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How is everyone’s Monday going? Thanks to everyone’s wonderful comments on our marathon re-cap. It is so nice to hear from our readers!!!! We appreciate all your support.
Ours is going pretty well!!!!!!! Just a tad sore but not as bad as we were for our first marathon. Must be from the raw foods and smoothies
After our post-workout pudding and smoothie yesterday, we took an hour cat-nap. Than woke up starving. So we snacked on small of our raw crackers and flatbreads.
Had some of our older sisters roasted veggie soup
Ate some our raw racing snacks that we had leftover
No white sugar, processed, full of preservatives or white flour post race food here! Only the best things for our bodies to recovery from all the stress we just put on our bodies from running
That was pretty much it for the rest of the evening. We went to bed pretty earlier. We did want some wine though we decided to wait till today to enjoy it!
Sisters medals from the weekend (half, full, goofy)And ours full marathon medals! Aren’t they so pretty?
Besides from feeling great we got to finally go see AVATAR! And it was awesome! We saw the 3-D Version! Avatar is definitely a must see movie. Even though it was a long movie and didn’t feel really long. Fantastic sound effects and overall great story. Love all the different messages throughout the movie
After movie we headed back to the sis’s place and started getting things ready for our road trip again for tomorrow to head back to reality Hard to believe the marathon is already over. All that training done with. Not sure if we be doing anymore races this coming year but you never know One thing we do plan on doing more is YOGA. That is going to be our main fitness focus.
Today’s Eats were:
Breakfast was yet another green smoothie.
Snack before the movie was some raw onion flatbread.
No lunch we watched Avatar instead!
Don’t you just love our glasses???
Stopped by whole foods to grab some green smoothies essentials for our road trip tomorrow. And finally got our cocktail!
Dinner was a huge salad! Salad was filled with all the delicious fixins we love so much like sauerkraut, fermented veggies, onion flatbread, and a homemade tahini basil dressing with some garlic
Heavenly! So satisfying! We love our salads and fermented foods!
We also enjoyed some victory WINE in our 2010 Marathon wine classes! Such a treat tonight! These were great purchases at the expo! They will be used quite a bit
Here is another fun and short video from Michelle after our marathon
And here are some more pictures fro the marathon hope you enjoy!
Here we come up Epcot the final push
Not sure where Michelle is going?!?!
Here are the twins right before the finish
Our sister did it! HAHA. Here we all are walking slowly to the car!
Enjoy your night! More exciting news and post coming to Pure2Raw!!!
Yes we survived our second Marathon!! It was a long and cold day (was a record low for Florida) but we are very proud of ourselves for finishing it Hard to believe it happened and it is all done! We were pretty nervous on how the cold would effect us because we do not handle cold running weather well
Thanks again to all of our friends and readers for the good luck wishes. It means a lot to us both
And congrats to all the other marathoners today – great job!
Here is how our day started:
Alarm clock going off at 2am!
Lori’s outfit! Michelle’s outfit!
Got dressed and ate breakfast :dates, bananas, spirulina, coconut oil, agave nectar, dulse flakes, maca
Lori’s First few layers of clothing
First layer was a tank and second layer was Under Armour cold gear plus arm warmers over it!
Michelle’s layers (same kind of layers though she already put her hat on)
Next layer
Added another Under Armour cold gear sweater, nike hat, and ear warmers! (Boy does my head looked big)
We forgot to take a picture of our final outer layer. Though it was another Under Armour Jacket plus 2 gloves (our outer pair was bright PINK)! Also we had a scarf and wrapped ourselves in a blanket!!!!!!!! I think that should do it to fight off 20 degree running weather!
Though we ended up tossing the blanket right before our corral started going!
And Big Thanks for UNDER ARMOUR Clothing!!!!!!!!!!!! Our outfits saved us from freezing to death at this marathon We loved everything we wore definitely great buys.
Next was making sure we had everything and put on racing bibs on (though never took any layers off so no one really saw our numbers)
Than it was race time – took the monorail leaving our resort to head over! Ate pre-workout snack. Hit the spot for us!
Boy it was a cold one by the time we got to the start line! Got in our corral and it was ready to go!!!! We just made it
Than we were off!!!
Our marathon plans had to be altered a little bit because our older sister who WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO RUN due to her health decided to run anyways (I do not recommend this for others who are very sick) The main reason our sister wanted to run it is because she does the Goofy and it was their 5th year anniversary and she wanted the medal (she has done 4 of them in a row- she is crazy)! Therefore, we stayed with her and started the race at a tad slower pace than we anticipated. We just did not want to leave her in case something happened.
