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Happy pancake day!

Happy Pancake day!         Here are two of my pancake creation recipes that I think you will enjoy: blueberry pancakes Sweet potato pancakes       On Monday morning I was super excited to head to Winn Dixie to meet Melanie to do a segment on healthy grocery shopping. We had a lot of fun navigating through the aisles with our camera-man. The segment will be on tomorrow along with me (live) showing my homemade raw energy bar recipe and how to be a more healthful shopper. Stay tuned on my Facebook page for the link when it is on the web and I will share on my blog also. I had so much fun this morning! I spoke with a large group of 8th graders who were at Baptist Medical Center Beaches for "career" day. Our hospital had a lot of cool gadgets and robots for the kids to try-out and I was asked to talk to the kids about careers as a dietitian. I was really excited to share with them my journey in becoming a RD (as it was a looooong one) and all the coo

Beet smoothie

It was a chilly weekend here in Florida - Saturday and Sunday I woke up to low 40's but I didn't let that stop me from enjoying the beautiful "winter" weather here in Jacksonville. Not a cloud in the sky but like usual, the wind was blowing. The workouts went well but I am exhausted. The good kind of exhausting - enough to make my eyes heavy for a great night of sleep but not too much that I can't do it all over again the next day. The perfect amount of training stress in order to adapt.  Saturday - 3:06 ride + 36 min run Group ride in Nocatee followed by 4 x 8 min Z4 w/ 2 min EZ (solo) 4.5 miles off the bike - comfortable perceived exertion pace. Sunday - 2:15 ride + 6.2 mile run  (1 loop in nocatee) Ride was solo - after warm-up, main set 3x's: 5 x 1 min on/1 min off 5 min Z3 w/ 65-70 cadence (heavy gear) 5 min EZ spin. Then repeat. What a leg burner! 1 loop descending run - 3 miles comfortable (perceived exertion - holding around 8-8:10 m

Train smarter to reach success faster

Back in September 2012, I spoke to a group of active women on the topics of eating and nutrition and performing beautifully. The focus of the talk wasn't to tell people what to do to reach performance goals or to lose weight but rather how to be smarter in the action steps or thought process to reach personal goals. If you are interested in checking out my recap of the event, here is the first of a series of blogs on the lecture.  Not too long ago, I went to Iowa to talk to a group of runners at their annual banquet on the topic of "common mistakes made by runners - "how to train smarter to reach success faster."  The event went better than I thought because I had no idea how many runners struggled with understanding topics such as designing a personalized training plan, how to understand and use training gadgets and how to focus on other aspects in life that can positively impact training/fitness gains beyond just focusing on the training miles.  So, now that I