Year 2, Day 331: Workout Debacle

Due to Ruby's basketball game, I was going to go early to the gym. She had a game at 10:40. She usually plays on Saturdays, and this is the only Sunday on the schedule. I got to the gym at about 9:20, which is MUCH later than I wanted to get there. This was due in part because I made Ruby pancakes, because I am a softie trying to be a good father. Plus, I hate going to the gym. In my haste, I took Emily's keys instead of mine, but when I got to the gym I realized I had my own too. Now the pressure was really on because I had to get back by 10:30 so I could get Ruby to her basketball game at 10:40. Everything is very close together, so this timing was actually tight, but acceptable. The following is my account of that morning at the gym (more or less)

9:20 Sign up for machine at 9:30, Get on said machine
9:30 Do about a half mile; Am told I am on the wrong machine (they were right; I totally signed up for the wrong machine)
9:45 Sign up for a machine at 10AM. Another machine opens up, I hop on. Do another mile and half.
10:00-10:24 Run 3 Miles on Elliptical with Bad Handles but Smooth Action
10:25 Leave gym when I am kicked off for not signing up for the next half hour (which is forbidden anyway)
10:28 Call Emily who tells me Ruby is NOT going to basketball because she doesn't feel well (I think this is bull, but I'm not there). I tell Emily I will go back to the gym. I turn the car around and go back.
10:45-11:00 Do another two miles.
11:00-11:05 30 Ab crunches
11:15 Arrive home, both kids dressed, Emily decided to take Ruby to basketball but didn't have car keys, they leave and Magnolia and I go in and have a snack.

Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Ikea Muesli
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee

Snack
Popcorn
Almonds & Cashews

Lunch
Salad

Postworkout snack
6 oz. Plain Stonyfield Yogurt
super chunky peanut butter

Dinner
Flounder
Emily's cabbage

1 bite of sticky toffee pudding haagen-dazs

Sticky ... Toffee ... Pudding ... Three Delicious Words Mean Sweet Ice Cream Success
OAKLAND, Calif., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Sticky Toffee Pudding. The name alone makes you want to have a spoon in hand. That's how Judiaann Woo knew the famed British dessert had potential be the next hot trend in the world of ice cream indulgence. She entered Sticky Toffee Pudding into Food Network's SCOOP! contest to pick the next Haagen-Dazs(R) ice cream flavor. Her flavor inspiration really "stuck" with the judges and was selected to be sold as a limited-edition flavor in grocery stores and Haagen-Dazs shops nationwide, beginning Saturday, July 15th.

Haagen-Dazs and Food Network began the search for the next flavor craze last summer when they challenged ice cream lovers across the country to create their ultimate dessert fantasy. From Cannoli to Toasted Coconut Sesame Brittle to Caramelized Figs and Walnuts, ice cream connoisseurs dreamed up the next Dulce de Leche, but in the end, honors went to a flavor with roots across the pond.

"Sticky Toffee Pudding is a British dessert that you can find in every restaurant and pub in London. Over the past year, I have seen it pop up on menus across New York City where I live," says Woo, a pastry chef, food writer and editor-in-chief of PastryScoop.com at The French Culinary Institute. "What molten chocolate cake was ten years ago and what Dulce de Leche was five years ago -- this year and next it's all about Sticky Toffee Pudding!"

Sticky Toffee Pudding is a wickedly delicious dessert consisting of a steamed brown sugar cake with a self-contained, decadent toffee sauce. As interpreted by Woo and Haagen-Dazs, the desserts' ice cream equivalent is made from a creamy vanilla ice cream base with chunks of moist, brown sugary cake with swirls of gooey toffee sauce.