tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49085337229000260762024-03-05T06:28:34.755-08:00TheMeghaMix#teammatson on med school & life in PortlandMeghanMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070278109188791415noreply@blogger.comBlogger302125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908533722900026076.post-72043304718233325702015-02-22T20:01:00.002-08:002015-02-22T20:01:28.902-08:00Portland City Walks #3: Fernhill Park to Alberta Street<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my second week of walking, I was joined by a buddy, the fearless other Meghan from up north!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wanted a walk with some quirky activites included, so we chose #3, which ends at a McMenamins complete with pub and soaking pool! </span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NOTE: we brought swim suits per the guidebook recommendations but completely forgot to bring towels. So no soak for the Meghans.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We parked by the final stop of the walk instead of the first. This actually took us a bit out of the way but brought us through a lovely park (one of several on this walk), so we didn't mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently all my favorites are deep chalk blue with a porch: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We eventually came from neighborhoods into restaurants and shops, and I realized we were right in front of one of my favorite Portland bars, La Taq!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the way Laura Foster lays out these walks - almost every one I've taken so far includes food options (and bathrooms) near the mid-point of the trek. We were lucky to find a teashop Meghan had been eyeing where we could get warm, grab fancy drinks off a menu a mile long, and use the facilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The line was long but the service was great and the tea options were practically endless. Check out </span><a href="http://www.townshendstea.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Townshends</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> any time you are in Portland!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other highlights - we finally learned what a brace board is and were exceedingly proud of ourselves - and now I see them everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our walk took us back through some remaining homes and finally to our end destination, </span><a href="http://www.mcmenamins.com/427-kennedy-school-home"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McMenamins Kennedy School</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. After toodling around the various halls and scoping out the pool and the bars, we decided to have dinner at the pub. This was delicious and mostly made up for our chagrin at missing our expected soak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The Fernhill Park to Alberta Street Loop is a really excellent snapshot of Portland: beautiful trees, a wide range of home styles, and great restaurant options in only about 4.5 miles.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Feel the need to take some walks of your own? If you can't make it to Powell's to purchase in person, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Portland-City-Walks-Twenty-Explorations/dp/0881928852"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">buy Laura's book on Amazon</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">! </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I checked it out, and upon perusal at home, discovered that one of the walks began only a mile away from our apartment. Since Jared spends most of his weekends studying, this seemed like a great way for me to get outside and learn more about my favorite city while enjoying my currently plentiful alone time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I filled my water bottle, grabbed a few snacks, slathered on some sunscreen, and headed out. (Comfortable walking shoes and quick-drying workout clothes are highly recommended, particularly if you are talking one of the walks on a warm or wet day.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The walk begins right near SW Corbett Ave, and the guidebook provides not only the map, but historical detail about the area as you pass through it. Certain homes or landmarks are mentioned specifically, either for architectural or historical significance - or both. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The walk covered some beautiful homes in the Corbett neighborhood, then took me along the Nike track at x park (which was made from Nike-donated shoes), into the south part of downtown for some city "parks" (to me, sculptures and fountains do not a park make), to the waterfront river trail, and back around to Corbett.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">None of the areas seemed sketchy. I completed this walk on a Sunday afternoon in the sunshine, with a fairly high level of surrounding pedestrian and vehicle traffic. I ended up crossing Barbur Blvd towards the beginning of the walk (safely, on a pedestrian bridge overpass) and again towards the end of the walk (a heart-stopping, cross-walk-absent race to the other side when traffic cleared).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The walk itself covered 3.25 miles. For me, it took several hours. In part this was due to the extra mile tacked on at the beginning and end of the walk since I thought it was silly to drive to the starting point. I also didn't realize how much taking pictures and enjoying the sights would slow my regular walking clip. Definitely plan for at least 1.5 times as long as the distance would take you for a brisk, non-sight-seeing walk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I got a bit turned around twice on this walk. Once was due to talking on the phone with my brother and not paying attention. The second time was due to the ongoing changes of buildings and streets down near the South Waterfront area. Some of the landmarks were different or simply gone. I found my way again quickly, and otherwise considered the map and cues to be very helpful and easy to follow. (I get lost a lot, so if I can do this, anyone can.