MIMM #31 and Forced to Change My Route
Happy Monday!
I hope everyone enjoyed the weekend. I started my weekend with a 4-mile run that almost didn’t happen, because I woke up Saturday with a headache. I suspected it was a dehydration headache because I didn’t drink my normal amount of water during the day Friday, I hardly spent any time at my desk, my assistant was out sick so I was everywhere. So I got up drank lots of water and two and a half hours later I was headache fee and on my way out the door.
I have been running the same route for a few weeks now, but lately there’s a bird that sometimes attacks runners on the route. One runner was attacked in his head and blood was involved. Twice while running this bird flew at me coming so close I had to duck out-of-the-way.
I was reminded of the Alfred Hitchcock movie “The Birds”, where all the people in the town are attacked by birds, as a child after seeing that movie I was afraid every time I saw birds flying in the sky.
So I decided this weekend to change it up, which turned out to be a good thing. My new route challenged me because it has some hills. Changing routes is a good thing for several reasons, it can be a challenge to run a new route which has different elevations, it offers new scenery and it can be safer to not always be predictable and run the same path.
After my run I made some protein pancakes with strawberry sauce and fresh sliced strawberries. I took a simple mix with water honey wheat pancake mix and added 3 tablespoons of ground hemp seed. For the sauce I blended a few fresh strawberries with some agave nectar and added the sliced strawberries on top.
Marvelous was me changing my route, the hill challenged me and I felt good afterwards and I didn’t have to worry about the attacking bird.
Be Marvelous in Your Monday and check out Marvelous Katie and more MIMM at Healthy Diva Eats.
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What do you do to make sure you drink plenty of water throughout your day?
How often do you change your running routes?
If anybody has a good recipe for protein pancakes, please send me the recipe or link to the recipe.