The Night Before

The Race for the Cure is tomorrow so that means my first 5k. I did a practice one today - starting off walking for 3 - running for 5 - walking for 2 - running for 10 - walking for 2 and then running until I hit 3.1 miles. It took me almost 37 min. Since my goal tomorrow is to finish under 40 min and to run the whole thing I think I just might make it.

Regardless - if you told me last year as I begrudgingly celebrated my birthday in an outfit 5 times bigger than the one I wore last night that I'd be running anywhere without being chased by a knife wielding psycho I'd tell you you were crazy.

So there's that.

Once home from the gym I took care of my tootsies. My bathroom is ridiculous. The base of my shower resembles a bathtub in the loosest sense of the word. So I filled it up...



...and soaked my poor feet using this:



Then slathered on some of this:



And then put on a hot outfit:



Since I think I should be carbo loading (HA!) I made some pasta tonight. I started with the leftover Trader Joe's canned Marinara Sauce I opened the other day for pizza. For the pizza I used it straight. Tonight I spiced it up.

I used some shrimp:



And some onions.



And some roasted garlic.




I sauteed the garlic and onion then sauteed the shrimp till just pink.



I took them out and deglazed the pan.



Then I added the tomato sauce and a hunk of parmesan.



Then some spices...a little bit of basil that I had in the freezer, some italian seasoning, S&P



And a pinch of red pepper flakes - using the cute measuring cups my sister gave me for my birthday (from Anthropologie)





I chopped up the leftover asparagus from last night and tossed it with some fresh whole wheat pasta I found in the freezer.







I've got to be uptown by 8:15 ish - so I am going to try and get some sleep now.

Have a lovely evening! Please think good, non-humid thoughts for me tomorrow.