Meal Monday: Curried Chicken Salad with Apples

I saved this recipe to ziplist quite a while ago but never got around to making it. That changed yesterday. You can find the original recipe plus ziplist plug in here. Her pictures are also much better than mine, but I don't claim to be any kind of food photographer & I do my best with my little eye phone. In any case, I give you

CURRIED CHICKEN SALAD with APPLES

Ingredients:
8 oz cooked chicken breasts - cubed (I used a large can of Swanson chicken, drained)
4 celery stalks - minced
1 apple - diced
1/2 cup plain low fat yogurt (I used Chobani fat free plain)
1 Tbsp curry powder
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp salt


1. Wisk together yogurt, curry powder, lemon juice and salt in a medium bowl.


2.  Add chicken, apples and celery.  Toss well then refrigerate for a while to let the flavors blend.

this picture is terrible - I am sooo sorry

3.  Enjoy!


I really liked this one - the curry gives the chicken salad a nice kick and it's a really pretty color - but I think something is missing.  Next time I make it, I'm going to try crushed pineapple instead of the apple and see how that works. I think grapes would be good too.

What's your favorite addition to chicken salad?

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Race Photos! #53rbr #25k #runchat

Finally, a race where I don't hate every.single.picture.taken!  Granted, I look at these pictures and see so many things about my running form (among other things) that need to change, but still.  These aren't altogether horrible so I thought I'd share.

Oops - caught looking at my watch!

Around mile 15?

Determined - but the chick on the phone isn't impressed.

Home stretch - and both feet off the ground!

DONE!!

Official chip time was 2:41:33.

And because I couldn't just show the decent pictures, I figured I'd give you all a laugh at my expense and post a couple of the really bad ones.  It's no wonder my hands hurt after this race - in every picture I look like I'm ready to punch someone out.  Note to self - open your hands every now and then!  Also - keep working on that mid-foot to fore-foot strike, cuz it ain't there yet.


Now, the big question.  Do I buy a picture and if so...which one?

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3 Things Thursday: #abeautifulmess

I downloaded a new photo app the other day: A Beautiful Mess - and I'm becoming obsessed with it, so I thought I'd put a few of my Bayshore Half thoughts in pictures since I'm afraid this race may be turning into exactly that, a beautiful mess.

This is the last 3 nights. Orange is awake, green is light sleep, blue is deep sleep. Clearly I have issues. The "awake" around 4 or 5 each morning? That would be thanks to my cat. Ugh.
(I forgot to add - this app is called Sleep Time and the images are stitched together with Diptic)

Race day is going to be HOT.  I'm not ready to run in hot weather.

I thought I was ready to run last night. Obviously I haven't recovered yet from the 25k last Saturday since I couldn't even run a mile. 13.1 in just over a week is going to really suck if my legs don't wake back up.

So, there you have it.  My mini freakout over what is/was supposed to be my "A" race this year.  I think adding too many races/training runs may have doomed me for a PR at Bayshore.  To PR, I need to run a 9:55 pace or better.  I honestly don't know if I still have that in me at this point since I couldn't even run 3 miles yesterday at the 10:30 pace I set out at.  I will give myself credit for stopping the run when it didn't feel right though.  That's progress for me.

I still have time and I'm playing it day by day as to what I'll run or cross train.  10 miles are on the schedule for Saturday and I honestly don't know if I'm going to run or not.

Have you tried this new app yet?
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