The best part of Passover in one bite…
Chocolate covered chocolate macaroons steal my heart even more than the chocolate covered chocolate chip macaroons although I will take either variety of macaroons that you have leftover from your Passover seder tables.
Just saying.
I hope everyone is busy enjoying their holiday weekend (Happy Easter & Passover to you and your families!) so let’s just take a super quick look at my workouts from the week…
*Monday*
Pure Barre Mile High 2 & 4.25 Miles – My run was pretty bleh so I cut it shorter than usual in favor of saving some energy and regrouping for a better run on Tuesday.
*Tuesday*
9 Miles – Yep, cutting yesterday’s run short was the right thing to do.
While yesterday I struggled to maintain a 9:45 pace, 8:44 was my warm-up mile today.
It was glorious and slightly fascinating what a difference a day can make.
Overall average pace @ 8:29. Much more like it.
*Wednesday*
Pure Barre Studio Series & 5 Miles – Easy-paced run as recovery from yesterday’s run!
*Thursday*
9 Miles – I loosely planned to run 8 miles but the time went by so fast and I was chatting on the phone towards the end of the run that suddenly 9 miles happened!
Another consistent run from start to finish averaging 8:40.
*Friday*
Pure Barre Studio Series – I knew I didn’t want to run again today but didn’t feel like going to the gym for the elliptical so my cardio for the morning was cleaning the house after Pure Barre.
*Saturday*
13.1 Windy Miles – You know you are a runner when you say you ran 13.1 miles rather than saying I ran a half marathon this morning!
The difference? 13.1 miles run at your leisure, not on a race course, and at an average pace of at least a minute slower per mile than your race pace.
The wind was crazy strong yet I held consistent and felt terrific (ave pace @ 8:50).
I could have kept going but had to get to my son’s first little league practice for the season.
*Sunday*
A few miles, I haven’t decided just yet!
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Favorite chocolate treat/dessert from this weekend?
If you celebrate Easter, what are you doing for the holiday today?
If you celebrate Passover, which stores are open in your area today?! I heard the mall is open here!!
The Cookie ChRUNicles 
Haha I would never say I ran a half marathon if I didn’t race it on a race course, actually it would never occur to me! Great run, the wind wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be 🙂
And I thought the wind was much worse than I expected! I couldn’t get it behind me no matter where I ran.
Ohhh I want one of those macaroons! They look amazing! 🙂
They are really delicious! And addicting.
So far, just plain old choclate drizzled coconut macaroons for me.
Saturday “mini-Seder” at Rabbi Monte and Anna Sugarman’s house.
Sunday Easter dinner at friend’s Meg and John’s, usually about 25 or so of mostly his family. I bring wine, peeps (can’t find any yellow around….), and malted milk balls.
A winter of indoor training has turned me into an even worse weather wimp, “feels like” of 29 decided me to skip today’s run, they YMCA being, obviously closed . . . .
And, wow, those training paces would seem to set you up nicely for a 44:00 10K/1:38 Half. Looks like you’re headed into a good year . . .
I hope so! I just want to break 1:45 in my next half which I am confident I can do.
Saturday started out way too windy for my liking, but wasn’t too bad once I got started on my run. Sometimes it feels good to have the wind but only when it’s behind you and pushing you, right? Hope you had a wonderful weekend 🙂 I can’t stop oogling at all of the chocolate around my parent’s place.
Im eating some Easter candy right now- my mom gave us some chocolate eggs filled with peanut butter!
This morning we went to church and spent the rest of the day moving. I tried to go to Target today but it was closed, Walmart was open though.
Hope you had a great weekend!