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New Site, Fun Food… and an Epic Fail

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Welcome to the new Sprint 2 the Table!

Thank you guys for putting up with my outdated look for so long.  I am no web designer, so I finally decided to do the smart thing and enlist help.  I hope you like it, and that it makes it easier to navigate around here.  If you run into any bugs, please let me know.  There are always kinks to workout.  Kinky.

ALSO… I added a tab for training and nutrition.  I earned my certifications a few weeks back, but hadn’t had the time to really promote it.  With the new site in place, I’m ready to take it to the next level.  Wheeee!

This has nothing to do with anything except that I think it's hilarious. Although... if Target had a bar... that would really be taking it to the next level.

This has nothing to do with anything except that I think it’s hilarious. Although… if Target had a bar… that would really be taking it to the next level.

Speaking of taking it to the next level (how’s that for a smooth transition?), I took my kitchen tools to the next level with a new handheld spiralizer.  It’s the easiest, most awesome thing ever.

Spiralizer

New toy!

I immediately put it to use with a zucchini.  I made a salad of  zucchini noodles, red bell pepper, avocado, and salsa. I ate it with a piece of salmon from a special delivery that arrived from Sizzlefish.

 They also sent over scallops in my box this time.  I hadn’t tried them before, but I’ll definitely be getting them again.  I seared them in a pan, then added in tomato sauce and chickpeas – my first time trying their scallops.  It was easy and delicious!

Sizzlefish

Then I had an amazing dinner with one of my favorite people (Jessica, who thought of my new tagline) at one of my favorite places, Better Half.  Zach, the chef and owner, has a really cool story and makes some of the most amazing, innovative food in Atlanta.

This is going to get long… Clockwise from the top left:

  • Stuffed cherry peppers with goat cheese and cream corn with pickled okra, tomatillo sauce, and lemon popcorn
  • Olive oil poached shrimp with cucumber, watermelon jelly, and tapande
  • Trout with tomato water, cream corn, bacon, and dehydrated tomato
  • Compressed pork shoulder with peach molasses, pickled watermelon, and corn pudding croutons
  • Toffee cake with curry ice cream and peaches
  • Lemon curd with burnt meringue, condensed milk ice cream, and lavender jelly.

Better Half

The weekend was starting out strong!  Then arrived the fail boat.

I got up early and hit the ninja gym… running on these things is fun.  I like to do it to warm up.

I’d tweaked my ankle the day before, but thought it was fine.  I guess it was weaker, because the next thing I knew I hear my ankle pop.  I tried to tough it out.  That wasn’t a good strategy.  I decided I needed to get get it x-rayed since I couldn’t walk and the whole popping sound had scared me.

Next thing I knew I was staring at this sign:

X-Ray

If I’d been pregnant, we’d have had MUCH bigger problems than my ankle.  Read Monday’s post for more on that. 😉

It’s not broken.  Just a bad sprain.  So… I went to the gym.  Don’t need feet to do upper body!  Click here if you’re interested in seeing the gimp workout I did.  The shirt is ironic.  I found pain pills from last year’s surgery and passed out slept like a little baby the night before. #doasisaynotasido

Gimp Workout

After than I went for a massage and was reprimanded by my brilliant therapist.  He said he could tell I’d never had a sprain before.  When I asked why he said “because you have to REST.  It’s not something you just walk off.”  Oh.  My bad.

Soooo… I got worked on and went home.  I did rest… after I food prepped and made dinner.  Roasted poblano pepper stuffed with sautéed lean ground turkey, red and yellow bell peppers, onion, and Mexican spices. Topped with Cypress Grove’s Sgt. Pepper goat cheese.  It was marvelous.

Turkey stuffed poblano pepper

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Resting is so boring.  How do people that don’t workout or have hobbies do it?

Have you ever sprained an ankle?  Any magical cures are welcome…

Any feedback on the new look? Or content? 

