with very tender beef. Yum!
Cary and I started on the Couch-to-5K running plan more than a month ago. We’re almost done with week 6, so there are three weeks left. By the end of the plan, we should be able to run a solid 5K (just over 3 miles). The plan does a good job of gradually acclimating the body to sustained periods of jogging/running. Until last week, every running session was broken up by periods of walking. Last Saturday was our first sustained run for about 20 minutes. The final day of week 6 will be a 25 minute run. From now on, we’re doing nothing but a 5-minute walk followed by a sustained run. No more walk breaks. We found that it actually seemed easier to run for 20 minutes than to run-walk-run-walk-run for 2o minutes.
If we can finish out the plan without faltering, we should be in good shape to run 5K. At that point, I’ll have to decide if I want to stick to the 3-times-per-week running plan, or try to run more often. For now, I’m happy to stick to three times per week.