I haven’t talked much about it around here, but I have been training
I’ll be doing the Boise Ironman 70.3 race in early June. It’s a race where you swim 1.2 miles, ride your bike 56, and then run 13.1 miles all in one day. So, the last few weeks have been full of long bike rides, long runs, and plenty of time in the pool as we come into crunch time.
On Friday afternoon, I had a bike ride of 50 miles followed immediately by a 3 mile run, and then Saturday morning I woke up and headed out on a 90 minute run. The ironic thing about endurance training is that when you train really hard, your appetite can decrease immediately afterwards. At times when you need to eat the most, it sometimes just doesn’t sound appealing! I have learned the hard way that skipping a recovery meal is not good and leads to soreness that can mostly be avoided.
Saturday turned out to be somewhat warm for my run (if you call 62 degrees F warm) and I came home hot – a welcome feeling after a long, cold winter. (Don’t worry, it got cold and started raining in the afternoon again). With the warm temps, I needed a cold treat! Ever since I learned my sometimes splurge of a medium strawberry shake at McDonald’s has 750 calories, I started making my own.
Here is my strawberry mango shake recipe.
- 1 cup organic skim milk
- 1/2 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 cup frozen strawberries
- 1 cup frozen mango
- 1/2 scoop vanilla protein powder
- 1/2 tablespoon honey
I threw it all into the Ninja blender, and had a really great recovery drink in no time at all. This drink has the thicker consistency of a milkshake without the guilt and in a cuter serving vessel!
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Wow, that sounds delicious!!
And WOW, so impressed you are doing the Iron Man, that is amazing! Good for you! I ran Berlin marathon twice, very slowly, great fun but not training for another! Look forward to hearing more about this.
You might be interested to hear that my boyfriend is persuaded that his football skills improved since drinking a ton of green smoothies (and juices too maybe). He thinks he has improved more than just ‘fitness level increasing’ (obviously he feels the others in the team have not improved as much I guess :D). So you might want to give them a go if you don’t already. Go on, break some records!
Aw, thanks. I definitely won’t be breaking any records. I’m in the “my goal is to finish” camp! I have indeed been drinking green smoothies- a few a week – so not a “ton” per se, but I like them! I find them the easiest way to use the variety of greens I get in the produce box! Thanks for your nice note.
I love your Ninja recipes! Keep them coming and thanks for sharing.
Thanks for stopping by, Linda. You made my day.
Hi
I am 78 years old and just found the Ninja 1200.
I love it.
The only thing better was inadvertently finding your
website. What a contribution you are making to those of us
who were expecting Ninja to supply recipes of value.
They didn’t, you did. They were paid, you were not.
I wish I could do something for you in return!
Robert Bryant
Oh my gosh, thank you so much Robert. You just made my day! I love my Ninja blender, so I just like to share my creations. Thank you for your note!
Ninja 1000 is a fantastic all purpose blender . Best 100 bucks I have spent.