day.8.chocolatevictory

I hate the treadmill.
I hate going to the gym if it's not for a class.

But you know what I hate more? Not being able to breathe and feeling like I'm going to faint in this South Texas heat.

I had no desire to run in the morning, and I had plans for an Iron Chef cook off that night. All coolish times of the day were not available. So I did it - I hit up Gold's gym at 3pm on a Saturday. I would have NEVER done that without this goal. Who goes to the gym at such a random time on a day you should be lying on the beach or going on fun adventures? Apparently not many people. But I hopped right into the cinema workout room, almost fell off the treadmill, had my music blasting (apparently my head phones weren't in all the way so took me a minute to realize the rest of the room was also jamming out to Taylor Swift), and ran my daily dose of a 5k.

 

We won 2nd place!

 

As soon as I finished the run, Chapa and I hit the store and the kitchen for what turned out to be the same intensity as the TV show. He and I were yelling and screaming at each other, which turned into laughing as soon as my face became covered in chocolate - the competition's secret ingredient.

                                  Our's on the left, and the 3rd place winners on the right....

Some how our chocolate chicken satay and chocolate donut egg sandwiches that we made in one hour (and spent about 5 minutes planning) won second place! We even beat out rabbit mole with an avocado chocolate mousse! Must have been the creativity and display points. Lesson learned? While I did not take this competition too seriously, winning felt really good. Maybe I am competitive. I mean I was trying to out run the guy on the treadmill next to me. Come on, you know you do it, too.

Day.8.total.5k.time: 33:20 with a 11:07 minute per mile average pace. I stopped twice for a walking break.