Monument Avenue 10K

I wanted to report back about how the 10K went. But first - the pre-race day carb loading!!! Just kidding - you don't really need to carb load before a 10K, but I did happen to eat soba noodles the night before. I did my favorite soba+wakame+tahini+nutritional yeast dish:

 

One concern I had going into the race is that I am not a morning exercising type of person. Since I've been training for the 10K, I've only done evening runs and I always feel more up to exercising later in the day. The race started at 8:30AM. By the time my wave left it was about 9:30 or 10AM. I definitely did not feel as strong and energetic as I do on my evening runs, but I feel like it was a success! I ran the whole race, and my time was 1 hour 4 minutes. I was happy that I participated in this event before leaving Richmond.

back!

So, I see it has been about 3 years since I last posted. I can't believe raw summer was that long ago.

Lately, I have been eating mostly bread and potatoes and feeling so bloated and bad that it was more my body telling me rather than me consciously deciding to go raw again. It seems easier this way, like my body is on my side. Like my body is leading the way. It wants to be clean and healthy.

The organic pink lady apple I ate today was so delicious. For lunch: shredded zucchini with avocado slices, grated ginger, raw sesame seeds, chia seeds, nutritional yeast and a homemade recipe from Elizabeth for tahini dressing.

Honestly, I feel better already.

Peas Please

So, it has been a while since I wrote. Like I wrote to my feminist friend Alex on a postcard, I’ve been busy doing a whole lot of nothing. As far as relevance to Raw Summer I would like to point out that I had two good choices recently: 1. I went to the store the other day and did not buy cereal or bread, two of my most commonly eaten cooked foods, and 2. I made a delicious, big, raw salad for lunch today with red romaine lettuce, cucumbers, onions, and nutritional yeast with my roommate's ginger salad dressing. It was great. Except I think I put too much nutritional yeast on, it was cheesy tasting.

I also transplanted some of the pea plants (which are growing swimmingly by the way) because Chris planted them too close together. So now we have three rows of cute green little pea plants with their little curly spindly vines starting to feel out into the world. I then finished reading a zine which is really a copy of a chapter of the book Cunt by Igna Musico. It’s about being proud as a woman and the history of the word "cunt"; which my spell check isn’t even recognizing right now. I got the idea of collecting my period blood in a jar, mixing it with a little water and feeding it to my plants. Supposedly plants love it.