The first 3 miles were interesting for us. We had some major technology malfunctions. First my watch went dead! Second our sister’s Garmin was giving us problems. Third, we had so much to carry due to all the layers it was getting annoying (though we did not want to take anything off because we knew it was going to be cold majority of the race)
But do to our delicious and powerful sports spirulina drink she managed to stay with us at a decent pace up until mile 15. Once we got there she decided she needed to walk a little bit more, but told us to keep going! We felt bad leaving though I know she wanted us to reach our goal.
Therefore at mile 15 we said goodbye to the sis and made sure she had plenty of spirulina coconut water and some of our raw race snacks to help her finish
Majority of the race we did a 4:1 but the last few miles we decided to just run and take walk breaks if we needed them. And that is what we did
Here is Michelle and I with a pirate. We always try to get Jack Sparrow (michelle is a HUGE FAN) though line always so long but this pirate was kind of enough to come to us!
Overall we both felt great besides the blisters and our fingers being numb. Don’t get me wrong we both were tired and feeling the pain by mile 20 though we kept pushing along.
I started breaking down around mile 23. My blisters on both feet were KILLING ME and my left calf felt like I pulled it. Michelle’s right leg was giving her problems majority of the race. Oh the joys of running a 26.2 mile run.
We managed to pull ourselves together and finish the race under 5 hours! That was our goal!!!! We are pretty proud of ourselves because we had a lot of time to make up from running slow in beginning. And we ran the marathon without taking any pills like Tylenol!!! And we never went to bathroom the whole entire race which is a big deal because having such weak stomachs we typically have too! Our older sister managed to do the same. And she finished as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are so proud of our sister, what a champ!
And big thanks to Nutrex Hawaiian Spriulina! What a true superfood! Not only did it get us through the marathon it helped our sick sister finish as well We are truly grateful for such a great product. It has made her a believer that if you give your body the right ingredients/nutrition you can succeed and heal!
The only thing we ate during the race was a few of our raw race snacks and drank our spirulina coconut water! That is it and it fueled us just fine. No complaints here!
See being high raw vegans (and someone who suffers from stomach issues like us) you can do anything that anyone else can do! You just have to be a little more open minded and creative!
We do not consider ourselves “runners” we just like good workout challenge every once in a while Not sure if we will do another marathon but we are pretty proud of ourselves for doing 2 of them!
We came home and showered up! And put some nice warm clothes on. We were all still so COLD, not sure if we really ever got hot at the race
We enjoyed post-race pudding in the car ride pack to resort! Delicious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Than devoured our green parsley smoothie our post-workout smoothie. Always hits the spot!
We added some coconut flakes to ours as a little treat!
Ok time to go big out! We will show more pictures of our race tomorrow once we download them off our sister’s husbands camera.
Everyone else’s food looked amazing and all seemed to enjoy it : ) We had a great time talking with everyone and looked forward to one day meeting them again in the future.
Here are some pictures from today’s lunch. Good luck to you all in your race and sorry some of our conversations were not as long as we would have liked, we will do better next time ; )
Then before heading back to the hotel to rest up we ran into Fresh Market to pickup some lemons (must stay alkalized) and mango flavored coconut water.
We came back and made our homemade Spirulina sports drink that helped our sister complete her race today.
Here are our sports bottles ready to go.
And dinner was a a slice of green onion bread (we just love them) and green kale smoothie (staying alkalized) topped with coconut oil (energy powerhouse) and maca (stress reducer)
We also enjoyed some Zico Coconut Water – Mango flavor which is a new flavor for us. Typically we liked the plain coconut water but this was not too bad. A tad sweet but refreshing, though do like the plain coconut water better. We are just not big fans of flavored water type drinks.
Benefits of the things you have been seeing us eat:
Green smoothies – all the vitamins and minerals our bodies need to sustain a race, like iron which you lose during exercising
Maca – great for stress, supports immune system, and can increase energy and endurance
Dulse – full of electrolytes and trace minerals, keeps us hydrated
Coconut oil – Full of lauric acid, good fat for energy, best source for fuel
coconut water – full of electrolytes, keeps us hydrated
fermented foods – full probiotics to keep our tummies happy, predigested foods so our tummies do not waste time digesting foods, just give our bodies the energy it needs
Yacon syrup – lower glycemic sugar that is full of mineral and prebiotics, which help keep friendly bacteria in us
Dates/bananas – great source for sugar that is converted into energy
If anyone has any questions, please leave a comment and we would happily answer them!
