Saturday morning I started my New Year’s Eve with one final long run for 2011. Our schedule suggested 8 to 10 miles.
Before long runs I typically get the baked chicken platter with a salad and black beans and rice from Black Bean Deli in Winter Park. I’ve found this to be the perfect pre-run meal.
However, Friday night I might have fun its competition at Antonio’s in Winter Park.
D and I each started with the soup of the day, which was a potato soup with sausage and spinach. The soup was hearty and absolutely delicious. Honestly, I would’ve stopped there if I wasn’t running the next day! For my entree I had the Pollo all’Aglio e Rosmarino. The chicken was perfectly cooked. Even the white meat was moist, which is really hard to come across. The best way I could describe the meal was that it was clean. All of the flavors were subtle and simple, and the entree as a whole was delicious.
Here’s a pic of my meal:
I only ate half my meal. We skipped dessert because we were stuffed, but by the time I got home I wanted a little something sweet. Seeing as it was International Bacon Day, I thought it would be fitting if I finally tried this:
I knew that bacon made everything taste better… but even chocolate?? It was surprisingly delicious!
Saturday morning I was up early. Earlier during the week I slept through not one, but TWO runs and couldn’t sleep because I was so nervous I would sleep through my alarm yet again.
We did something different for our last long run: laps around Lake Baldwin. Each lap is approximately 2.4 miles. One of my running ladies and I were running the longest: we ran approximately 9.5 miles, then stopped to get coffee on our final lap.
When we got back to where our cars were, the rest of our group was waiting for us so we could start the Most Awful Christmas/Hanukkah Gift I Got and Want to Get Rid of White Elephant Gift Exchange.
Those gifts look pretty, right?
Here’s what was amongst them:
- A 1lb. gummy bear
- A travel-size can of shaving cream and a razor blade
- A tacky Christmas mug and a ‘Welcome’ frog statue
- A bag of coconut candy and a March birthday plaque
- Christmas shot glasses and a flask
I didn’t think the last one was so bad. Neither was the shaving cream and razor blade. That’s what I took home and will definitely use it.
My last run before the marathon went well and helped me end a bad running week (missing two runs in a row) on a positive note.
I can’t believe that I’ll be running my first marathon on less than a week!
Any words of advice?
I Sweat Pretty 