Saturdays Are For Eating

I have officially devoted Saturdays to eating. Pretty much all day. Pretty much all food. So we started off with an 8 mile run, and that justified my: Breakfast at the CornerStone Cafe, where I enjoyed a ham & cheese omlet, pancakes, hashbrowns, and enough coffee to last me all week. I got home around 11:30...and before you know it it was lunchtime! So Jeff, my brother-in-law Tim, and I headed around the corner to Leonas. Since I just had finished breakfast about 2 hours prior, I wasnt starving. Despite that, I still ate several pieces of bread and 1/3 of my buffalo chicken salad. Its now 3pm and we have dinner reservations for 6pm!

Tonight we will be heading to dinner with Jeff's family. His grandpa and great-aunt are in town. We are heading to an old favorite of ours, the Gale Street Inn. This place is known for their ribs...so guess what I will be eating? Ribs, of course! They also have fantastic "loaded potato skins" which are actually traditional potato skins (potatoes, bacon, cheese) plus pulled pork. Sounds weird...but they are SOOOO GOOOD. As regulars, I got a coupon for them for a free appetizer during the month of my birthday (which it is) so you can bet I will be ordering these babies tonight! If I wasn't so stuffed right now, I would be salivating.

Tomorrow Jeff is going to go golfing in the suburbs with his brothers. Since he has to go out there, I am going to go with and spend the day at the Outlet Mall. I deserve it! I worked hard studying for my exams and now I have to start working on other work on Monday. If Saturday is for Eating...Sunday is for SHOPPING! YEAH!

Training Log
Time:  90.31 minutes  Distance:8.00 miles   Pace:  11:19min/mi
I ran this 8 miles much slower than last time (pace was 10:45 last time). I ran with a bigger group this week, and definitely could have gone faster. But, I ran with my friends and we all enjoyed ourselves. Lots of times we split up over the course of the run, but this time we didn't. I have to say, it was actually "fun". And then the same group went out to breakfast. I did have to stop at the restroom, but we all met up at the next water fountain. 12 miles seems daunting, but if I can run with these guys, I think I can run forever (well...not forever but you know what I mean).
Progress Made

• I can say, depite a problem here and there, I feel very comfortable with 8 miles

Lessons Learned

• I still need to work on training my body a bit to handle the long runs. I am going to work on tweaking a thing or two over the next two weeks. First tweak - breakfast before the run!