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I brought my own water and snacks along, but there is an excellent coffee shop called Bean & Tree along the waterfront trail which I highly recommend. Public restrooms are available just a bit further down the trail and are generally kept tidy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">All in all, I had such a wonderful time that I decided to buy the book and return the library's copy. I've now gone on 4 walks in 4 weeks (details to come on walks 3, 6, and 10), and so far each has been informative and delightful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As an enamored Portlandian who is always looking for a project that can be best laid out in spreadsheet form, I decided I should try to do 20 walks in 20 weeks. It turns out this will carry me almost completely through Jared's board study period, with about 1 week of wiggle room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It's got tons of awesome recipes, including 10 different ways to use butternut squash!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> If crosswords and Sudoku got together, their offspring would be the mighty codeword puzzle. I found a book of these at Barnes & Noble and am now totally addicted.</span></div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.doyogawithme.com/"><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">DoYogaWithMe.com:</span></a></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This free site offers videos for all levels of practice. It also allows you to search by length of video (20 minutes or less, 20-40 minutes, 40-60, etc.), or by type of yoga. I love the hamstrings, neck & shoulder, yin yoga, and post-run videos. Great way to fight off tension headaches!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"> Holy smokes...this store is dangerous. I found a white rolling cart for our kitchen, a blue lamp for the living room, and a gnome for the front yard. It's on the east side of Portland - good thing it isn't closer or I would probably go broke.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night signaled the end of my grilling challenge! Every week Jared's been in medical school, I made a different burger from Real Simple's June article "Top This." It was a really fun adventure for me; at the beginning I needed some help from Jared in lighting the grill, but pretty soon I was confident enough to do things all alone. Yesterday I got the grill to start on my first try.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe it's just because I'm getting better, (or maybe the prep time is one of the shortest listed), but this took me less than 30 minutes from lighting the grill to sitting down at the table. It also had the simplest steps (I thought) and simplest ingredients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After lighting the grill, I chopped up the bacon into fairly large chunks and mixed it with the ground beef and ground black pepper. I formed patties, which looked pretty large, especially considering I had bought a little over a pound of beef instead of 1.25 pounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once these were on the grill, I used the first four minutes to do some dishes. I flipped the burgers, and then started on the English muffins, eggs, and tomato.</span></div>
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MeghanMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070278109188791415noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908533722900026076.post-81823845769039841482013-09-17T09:05:00.000-07:002013-09-17T09:05:11.828-07:00Grilling is for Girls: REAL SIMPLE Mushroom Burgers with Fontina and Cornichon Relish<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight marks the end of my summer grilling challenge! Here's my recap of last week's grill: </span><a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/mushroom-burgers-relish-00100000103058/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the Mushroom Burger</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I couldn't find ciabatta rolls at Trader Joe's, so I got this incredible ciabatta loaf instead. I also had to look up cornichons online - I had no idea they were basically mini pickles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got it all worked out and toasted the bread in my normal toaster to save time while the burgers were grilling. This one was pretty simple compared to some of the other recipes. I just had to put the cheese, relish, lettuce, and burger patty together on the ciabatta!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tonight we grill the final burger! I've been saving the </span><a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/beef-bacon-egg-burger-00100000103056/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beef, Bacon, and Egg Burger</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for last. And we have finally gotten some fall weather here in Portland, so it will be the perfect comfort food. I'll let you know how they turn out.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you missed my other burger adventures, </span></em><a href="http://themeghamix.blogspot.com/search/label/grilling"><strong><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here they are</span></em></strong></a><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can't believe that in all my visits to Portland, I'd never done an exclusive post about Powell's City of Books! Well, last weekend, I finally got a chance to take some photos, so now I can share with you one of my favorite places in the whole wide world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then I toodled over to my very favorite section in the store - the mysteries!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I picked up "Fudge Cupcake Murder" in the library a few weeks ago, because the title sounded fun and the cover was adorable. (Not sure if this is my dad's criteria, but he's the man who taught me about "spine trolling," so I owe him a nod.) I mean, a baker who solves mysteries and gives treat recipes every other chapter?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I was pretty disappointed. Honestly, I only finished the book so that I could write this little review. The language and sexual content were all very mild, but as I told Jared, "Usually I can't finish books because they're too graphic. This one just isn't very good...but it says 'Best-Selling Author'!!!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I felt like it could've been a great novel if someone had edited out about a third of the book. The characters and the Minnesota town were endearing and fun, and of course the baking in conjunction with crime-solving was a great little twist. But the author seemed like she had never heard the phrase, "Show, don't tell." We got Hannah Swensen's daily life and thought process in painstaking detail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My biggest frustration with this book was the sheer wordiness of it. I felt like it was repetitive, saying the same thing over and over again, redundant, and over-emphasizing every point in case you didn't get it the first time. (See what I mean?)