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Up in the gym, focusing on my my feet... and a food pairing.

I think about my feet constantly anyway. I've sustained a recovered from a series of stress fractures (although none recently, knock on wood), and those old injuries flare up sometimes. So I try to treat my feet well -- lots of massages and only comfy shoes, all the time.

Cold Quinoa and Z-happy feet

Another SW-e-AT feat done. Luckily I had some leftover quinoa in the fridge from last week, that + about a tablespoon of honey and some chopped cashews made for a pretty tasty, if not quite typical breakfast for me. I'd give it 50/50 odds that I was barefoot while cooking the quinoa, but I was definitely barefoot while eating it.

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The Incans Worshipped Quinoa and Beautiful Feet

Daily Food-Exercise pairing redux: thekitchn.com has update their previous quinoa posts with five MORE ways to eat the grain.

Separately, belated site navigation help: You can find all of our daily SW-e-AT-related posts right here.  And all posts tagged "SW-e-AT" by anyone, are gathered on this page. SO, when you write about your quinoa-foot triumph, tag that post  "SW-e-AT". Then we can all share in each others' brilliance. 

Moving right along, you can see all the feats for Eat.Sweat.Blog. on your challenge feat page. Reminder: It's strictly forbidden to accomplish a feat before you've actually accomplished a feat, if you know what I mean. In other words, if you're supposed to go veggie for the month of October, you can't accomplish that feat, legally, until October 31st....

Bless all your lovely feet.

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go, quad, go!

Per the norm I was left in a crumpled heap in Devin's class, just as he was making the rounds telling us what an excellent job we had all done. But at the end I did get in my QUAD! stretches as reward to this constantly called-upon muscle group.

PERSONAL CHEF 2/10

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Oct 5th

2-mile run with my husband. My legs were a bit tired and my groin felt incredibly tight afterwards, but both are feeling better today. To round-out my 2nd SW-e_AT feat, I had broccoli on our home-made pizza for dinner in addition to the quad workout.

SWeAT 1 Broccoli & Quads

Lunch: Broccoli, baked tofu, ginger, garlic, soy sauce.
Workout: Double sets of Squats

This was yesterday, but I just got to post today. I don't know a good way to account for that.

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Broccoli: An Unhealthy Health Food

Sure broccoli is full of vitamin C, potassium and fiber, but it also is one of the unhealthiest vegetables I eat.

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Food-Ex Pairing Day Four: Quinoa Feet

Today we highlight two tragically overlooked beauties: KEEN-wha and FEET! Take off your socks, and read on... Eight to nine thousand years ago barefoot Bolivian natives began cultivating quinoa in terraces on Lake Titicaca, and the stuff quickly became wildly popular. The Incas called it the "mother grain," and most of their seasonal routine revolved around growing, eating and celebrating quinoa. When the Spanish conquistadores arrived, however, they brought potatoes and barley, and they banned any and all quinoa-related rituals. Soon, that grain was just a fond memory, (like the Incans themselves, I might add), and apparently it remained mostly forgotten until the 1970s when a Bolivian "spiritual leader" named Oscar Ichazo began promoting it. It didn't take long for American health food nuts to get wind of old Ichazo, and it was a short 30 year hop from hippie grain ingenue to chic anchor tenant at your local Whole Foods. Quinoa deserves all the love it's now getting. It's ridiculously good for you, and that's before you get to the cosmic Andean spiritual benefits: It's high in well balanced protein, (attention vegetarians), and packed with minerals (magnesium, iron, copper, phosphorous) which might help with your migraines and/or diabetes. The only real question is how to cook it? Not to fear, here comes thekitchn.com to the rescue again with Seven Quinoa Recipes.

Knock yourself out, but MUST be barefoot in the kitchen while you cook. Your feet deserve just as much love as quinoa, and they get just as little. Things you didn't know: Each of your feet has 26 bones, 33 muscles, 31 joints, and over 100 ligaments. Not to mention 250,000 sweat glands. Your feet are objectively amazing: Hydro-powered, gyroscopic, extra sensory organs which somehow can both test the temperature of the swimming pool, and also look fine in high heels. Yes, pedicures are a start, and foot massages are divine, but what about actual exercises? Ankle flexing, toe curling, squatting on the toes and heals! These are all good ideas. So too is yoga for the feet. You might also strap on a pair of Vibram Five Fingers shoes and go "barefoot running," which some say will give you back the primal, mountain climbing feet that nature intended for you to have.  You could also get deep into this challenge by buying a bushel of quinoa and stomping around on it like the farmer in the tiny picture above.

Whatever you do, make your feet feel alive, eat quinoa, and tell us all about it!

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Running!!!

I got back from a concert today (we stayed the night), and decided to head to the park for another run. Though it was the site of the dog incident, all dogs encountered were civil and friendly. :)

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le cinquième jour

After a weekend of radio silence, here is my epic catch up post. Sadly it only contains one workout, because I was a bum. But what can I say, the weekends are my downfall.