special delivery from a ninja

last week, shortly after getting home from work, there was a knock at the door. being the anti-social (just kidding ...sort of) that i am, i stealthily made my way to the door to see who it was, knowing full well I wasn't going to open it for anyone anyway. my parent's taught me well, stranger-danger! the only thing i could see was a ninja like creature and he left a box at the doorstep and took off running. he sure looked like a marathoner or a triathlete. i had no idea ninjas could run that well.

i could tell that this ninja was a little different ...instead of long black pants on, he had shorts like the one's pictured below. in fact, those were the exact shorts. who knew they wore tri shorts?

once i brought the box inside, i opened it up and this was what was in it ...homemade fig-bars. rumor has it that the ninja even used his sword to chop up the figs he used.



the last piece : (

 i did share these with the J-man and he loved them as much as i did. see, we love fig newtons around here and this is how the idea of fig bars came about. after blogging about how awesome fig newtons were working out for me while i was training for my first 140.6, a fellow blogger's light bulb went off and he came up with an even healthier creation based on using figs. genius! i'm sure many of you already know the special ninja who made these and i'm pretty sure he'd be more than happy to share the recipe. interestingly, he used garbanzo flour and soy flour to make these! who knew garbanzo beans could be made into flour and taste so good?



enjoying the last fig bar. excuse my red face. i just finished a hard swim and bike.



here he is, Jason the ninja chef/triathlete/marathoner/motivator and the list of compliments goes on ...

rumor has it (i'm full of rumors today) that you may one day be able to buy these killer fig bars to compliment your IM or marathon training. do yourself a huge favor and go visit Jason's blog at Cook Train Eat Race  or you can just click on his race picture above. his blog rocks just as much as he does.

Jason, thanks again for your generosity and friendship. i'm sure our paths will cross on a race course soon enough.

much love and peace out ...Thor awaits me!