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, I must say that the actual solving of the murder, along with the red-herrings and revelation of the villain, was well-done and interesting. If you love baking and don't mind verbosity, these could be an enjoyable series.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And now, the fun part: my new favorite mystery writer, Alexander McCall Smith!</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It takes place in modern-day Scotland, and makes you want to light a fire and snuggle up with a plaid blanket and a cup of tea. Isabel is the editor of a philosophical journal, and her internal monologues and debates about the ethical implications of everyday life are a treat to read. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These differ somewhat from the standard mystery novel. You are treated just as much to Isabel's personal life as you are to her "moral obligations" to others. Solving the mystery is crucial, but usually takes a surprising turn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I absolutely recommend these delightful novels...and of course I bought the third in the series: The Right Attitude to Rain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If you ever come to Portland, don't miss Powell's City of Books! Parking can be a bit of a challenge, but any hassle is absolutely worth it. Set aside a few hours, browse the shelves, checkout, and then spend some time reading and people-watching in their delicious café.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And in the meantime, grab a copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sunday-Philosophy-Club-Dalhousie-Mystery/dp/0375422986/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=">The Sunday Philosophy Club</a> and head to Edinburgh!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is practically the first weekend since the move that we don't have visitors from Seattle!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last weekend we had three different groups come down, including Heidi from Mercer Island CrossFit:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She joined us for the Saturday WOD at CrossFit503, our new workout home-base.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Filthy Fifty is a benchmark workout, and I was kinda sad not to be able to tackle it RX. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did box step-ups instead of box jumps, and my pull-ups didn't give a lot of "jump" since the box I had was too low. Those took me a long time. I RX'ed the kettlebell swings at #35. The lunges were pretty easy for me, but I decided to do V-ups instead of knees-to-elbows after the 50 pull-ups. 50 V-ups are no joke!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The push press is one of my best movements, so I got through these at RX weight pretty quickly. There is only 1 GHD, so the whole class did supermans instead of back extensions. I always dread wallballs, but I have been pushing myself to use the 10' target that hangs from the ceiling to push my power and accuracy. I kept a good attitude and kept my elbows narrow, and kept plugging away until I had 50. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love burpees - this was the one movement where I didn't take any rest. My final challenges was 15 calories on the air-dyne instead of the 50 double unders. Walking over to the bike even seemed tiring, but I was able to finish strong. I was figuring about 30 minutes for this one, and I did it in 31:48.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was my first time actually doing Filthy Fifty. Benchmarks are so fun because you can always try to improve the next time! My goal is a stronger calf and tougher hands so I can RX.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are really thankful to have found an awesome box so close to home. Love the facility, the coaches, the programming, and the community! Can't wait to check out the "Yoga for Athletes" class tomorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we went with the </span><a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/lamb-burgers-fennel-slaw-00100000103066/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lamb Burgers with Tangy Fennel Slaw</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. I had to hit up two different grocery stores since Trader Joe's didn't have lamb and some of the other ingredients.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ripped my hand doing pullups at CrossFit on Monday, so I had to enlist Jared's help. These burgers were actually some of the most simple (and fast) of the bunch, but I needed him to mix up the ground lamb with the spices and make the four patties.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of a sudden I realized I hadn't heard a timer go off, so I went to check the burgers. I should have taken them off right then, but I didn't want them to be under-cooked, so I waited another two minutes (probably 8 total on the second side). Then I was scrambling to wash the lettuce and split the brioche buns, which I should have done earlier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part of it is due to the fact that I overcooked the burgers...the other three were moist and these were a little dry. The texture combo of brioche bun, crunchy fennel, and "Tahini Dressing" was great, but the flavors in this just weren't as compelling as the other burgers. However, these were the most filling, especially since for once I bought the recommended amount of meat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Since these were so dry, instead of reheating the two leftover lamb patties, I have been breaking them up and using them in soup. I get really creative with leftovers since having the same exact meal over and over can get boring fast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong><em>Next week's dilemma: </em></strong><a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/mushroom-burgers-relish-00100000103058/index.html"><strong><em>The Mushroom Burger</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em>Try as we might, Jared and I have not been able to get on the mushroom for meat kick. Do we try again with these and hope the relish and fontina cover the flavor and texture enough? Or do we go big and crazy and try buffalo meat instead? Or do I go with ground pork since I used turkey for the pork burgers? </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This weekend, we had some med school friends treat us to some pickings from their (local, organic) garden! The haul included some green onions, so of course I knew this was the week for <a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/ginger-scallion-salmon-burgers-00100000103026/index.html">the salmon burger recipe</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">This summer I focused a lot on power lifting, injury prevention/rehab, and just enjoying CrossFit without feeling like I needed to "perform" during every class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">It was fun to see how "taking it easy" has actually helped me get better: this weekend I nailed my first Fight Gone Bad RX at CrossFit 503!