Now here all the goodies we will have before, during and post race!
Pre-race snack 1 – Date spirulina pudding – we will eat while getting dressed early in the morning
Pre-race snack 2- Coconut chia pudding – we will eat this about 20-30 minutes before the race
And a variety of little balls that we will enjoy throughout the race with our Spirulina sports drink
Post-race meal – Banana Maca Pudding – we will eat when race is over
Sorry for the long post, but we are not sure when we will get our race re-cap.
Good luck to all runners! We will continue to heal and grow stronger with our raw vegan diet. We hope to give you tips and guidance throughout our journey
Good night everyone hopefully we can check in with you all tomorrow to let you know we are alive
Till next time, here we go with our second marathon!
Congrats to all the Disney Half Marathon Runners!!! What a day it was.
Our older sis Jen, and her mother-in-law, Sally, made it!!!
The sis told us our spirulina sports drink helped get her through the race. She felt great despite the cold, rainy weather : )
She was upset it was empty, but no worries we had another one filled for her!
Check out the bottle in her pocket!
She also enjoyed some of the goodies Lori and I will be enjoying tomorrow on our race day, so glad to see they worked!!
We did not sleep much last night, plus got up 3am with the sis to get her all ready. Then laid back down for an hour then it was time to get dressed to go stand in the cold as we cheer them on.
Before we left the hotel we each grabbed two fudge brownie bites. Then after seeing Jen and Sally outside our hotel, which was around mile marker 4.5. We jumped on the monorail and to meet them over at the Grand Floridian.
As we watched Jen and Sally head down the road back to Epcot, we jumped back on monorail and ran up to the room to have ourselves some of raw coconut yogurt with msm and yacon syrup. Sorry no picture we were in a hurry.
Then we headed back on monorail to head to Epcot and watch them cross the finish line.
They made it!!! Smiling : )
Now we are back at hotel getting ready to the blogger lunch!
Although we did grab some food just in case we cannot find something we can eat.
Handful of raw crackers
Slice of onion bread
And about 1/2 cup of unpictured raw sauerkraut with tahini…yes out of the jar!!!
Now sipping on a cup of ginger tea to warm up and then we are heading in a few minutes ; )
Well as many people are running in the half marathon this morning like Sabrina, Katy, and Melissa to name just a few. We wanted to wish them all the best of luck in the race
We have been getting questions of why we are eating the foods we are eating before our race and we plan to share that with you all over these next few days.
We started our day yesterday with a few chocolate truffles and treated ourselves to some coffee.
Than we went to the hotel’s gym to do a easy 30 minute workout. We did a mix of walk, sprint, and easy jog. Then we did a little stretching. Felt great!
Back in the room we enjoyed a romaine grapefruit smoothie with some maca, coconut oil, sunflower lecthin, and msm powder. Delicious!!!! It got thick from the coconut oil so it turned out to be more like a pudding!
Seriously one of the best ways to start the day!! Although it turned out to be our lunch.
Next we packed up all our bags again and moved into another hotel! Traveling with us can be crazy sometimes!
As we drove over to the other hotel we snacked on some raw crackers that we made before leaving NC.
This is our home for the next two days. This is the new tower at the Contemporary Resort.
By the time we unloaded all the bags again we got a little hungry. So Michelle whipped up some coconut yogurt with some spirulina, yacon syrup, and chia seeds.
Plus we sipped on some kombucha.
Then it was time to start making all the goodies for this weekend. All of our pre-workout, during workout, and after workout goodies.
Had to buy some more bananas though – the older sis wanted some of our treats! She wanted energy too and didn’t want to be left out ! Love her!
These little bananas cost us $5.50!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Better be some good bananas!
Dinner – Round One
One jar of sauerkraut with hemp seeds
Round Two
One jar of fermented veggies (daikon, leeks, beets, carrots) topped with dulse flakes and tahini once again!!!!! Heather we are in love!!!!
Dessert was a few more chocolate truffles! YUM! Can’t get enough of these babies. Good thing we made a double batch.
Our older sister gave us a surprise!
Thanks sis YOU ARE THE BEST!!! It was a package full of marathon goodies to help get us get through the race.
Some water, epsom salt, hand warmers, hand bands, chapstick, nose strips, and kleenax plus a few more things!
Well time to go cheer everyone on and than Food Bloggers Lunch with a bunch of great girls. We are very excited to meet everyone!
