There’s so much food in this city

WORKOUT – TM

run in hotel gym

7.1 miles/65 mins

1.o incline

nice and very easy miles

I woke up this morning feeling really good, no soreness or achiness at all so I went down to the nice little hotel gym and watched the news for an hour while running some 9ish minute miles.

The marathon heat advisory is now on the news; they’re saying it could be 88 degrees tomorrow and are allowing deferred entry until next year because of the heat.

{I’ll have the race recap up this afternoon, but if you’re on twitter, you can see my results and a couple pictures}

Man Up Miles tally:

49.15

YESTERDAY

After the race, I met Kari for lunch in Narragansett at Cool Beans Café.

Kari is a marathoner, blogger and now works for Aspaeris compression shorts so we talked about all sorts of things from barefoot running to Las Vegas to compression tights.

After lunch we said goodbye and then drove back to Boston and to our hotel which is really nice except the beds are full-sized.  sucks for my parents!

None of us brought swimsuits, but some of our hotels for the week have hot tubs and my dad loves to tub so my mom and I went to Old Navy and bought cheap suits.  That one drying on the mirror is my mom’s.  I bought this top and this bottom. 

I might have to run in my swimsuit since it’s could be record high temps on Monday.  Did you read that the marathon is now allowing runners an extra hour to finish?

Anyways, after we checked in we took the T to the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston.  I think it’s considered downtown.  I don’t know really.

Why hello, turdface.  You’re so cool wearing your sunglasses indoors.

The cemetery where Paul Revere, John Hancock and Bernie Mac are buried.  ok, maybe not Bernie.

Old City Hall

We made a Freedom Trail detour at Quincy Market and Faneuil Marketplace for a quick lunch.  This place was insane – it’s a huge, long building packed with little fast food-type stalls with every sort of food imaginable.  It’s what I imagine heaven for foodies is.

so many choices, so much pressure.

My dad had an Italian squid salad that was amazing (sounds gross but it was AMAZING), and I had a roast beef sandwich and huge pickle.  The sandwich was just average, nothing great.  I’d definitely try one of the other 7000 choices next time.

After face stuffing, we got back on the trail and saw the Paul Revere statue and his house.  We just can’t get enough of homeboy.

Then we kept the fun going by heading into the North End where all the Italian restaurants are.  We walked around some more and had a beer (super girly Riesling for me) at a sports bar; seriously is there any professional sport that doesn’t have a team in Boston?!  Curling, maybe? 

And then we went to eat some more.  We heard great things about Giacomo’s but didn’t want to wait an hour or more so we ended up at Café Pompeii because the wait wasn’t too long.  With the marathon and all the sports games going on, the North End was packed.

My dad loved his seafood pasta dish, but my mom and I thought ours was just okay.

Thanks Dad for taking all the pictures of us and making us feel like celebs!  Normally I have to take all the pictures of myself and feel like a tool…

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