My After, Oh and Peanutty Pumpkin Protein Dip

Good morning.

Here’s just a quick peak at my hours after the marathon (if you care, or actually, even if you don’t). Ha.

I know a lot of distance runners swear by ice baths. I’ve never done one. I’m too much of a wimp to try it and I get cold super easily. I do the next best thing – take a warm shower and rub a little Biofreeze all over my legs.

I recently discovered this stuff and am in love with it. So much so that after I got a sample I hunted it down on Amazon (you can find it here).

Then I put on my CEP compression socks.

Want to see a cool trick?

Talent. I know.

I rocked this cool outfit the rest of the day.

Lovely bathroom picture. And yes, those sweat cut off shorts are very old, but they just might be making a comeback.

I usually like to go through all my bags and admire all the freebies I got my hands on.

Expo swag bag.

Awesome.

Hmm… haven’t tried this yet.

Other swag I stocked up on at the expo.

We were only given two, but Somehow a few extras found their way into my bag. I’ll be having a lot of this wrap in the near future. Ha.

This was the glam headband the nice lady gave me. I can’t wait to try it out. I’ve been wanting a cool sparkly headband for awhile.

The race shirt. The cute toddler “helping” me with the photo shoot.

His brother “helping” me by washing his hair in Turk’s water dish.

The goodies I got my hands on at the finish line.

That’s right, more tuna. That stuff is like over a $1 at the store so I had to stock up.

I made myself sit in bed for a couple hours and put my feet up Sunday afternoon while I wrote my recap post with another little “helper”

and a cocktail in hand.

Our celebration dinner looked a little something like this.

My favorite wine 

(yes, that glass is as big as it looks)

antipasto salad with some extra dried oregano, seasoning and red pepper flakes,

our favorite Filippi’s pizza (veggie pizza, no cheese, topped with nutritional yeast and a little red pepper).

This ice cream (yes, again) on top of a few Vitatops, some PB Crave, dark chocolate frosting, etc.

I slept in those compression socks and wore them all day Monday. I mean all day. I taught classes in them

(don’t mind my redder than red eye)

and even made a quick stop to Target while still sporting them at 8 pm.

Ha ha. I had them on for over 31 hours. That’s so gross.

But….. my legs are feeling pretty good this morning so I’ll take it.

Enough nonsense.

Let me give you a little something I whipped up yesterday.

I put this together in less than five minutes, but was so impressed with it I thought I’d share.

Peanutty Pumpkin Protein Dip

(makes 2 servings)

1 1/2 cup pumpkin (366 grams)

1/4 cup PB2 (24 grams)

1/4 cup Splenda granulated

1 tablespoon brown sugar (or 2 teaspoons brown sugar and 1 teaspoon sugar free maple syrup)

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 tablespoon chia

1/2-1 scoop vanilla protein powder (10-20 grams)

cinnamon (optional- I didn’t add it)

Mix it all up in a food processor just like chia cookie dough dip.

Put in a cute bowl.

Serve with Flatout cinnamon crisps 

and fruit of choice.

If you want or need to (like I do), top with some fun nut butters (like PB Crave Razzle Dazzle or SunButter or both)

Dig in.

I can almost guarantee this dip will be repeated at some point today.

Mmmmm……

Okay, gotta go.

Have a great day!

Thanks so much for putting up with my novel of a race recap post. I’m going to try to keep things short this week so I don’t bore you!