Comments

  4. Whooo! Congrats on getting your PT qualification!! You will make an awesome, if a little scary (totally a compliment btw!), trainer! I have literally just applied for mine as well! I feel like I’m constantly saying “Oh I would LOVE to get paid to train!” So, why not!? 🙂 Well done again, love!

    • HA! Those shoes are probably older than you are – they’re so stretched out they’re the only ones I can get on my foot.

  6. Love the new site! And I’m the queen of sprained ankles. Of course most of them were from being drunk in college and doing stupid things. I don’t believe I rested with those either…

    • LOL! I have a friend that had to have knee surgery and walk with a cane due to a drunken stumble. In grad school.

  8. Site looks great Laura, your posts are funny.

    I need to resubscribe to the blog please, there isn’t a link to do that is there?

  9. I agree with your massage therapist. The magical cure for a sprained ankle, which usually take longer to heal than clean breaks, is rest. I have sprained both ankles more times than I can count and dislocated knees about the same number of times. It’s never pretty and back in the day, I used to go back to gymnastic practice and do things where I used my ankle or knee minimally. In hindsight, not the best approach. Resting it is though. Lots of ice too. Maybe some physical therapy. I’m sorry my friend. I wish I had different news.

    I love the new look. Very clean.

  10. Loooove th new look! Congrats!!
    And ewww, the ankle pop sound. Never experienced it before, but tit sounds like no fun. If you’re bored, make travel plans!!
    Aha, the therapist.

  14. Nice new look, Laura! I thought I sprained my ankle while on vacation. A month later, still not healed and had its xrayed when I got back to Canada. Sadly, it was a fracture. 🙁 At least it was healing well since I made it my job to stay off my feet… take it easy, girl! 🙂

    • Oh man! That’s the worst. I was worried and so I got it x-rayed right away. Felt a little silly for doing it at the time, but this makes me feel better.

  15. Sorry to hear about your ankle. I’ve sprained mine a bunch of times (clumsy) and it really does get better in a few days with some rest.

    New blog looks good! I should have gone to Better Half instead of the Argosy.

  21. I have indeed sprained my ankle and to this day it’s still a lot weaker than my right ankle. It’s not uncommon to sort of roll it while running. I think the popping would have freaked me out. And I don’t know how people just do nothing either. When I had my blood clot and they told me to basically just sit on my butt I was so completely stir crazy it was insane. Not good. I thought my husband may commit me.

  22. I need to get a spiralizer! Bummer about the ankle–I’ve sprained mine before–and you’ll find to just get creative in your workouts to do what you can while it’s healing 🙂

  26. I definitely struggle with rest…it’s hard when fitness is your stress reliever and hobby but then you can’t (whether because of injury or illness). It doesn’t usually go over well for me and people often reprimand me for trying to push through it too! LOL!

  28. i love the new site! it looks so fresh and so clean clean 😉 but really! it looks awesome! i really need to update my kitchen tools too. I am lacking in that dept 🙂

  29. LOVE the new site! I’m a huge fan of white backgrounds – makes it easier to read content and navigate. 🙂

  31. OUCH!
    Hazards of Ninja Lifestyle. Consider it a Badge of Badass.

    Blogs looking good lady! And you are too, you can work a boot!

    Thanks for that someecard find. Target, get on it!!

  34. lookin’ good around here!

    I have a sprain right now too, so it is upper body all the time (I have been wanting to focus on my arms anyway…).

    have fun with the spiralizer – looking forward to seeing what you put through there! 😀

  35. Loving the new look lady! I watched a bit of American Ninja Warrior last night and now I really want to do that running thing…preferably minus the sprained ankle though 😉 I sprained my ankle when I was like 8, and ya – lots of rest is necessary!

    • Ya… it’s actually one of the easier things to do. I just didn’t to the smart thing and warm up. 😛

  36. I absolutely love the new look! Wow!! I’m sorry about your ankle! I have sprained mine before, but I was in like middle school or something and was excited to wear crutches. I was a weird one, haha.

