RVH Winter Training!

Spinach Smoothie Recipe

So simple, so easy.

1 Banana

a few handfuls of fresh spinach leaves

juice of half a lemon

small drizzle of extra virgin olive oil

almond milk (or milk of your choice): use enough to get whatever consistency you like

Even if you do not consider yourself a green-smoothie-person, you will probably find you love this delicious and healthy drink. (for example, numerous Carmacks scoffed at this drink before trying and liking it).

An easy recipe for healthy whole wheat oatmeal pancakes.

This summer, I’m working at a camp called TIC (Technology Is Cool, or as we tell the kids, Torturing Innocent Campers). It’s a technology and sports camp, and I’m a technology counselor teaching programming to kids ages 7 – 15. Each session is two weeks long. This is roughly my daily schedule:

  6:45 am: Wake up, shower, make lunch, and get dressed. I have to wear the same T-shirt every day, but we do get to have “wacky Wednesdays” where we dress to a theme: superhero, pajamas, formal, etc. Below is a picture of the camp the day we did monochromatic wacky Wednesday:

  7:15 am: leave the house, pick up my coworker, Leah, and drive to camp.

  7:30-8:00 am: Best part of the workday. Someone brings in a morning snack, and I hang out with fellow counselors in the office before the kids arrive. Below are Nola and Heather, an animation counselor and a programming counselor, dressed up for superhero day and standing outside the office:

  (They’re Loki and Thor, in case you couldn’t tell)

  8:00am – 3:30 pm: Camp. I teach programming to four kids in the morning and four kids in the afternoon. Three hours is a long time for most small children to be in a room staring at a computer, so that gets crazy really fast.  Below is a picture of Heather with her daily coffee trying to wake up before the kids get to camp:

4:00: working out! Taking a page from Sofia’s awesome post, I went on a bike ride to the Lincoln memorial on Tuesday and did core overlooking the Potomac River (and the bridge where my high school boyfriend asked me to prom during practice one day)

Erin and Gen take orgo! Be glad it's not you. 

Hi Rad!! Half the battle of steady state erging is staying on the erg, especially if you're erging alone this summer. So here is one of my favorite workouts to get a lot of meters in and keep yourself entertained. 12' 11' 10' 9' 8' 7' 6' 5' 4' 3' 2' 1' This adds up to 78' and about 18-21k, but it's manageable because you chip away at it a little at a time! Since the intervals aren't too long, I do 1 minute of rest from the 12'-7' interval and 30" for the rest. This is a great workout because the shorter intervals let you focus on holding your technique for the whole SS piece. You really can make significant changes by the end. I like doing this workout feet out and picking a few focuses to concentrate on. Happy erging!! Xoxo