Hey hey!
Just got back from my best run of the holiday (in terms of route not performance). I ran through Potts Point, down to Wooloomooloo, up to the Botanical Gardens and all the way round the harbour to the Circular Quay, around the Opera House and back. It was glorious!!! All up just over 1 hour. So many joggers and walkers out so that was great to see 
. I set my alarm for 6am this morning but snoozed until 6.30, oops. I was trying to beat the heat but really that was pretty futile as it was already humid, hot and sunny by 6.45am when I headed out. Oh well, that is why I cream up before every run 
. In terms of performance, well, I think I am running slowly at the moment. My Polar is dead so I don’t have my heart rate to hand and therefore don’t have much of a guage of how hard I am pushing it. I know I’m not pushing it that hard, probably because there are so many hills in Sydney and I am pretty much catching my breath before the next one hits and also because I don’t know the routes I’m running. Anyway, no big deal, it is nice to run and enjoy the scenery. I will get into some more racing once life settles after the holiday.
Once back at the hotel, I had some water and went up to the gym to do some legs, arms and abs:
- 50 squats
- 100 plies
- 20 lunges each leg
(no weights)
- Tracey Anderson Self arm workout with 1kg weights
- 10 minutes of abs
- few yoga poses to stretch
- more stretching
Done and done!
But anyway, I need to recap on yesterday so I better get to it. We met up with my family up at Clontarf, a gorgeous little harbour bay in northern suburbs of Sydney.
While at Clontarf, for lunch I had 2 multigrain corn thins with Hummos, 1/2 a can of John West Light Tuna and cherry toms. Plus an unpictured apricot.
I also had a few crackers with hummos afterwards and a little later I snacked on one of these new breakfast bars I picked up at Woolies.
The stats are pretty good and compared to the Be Natural Cranberry or the Crunchola they are way way better (texture, taste, firmness, fat and fibre content). They are also 40g which is a bit bigger than your standard muesli bar so a bit more filling. They clock in at approximately 145 cals so are higher than say a Freedom Bar but they are much better value (9 pack) and since nobody on this earth seems to stock Freedom Bars anymore this may be my new substitute.
Not to shabby.
Morning and afternoon nibbles were cottage cheese and cherries (not together). I ate a lot of cherries yesterday. They are just to tasty!
Last night we went to our friends Saul and Cath’s place for dinner. They made us the yummiest seafood feast! Thanks guys!!
To start they had set out wasabi peas and marinated feta with olive tapenade. The wasabi peas were awesome, I’ve loved those things ever since Adam and I tried them in Hong Kong years ago. These were super wasabi and I had a good handful. I also had 2 crackers with feta. Mmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Saul BBQ’d teryaki salmon, octopus and prawns. So tasty!
We also had a green salad and corn!
Love the bamboo bowl too .
My plate. Plus 2 small glasses of white wine.
See those little orange corn cobb holders, aren’t they cute!
We were in charge of dessert so we picked up these interesting looking icecream sandwiches from the deli opposite Edgecliff Harris Farm market.
The lady in the store said that once people buy these they keep coming back to buy more. I understand why. They were completely DELICIOUS!!! Try and get your hands on these babies if you see them anywhere.
The iceream was a super rich vanilla and the cookie lace… sticky, gooey and sweet. So good! We spent a lot of the night trawling through the Good Food and Wine Guide 2010 as, like us, Saul and Cath are big foodies and were giving us tips on Sydney eating .
Obviously we rolled out of their apartment.
Breakfast = Vogels. I love you. Welcome back.
Not sure of our plans for today. My parents are arriving this morning and my gran, aunt and uncle and cousin and her family all arrived from Perth yesterday, so everybody is now here for Christmas tomorrow.
I have to do some present wrapping too and we are musing over whether to try to get a booking at The Boathouse in Glebe for lunch as we are running out of days to fit in all the restaurants we had planned to go to 
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