Vacation Routines: Silver Lake Meals & Workouts
Wherever I go, I find a routine that usually involves cooking and always involves exercise. Camp is no exception. Meals at Silver Lake are meant to be simple. A spread that can be prepared for a crowd with minimal amenities and served family style. Often, they don’t even involve a recipe. Grilled salmon and freshly grown corn. Or giant, homemade margarita pizzas.
Or a huge plate of mozzarella, which was being handmade while we waited for our sandwiches at a little Italian deli I discovered a couple years back, just off the highway on our route north. Serve it with fresh tomatoes, warm baguette, basil from Grammy’s herb garden, olive oil and balsamic, and you have a meal for a king.
On other nights I do use a recipe, although it requires some forethought as most of the small community markets have gone out of business, and the closest grocery store is a half hour away. I always go for big batch recipes that serve the whole family – maybe even with leftovers! – like Mexican-style Cornbread Panzanella and Spring Vegetable Lasagna with Pesto and Goat Cheese. In past summers at Camp, I recall making Creamy Avocado Pasta with Smoked Salmon and Asparagus and Lemon Chicken with Zucchini and Feta. Really, all that matters is that the meal starts with wine and ends with ice cream. All meals taste better there anyways, marked by plenty of laughs in the dim porch light.
I’m a total gym rat at home, usually taking 5-7 classes a week, but I didn’t miss my gym once this past week. Between the beautiful wooded trail and the clear, blue lake, we got a great workout in every day we were there – and that doesn’t even count the swim to the island! Courtney and I are good at coming up with vacation workouts, and we always enjoy doing it. My favorites were the shore to float circuits, which included ~1,500m+ swim interspersed with bodyweight exercises. One of these days, maybe we’ll start our own bootcamp!
Day 1: 6 mile trail run with boot camp style exercise at each mile, lake swim
Day 2: 5 mile trail run, lake swim
Day 3: 2 mile run, 10 shore to float laps with 10 push ups and 10 jump squats between each, 5 shore to float laps with 20 sit ups and 50 bicycles between each
Day 4: 5 mile train run, lake swim
Day 5: 2 mile run, 5 shore to float laps with 20 push ups and 20 jump squats between each, 5 shore to float laps with 20 burpees and 20 shoulder taps between each one, 5 shore to float laps with 20 leg lifts and 50 bicycles between each one, lake swim
Day 6: 5 mile trail run
Hopefully this helps prepare us for our triathlon in 40 days (!!!), because we sure haven’t been training.
