My “worthy” sweater finally came in and of course I had to take a few pics 😂 Take one, take two, take three… okay, maybe four🫣 All my kids are at school or work and nobody was around to take my picture, so I had to do it myself. But I mean… look at this cool-ass sweater! 😏 Thanks Coach @Darren Liu will be rocking it to football practice tonight 😁

I saw James Bok’s Pumpkin Banana Bread recipe post and had to try it. I was a little short on bananas, so I adjusted the pumpkin slightly and it came out so good! I sliced mine into 8 servings for meal prep. Macros per serving: 151 calories | 22 g net carbs | 4 g protein | 5 g fat Ingredients - 204 g ripe banana — about 1 3/4 cups mashed depending on size - 150 g pumpkin purée — about 2/3 cup - 2 large eggs — about 100 g - 2 tbsp maple syrup — about 40 g - 1 tsp vanilla extract — about 5 g - 1 1/2 cups rolled oats, blended into oat flour — about 120 g - 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon — about 4 g - 2 tsp baking powder — about 8 g - 1/2 tsp baking soda — about 2–3 g - Pinch of salt, optional Topping - 1/3 cup chocolate chips or chopped chocolate — about 55–60 g - 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds — about 30 g Directions 1. Preheat oven to 350°F. 2. Mash the banana. 3. Add pumpkin purée, eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla and mix well. 4. Blend oats into a flour consistency. 5. Add oat flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda, and optional salt to the wet mixture. 6. Mix until just combined. 7. Pour batter into a prepared loaf pan. 8. Sprinkle chocolate and pumpkin seeds over the top. 9. Bake at 350°F for about 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out mostly clean. 10. Let it cool completely before slicing. My adjustment: James Bok’s original recipe calls for 2 bananas. I only had 204 g, so I increased the pumpkin purée to 150 g to make up for some of the missing moisture. Definitely adding this one to the fall rotation. 🎃🍌 Recipe inspiration/credit: James Bok’s Pumpkin Banana Bread recipe post.

My HYROX buddy couldn’t make it today, so guess who I got paired with? Coach T. 😳😂 No pressure or anything… just me thinking, “Welp. I guess we’re WORKING working today.” 😆 And yep… we HUSTLED. Today’s workout was AMRAP — 10 minutes per station, so the goal was to get through as many rounds/reps as possible while keeping a pace we could actually sustain. Basically: move with purpose, don’t gas yourself out too early, and when your brain starts telling you to stop… keep going anyway. 😅 One thing that made me really happy today was hearing Coach Emma point out our progress. She noticed that our wall balls are getting better — we’re squatting lower and getting more consistent with our form AND she said our sled pulls have improved compared to a few weeks ago. YASSSSSSS! 🙌 Sometimes when you’re in the middle of training every week, you don’t realize how much you’ve improved because you’re so focused on what you still need to work on. So hearing that from a coach was such a great reminder that the work is WORKING. 💪 And yes… I’m still out here making friends with those wall balls one squat at a time. 😂 By the time we got to the later rounds, the fatigue was REAL. During my last run, I noticed another member slow down and start walking. You could tell she was DONE. Like mentally, physically, spiritually… DONE. 😂 As soon as I passed her, I tapped her arm and said, “Let’s go! You got this!” She picked it back up, and we jogged together until we finished the run. After class she came over, thanked me, and told me she appreciated me pushing her. That right there made my whole workout. ❤️ She wasn’t my partner today, but honestly, during HYROX training everybody is your teammate. We’re all suffering together. 😂 We’re all trying to get stronger. We’re all going to have a moment when our brain says, “NOPE. I’m done.” Sometimes all you need is someone next to you saying: “Nahhhh… come on. We’re finishing this together.” 😎 That’s what I love about training with this group. We work hard, we laugh, we suffer a little 😂, and we support each other even when we’re not paired together.

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