Happy Columbus Day and Lewin’s Farm!

Happy Columbus Day! I hope today is as happy for you as it is for me. If you don’t have off….sorry. I’ll be spending the day doing all the things I haven’t done since I went back to school: aka baking and cooking.

Confession: I’ve been buying more produce than I can cook/eat. I was good when I went to the food store this week, but for the last 2 weeks I was bad and had to throw out a whole bunch of food yesterday. I HATE when that happens, so I need to be more conscious of how much I can actually eat in a week.

This weekend was the first weekend we didn’t have any big plans or anything to travel for. I enjoyed every second of it. Don’t get me wrong, I have enjoyed everything we have done in the past weeks, especially THIS, but I loved relaxing!

Saturday we went apple and pumpkin picking. Well, we went apple picking and then picked pumpkins from a small area at a farm. We didn’t have time to do two “pick your owns”.  First we went to this big farm called Lewin’s and it was a huge farmer’s market with pumpkins. They had roasted corn and baked potatoes at a stand, so we couldn’t resist. They actually had a big tub of melted butter that they ladled onto the corn and potatoes. (Yes we got butter on our baked potato) It was delish!

Lewin's

Pumpkin Patch

A winner!

When we got to the apple farm Danny told me that I had to change into the sneakers. I didn’t see why, but it was the better option. (Point 1: Danny)

This was our first time apple picking and it was so much fun. We came home with 2 big bags of apples, so if anyone had great apple recipes let me know!

Christmas Trees too!

Sunday we did our longest run to date, which was 11 miles. We were only slated to do 10.5, but after realizing we probably won’t do a very long run next weekend, we just did the extra half a mile. (Next weekend is a wedding in Newport for me and Boston for Danny.) Even though we had done 10 miles last weekend, I was nervous.

I finally said it out loud after a couple of minutes because I thought at least I could get it off my chest. After I said it out loud, I felt much better. We took it slow for awhile and then took a walking break after 70 minutes for a couple of minutes. Then something happened and we decided to kick up the pace. I swear I felt the best at about mile 8.5. Mile 10.5-11 was tough, but I still felt great. This was the best run I’ve had. I think by mile 7 we were doing about 9 minute miles, which I think is amazing. Again, really I have no way of telling, but I usually have a pretty good judgement of pace.

After getting home we both stretched. I took about 15 minutes to go through a bunch of yoga poses (and iced my knees at night) and it must have helped because I’m not sore at all today.

And then there was homemade apple pie….recipe to come. (Don’t mind my just out of the shower hair…)

Apple Pie!

If you have any apple recipes….please share!

Tagged as: apple, fall, Fitness, pumpkin, running