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">I finished Fight Gone Bad with an RX score of 197. I wish I had pushed harder on the wall balls - just one more rep each round would have put me at 200. Next time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">A basic look at the plot finds Darcy and Elizabeth (several years after their marriage) at home with Jane, Bingley, and a few other house guest on the eve of Lady Anne's ball. To their surprise, a carriage pulls up in the midst of the storm and Lydia falls out shouting that Wickham has been murdered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I found this story to be exceptionally true to the characters in the well-loved classic. Perhaps more impressive was James' ability to further explore out-workings of previous themes and consequences of former doings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Language and sexuality were extremely mild. A limited use of "Good God" or "Damn" here and there, and of course the euphemistic references to Wickham and his previous misdeeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Violence was a bit more intense, due to the nature of the murder itself, but the death wounds were not described in terribly gross detail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As a mystery: the plot built steady and then increasing excitement until concluding with an interesting and clear solution to the events which had befallen the inhabitants at Pemberley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">As a novel: this sang. The mystery itself took (for me) a backseat at times to the glorious character development and atmosphere.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would highly recommend "Death Comes to Pemberley" for any lover of Jane Austen or mystery buff. The beautiful prose makes this book ideal reading for the fall with a cup of tea and a roaring fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Well, that's it for the creepy basement. Oh, except I forgot to take "before" photos. Jared and I spent a while sweeping out all the spiders and leaves and dirt when we moved in, which apparently no one had done since the Bungalow was built in the 1940s. The floor may look gross, but it is shades lighter than it used to be when we arrived!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Thanks for visiting...I have to head back to the house and get ready for my brothers, who arrive this afternoon. We have a lot of important things planned, like a trip to Voodoo Doughnuts and maybe another Powell's excursion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jared showed me how to operate the grill, and I learned a few valuable lessons. One of them was not to buy pre-made patties, since for many of these recipes, you have to mix in other ingredients and reshape the patties yourself. The other was to make the burgers earlier in the week so you don't have to freeze the meat and then thaw it (last week's spiced burgers REALLY did not want to combine).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I asked Jared before grocery shopping which burger he wanted next, and he voted for the </span><a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/cheddar-avocado-turkey-burgers-00100000103071/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cheddar Turkey Burger with Mashed Avocado</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The recipe calls for a ripe avocado, but since I only went grocery shopping on Monday, by Tuesday morning the avocado was still hard. I had no apple or paper bag to try that speed ripening trick (or is it a banana?) so I just rotated the avocado around the house and onto the porch so that it was in the sun all day, which really helped!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got the grill out, but couldn't get it to light. Apparently the propane tank was starting to run low. Jared used a match to get things started for me. While the grill heated up, I combined the ground turkey with shredded sharp cheddar and "grated" onion (I bought pre-shredded cheese to save time and just cut the onion into tiny pieces).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's start on the top story...our roasty-in-the-afternoon but still-filled-with-potential attic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The entrance to the attic is through our room:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eventually I want to recover the walls, get some bookshelves and comfy seating, and turn this into our library!</span></div>
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MeghanMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070278109188791415noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908533722900026076.post-24953842676774607632013-08-19T08:47:00.001-07:002013-08-19T08:47:06.064-07:00Places to Eat in Portland: LARDO and RubyJewel Scoops<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This weekend we had family in town for Jared's white coat ceremony. My baby brother is a voracious reader who insisted that his visit include a trip to Powell's City of Books. </span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Of the five people who visited us this week, every single one brought at least one book with them. And almost all of them spent time reading during their visit.)</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent a good while toodling around Powell's. I hung out with my mom in the travel section, and then she followed me to the mystery shelves. We found Max near the Civil War section, while Jared was busy giving himself the creeps with Jack the Ripper. My dad was upstairs in the Pearl Room looking at art books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buying books makes me hungry, so instead of driving home to make dinner, we decided to look for food en route to the car. We walked past </span><a href="http://lardopdx.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LARDO</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, which Jared yelped for us. It had good reviews, so we decided to check it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Max got the Sausage, Egg, and Cheese...messy, but good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My favorite flavor was probably Jared's Brown Butter Bourbon Pecan, but all of us were really impressed with our scoops. They offered kids' sizes, which I liked (mine above is a kid's scoop). Their "single scoop" is actually two kid-sized scoops!