2013 in Review

Healthier fudge

It's been an amazing year. I've traveled to some beautiful places, posted some stellar PRs and created some new and delicious bites. Here's a snapshot of the past year on this blog.

Recipes - Healthy

Zero Weight Watchers points soup

Healthier chocolate peanut butter fudge
Homemade peanut butter running fuel
Chipotle lime chicken kabobs
Healthy banana bread
Kombucha
Pumpkin marmalade
Sugar free crock pot apple butter
Quinoa-crusted chicken with Brussels sprout slaw

Double chocolate chip cookies

Recipes - Indulgent

Three ingredient crock pot pulled pork barbecue

Pulled pork

Snowball cookies
Double chocolate chip cookie
Salty and sweet chocolate cowboy cookie
Cherry crunch cobbler
Pumpkin pie crumble oat bars
Greek yogurt pound cake
Biscoff stuffed angel food cake
Candy cane crunch fudge
Chobani coffee chocolate pound cake

Races

In action at Ragnar

3 Disciplines Festival of Races 70.3 Triathlon East Tawas, Mich. (6:02:14)

Fort2Base Race (1:42:41 for 11.5 miles)

Mmm, tastes like victory

ZOOMA Chicago Half Marathon

I Run Because ___ 5k, Oak Brook (24:18)

Venus de Miles 64-mile ride, Lake Forest
Ironman 70.3 Half Ironman Racine (6:14:42)

Esprit de She Chicago 5k (26:56)

Gull Lake Olympic Triathlon, Hickory Corners, Mich. (2:52:38)

Iron Girl Sprint Triathlon, Lake Zurich (1:22:26)

Ragnar Relay, Madison to Chicago (Read my Ragnar Relay Tips and Tricks here)

Udder Century, Union (3:17 for a 50-mile ride)

Run River City Marathon Relay, Peoria (4:06:34 total, 1:09 for my 7.7-mile leg)

Aurora Fox Valley Trail Half Marathon (1:51:07)
April Fools 5K, Bloomingdale (23:37)

Egg Shell Shuffle Half Marathon, Schaumburg (1:56:12)

Seattle

Places

Peoria - May
San Francisco - May
Austin - July
Baltimore - October
Sister trip - November (Seattle, Portland part 1, Portland part 2)
Mexico - December