Sorry that our music playlist came out so small. We are not sure what happened when we imported it ; /
As we mentioned earlier that we were having technology issues. But we are back in action. Glad to see everyone enjoying our first video!!!
Here is our day yesterday!!!!
Today we started our morning with one of our typical green smoothies, similar to yesterday.
Glass of water kefir was a mid-morning snack.
Lunch was a glorious salad with fermented veggies, raw sauerkraut, and a slice of raw onion flatbread. Perfect!!! This kept us full all afternoon : )
Snack was un-pictured chocolate macaroons and glass of our homemade Kombucha. We had to show the sis a scoby!!
Then we debated if we wanted to go for a quick run or hit up the expo. We decided the expo to hopefully beat the crowd.
At Disney Marathon Expo at the Wide World of Sports.
Older sis Jen and Lori
Where is Michelle??? Sorry for the dark picture
Oh there I am!
Getting excited for the race…we think ; )
The expo was crazy as it is every year. Although this year was our first year going on Thursday (our past races Friday is normally the day we arrived), which was nice because it was a little less crowded.
We did browse all the booths but nothing really sparked our interest. It is the same thing every year. Well the expo took longer than we expected, so no workout today : (
We got our goody bag, race bib, race t-shirt, and these most essential post race celebration tools
By the time we got back, we were starving and quickly gobbled down some yummy eats.
The first part was inspired by the wonderful Heather.
Our first meal out of a jar full of fermented carrots and daikon plus a couple spoonfuls of tahini.
Yummy and creamyWe sprinkled in dulse and nutritional yeast!
Seriously this was the best meal….something we plan to recreate again. Heather I think we love tahini just as much as you do : )
Hopefully we made you proud Heather.
Second part of our meal was our homemade raw yogurt which we stirred in chia seeds and drizzled with yacon syrup!! YUM! Look like ice cream.
And of course we have been staying hydrated with our lots of water and some coconut water : ) Gotta love Zico!!
Then we quickly rushed and packed the cars and headed to our hotel. Well hotel number one for this night.This part is a little confusing, our sister got us a room closer for the marathon, the resort we try to stay at every time therefore we leave here tomorrow to check in there tomorrow. The joys of being in our family…we tend to make things a bit more complicated.
My older sister and her husband our Disney Vacation club members and had a room for the weekend at Saratoga Springs at the same time of the marathon.
Anyone want to go for a swim??
This was our first time here and we were blown away of how nice it is that we are sad to have to check out tomorrow. : (
Nice pic….Lori in the background, haha.
Cute little kitchen…oh yes we filled the fridge
Green Smoothie? Or Raw sauerkraut anyone? Or maybe raw yogurt? Are you surprised?? haha
Having a fridge is a must now for us raw vegans : )
We just wanted to check in real quick. We are in the process of packing/changing hotels and hopefully going for a walk. We had a full blown post of our crazy day yesterday from our delicious EATS to going to the Disney Marathon Expo but having some issues. So that post will be up later today! Sorry!
Don’t you just love technology sometimes
Here is a quick snap-shot of where we stayed last night
ANY GUESSES?!?!
Here is a quick video of Michelle showing our fridge – enjoy Pure2Raw first video!
Now I know many of you are probably thinking this is may not be your typical marathon preparation food?!?! But for us it is! We have all these green smoothies and fermented veggies plus some other dehydrated snacks to enjoy. Plus a lot of coconut oil!
All these foods combined gives us the perfect amount of energy without slowing us down because it all is easy on our bodies to digest! Our bodies are not wasting energy digesting our food but giving us the fuel we need to perform! We feel are best when eating high raw before big events!
Promise we will get you all updated real soon on our eats from yesterday! Thanks for being patient!
Lori and I wanted to share with all of you some of the songs we have on our ipods for the race this weekend. Hopefully it keeps us pumped up and motivated to RUN!!!!!!!!!
As you can see this is just a glimpse of the mine songs…Lori’s list looks pretty similar!! We like a wide variety of songs…helps prevent us from getting bored. Yes for us running 26 miles there are times when you mind starts wondering and you just need something to keep you going.
We must say music definitely helps with our running which I know majority of you would agree. Now typically in past races we start with no music mainly due to it being so packed with people we want to be able to hear each other in case one of us gets lost in the pack.
The we find each other within the crowd is that we yell out “Smelly Cat.” You may be wondering why we say this, well because it is not a normal thing to say. It makes it easier for us to find one another. And of course we like to do silly things from time to time.