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are in Portland near Burnside and Powell's, be sure you check out LARDO and RubyJewel!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While my skills have improved significantly over the first four years of our marriage, I still need recipes that are fun, fast, and feasible. The June issue of Real Simple magazine featured a spread on six different drool-worthy burgers and so I decided that when I took on the cooking for our family this year, I would try one new burger each week until we'd had all six.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Week One: </span><a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/spiced-pork-burgers-00100000103062/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Spiced Pork Burger</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> #teammatson Style</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last night, Jared chipped in by showing my how to fire up our little grill without blowing anything up or lighting the porch on fire. Most of you may find this sort of thing easy/intuitive, but here are the steps he went through with me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, I found out you basically always cover the grill while grilling. I left the cover off for a while and wondered why the patties were cooking so slowly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After flipping, add the provolone and grill the hamburger buns. This recipe called for regular sesame seed buns, but we went with brioche buns to make it more fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We paired our burgers with a Belgian Tripel ale. So yummy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>You tell me: Next week I'm thinking </strong></em></span><a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/ginger-scallion-salmon-burgers-00100000103026/index.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Ginger-Scallion Salmon Burgers</strong></em></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong> or the </strong></em><a href="http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/lamb-burgers-fennel-slaw-00100000103066/index.html"><em><strong>Lamb Burgers with Tangy Fennel Slaw</strong></em></a><em><strong>. Which would you choose?</strong></em></span></div>
MeghanMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070278109188791415noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908533722900026076.post-57684626448549989222013-06-10T11:40:00.000-07:002013-06-10T11:40:00.207-07:00Weekly Workout Recap: The 100s<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love my lifting days so much! Bench especially is getting easier and easier. It's my Wendler Week 2, so I did 3 sets each at 80%, 85%, and 90% of my working weight. (Working weight = 95% of your one rep max.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made it up to #113 for my clean and jerk. At first I was disappointed that I didn't do more...but then I check WODHub and realized that it was a jerk PR! Plus I know my form has continued to improve significantly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was fun to have a rowing WOD since usually if it's only rowing, it's the recovery WOD. Jared's really been helping me with my form lately, trying to lean forward more and keep my butt from sliding so far forward. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My fastest 400 was 1:41, which is REALLY speedy for me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My overhead squat still needs a TON of work. I only went up to #45 to really focus on good form and "pulling the bar apart."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I ripped my hands after the fifth round of pullups in the workout, so I finally broke down and ordered </span><a href="http://www.tuffoot.com/order/index.htm"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tuf-Foot</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Jared suggested it WEEKS ago, but I told him we didn't need it...and now I've ripped my hands three times since then. I'll let you know how it is!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Because of my hands, I switched to strict chest to bar pullups with a band for my final round, but I RXed the rest of the WOD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I stayed late to get some photos of the 7am class - they're so much fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For skill work, I chose 10' target wall balls and double unders. Kind of frustrating that these are still so difficult and inconsistent for me, but any work on them is good, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since my hands still hurt from Wednesday, I decided rowing was a bad idea. Instead, I ran two miles! I usually avoid running whenever I can, but I actually had a good time and it was nice to work on so many things that need improvement in my CrossFit repetoire. I finished in 20:09.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Watching </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUb7VNvGrtc&feature=player_embedded"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">this video from my friends at Stoneway CrossFit</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> helped me out with my strict press form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I SO did not want to to this workout. Snatch is my weaker of the Olympic lifts, and the 100s (even scaled!) looked so intimidating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did the wall balls as RX, which took me forever! Wall balls are one of my weakest movements, and being 5'2" doesn't make that 10' target any easier!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Not exactly Regional level performance, but still really great to be challenged so much after <a href="http://themeghamix.blogspot.com/2013/06/aaaannnnddd-were-back.html">all the inspiring performances last weekend</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This was a planned rest day, but we had some really sunny weather (unusual for PNW June), so Jared and I spent most of the afternoon walking around Juanita Bay with his sister and brother-in-law, and then I took my mom for a spin in her wheelchair before dinner. So nice to feel a little bit of summer!</span></div>
MeghanMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070278109188791415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908533722900026076.post-40635985967588561952013-06-06T11:15:00.000-07:002013-06-06T11:15:01.646-07:00Aaaannnnddd we're back!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">May was kinda crazy for us. We were both busy at work; I had a wisdom tooth out; and my students had their end of year performance, which I was in this year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since we found out, it's been a whirlwind of paperwork and packing. We moved out of our little apartment and in with my folks for a couple months, until we move to Portland in August.</span></div>
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MeghanMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06070278109188791415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4908533722900026076.post-217033397163994752013-05-07T13:33:00.003-07:002013-05-07T13:33:40.906-07:00MIA May<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Well folks, it's that time of year again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">My musical theatre class has been in full swing for their big performance at the end of May...and this time I'm actually IN the show. With which I have, in all my wisdom and genius, decided to coincide amped up CrossFit training requiring more classes and more squats. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So you probably won't hear from me for a bit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worked on choreographing a number for my musical theatre class (sat on my butt while making notes and listening to music).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Went super light and really thought about pulling under the bar. Sometimes I hear people say they could do the form better if they had more weight. In the words of my little friend Susanna, "Pish pish!" If you can't get the form with light weight, going heavier will not help. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scaled thrusters to #45. Still in PT for calf, so did pullups instead of box jumps and rowing in place of running. Sand bagged the first couple rows but really busted out some reps on pullups and thrusters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I was kinda sad there was an EMOM cause I usually love trying to go heavy on these. I kept the weight light for my recovery week, which ended up being smart as my shoulder wasn't feeling great. For the WOD, I did V-ups instead of deadlifts so I only had bodyweight movements to worry about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Coach Jared really stressed the importance of good pushup form in class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><strong>"It's the basis for all pressing movements. You have poor mechanics on your push-up and you will have poor mechanics on OH presses, jerks, push presses, everything."</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Standards at our box require chest to touch the ground, but for good form, your hips shouldn't really touch at all. Unless you keep your core engaged, it is really hard not to let your hips stick up or sag down (especially as you get tired). If you are not able to do "real" pushups yet, a good way to start is by lowering from full extension till your chest touches before your hips hit the floor. You can then come back up with your knees down, but this way you get help from gravity while still training your body to think about proper form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For me, having great form on my pushups means I cannot link as many reps, particularly as the WOD goes on. But since I want to build strength and continue to improve all my lifts, I feel like it's worth having a slower time or lower score on the board in order to do every rep right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Love volunteering with my musical theatre students! They picked up the choreography for "Greased Lightning" so fast. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Awesome beer (Blue Moon Agave Nectar Ale is my new fave) with chicken and sweet potato fries for dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Finished up the day with more musical theatre madness by watching the first few episodes of SMASH with chocolate and wine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hung out with Coach Allison and ate peanut butter frosting. Mmm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We worked on squat snatches, power snatches, and overhead squats. Took it light at first, then felt good on the EMOM, so I went up as high as #65.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For the Girl, we were doing Nicole, so I had to sub the whole workout (no running cause of my calf, and my hands and forearms were still kinda worn down). I did max wall balls and rowing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Afterwards I had one of the best massages of my life! Then we went on a hike in the afternoon with Jared's family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Slept WAY way in and had a really chill day with Jared. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All ready for killing it next week! Planning for a full on cycle of Wendlers with all four lifts and gonna work on speed at CrossFit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Came into the gym feeling like I needed a nap. Got some encouragement from Jared's boss who told me sometimes those are the best PR days. Got in a solid warmup, then got to work on my back squat and bench press.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">If you are looking to build strength, check out the </span></em><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&sqi=2&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.muscleandstrength.com%2Fworkouts%2Fhardcore-look-at-jim-wendlers-5-3-1-powerlifting-system.html&ei=N55lUdHrJIqxigL144HwCw&usg=AFQjCNHyzk5NWBDIF-lupmIFD-_E5amntw&sig2=xjfllGYcH8zSorCDgcsC-A&bvm=bv.44990110,d.cGE"><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Wendler's lifting cycle</span></em></a><em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">. </span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just me and the 6am guys. New 2 minute challenge? Knees to Elbows. Coach Jared told us to be really strict on these. Most of us got low scores, but room to improve! I find these harder than toes to bar, actually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Worked on my freestanding handstands during the warmup.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Holy crap this WOD was a doozy. Made myself try the RX weights even though they scared me. Really tried to push myself on the runs and not just use them as recovery. Gave myself a time goal of 23:00 and squeaked it in!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was sore after the thrusters and probably also just from watching the live 13.5 announcement (go Camille!!!)