Lunch

Had a cute little catch up lunch date with Sarah today. I met up with her during my lunch break before she started her shift at work. We went to Love Thy Neighbour in Hatton Garden. The one on Bold Street which I've been to twice has shut down. Not sure why - thought that would have been well busier than this one as one is hidden and out the way. Didn't even know where it actually was and it's pretty close to where I work. 

I got the Fresh berries, Matcha and yoghurt fluffy pancakes.

It was nice could have done with more yoghurt but it was filling.

I also got an Amazonian fruits smoothie - Banana, Amazonian Fruits, daily berries and oat milk which was nice. I was debating that or the Match smoothie (Matcha, spinach, banana and oat milk). Kinda wish I got the Match smoothie but thought it might have been Matcha over load since I had it with my pancakes. 

Sarah got a Buddha Bowl - Super Food Bowl - Crispy kale, charred tender stem broccoli, spinach, roasted squash, beets, sour cherries, toasted seeds, pomegranate, citrus pomace dressing and she added chicken to it.

I love the interior which is the same as what they had on Bold Street. We went at 12:30 and it was quiet only a few other people in there and our food was made really quick.

It was a nice catch up as Sarah is leaving the week after we do the marathon to go to Australia for a year to work and travel. I'm going to lose my gym buddy best mate for a whole year - I've kind of accepted it's for good though, I don't think she's ever coming back once she's left. But she should go there's nothing here holding her back and I wish I was brave enough to go. Sadly I'm not and she's going to have to settle for me going to visit her for a month or two! I've told her to promise me she can't sky dive until I visit as that is number 1 on my bucket list that I have to do. There's so many things on my bucket list I can tick off as well when I go so I'm excited to go and visit once she's settled!

Not going to get emotional over it now as we've still got a while and have a lot of things to fit in before she goes but I'm so excited for her to go and start her new journey and to go join her!

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Rock n Roll

Today was the Liverpool Rock n Roll Marathon which I should have been running. I was so sad and gutted that I wasn't doing it! :(

Got into town for before 9 with Jo, Rich and Sarah. The weather was perfect maybe a bit too hot for a marathon but anything is better than the rain and elements we've had to deal with! The race started at the Albert Dock. We watched the start of the Half Marathon that started at 9ish which Jack, his sister and cousin was running. Angie and her partner Jonny were also running too. Rich was suppose to run but decided not to cos he hadn't trained and didn't want to get a worse time. The full wasn't starting till around 10ish so we stayed with Jo and hyped her up ready to go.

Should've been matching with these 2 with my compression socks too!

This amazing woman's number 1 fan looking fresh before the big race.

You could go down and sign up on Friday night I was so tempted to walk down and sign up for the marathon cos I wanted to do it so bad but never.

We left them to start then headed to Love Thy Neighbour on Bold Street to have breakfast.

Love Thy Neighbour

Rich got a peanut butter hot chocolate

Clearly hungry... got a scrambled egg & smoked salmon bagel. Sausage and red onion sough dough sandwich 

Sarah got the Cosmic Cacao Smoothie Bowl - banana, avocado, cacao

I got the Berry Blast Smoothie Bowl - raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, banana

I've had the smoothie bowl before when I went with Holly. Was a bit disappointed today though the smoothie was really thin and runny. It was defo thicker last time wouldn't say it was a smoothie. 

After we headed back to the finish line which was at the back of the Echo Arena to see Jack finishing his race. After we headed into town.

We might not have ran any of the races but we did cross the start line!

We went into town to find Rich a neck strap (I think that's what it's called) for his sunglasses but went to every Home Bargains in town, every pound shop, bargain random shop, Primark, T K Maxx and every opticians but no-where sold them! The last place we went to was Boots opticians where we finally found them! Literally trekked all around town to find one. Practically doing our own half marathon there!

We went back to the finish line at around 2pm as we were tracking Jo and she was due to finish around quarter past. 

She's amazing and absolutely smashed it with a time of 3:57:51. Beat that 4 hour mark we wanted! Didn't train further than 17 miles either but on the day just did it! I am so proud of her and literally look up to her at how amazing she is. I know if I was doing it I probably wouldn't have been able to keep up as she was so consistent averaging around 9 minute miles. I would've struggled so bad especially with that heat!

Rich thinking he's just ran a full marathon before Jo got her time engraved onto her medal. Absolute rip off for £12 for an actual second. We blinked and it was done!

Met up with Jo from work who ran the half with Iain from work. She wanted to meet the other amazing Jo since she gave us the plan for this marathon even though we didn't quite stick to it - it really helped thanks! 

Jonny sadly didn't finish the race but he tried and managed to do half of it. Injury got the better of him but he did more than me by actually starting the race. We'll both do it next year and smash it! We've got our own coach that's been there done it and has the t-shirt to show for it!

Congratulations and well done to everyone who ran the half or full marathon or 1 miler today and the 5km race yesterday. You're all amazing and all the training is definitely worth it for that medal!!

Jo you're the best and I hope when I finally get to run a marathon my time is just as good as yours!

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Love Thy Neighbour

Went out for lunch today with Holly to Love Thy Neighbour on Bold Street. We've both been wanting to try a smoothie bowl after seeing them all over Instagram. If you don't know what it is you'll probably recognise it if you have Instagram. It was the big hipster thing going round L.A, Australia & London with the clean eating craze last year. 

It's basically a smoothie in a bowl with either granola or porridge oats with fresh fruit, dried fruit & seeds. Super healthy.

Love the interior with the plants in the ceiling. 

Holly's green tea

From Holly's Instagram

From a photo they've posted on their Facebook I think the smoothie is made with avocado, spinach, agave, & banana. Granola with raspberries, blueberries, desiccated coconut, chia seeds & berries. They don't have a website yet & don't have a menu on their Facebook page which is annoying. 

All the food they do are all super healthy like avocado on toast, poached eggs, smoked salmon, sweet potato wedges, pancakes, Buddha bowls (also a big Instagram craze), vegan cakes, smoothies, fruit juices, healthy teas & coffees. They're open 8am-11pm & even do cocktails. 

We both really enjoyed & glad we tried it. We were a bit unsure on whether it was a good idea to both get exactly the same thing as they only have the one smoothie bowl on offer. I would definitely recommend, it was refreshing & filling. We just wished we were having it somewhere a little more exotic rather than a cold, miserable, wet Liverpool.

Moose Coffee has been feature in the The Guardian's The 50 best breakfast places in the UK for the North West. The waffle & pancakes are good as mentioned on my blog here back in October. Love how well all these independent business' are doing. Getting noticed outside of the city. Like I've said before I'd much rather support them then the usual big franchises which are all over the place!

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