Perfecting Paleo... Competition Saturday at Zia CrossFit... Snow-Wind-Sunshine... Pain and Injury

A lot of this blog focuses on Paleo cooking and eating.

I've been adhering to a pretty strict Paleo diet for well over a year now and have found it the best way to approach Life.

For me, Perfect Paleo is about getting as much protein and nutrition with as few a calories as possible.

Why?  Cause I want to be Lean and Strong.

I need the Protein for muscle regeneration and I need it with as few a calories as I can to be lean.

Why do I want to be lean?

Because less weight is easier on my joints and soft tissues AND

You look bigger and stronger when you're leaner.

So what is Perfect Paleo for me?

Lots of flavorful dark colored greens both raw and cooked 

Like skillet sauted Kale over Spring Mix

Throw in some baked sweet potato for sweet and soft texture with a good helping of slow release carbs.

Throw in 2 slices of TJ's Turkey Meat Loaf for protein.

Add some fresh strawberries to the top of the salad and throw in some TJ's roasted chicken breast and my special mix of 95% lean ground meat.

There's that extra lean ground meat pattie with a wet mix of honey mustard, soy sauce, tabasco and balsamic vinegar and diced sweet onion, bell pepper, jalapeno pepper and carrots.

And a skillet heat up of the TJ's chicken breast and sweet potato with some cinnamon added.

Nice base of tomatoes and basil and kalamata olives.

Throw in the 2 proteins and sweet potato and you've got a beautiful plate of Perfect Paleo.

Perfect Coffee?  

For me, it's Millstone Foglifter with a teaspoon of Sugar in the Raw, a 1/2 a cap of Vanilla Extract, a dusting of Cinnamon and a splash of Half and Half.

May 9th in Santa Fe and 46 degrees.

Team competition at Zia CrossFit....

40 Burpee Box Jumps

30 Stone Lifts

20 Power Clean and Press with 135#
60# Sled Pull with 2 team members on it.

You can't see it in this picture, but I had to pull over on my bike ride back and don my Rain Jacket because there were flurries of SNOW coming down!

Which was quickly followed by Sunshine!

With a blown Left Achilles Tendon, I've decided to got back to Miller Lite.

For every pound of weight loss, you decrease impact on your knees / ankles / feet by 15 pounds.

My goal is to get back down to my low around 166.

After the 10 mile ride and toned down workout at Zia CrossFit, I weighed an even 170.0.

I followed that up with a triple protein - roasted CHICKEN, ground BEEF patty, ground TURKEY patty - over Kale and Sweet Potato, Fresh Jalapeno, Sweet Onion and Basil and Spring Mix with tomato, carrots topped with Strawberries.

So I'm here in Santa Fe with a 40% torn left Achilles Tendon and I'm riding my bike and working out around the injury and eating great food.

Pain is something that makes you change, adapt and modify.

This injury has confirmed that there are limits to what I can and should do.

Will I recover?

Yes....and I will be - 

 Better, Smarter, Leaner and Stronger.

Injury and Pain is a way of saying....

You need to find another way to do things.

It's all about the Evolution of....

Discovery.

Morning Mid Week Hike in Tesuque

A Nice Drive with a stop in Lewisville and settling in to Santa Fe

The first leg of my drive to Santa Fe took me from Angleton Tx to Lewisville Tx where my son lives.

This is a view of the largest apartment complex pool in the world where he lives.

One of the many issues with getting older is I am losing  my excellent eyesight.

At BJ's Brewery where my son and I were having a nice flight of beer samples, he let me try on his glasses.

Whadduya think?

When I left Lewisville Friday morning, I selected my Top Rock list on Spotify and  listened to it all the way.

Reminded me that the 70s, 80s and 90s was the best music.

Took 755 miles just to get out of Texas.

Nice looking cloud pattern over I40.

Last hour on 285 from 40 to Santa Fe.

Last night, after unloading the car, I made a quick run to Trader Joe's and picked up some Smoked Gouda, Turkey and Rice stuffed Bell Pepper, Fresh Basil, Jalapenos and TJ's Coastal Cabernet.

Great Meal!

This morning I had a Kona K-cup out of my very own Keurig which sat in the passenger seat all the way form Lake Jackson Tx

What?  Rain in Santa Fe!  I just left that stuff in Angleton.

Good way to kick off the day with the positive feel good sound of Aloe Blacc!

Went to Zia CrossFit's Saturday morning workout and shared a Fight Gone Bad with Ernesto and Josh.

It was Quick and Dirty and just what I needed on my return to 7200'.

Had the Red Stallion hand washed by a group of kids raising money for their basketball season.

Picked up a few things at Walmart and then headed back to the condo on Cerillos with a view of the Sangre de Cristo mountains in the background.

I had left my cast iron skillet and other essential kitchen items in storage with a friend.  Brought the stuff back and put it to work with some cast iron skillet sauted kale.

Spring mix, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, diced Gouda Cheese and roast chicken.

Add a little Focaccia bread, thrown the kale on the side, add a few peppers and 6 oz of chicken breast and some dried fruit and nuts with a Cabernet / Fresca / Creatine mix to drink.

Good Saturday in Santa Fe!

Home is where the Miller is...

And where the Miller is...

Is Santa Fe!