Here I come marathon #2!!

After much contemplation, I have decided to run Mayor’s Marathon (here in Anchorage, AK) on Saturday, June 18.

Okay, so I haven’t made it official by actually signing up for the race yet, but it is official when I blog about it, right??

I have known since my first marathon that I wanted to run another one! It was just a matter of figuring out when and where.

I would have loved to run a marathon this winter but living in Alaska doesn’t make that too feasible. I could have run a marathon last August, but since I had just ran my first marathon two months prior, I knew that wouldn’t be the smartest move, so I had to wait until this summer to do another one.

I have been training all winter long with the intention of running a marathon this spring/summer, so even though this marathon will be here in less than 50 days, I am not worried about the training for it since I have been training for it all along. This also explains why I ran 17 miles yesterday.

Breakfast

I have been wanting to try one of Ashley’s Buckwheat Bakes for a long time now, but I have had no luck finding buckwheat in Anchorage, so I resorted to her Oatmeal Breakfast Bake this morning.

I didn’t know quite what to expect, but overall it was good—not great, just good.

It was pretty dry, so I had to have a glass of milk with it. I also think I either added too much cinnamon or too much all-spice because it had kind of a funky aftertaste to it.

I would be interested in making it again using buckwheat and possibly adding fresh berries to it or cocoa powder!

Today was a beautiful, sunny day with some relaxing for me but also lots of productivity:

- baking

- cooking

- cleaning

- blog reading

- talking to my family

- staying in my pajamas far too long

- watching my sister graduate from college from 3000 miles away. I watched the live feed on the internet, but I wish I could have been there to celebrate with her!

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Question

What was the highlight of your weekend?