    • Thanks friend! I’m kind of surprised you haven’t done it with all your running. You’re a beast though. 😉

  41. Love the new site lady! Yeah, I find that when you injure yourself you’re more likely to want to do all the things you shouldn’t. It’s just how it is. Get better SOON, but to do that you must rest my friend. The worst part of injuries is not giving it time to heal and experiencing difficulties for a long time after. Not worth it!

  45. sorry about your ankle

    i was wondering about your site, as yesterday every time I wanted to come over and comment I couldn’t

    new site looks great

  46. Love the new look! And all your food looks soooo good, I have been slacking in the kitchen lately. I sprained my ankle pretty badly back in June (hence my brace at Blend!) and it was really hard to stay off of it. It definitely would’ve healed faster if I had just taken a couple days of rest, buut of course I didn’t do that!

  48. love the new site, not the ankle, boo rest… don’t get pregnant resting.. just sayin. Most people that are bored get pregnant. LOL!

  52. Your website looks freaking awesome!! So sad about your ankle, I hope it gets better soon. I’m kinda with you on that though.. tweeked mine this morning at the gym and I do NOT want to just rest it haha. I like that attitude though.. don’t need legs for the upper body workouts 🙂

  54. Lookin’ good, lady! I’ve had the same look on Spoons foreeeeeever and I keep wanting to switch things up, but people tell me to leave it alone. Hope your ankle feels better soon — I have no idea how people do the rest thing either. I can’t even watch 10 minutes of TV without wanting to go do something else.

  55. First off. I love the Target bar Some e-card. But more than that—-i LOVE the new website. I’m a graphic designer by trade (though my job has evolved into a more techy, web development/pre-press position), but white space is beautiful. Less is more, since it highlights what REALLY matters. You may have stumbled across my blog…granted, it’s a stock template, but it’s simple. White. Clean. Direct. That’s how a website should be! Your content and info tabs are solid. Very straight forward. And as you progress as a trainer, you can update/change the content pretty seamlessly. Sometimes it takes reading and re-reading a few times before loving those general overviews (I’m working on a real estate “overview” project right now, and when I’m 100% sure it’s awesome…the next day, I rewrite it). But it all looks and reads great. And on the thumbs-down side of your post…the sprain. I sprained an ankle once. High school basketball practice, right before playoffs, I went up for a layup, someone knocked me off kilter, and I landed all wompy on my ankle. Oh. My. Golly geez. It snapped. It was awful. I went to the ER for an x-ray that night. But a sprain, as painful as it is, if you wrap it tight, you’re golden. I played in a game the day after with a tight wrap. My trainer did it, but you can self wrap with proper guidance. If you can stick to weight stuff with less active cardio and weight on the ankle, you’ll recover faster. But at the end of the day, or at work if you can, ice it down. A sprain is mostly inflamation. If you can reduce the inflamation, it will be way more tolerable. Not saying that challenging a sprain is the smartest move, but I’m stubborn (I think you are too) and a sprain is an injury that can be poo-pooed (hehee poop) if handled appropriately. I think I successfully used “poop handled appropriately” in an advice post.

    • Thank you so much! They did a great job. 🙂 (And of course I have been to your blog!)

      You are a beast playing on your sprain… I couldn’t even stand! Totally offended you think I might be stubborn. Never… LOL!

  56. I love your new site! Its gorgeous!
    I got a spiralizer for my birthday in June and have been OBSESSED. It makes zoodles so freaking easy.
    Sorry about the sprain, I spent most of grade school on crutches due to sprains. Ice and rest ice and rest! Heal fast!

  58. I had checked out the mobile site, but this is my first time on the “real” site … looks so good! And so happy about your training & nutrition offerings … you will be phenomenal. Still so sorry about the ankle :(.

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