A weekend full of my favourite things
This weekend was lovely! It was the perfect mix of low-key and busy and it was full of some of my very favourite things – yoga, running, reading, snowboarding, reading and some social time! Here’s a recap!
Friday:
I went straight to a 5:30 PM strong flow yoga class on Friday after work. Those of you who have read my blog for awhile know that I have had a regular hot yoga practice for about 2.5 years now and I LOVE IT. However, I’ve recently started practicing more in a regular yoga studio and it’s given me a completely different outlook on my practice. I feel like I don’t expire as quickly and I’ve had some “feel-like-I-could-practice-yoga-forever” moments which I love. I also feel like some poses – crow! – feel way more accessible to me when I’m not dripping with sweat. I will be continuing to practice in my hot studio regularly but I’m also going to add in more regular practices and at-home practices this year!
After yoga I picked up sushi for Eric and myself to have for dinner and went to bed shortly after finishing my dinner!
Saturday:
I didn’t set an alarm on Saturday and woke up naturally at about 8 am. I wandered downstairs to read my book and relax. After Eric woke up about an hour later we went to McDonalds to get coffee (seriously the best coffee ever!) and then I made myself a delicious brunch around 10:30 consisting of two eggs, an egg white, kale, broccoli and spinach scrambled together and topped with avocado, goat cheese and salsa. This was insanely delicious!
In the afternoon I went snowboarding with my brother. It was such a perfect, beautiful day above the clouds and the conditions were really great too! I wish we’d had time to get more than six runs in. Saturday evening I did a 20-minute at-home yoga practice and then Eric and I took Chloe for a walk in the trails. Lately we love walking her in the trails when it’s dark because all the white snow actually makes it really bright out there but yet no-one is ever around so she can run around off leash to her hearts content.
Later on Saturday evening I got a text from my best friend Jen asking if we wanted to go for a drink with her and her soon-to-be hubby. I’m usually not one for spontaneous/last-minute plans but I’m glad we met up with them because it was great fun!
Sunday:
Sunday morning I was up bright and early to meet my running group for our long run. They were lovely and met me an hour earlier than normal so I could make a yoga workshop at 11 am that I’d signed up for without realizing I needed to lead the long run this weekend! We tackled 12 miles / 19.3 km and it actually went by pretty quickly.
I went straight from running to a 1.5 hour Introduction to Ashtanga yoga workshop at the non-hot yoga studio. I have been really intrigued by Ashtanga yoga ever since I read this post on Jen from Peanut Butter Runner’s blog so when I saw the workshop on Facebook I jumped at the chance to sign up. We spent the entire class working with poses from the Ashtanga primary series. We spent a lot of time talking about each pose and focusing on alignment. I loved every second of it and the 1.5 hours flew by! Now that I have handouts of all the poses from the workshop though I am going to try and start dabbling in this series more at home and see where it takes me. I’m feeling this really strong pull towards yoga the last couple of months and I think more at-home yoga is the best way for me to expand my practice right now. I have a lot to say about this so may have to write a separate post some other time 
After my intense morning of running and yoga I came home and video chatted with Lisa, which was fantastic. And then I proceeded to vacuum our entire house. I had plans to spend the afternoon reading but our house really needed it and the vacuum was calling to me. It takes a good hour to vacuum all three floors of our house thoroughly but man does it feel good once it’s done! Then I read my book, worked on some blog posts, heated up frozen cabbage rolls and made sweet potato fries for dinner and cleaned up the kitchen after dinner. A pretty nice and mellow Sunday evening!
What did you do this weekend?
Wow a 19km then yoga?! After my long runs I would literally come home eat, and lay on the livingroom floor all day. haha. It probably helps a ton though to go to yoga.
Wow! Busy weekend! Sounds like lots of fun though. Isn’t it amazing how different yoga is in a non-hot studio? I know that I’ve been loving mine here in Port McNeill, it’s a very different experience but I’m loving it.
oh well!
I participated in a curling bonspiel this weekend. It was really fun! Though we totally lost all our games.
You had a busy weekend! I am so glad we were able to chat yesterday – that was definitely one of the highlights of my weekend! Mine was pretty low key. Happy hour and movie night in on Friday night, dinner out with friends on Saturday night. And then Phil came over for dinner last night and I made chicken wild rice soup which turned out great. It’s so dang cold here right now, soup is definitely hitting the spot for me these days!
I am glad it’s a 3 day weekend here as I really need an extra day away from work . I am going to hit the books now and hopefully the 3 hours of studying fly by! I have a lot to do today so it probably wont’ be as relaxing of a day as I”d like but it’s better than working!!
Sounds like a good weekend! I spent Saturday cleaning out our storage room (fun, fun!) and Sunday was much more laid back: church, a looooong nap and some baking – and then HOCKEY! Even Topher was excited to put on his jersey and watch the game
very cool! Sounds like I need to start reading Jen’s blog too. I started an ashtanga practice last year and absolutely love it. Get a copy of “21 things to know before starting an Ashtanga Yoga practice” from amazon, it’s a kindle book. really does a good job explaining everything besides just the asanas.
I like how you casually left out the BEST part of your Friday night
mwahahaha.
Your weekend sounds fantastic! Mine was really fun but I had almost no down time at all which is necessary for me to declare a weekend a full success. On Saturday I had a baby shower that was far away (so basically a whole day affair) and then I went out to dinner with some of my college friends who were in town, and then Sunday I had a baptism which meant more time spent with the friends who were in town. So, it was really nice to see everyone but just super busy! I actually have the day off today as well so I’m cooking food for the week, had a conference call for work (I swear my day is off) and then I’m going to visit a friend this afternoon
I hope you have a good week!
I miss weekends like yours – the great balance of resting/reading and being active, splashed with some time with friends. Way to take advantage of your time off from work!
That looks like a great weekend! I am really jealous of your skiing! I know I just need to get my butt in gear and go, but I have been putting it off, even though I want to do it! It’s so pretty out there!
Sounds like a great weekend! I’m jealous you live so close to a mountain that you can just go for 6 runs in the afternoon.. that is my ideal situation haha.
I’d love to hear more about your thoughts on at-home yoga, I’ve been thinking a lot about this too!
What a great weekend you had!
I went to Williamsburg (a couple hours away) to visit my best friend, and that was a pretty good balance of doing things and just hanging out. I came back Sunday and had the most productive three hours ever (think decorations away, clean apartment, clothes donated, etc), then went to my parents to watch the last NFL playoff game. Yesterday I had coffee with a friend, then we went to our favorite yarn store and spent the day watching Inaugural coverage while knitting. It was fabulous!
Sounds like a fun and busy weekend!
I had a pretty good weekend, although it went sooooo fast. The best part was attending a pot-luck dinner/ party at our friend’s house.
I so rarely wake up early enough to cook breakfast on the weekends. Or it’s more like I wake up and make coffee but don’t want to do anything else. Which is funny in a way, because I miss breakfast. And seeing photos like your omelette make me miss breakfast even more. Ha!
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