Countdown to Fitness

Photo by David Monniaux

This salad is cool and delicious, great for a hot day.

I have the wonderful opportunity to belong to a CSA (community-supported agriculture) program, so from May to November I get almost all my produce from a local farm.  I used fresh-off-the-farm, organic baby salad greens, along with the farm’s own just-picked strawberries.  However, any type of salad greens will work.

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Back on April 1, I posted an entry, “The Challenges of Training for a 5K.” I mentioned that I was going to run a 5K on May 15.  It just so happened that my husband and I went to the St. Louis Fitness Expo later in April and met the new Chi Running instructor here in St. Louis.  He scheduled an all-day workshop for May 15, so my husband and I decided to run a week later on May 22.

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