Well, what can I say about this epic nutritional bonk and the poor, bad and very bad decisions leading up to this race. I guess I can start with the lack of proper nutrition. I usually like to eat 80% carbs for a few days leading up to a race. My weakness right now, is, [...]

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So, back in February I decided to run the Donna 1/2 marathon here in Jacksonville. The week before the  race the weather forecast was perfect; much like the Bank in December. I was all types of excited and registered (even with it being just a weeeee bit expensive) I figured it was probably  good idea [...]

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I was reading an article the other day in Shape magazine about utilizing tofu to help create a healthy “creamed” spinach. Well, that got me thinking.  What about some sort of white sauce??? Didn’t seem so far fetched! One of my first thoughts was an Alfredo sauce that you can then add all types of [...]

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After every Thanksgiving and Christmas my mom would make turkey pirlau  with the leftover turkey meat, carcass and yellow rice. Well, I’ve come up with a version that incorporates chicken and brown rice.  There is the “traditional” way which requires poaching the chicken while dicing everything and cooking the rice. The longest thing about this [...]

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On December 18th I ran the Jacksonville Bank 1/2 Marathon. Now, lets back-step to how in the previous 2 weeks Murphy was following me around trying his best to make sure I wasn’t able to run it. First, I strained my calf muscle running in downtown Orlando the first weekend of December. At first I [...]

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