</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday: 13.5 (Chest-to-Bar Fran)</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mental game was the best on the WOD of all five of the 2013 workouts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was really glad I had RX'ed Wednesday's WOD, because I knew if I could do the #75 thrusters, #65 would be a piece of cake. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had worried about chest to bar pullups a little until I heard reverse grip was allowed, and I was inspired by my girl Amy who got her first SEVEN chest to bar pullups on Wednesday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also knew there was no way I'd have to do more than 4 minutes, so I felt really confident I could work my hardest for a short time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always hate thrusters but I head during the live Open announcement that thrusters are a great movement for small people. I am small, so I decided I was going to rock thrusters from now on and not make excuses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I did about 30 minutes of mobility and then a fairly brief warmup. I rowed a little and tried some chest to bar pullups with the reverse grip. I loaded a bar with #45 and did a few reps, then did a few reps at #75 so that #65 would hopefully feel light when I started the WOD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I linked my first 12 thrusters and felt really strong. I picked up the bar again and finished my last three - I wanted to leave a ton of time for the pullups. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I linked my first three chest to bar pullups, and then the next three. After that, it was ones and twos with a couple no reps where my chest didn't make it to the bar. But I kept getting up without taking too long to rest.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I finished, there was still time on the clock to start another round. I ran back to my bar. Thnakfully it had rotated so I could no longer see the clock. All I had to do was keep doing as many thrusters as I could until I heard the timer beep. I got ten before it went off!</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday: Team WOD</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dragged myself out of bed cause I knew moving would be a good idea after Fran. Plus I got to WOD with my Team Neon buddy Heidi!</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday: </span></strong><a href="http://themeghamix.blogspot.com/2013/04/spring-sweataway-2013-part-i.html"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wendlers, cycling</span></strong></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back in September, </span><a href="http://themeghamix.blogspot.com/2012/09/fall-2012-sweataway-day-2-review-graham.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I met Elizabeth at Graham CrossFit</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, who told me to check out her brother's box in Kirkland, </span><a href="http://westernpacificcrossfit.com/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Western Pacific CrossFit</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. We'd been meaning to visit ever since, so Jared emailed Nate to find a good class time for us to drop in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nate was really welcoming and let us ask any questions and do mobility as the 7:30am class finished out their WOD. Jared talked coaching and the Open with Nate while I snapped some photos of the space!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You know I had to buy a shirt - love representing any good box. I went with the neon green tank...so cute and very true to size!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There were 3 athletes in the 7:30 class, and they were all really friendly and welcoming. We talked about </span><a href="http://themeghamix.blogspot.com/2013/03/open-wod-133chelsea-girl-wod-workout.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">how everyone had done on 13.3</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> and what people's thoughts were for 13.4</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another athlete popped in, so it was three of us for the 8:30 class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The warmup was really thorough and straight-forward. Nothing too complicated but definitely got your muscles moving and increased some range of motion (we had to hold the bottom of a squat for basically forever). The strength work was back squats - it was really fun to each have our own squat rack. Plenty of bars and plates - even some little 1, 2, and 0.5 plates for breaking plateaus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took it a little light after doing </span><a href="http://themeghamix.blogspot.com/2013/04/spring-sweataway-2013-part-i.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">back squats on my own the day before</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. Nate gave some really good cues that helped me improve my form, and I ended up with two reps at #153.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My hands were still shredded from Chelsea. I had taped up really well, but I took one rep on their pretty pullup bar and felt fire on my right hand. I asked Nate about subbing in different movements for the kettlebell swings and pullups. I ended up with 15 medicine ball cleans ("Can you do the #20?" - yikes) and 10 v-ups. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to use a band for the ring dips, but I got the double-unders and even had a few good sets of linked repetitions! Progress!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have not seen any better deals on monthly memberships in the Seattle Eastside area. They even have a couples membership which is an even better deal...if you both do CrossFit, chances are you will both KEEP doing CrossFit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The coaching is excellent. The more boxes and events I'm around, the more picky I get about the person who is coaching me. Someone said recently that the best coaches compliment form and effort. Nate does just that. His focus is on encouraging his athletes towards better quality of movement, and congratulating people on working hard. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">OLYMPIC LIFTING! We haven't yet had a chance to visit one of the bi-weekly Olympic Lifting classes, but these are led by </span><a href="http://westernpacificcrossfit.com/2012/11/19/olympic-lifting-at-westpac/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lincoln Brigham</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> who has worked with Mike Burgener. These are offered on Monday and Wednesdays at 6:30pm and are even open to non-WPCF members for a drop-in fee.