Just for more laughs we thought you would enjoy this clip!
Ok seriously Friends was one of the best shows on TV!!! And still is one of the best ones to this day Well in our opinion!!!
And also a big thanks to all of you who signed up early for our Gift of Health basket that Twin Cakes is offering! As we mentioned in our emails we will be in touch with each of you shortly to get things moving. Thanks for your patience.
How is everyone doing? Staying warm we hope! I know we are trying too!
After staying up for almost 24 hours yesterday we left ourselves sleep in this morning. Didn’t wake up till 10am Nice! Due to our late start in the morning we didn’t get as much work accomplished as we were hoping for.
Though we did manage to get some extra warm clothes for the Disney marathon. Got another pair of clothes, a hoodie, and another jacket. Hopefully that will keep us warm.
We started our morning with a blue-ish green smoothie this morning
This smoothie was filled with blueberries, apple, swiss chard, stevia, fresh ginger, pinch sea salt and coconut oil. Delicious! Certainly got us moving.
Did some work than decided to head to buy a few more outer clothing gear for the race. Ok we are babies sometimes when it comes down to cold weather!
Before heading out we got our coconut yogurt (that we made prior to leaving in NC) for lunch. We mixed in some yacon syrup and maca.
Packed all of us some water though we forget to bring some snacks Our errands took us longer than expected so by the stop we got to our last stop, which was Whole Foods, we all got some fresh vegetable juice!
Jen and I each got beet and carrot juice… we like to call it Red Beauty. We feel like the Cullens when we drink this
Lori got a cucumber grapefruit juice
Hit the spot for us all. We all talked about juices in the car about in how we all miss them and did do drink them more.
By the time we got back it was dark and getting cold again. But Lori and I wanted to move the legs some and TEST out our new hats and gloves. And to test out how cold we still got! So we got dressed and hit the road.
Can you tell who is who????
Don’t we look gorgeous silly!!!
Before we headed out the door we grabbed two of our chocolate coconut bites for some extra energy.
We did a 30 minute run. Not sure of distance we just went and ran to we both felt good. Came back and made a simple pumpkin milk banana spirulina smoothie with some more maca and coconut oil in it.
Missing the natural light at night…grr! Why is it so hard to take decent pictures at night.
Anyways our dinner for the evening was a wilted romaine salad with avocado and sauerkraut, fermented veggies, topped with dulse flakes, apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, red onion and some tahini. Thats a mouth full.
Made the same salad for the other sis! We all loved it!!! Seriously obsessed with sauerkraut and fermented veggies. Stomach being very happy with them
HAHAHA!! Don’t you just love my Park City Ear Warmers that I wear for skiing??
I look like a big goof, but hey it keeps me warm….well normally I would be fine, but like I said it was below 30 outside!!!!
Lori and I did make the attempt, but it was freezing!! We ran for only 15 minutes…both our fingers were burning, our faces were frozen, our ankles and feet numb. Not fun : /
We came home warmed up a little in front of our space heater as we debated if we should go put more layers on or just go to the gym…..
We went to the gym.
Happily sat in the sauna for 10 minutes to warm up : ) Then tackeled a fast 3 mile run on the treadmill followed by 20 minutes of up hill walking.
We both felt amazing!! Felt wonderful to get a good workout in. Neither one of us worked out while over Christmas.
Here is a quick overview of our past workouts:
Last week:
Monday: 30 minutes yoga and core exercises
Tuesday – Saturday – relaxed…enjoyed the break : )
Sunday – 2 hour walk outside…the sun was out and we had a lot to catch up on!!
Monday – about 45 minutes of Bosu Ball, jump roping, push-ups, core exercises, and cleaned the whole house
Tuesday – 45 minutes yoga and core exercises
Wednesday (TODAY) – attempted 2 hour run that turned into a quick 3 mile run with 20 minutes of up hill walking
So now you all are up-to-date with our workouts and over these next few days we will let you know what we do for workouts as the countdown till our marathon begins
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Sisters medals from the weekend (half, full, goofy)
And ours full marathon medals! Aren’t they so pretty?
Hard to believe the marathon is already over. All that training done with. Not sure if we be doing anymore races this coming year but you never know 
Don’t you just love our glasses???
This was seriously yummy!!!! You could never tell by the look of it, but it totally hit the spot.
Very addicting : ) Again please do not judge by the way it looks!
I was testing out my 
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Do I look hot or what??
