Dirt, Sunset, and Vitamins

No Messages on the answering maching tonight, because all my buddies were out in the dirt with me! Brooke- great suprise visit!!! Had a fun evening of dirt, quads, and dinner and dirt and dirty kids and dirt and the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen. I was looking down at it as it set behind Lanai, with clouds flirting on the top of the island and all the ocean around it and the south and west shores of Maui before me. Definetly one to remember and share.

I have been out of training with back/shoulder muscle spasms last week...very lame, but it made me take a closer look at how I am treating myself and can I do better? I need to do better. So with a little help from Mona at alive and well here is what I learned:

I have learned some good nutritional running tips for training, especially training while nursing: Eat 1/2 your weight in protein every day! Veggies and good fat: olive oil, avocado, nuts.
Cover your basics with a good multi vitamin, add extra calcium, magnesium, potassium. Cardic Q10 is super for muscles and heart, L-carnitine, L-glutamine and Ribose are great recovery tools. I have to admit to getting large pill boxes and setting up each days worth of nutritional supplements...geeky, but a time saver and good reminder to take them. If monday's box is empty then I didn't forget!

AM before a run: Water with emergen-C
1 1/2 teas. Ribose
1 heaping teas. L-Glutamine
(I also add 2 T Dr. Shultz superfood)

After run: Blend a Protein Shake
2 scoops whey protein
Unsweetened Almond milk
banana or berries
1 T almond butter
Ice

(The shake is good to split for a am and pm snack.)

I try to pop the pills with food in my stomach, that way I don't feel yucky. Okay, now if I could just stop eating Haupia ice cream!

Excuses and Summer

Well I apologize to all of you that have been faithfully checking for more posts. I have 3 excuses to explain-#1 I suddenly felt a bit like a fish in a bowl and didn't really want to post my life. Then I thought...hey I love these people, they love me, what do I have to hide. #2 once over #1 I was too busy this summer playing as hard as possible with my kids to want to sit at the computer. #3 Hmmm I can't remember #3. So now on to better things like me and my crew!

We had a great, if not too short summer. We beached alot, windsurfed, surfed, hiked, biked, camped in the backyard, visited Haleakala National Park, danced, planted a garden, played with friends, discovered poha berries, picked and made blackberry jam, baked, barbcued, and ate!

The kids got along really well and Ember so enjoyed having Ethan and Sydney home to play with her. Sophie loved all the attention and I loved all the help. We had a chore chart that rotated once a week and the kids are maturing into contributing little people. Ethan still loves to spend every spare moment playing Legos and Sydney read so much this summer I actually had to ask her to stop reading every once in awhile. She really enjoyed a Warrior series about a clan of cats. Ember loves to dress up and she got to take ballett this summer and she loved it.
Troy did the windsurfing race series and had fun. He had to race semi-pro so it was challenging, but good. He is training for the triathalon too and loves playing with Sophie. She is a daddy's girl.
I am still training. I try to run, bike and swim at least once a week and often more. I love training-or playing with a reason to push me. I got out mountain biking a couple times lately and it was so pretty.
So that is us.
New weeks goals: To make a menu and shopping lists for 3 seperate weeks and get life more organized.