Thank You Stubbs

...Yes, thank you to Stubbs for your delish marinades and rubs! While I was in Lubbock this weekend I made lunch for and with my friend Patrick. We just went to the store and decided what to make as we went. It was super easy and SO good! Here's what was in our grocery cart...

...1 red bell pepper, 1 yellow bell pepper, 1 orange bell pepper, 2 medium to large portobello mushrooms, 1 package of organic chicken tenders, 1 red onion, and Stubbs Chile Lime Spice Rub...Olive oil spray, extra-virgin olive oil and Stubbs Chicken Marinade are also used in this recipe, but they were already in my cabinets so there was no need to throw them in the cart:)

Now that you have all your ingredients, here are the steps...

1. Julienne all the veggies (mushrooms, peppers and red onion).
2. Drizzle a little olive oil in a large pot and turn the burner on medium to medium-high. Then dump all the veggies in the pot. Pour about 1/2 a bottle of chicken marinade as well as a little more olive oil on top of the veggies and stir occasionally.
3. Coat the tenders in the Stubbs Chile Lime Spice Rub.
4. In a skillet, spray the pan with the olive oil spray and turn onto low-medium to medium heat. Now place the chicken in the pan and cook slowly to not burn the outside of the tenders.

After everything was cooked, we tore the chicken into bite sized pieces and mixed them in with the veggies for a really good chicken/veggie bowl!!:) It was so good, we ate almost all of what we made! So I hope you enjoy it:)

My trip to Lubbock was just what I needed:) I feel so much better, almost like my head was screwed back on straight. It's amazing what being around your best friends can do for you. It's better than therapy I'd say:) There was a lot of celebrating and going out, but I justified it since there won't be much of that for me these next few months while training kicks off and gets more intense. I'll consume a little alcohol here and there, but not much. I find it hard to train the next day even after just having 2 or 3 vodka sodas. Your body just doesn't run as smoothly as it would have had you not drank the day or night before. It's like you're taking that training session and using it to restore your body back to how it was which seems like a total waste of time that I could have used to improve my time, form or distance etc. I ran on Sunday morning around campus, but not a ton because I was honestly a little hungover from the night before. Usually I like to run off and sweat out my hangover, but this particular morning was not happening for me so I left it at abour 2-3 miles. Sunday was my day off:) Here's a picture from the gorgeous drive up to Lubbock.

Here are the Vibram Five-Finger shoes I told you I got last week! I didn't wear them in Lubbock so I'm still breaking them in today. It's possible I'll take them on a very short test run later once it cools off a little bit outside! I'm excited!

Hope you all had a great weekend!:)