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jared and I were so impressed with Western Pacific CrossFit! </span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We hadn't even gotten in our car before both saying, "If we had to switch to a new box, this would be the one." </span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We finished up our day watching Argo (such a great movie!) and getting a late lunch over at Paddy Coyne's in Seattle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Uber thankful for some much-needed time off work. And so thankful to Elizabeth for telling us to visit Western Pacific CrossFit!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Due in part to holidays and closures at the SJCC, Jared and I contrived to take Monday and Tuesday off work and enjoy ourselves on a much needed break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We slept in a little and went in to the 7am CrossFit so Jared could bust out his birthday WOD! My hands were still beat up from the Saturday before, so I stuck with my regular programming and did my Wendler's deload week for back squat and bench press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got to shoot some hoops before working out - he helped me out with some pointers and I made a bunch of baskets!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He was sporting the birthday present I got him...the Reebok CrossFit Nanos!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you wanna give his birthday WOD a try, here it is:</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(burpee into knees to elbows into pullup)</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After we got home, we ate a little, packed up, and Jared tuned the bicycles so we could head north to Anacortes for a ride! Great views all along the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were STARVING by the time we finished and hit up a local cafe for some awesome food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday was a kick-butt lifting kinda day! Makes me SO glad I resisted the urge to retest 13.2 on Sunday and just took a rest day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got a huge compliment at the gym. Apparently another trainer told Jared he saw me doing my back squats next to a high school guy. "They loaded the same amount of weight on their bars, and your wife was totally showing him up. Her form is great!"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My "heavy" sets for back squats just didn't feel too tough. My improved mobility is totally paying off and I'm pumped to hit my goal of #185 by the end of the month!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My bench press was even better! I was feeling so strong and ended up scaling most of my lifts up a little. I did two separate lifts at my old on rep max! Hoping to crush it and break #100 when I retest in two weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Got to class early and worked my double unders and chest to bar pullups.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did snatch balance work...I went up to 6 reps at #33.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The WOD was Fight Gone Bad style:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really pushed myself - I am working on my mental game and being okay with discomfort. I scored a total of 240!</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wednesday - Rest/active recovery</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Took it easy with 4 x 400 meter repeats on the rower, resting 2 minutes between each. Great to get the blood flowing and get in 15 minutes of mobility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also...Jared bought me tea!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Skill work was butterfly or kipping practice. Since my kip is not totally solid yet, there was no reason to try butterfly pullups...but it was fun watching some other athletes taking a stab at the technique!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got to choose a make-up WOD from Monday thru Wednesday. I went with Wednesday (Monday included thrusters which seemed like a bad idea to do right before 13.3). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scaled kettlebell swings from #35 to #26 and did 800m rows instead of runs. First four burpees were horribly slow and felt so tough...I was stepping each foot back and then dropping down. Decided to amp up my mental game and did almost all the sets of kettlebell swings unbroken and almost all the burpee sets unbroken.</span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Friday - CrossFit Open 13.3</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My best mental approach to an Open WOD this year! My goal was to do a few double-unders (last year I only got through 90 wall balls before the time cut-off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was also my first time at one of our Friday throwdowns - everyone brought their game and we had a blast!!! (Thanks to Kristi for the awesome photos!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course we were doing squat snatches and Chelsea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I LOVE EMOM workouts so I can't complain too much. Worked up during the 10 minutes from #35 to #65!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chelsea is like Cindy's bossy older sister: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">30 minute EMOM of pullups, pushups, and squats. The highest score you can get is 30. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You lose one point for every time you don't finish a round in time to start a new one on the next minute. For example, in the first minute you finish a full round. In the second minute, you get through 12 air squats before the third minute starts. You finish your last 3 air squats, deduct a point from 30, and rest until the fourth minute starts and you start a new round!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was doing great until my right hand tore open about 9 rounds in. Hadn't taped well enough. Lost at least two points while Jared fixed me up...and two rounds later tore my left hand! Yikes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I only lost 13 points, so a score of 17 seemed pretty good all things considered! Finished up my "workout" with an almost two hour massage. SO needed it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still hardly walking from 13.3...plus extra soreness from Chelsea and my torn hands. Spent a ton of time reading and chilling.</span></div>
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