Bringing back the fruit smoothies!

For the past 3 years, every morning I make & eat two of the following:

• 2 scrambled eggs with deli meat and sprinkled cheese
• oatmeal with walnuts, cranberries, cinnamon, splenda, with applesauce mixed in
• cereal (optionally with yogurt or banana as another side item)
• 1.25 liter fruit smoothie (during Spring and Summer only)

Spring is now here!  So, once again, the produce at my local farmer's market is now better and more plentiful.

My typical smoothies fill my 1.25 liter blender (42 oz) and are comprised of ~6 of the following items, which I try to change up each time:

• ~7 strawberries
• banana
• mango
• kiwi
• blueberries
• apple
• frozen raspberries
• milk
• vanilla or strawberry protein (casein or whey)
• oats
• chobani or oikos yogurt (usually strawberry, vanilla, or blueberry)
• chopped ice

Here's a sample of one in the making:

From above:

Finished product makes 32oz - 42oz:

Each spring/summer, I try to improve over the previous year's by perfecting the combinations of fruit so that it tastes just right.  It's nothing amazing, but pretty tasty :-)

Boston Marathon 2012

A friend of a mine from UCLA (we were grad school classmates), flew to Boston this past weekend to run the Boston Marathon.

I made a video, documenting his pre- and post-race:

Even though my viewing spot at the 26 mile mark (.2 miles from the finish line), it's essentially impossible to get decent footage of the actual race unless you have a press pass -- you can only see runners pass by you.