tiny brick

since saturday was swimming...the weekend got switched around so sunday was bike run brick day...slept until seven...since this is the last week before the race the times were a bit light...out for a 75 minute ride...did my typical mid week ride route to shoal creek/great northern...this ride is _very_ nice on a sunday morning...no traffic...a few bikes...and it was beautiful weather...tried to keep my pace up but it is hard at the end with all the stop signs/lights but i felt like i was pushing it...dropped the bike

and off for a run...20 minutes...so i just stuck to the east side and basically did an out and back with 5 strides in the middle well i did mine after the turn around so they ended up being all up hill...hmm should have thought that through...it started to get hot towards the end of the run...makes me feel like cap tex day is going to be a tough one in terms of heat and time of day...have to get my race plan together...maybe i will do that monday...

i decided that i wanted to bake so i asked j what he wanted and he said butterfly rolls from the bakery in rochester that his mom always went to...i have never seen or had these rolls but the closest thing i could think of was an enriched (with milk and butter) white bread in a cloverleaf roll shape...i got out my 1970's bread book that totally smells like an old library book and looked for a good roll recipe...i found the perfect one...it has 1/2 cup of mashed potato in it too...they turned out great and as j said just exactly what he wanted... :)

also baked the chewy brownies from the joy of cooking...i like these better than really any other brownie that i have made or really eaten...ok so i don't eat brownies very often...but i think that these are quite tasty and in my mind what a brownie should be...they were awesome topped with fresh farm strawberries after our salad nicoise with seared tuna...yum...