Dinner party!
We’re entertaining our first guests tonight: a friend from the department & her wife who’s a professional singer, opera, I think. They had me for dinner my first semester here & I never could return the favor because, well, my apartment was kinda depressing & not really equipt for guests.
Normally I’d use this dinner as an excuse to hang around the house all day cleaning & cooking. But I got up & read blogs first thing & by the time I’d made it through my blogroll heroes, ending with tylerdurden’s 10-mile run post, I was ready to get out of the house and into the gym.
So while hubby cooked (this is his meal, really) I ran/walked 3.25 miles. A lame time for them…46 minutes, but they were enjoyable miles. I kept my running speed between 4.6 & 5.0 for most of the time, but did 2 .1 mile sprints at 6.0. Not many runs…I planned to stop at 2 miles, so the last 1.25 was just me playing the OCD game with the distance, time, and calories. Walks at 3.8 except for the last .6 mile that I did at an incline of 3.0 & a speed of 3.4-3.6. Felt good to move after being sore all week. I don’t know, maybe runs between bootcamp would help me to rebound faster from bootcamp?
So thanks for the inspiration cause there was a time there this morning when I could’ve easily chucked my plan to run, but given everyone else’s amazing workouts, I was sorta shamed & inspired into going.
I’m journaling about my food on paper for bootcamp, so I’m taking a break from doing it here (not that I’ve been that consistent with it here anyway), but I wanted to share the dinner menu hubby has planned (mostly my plan, but he’s bringing it about): pork loin (was going to be chops, but these were on sale, so we stocked up), thai apple salad, mashed potatoes, steamed broccoli, and pineapple upsidedown cake. He’s threatening to make popovers, but with luck he’ll talk himself out of that one…too much good food!
It’s a deadly meal, but not terrible diet wise if I keep portions small. I had a protein shake for breakfast & a salad for lunch, so I’ve got some SOME! calories to spare…not many, though. & I called my friend this afternoon to tell them to wear walking shoes so we can have a nice after dinner walk before we chow down on cake. Oh well, this is the first time I’ve entertained since I moved here (aside from the inlaws & parties at hubby’s place), so I guess we’re doing it up big! Yay us!
That is a great idea to take a walk with your guests! You and your hubby’s life sounds so cool. Dinner parties and all. And how cool is it that your hubby can manage a whole meal like that?! As I have probably said before, your friends are lucky people!
Good job on your run and the whole boot camp thing. When the first part of my runs suck, all I think about is just the words plank and squats. It brings to mind such pain and agony and exhaustion that it makes running seem easier.
Sounds like fun! I love hosting, it’s the only time my house ever gets truly cleaned as opposed to “straightened,” when we have someone coming over.
Tell your hubby WAY TO GO on the meal. Sounds delish. My husband’s idea of cooking is a frozen waffle with nutella on it.
That is a great idea… after dinner walk with guests. I love entertaining. Thankfully, all our friends are young so they don’t mind coming to our apartment. I can’t wait until I can entertain in our new house.
Sounds like a great dinner. And your husband COOKS?! What a keeper! The only time I can get my husband to cook is when I say we are going to grill. He is in charge of charred meat in this house