Oh my gosh, it's been so long!  I wish I had more time to write, too, to provide a proper update, but I promise I'll come back soon and do so!  Let's see...  I graduated from law school in May (yay!), sat for the Georgia bar in July (yay!), started my Masters in Library Science at Catholic University in DC in August (yay!), found out I passed the ( Read more... )

I ran my first race yesterday!  It felt so awesome!  I ran it so fast...  I had no idea I was capable of that kind of speed!  In training I run my 5K's in about 33:00, which is pretty close to 11min/mile.   I ran my race in 29:11--that averages to 9:07/mile!  That's insane!  The adrenaline of race day combined with the support/pressure of the other ( Read more... )

All signed up for my FIRST MARATHON!  Woohoo!  I have to raise a ton of money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society between now and October, but I know I can do it!  Check out my fundraising page here:  http://pages.teamintraining.org/ga/nikesf10/alisonmakins.  Please make a donation to the LLS if you can!  It would mean so much to me and my mom!  I ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I'm totally and completely insane, but I'm signing up to run my first MARATHON in October!  It's the Nike Women's Marathon in San Francisco!

I'm starting a training program next week!  ACK!

I'm doing it through Team in Training, a program through the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.  You may remember that I've fundraised for the LLS ( Read more... )

Ah, yes, the blueberry breakfast cake recipe.  It's not perfect, as it does have a bit of oil in it (next time I'll try applesauce), but it's wheat-free and white sugar-free, so it's looking pretty good in my book!

Oat Flour Blueberry Breakfast Cake (served on 3/26/10)

1 cup of oats, wizzed in a blender to make flour
1 cup (3 scoops) protein powder ( ( Read more... )

I made some of this for lunches this week.  It smells amazing while cooking!  I've never really cooked with the canned fire-roasted tomatoes before, but now I'm a believer!  Fire-roasted tomatoes rock.

Spinach and Tomato Chickpeas with Quinoa (served on 3/22/10)

1 teaspoon vegetable oil 
1/2 a red onion, diced
4 green onions, chopped
4 cloves garlic
1 ( Read more... )

These aren't pretty, but they're delicious, addictive, and easy!  I modified the recipe to add more protein.  You can see the (almost) original here.  I was going to further modify it to make it without sugar, but when I was making them I was really craving the crunch and sweetness of the sugar in these.  I bet you could substitute it with a ( Read more... )

More cooking.  I eat A LOT these days, now that I'm running 4 days a week, so it seems like I'm always running out of food.  I made these TVP meetballs yesterday to re-stock the fridge with pre-made, protein-packed lunches and dinners.  I made my meetballs a little bigger than the recipe suggests (my yield was 16 instead of 20), and each one has 5g ( Read more... )

Sorry to blow up your friends pages', but I've got one more for ya.  This one is amazing.  It has some of my favorite things in it!  I've had the recipe sitting around for awhile, but I never seemed to have all of the ingredients on hand.  Soooo, I tweaked it a bit, and I bet it tastes better than the original!  The original recipe called for white ( Read more... )

Hello, my darlings.  It's so nice to sink into the interwebs for a bit--the last few days have been insanely busy!  School is killing me, as always, and I've had a couple hellish (but AWESOME!) workouts that have left me fairly incapacitated.  In fact, at the moment, I'm laying supine in bed, having just finished a 1K swim with an already sore body ( Read more... )