Pasta hot links

Made another pasta creation last night.

Basically I just cooked the pasta per the box instructions. Then I sauteed some onions in evoo, then added some cut up hot link sausages from whole foods to the mix and stirred until they were cooked. Once cooked, I added the pasta back and stirred it all together for a few minutes.


I added some shredded parm and it was delicious.

It is also extremely easy to make and uses only one pot to cook (if you have a place to put the noodles while you cook the onions/ sausage)


What is your favorite pasta dish to make?

I'm a sucker for rotini or angel hair pasta with a creamy tomato sauce.

-Xaar

Shamrock shuffle 8k

Ran the shamrock shuffle yesterday. It was a huge race!

Time: 42:08
My goal was to beat 44:00. Yay!



There were ample portalets for the 40000 participants.



The location of the corrals was a little confusing.






My new Nike lunaracer +
It was the second time I wore them. I think I prefer the lunaracer +2 better. These seemed a bit stiff.












Walking to the start.
I crossed about 5 minutes after the gun went off.






My garmin lost satellite in the tunnels and I didn't start it on time either. It lost satellite right before I started. So I just ran and started it when I could.

It was hot and there were loads of people.




Awesome pic of me thanks to my wonderful wonderful. (I'm in green)




Celebrated with a delicious bloody Mary post race at custom house tavern.



Mmm crunchy lady sandwich with greens.



I prefer half marathons. I like getting a medal for finishing. I am also not fast and this race was over so quick! I like the longer distances better.

Good race. Well organized. Not sure I'll do it again. But I felt I needed to do it this year because I live in Chicago now.

-Xaar

Shamrock

Tomorrow I'm running in this:




Not terribly excited since I've run twice this week due to bad allergies. I've been going to bed at 9pm every night to try to give myself loads of sleep to recover for next week. I think it is working.

My goals for the race:
Finish healthy
Break 44 minutes

Good luck to everyone running races this weekend!

-Xaar