Tic, Tac, Doze

Two nights in a row

without Ambien!

Night #1:

• slept from midnight to 3am
• was awake for three hours
• fell asleep at 6am
• my alarm went off at 7am
• hit snooze a bunch but made it to my 9am destination in time.

Night #2:

• awake
• slept 
• awake
• slept
• I can't tell you how many times
• my alarm went off at 7am
• hit snooze a bunch of times
• was out running by 8am.

I am going to conquer this!

Awwww, Come On . . .

. . . You know you've been thinking about it.  Join me.  Even if you have to crawl across the finish line the following day, I'll be there cheering for you.

And just so you know . . . fear not the weather.  The cooler the temperature, the easier the race.

(https://endurancecui.active.com/event-reg/select-race?e=10643851&int=29-110-1)

Stache Dash NYC 5K/10K

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22

Houston Hall/Hudson River Park

222 West Houston St.

About This Activity

Start growing your mustache (if you can) "Movember" 1st and run with other Mo Bros and Mo Ladies in support of Men's Health initiatives at our Stache Dash 5K on November 22rd!

WHAT IS STACHE DASH NYC?

The Stache Dash NYC is a 5K / 10K wrapping up the month of Movember.  It's very simple. Grow, paint, or paste on your stache showing your support for Men's Health and Movember.  On November 22nd meet up at Houston Hall, run a fun and casual 5K / 10K , and enjoy a beer at the finish at Houston Hall (included with your registration).This is a great opportunity to sport your freshly grown mustache, dress up with your friends, run a 5K / 10K along the Hudson River, enjoy a beer, and do a little good for the community.

Pre Register now for $30.00 or bring $35.00 to the Check in at Houston Hall in SOHO.

By the way . . .

. . . I'm a little tired of blogging.  I might take a break for a little while.  You understand, yes?

Marathon Week

• Today I watched Food, Inc.  I don't know why it as taken me so long to see it.  How have we allowed a handful of wealthy people and companies to contaminate our food supply?  
• This week.  NYC Marathon week.  I'm volunteering like mad.  I'm really looking forward to working the Expo at the Javits Center.  I don't even know what a media greeter does (although I can guess), but I am indeed up for the challenge.
• Today I typed "vegan athlete" into the Youtube search box.  Below is one of the videos which came up.  This man blew me away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUtv4slpm-U

Out Of Touch

• Sorry I've been out of touch.  I have been incredibly busy changing my career.  In a screenplay, they simply say "cut to."  In reality, not so much.  Change can actually be an evolving process.
• I am currently watching "GMO OMG" on Netflix.  Holy shit.  How the hell did we allow this to happen?
• I just subscribed to Vegan Health and Fitness, both the magazine and on-line community.

Repeating Good Things

• One Degree, Veganic Lentil Grain Bread.  Oh so good.  Toasted w/Tribe Everything Hummus.  Even better.

https://www.onedegreeorganics.com/products/45

https://www.tribehummus.com

Beyond the Kale

One day I might stop quoting Rich Roll on my blog.  Today is not that day.

Food is a super important aspect of this process of transformation.  I personally and truly believe that it's the best place to begin the process of changing your life.  But it's also very easy to get overly caught up in food.  To get stuck.  To get dogmatic.  To get hung up on labels.  And ultimately fall prey to a disposition that, I don't know, truncates your ultimate growth potential by arresting your development.  Because you become overly focused , at the exclusion of other areas of your life with what's on your plate.  

For me, I cleaned up my diet so I could raise my energy levels, so I could shift my consciousness, and then direct that new found bounty, in search for greater purpose and meaning, and new directions in my life.  It's what we call "going beyond the kale."

So don't get me wrong.  Food is the great step.  It's an important step.  It's a crucial step.  But it is not the end of the inquiry, the journey.  The quest goes on.  Food is at first an important step, but it's hardly the be all end all.  

--Listen to more at http://www.richroll.com/podcast/rrp-107-tim-van-orden-runs-beyond-the-kale-why-personal-growth-begins-with-self-acceptance/

But since we're on the subject:

Yesterday, I put some cut vegetables in a pyrex dish.

I put a cucumber and grape tomatoes through my Magic Bullet.

I added olives and a few other other goodies from the antipasti bar.

I poured it over the veggies . . .

. . . and baked.  Of course there was some water at the bottom of the pyrex, which I poured out.  The rest of it was oh so good.  And not a single ounce of extracted oil was used.