Hippocratic Oats

Ready, ready, ready, ready…ready to run

July 13, 2009 at 11:38 pm Leave a comment

It’s been a few days since the last update.  Sooo much has happened.  Thursday night I went for my last run before the boilermaker.  I did a quick 5K, working primarily on speed.  It went well.  Not awesome, but I was running a good mile time for me (right around 10 min miles).  Afterwards, I came home to work on the blog and my stomach started feeling a little strange.  Within an hour I was in full on food poisoning mode.  I won’t go into much detail, but it wasn’t pretty.

Needless to say, I never got around to that blog post on Thursday.   By Friday morning I was feeling somewhat better.  I spent the day resting as much as possible until Michele arrived.  She drove in from Boston for the race.  I was so excited to see her.  I’m missing Boston more and more every day and it was great to see someone from back home.  Besides hanging at Casa de Fryc, Michele had the added benefit of going to a Hanson (my mom’s maiden name) BBQ.  My cousin Rick and his wife Crystal were in town to run the race so Aunt Millie had a party for everyone to get together.  It was nice to see everyone, and I had some fantastic apple bread (mmm it was so good).  I also was extra classy and was sipping wine out of a big red solo cup.  Unfortunately, I didn’t get any pics of the evening

Saturday morning we were up bright and early to meet Kelly for wedding dress shopping with Emily.  After a little confusion with timing (totally my fault), we arrived a the boutique in Saratoga Springs.  Emily tried on lots and lots and lots of dresses, and she even finalized the dress she wanted for the bridesmaids to wear.  Kelly and I got to try it, on and it is ADORABLE.  No pics until next September

After lunch with Emily’s parents, the four of us were off to Utica.  We arrived with plenty of time to pick up our race packets.  Unfortunately, the heavy storms also arrived at the same time.  As we were waiting in line for our race gear, the heavens opened up and as emily said “It was epic!”  Michele took one for the team and ran back to pick up the car.  We all got a little wet, but we survived.

Next up on the to do list was find a walmart to pick up last minute race gear (headbands and breakfast etc).  Even though I went to college near Utica and Kelly has spent quite a bit of time here lately , this proved more difficult than expected.  After about 30 minutes (it should have taken 5), we pulled into the Walmart parking lot.  We loaded up on all of our fun new items and were off to find the hotel.

After some confusion (lesson #1 of the trip: I need to get a GPS), we found our hotel.  It was seriously in the middle of no where, and the only thing surrounding it was the county airport.  Although we were initially hesitant, the hotel was perfect.  The place was filled with probably about 95% Boilermaker runners, and the price was right.

I gave my favorite Rome, NY, native Richard a phone call to ask for restaurant recommendations, and he pointed us in the direction of a place called Teddy’s.  Lesson # 2 of the trip: Richard thinks smart things.  The place was fantastic!  Teddy’s is named after Theodore Roosevelt.  I know, that in itself is very cool, but it gets better.  The restaurant is filled with pictures of our late great president and teddy bears.  So cute!

Front window

The portrait above our booth

Teddy was all over the menu

Inside Teddy’s

We started our order out with a appetizer platter with fried ravioli, mozzarella sticks, chicken fingers and onion rings (suuuuper healthy).  The onion rings were the biggest I have ever seen!

Em and Kelly at dinner

Michel and I

We then moved on to the main course.  I had a side salad and a central New York favorite, Chicken Riggies .  Teddy’s has won the title of Best Chicken Riggies for several years so I had to try it.  Lesson #r 3: Teddy’s Chicken Riggies is AWESOME!  The serving size was ridiculous and I ended up taking more than half of it home to my little brother.

After a fantastic day filled a ton of laughs and delicious food, we called it an early night…

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