Stuffed peppers- breakfast style!

A few weeks ago Marcus and I spent the weekend in Whitefish to celebrate my birthday.  I could not have asked for a better day!  The sun was shining, Marcus bought me roses, we had coffee and I headed out for a birthday run.  While I was gone, Marcus had a brilliant breakfast idea- scrambled egg stuffed peppers….and let me tell you, they were delish!  All the ingredients were leftovers we had brought to the condo, minus the eggs.  It is a new weekend staple for us, as we have made it since.

Ingredients-

2 eggs, 2 egg whites

Asparagus

Red pepper (or any color you like)

Goat cheese
Strawberries or other fruit on the side
Black pepper to taste

Instructions-

Pre heat oven to 350

Whisk eggs and egg whites in a bowl

Thinly slice ends of asparagus and add to egg mixture, scramble in pan until done

In the meantime cut tops off peppers and cut them in ½

Place on baking sheet in oven for 5-10 minutes until warm

Take peppers out of oven and scoop scrambled egg mixture into the halves and place in pan

Top with goat cheese and remaining asparagus

Place pan in oven for a few minutes until goat cheese is melted

Serve with sliced fruit and coffee- enjoy!

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p.s here is a view of Whitefish Lake from City Beach during my run

Treadmill Love

Lately, due to weather, I have been forced to find love on the treadmill.  I used to run most of my training runs on the treadmill and be okay with it, however the past 4 years I have learned that the outdoors is just SO MUCH BETTER!

A few weeks ago, we had a huge dump of snow, which pretty much made running out of doors impossible.  Luckily, the past few months, I had been doing one day each week on the treadmill.  Speed work.  I had two things in my favor.  First, my friend Kelly and I met to do our speed work together and she is awesome motivation and second, the constant change that speed work presents does, in fact make the workout not so mundane.  Now that I have spent a few more days each week on the treadmill in addition to the speed work, I needed to find a change up – and for that I chose to start running indoor hills!

Try this treadmill workout below if you need a new challenge, new routine or simply anything new!

            10 minutes warm-up

           

            ¼ mile at 4.0% incline (quick pace, but something you can maintain
            for the whole ¼ mile)

           

            ¼ mile at race pace (or if you don’t have a race pace, a pace that will
            challenge your legs and your lungs)

Repeat this sequence 4-6 times and end with a 5-10 minute cool down.  Some days when I had extra energy, I would increase the % incline by .5 each interval.  Try it! 

p.s – here is a picture of my mom and I before the PF Chang Rock n Roll 2012.  We both did awesome!