The first effort were my brownies, I made two batches given my previous attempt to kill those with a peanut allergy. I forgot to photo the plain chocolate ones, but this shows off the peanut butter layer nicely
They went down pretty well in the office so I managed to avoid eating the whole batch myself.
For the second cake I have to give exceptional credit to Elisa. Having introduced me to s'mores, she managed to take all the marshmallowy goodness and turn it into a birthday cake.
The photo doesn't really do it justice. Layers of brownie, cookie/biscuity base and marshmallow frosting, with some toasted marshmallow on top. I have to admit, even my sweet tooth was overcome but thankfully we had plenty of people to share it. So many calories! Thankfully the 1.2km of climb I did up Burrington Coombe on the bike somewhat offset this.
In general, the last weeks training has been a bit of a shambles with a lot of work and house related stuff meaning the only serious sessions I got in were a bric and the BADTri track session on Thursday. The track session was good, running 700s followed by 200s, I'm hitting 2:45 for the 700, and under :39 for the 200. Its giving me hope that I might have a good chance of running a sub 20 5k so I think I'll try and enter the Aztek West fast 5k on 24th November. This week is looking a bit more chilled out, so hopefully I can get back into more of a routine, I'm looking forward to a trail run on Friday which will add a bit of variation.
