Summary Saturday

I'm a day off! Eeek! Not a good start to my weekly summaries! It's been a busy weekend. My Mom has been visiting since Tuesday and the weather has been gorgeous so we have been outside a lot! 

Training

Monday - run: 40 min run with hill repeats. Elizabeth Primrose came out to discuss running form for our running group. Click here for the recap on that. 
strength training: legs, lots of squats & lunges!

Tuesday - off day - drove my cousin & his wife to Buffalo airport and picked up my Mom

Wednesday - run: 40 min run with hill repeats with my Mom! We did hill repeats again because I only got one set in on Monday night because of the running form part. 
strength training: upper body & core. Tonight was low weight, high intensity circuits. My Mom joined us and did great! 

Thursday - off

Friday - 7k easy run

Saturday - 12k long easy run

Web Find

We hosted a few running friends over for Saturday night steak dinner (when we are home on Saturday nights we cook steak). I was looking for some spring/summer recipes. Of course I went to Pinterest for inspiration. I found a great recipe for a hummus layered dip I want to share. It's really easy and the flavors make it taste like it was so much harder to prepare than it really was. I highly recommend it!

Layered Hummus Dip from therightrecipe.org

Layered Hummus Dip Recipe

Ingredients

16 oz container of your favorite hummus - I used a roasted garlic flavor
equal amounts (I did around 3/4 cups each) of diced tomatoes, diced red onion, chopped kalamata olives & diced cucumber
1/4 - 1/2 cup feta cheese crumbles
tablespoon fresh dill 

Directions

Spread the hummus evenly on a platter - I used a cake stand like the picture from therightrecipe.org. Mix tomatoes, red onion, kalamata olives & cucumber in a bowl. Spread evenly over hummus. Sprinkled feta cheese crumbles over top then fresh dill. I cut off a couple sprigs of the dill and used a kitchen scissors to chop the dill over the dip.

Serve with pita chips! Enjoy!

Goals for the Week

* I really need to get my nutrition back on track. My Mom is a healthy eater, but I feel like we drank more than usual - toasting her visit and the fabulous weather we were having. 

* With not feeling the greatest last week I did not wake up before the boys any morning. I really enjoyed that time so I need to start that again.

* Run again on my own on either Thursday or Friday. I have been only running 3 days a week since that's all the group meets for - but running this Friday morning with my Mom felt really good. I also know that will benefit my training for the marathon.

Do you have any weekly food traditions like Meatless Mondays or Saturday night Steaks? How many days a week do you run when training for a long distance race?

Geocaching

Today was an absolutely beautiful day! The sun was shining & it was 70 degrees! I have a helper on Tuesday & Thursday mornings so I thought today would be a good day for an adventure. I have been wanting to try out Geocaching with the boys for.ev.er! Today was the day and I'm so glad we did it. 

What is Geocaching you ask? According to Geocaching 101: 
"Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location."

I downloaded this official Geocache app ages ago. You don't need the app to participate in Geocaching - there is a website as well.

I did a search for Geocaches near us and found one that was highlighted as a "beginner" cache. That's us! 

We drove to the park near where the cache should be. It said it was a half mile from our house, but that's a lot for little 3 year old feet so I decided to drive. Which I'm glad we did because we had a nice little walk to the cache from the park.

The app guided us along in the right direction and gave a description of what we should be looking for. 

Then we found it! The boys were excited to look at what people had left inside (I forgot to take a picture of that) and they felt proud that they found the "treasure". 

I'm really excited to do more of these with the boys. There are several just around our house, but they are all over the world so I see this becoming a life long activity for us! Just another way we are teaching our children that living an active lifestyle is not only good for you, but can be fun too!

Have you ever gone Geocaching? What "adventures" in nature or fitness have you done with your family?