Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Cheesecake...

No, I have not run this week
Yes, it is tuesday.
No, I have not done any cardiovascular activity this week.
But I did yoga... woot woot

So, on to my fav thing: Cheesecake

I love cheesecake and I've had a lot of different types of cheesecake.

First: The Cheesecake Factory
*Ok, I'm NOT a fan of chain restaurants. I HATE them but for whatever reason, I've been to a bunch of Cheesecake Factory's and they are delicious, especially the cheesecake. Here are some of the different types I've tried:

Fresh Strawberry

Godiva's Chocolate Cheesecake (my fav)

Key Lime Cheesecake

Pumpkin Cheesecake

Yes... I have tried these all (all pics from the Cheesecake factory website) 

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My friend Jane also made a delicious cheesecake that was a mix of cream cheese and ricotta cheese. Read about it here: Jane makes a cheesecake




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Lastly, there is this little Italian restaurant here in Greenville, SC named Giovanni's. It is the most delicious place ever here in SC. It is owned by a little Italian man. There is no website, no nothing. It's just there. and it's wonderful. I had Gnocchi with a Gorgonzola cream sauce and smoked salmon. BUT what is important is that their cheesecake was made with Ricotta cheese and IT. WAS. DELICIOUS. It was creamy, not heavy, the way Italians like it. I think about it a lot. I want it to live with me... but I will be fat... so I'll just go there every once in a while. 


So... that's my fitblog for today... about yummy cheesecake. 





Monday, May 16, 2011

Bloggy bloggy blog blog....

I was going to post about a floral arrangement class I had the the other day but since blogger was down, I didn't. So I'd like to at some point but for now, I'd like to ask a question.

Let me first give you my training plan for the week. I've determined that I may be overtraining a bit as far as having too many super intense workouts which may be why my runs are suffering... SO... i'm keeping it to cross training with body weight style strength training. The plan for this week is:

Monday - 5-6 3 minute intervals with a 4:30 minute rest
Tuesday: Swim: I am researching tri training plans to see what i'll do BUT I am so basic, it'll probably be kicking drills and learning form
Wednesday: Hill repeats - 30 second and 60 second hill repeats
Thursday: not sure... this may end up being a rest day
Friday: Long run - 55 minutes with 90 strides 3 time torwards the end of the run
saturday: Bike ride??
sunday : rest or bike ride if I didnt ride bike saturday

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Ok... on to the real topic. I am new to blogging. Well, I started back in October but didn't really get introduced to the blogging world until the beginning of this year. So, what I've been trying to do is get more followers. I've been commenting on other people's blogs, I've been participating in blog hops, I joined a couple of blogging networks.... and I've gotten hardly any new followers...

what does this mean?

Does it mean my blog sucks? Does it mean that I need to write about different things?

I'm trying not to get wrapped up in the amount of followers thing but I'd really like to interact with people more in the blogosphere and am wondering where my place is in it all...

Any suggestions?