Ah well, doesn’t everything seem so much better after a run? Yes, yes it does. What a flat out 2 days. Yesterday was def supposed to be a run day, but alas work got in the way, and then it was date night (yes, date night) with the boyfriend, which turned into wine night. Wine night as well as a shot or two! Who does that on a Thurs night at home? Anyway, crawling out of bed this morning it was a quick flight through the shower and to work, followed by two appointments and then a quick dash to get a large mocha and two greasy cheese toasties (yes, they were extremely good).

I had in my mind all day that there would be a run about 5pm when I thought I’d be able to knock off work. As the amount of appointments grew during the day, I was starting to get frustrated as I could see the run slipping from my future. I get really bad at this, if I have a run planned and then can’t make it,I like start to panic and can get quite angry. This is why it is def best for me to get the run done in the morning, as I never know where my day is going to take me.

Anyway, roll around 6pm after I dragged myself in the door from work (the slugishness stayed with me all day), I BOUNDED out the door for my run. Did a nice 10k around the park, and at this time the wind had died down and the rain had stopped, so it was perfect timing! Got pretty dark on the way around, but I felt pretty safe. I do need to invest in some reflector gear. The run was 56mins, so about 3 mins quicker than the same route on Tuesday this week. That was a morning run and this was an evening, so I think it goes to show how much easier it is to run after you have been awake more than 15 minutes.

Just to touch on my job and why this can get in the way so much. I hate to hear excuses from people for not being able to exercise, or excuses  for other things in general, so I kind of hate saying this as I think it is an excuse. I am self employed  and most days work from around8.30/9 amish to 8pm and up to 9 or 10pm quite often, and appointments come up at the last minute, so I can’t be like “at 5pm when I clock out I will be going for a run”, as I might have things come up. And I like this, and if I didn’t have this work on I would be out of business, so by no means does make me unhappy, I know I just need to plan my runs better, and working on getting up earlier. I love what I do so much.

The other evening I enjoyed a night of cooking. Wine was in hand and new recipe was to be prepared. Because I work a lot during the evenings, its sooo nice for me to be able to relax and have a glass of wine and slave over the stove! I love it, and would do it every night if I could.

Tonights subject was meatloaf. Meatloaf you say? I found a recipe from New Zealander Sophie Gray (Destitute Gourmet), I think this was actually on the Simple Savings Website, under low cost meals. I hadn’t had meatloaf since I was like 7?? So I thought I would give this one a whirl.

500g beef mince

1 onion chopped

1 cup grated carrot – approx 1 large carrot

1/2 cup rolled oatrs

1 tsp mixed herbs

1/4 cup tomato sauce (I used pasta sauce)

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1 egg

salt and pepper to taste

Basically you just add all the ingredients together and mix thoroughly in a bowl or a food processor. I don’t actually have a processor but found that a potato masher actually worked quite well (was quite proud of myself for thinking of that actually).

Press firmly into a greased loaf tin.

Bake ina preheated oven for 35 minutes.

Mine actually didn’t stick together very well, but now that i am reading the recipe again, it says cool for 5 minutes before turning out. Yep, I just don’t take to reading instructions too much do I?

Anyway, the crumbly mess (lol it really did look like a mess once it was out of the pan) was delicious!!!! I imagine this would be a great way to get some veges into kids and is super low cost! I recommend it!  This is a much choice as my fuel than Burger King is. Or KFC. Oh I love KFC.

So I am pretty happy with myself, and am glad it is a Friday night. Happy weekend to all.

Running Girl.