![\"Fl-1\"](\"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fl-1.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nIt was exactly what we needed.<\/p>\n
Friday, our travel day was pretty uneventful.\u00a0 No near misses of flights, no luggage drama – although aparently sun butter is not considered food, but PASTE, which means it can’t fly.\u00a0 Thank you TSA for saving the plane from the terror of my sun butter.\u00a0 LOL.<\/p>\n
Upon landing and getting our rental car, the next order of business was a publix sandwich.\u00a0 We are addicted.\u00a0 So good.<\/p>\n
Then, we picked up our packets and got some running goodies (gels, socks, etc).\u00a0 I like the shirts this year!\u00a0 And, a ladies medium fit me pretty well, even feeling fluffy as I do right now. Score.<\/p>\n The night before the night before, the name of the game is lots of good calories.\u00a0 So, we hit up Ruby Tuesdays and I had a mess of salad bar, rice pilaf, and blackened fish.\u00a0 Noms.<\/p>\n We saw a good luck froggy on the car after we left dinner.\u00a0 I liked him. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Our next intention was to just slink into bed and chill out and sleep early… but the bar next door had a band and it was LOUD.\u00a0 So, we enjoyed that from our room and read and watched TV until about 11pm.<\/p>\n Saturday, I set no alarm and between the noise and the bed being kinda springy and me being tossy and turny, I woke up around 9:30.\u00a0 We had a quick shakeout run – 1.5 miles – it was nice to get it out of the way early.\u00a0 Usually I agonize over “should I shouldn’t I, and when” with those and skip them.\u00a0 In our sweaties, we then got some hotel breakfast buffet stuff, splitting a waffle, half a bagel, some bacon, juice, etc.<\/p>\n We bathing suited up, and stuck our feet in the ocean for about 10 minutes, and then read and went for a swim in the pool.\u00a0 The water was so warm, the temps were perfect… it was nice.<\/p>\n Another publix sandwich for lunch was nommed (no oil on this one) because… carbs.\u00a0 Then, as per tradition, we went to the movies to see something to take our mind off of the morning.\u00a0 The conclusion of the Hunger Games was pretty great, I can’t wait to just own them all and marathon (badup CHING!) watch them.<\/p>\n I had been craving a steak like mad, so for our last supper, we went to Backwoods Steak House again which was right next to our hotel, and got a salad, filet, and mashed potatoes.\u00a0 The salad was great, the steak was overcooked (which I don’t mind – but it was DEFINITELY closer to well done than the medium I asked for) and our mashed potatoes tasted… funny.\u00a0 We didn’t want to take a chance with the marathon the next day, so told the waiter and got baked potatoes instead and they were great.\u00a0 The place was great last year, think they just had an off night, I guess.<\/p>\n Then, we settled into bed.\u00a0 Just in time for the band to start playing next door.\u00a0 I tried to sleep around 8:30 but no go.\u00a0 It was a late night, and I kept counting the hours until my 3 am alarm.<\/p>\n Sunday, we woke up and did all the normal things like eating cereal with blueberries and coconut milk and Zliten was antsy to get to the shuttles 2 hours early so we did that.<\/p>\n I covered the race here<\/a>, so I’ll skip that, but once we got the shuttle back to the car, we went back to the room, cracked open some beers and snacks while we took some painful showers and hobbled around and got cleaned up.\u00a0 After becoming presentable-ish, we hit the bar next door and the band had just started.\u00a0 It was time to enjoy it, damn it!<\/p>\n We drank coronas and I internet stalked people doing Ironman Cozumel and ate onion rings and I got a buffalo fried shrimp salad and Zliten got an amaze-balls burger and fries.\u00a0 Our server was into free diving so we tried to talk him into getting his scuba liscence and enjoyed our afternoon.<\/p>\n After a while, we retired to the room and got kind of crashy.\u00a0 I realized I needed more food BAD so we went out and grabbed some tacos from Rock the Guac.\u00a0 They were pretty good, not great, but totally adequate, but from a place with that name you don’t expect the guac to cost extra, right?\u00a0 WRONG.\u00a0 Crazy.<\/p>\n I ate one and saved the rest for breakfast and passed out for 11 hours.\u00a0 No band late on Sundays.\u00a0 Righteous.<\/p>\n Monday, we woke up starving and immediately housed those tacos.\u00a0 We puttered around and went to the pool for a bit and read and swam (Zliten went to the ocean, I skipped it because I felt unstable) and enjoyed our morning, but then it was time for some more food.\u00a0 Because…. #marathonmetabolism.<\/p>\n We went to a highly Yelp – rated Italian restaurant called Marinas, and it was so the right choice.\u00a0 The house salad was GREAT, the bread was crusty and delicious, and the lasagna was some of the best I had ever had, and it was nice to have a reasonable portion – about the size of my fist, unlike many places that give you a piece the size of your foot.\u00a0 The cannoli was pretty spectacular as well.<\/p>\n The afternoon was for a few errands, and then getting back into suits and hanging at the pool to read and have a very quick swim (we decided we weren’t into it, it was too overcast and chilly), and then got ready and walked a mile to stretch out our legs, and so we could meet one of Zliten’s college friends for dinner.<\/p>\n It’s always nice to meet someone new that’s awesome.\u00a0 I think we clicked well or at least they put up with me well, I was a little off my brain game less than 36 hours out of finishing a marathon, heh.\u00a0 After a very delicious but tiny turkey melt and two glasses of wine, and a lot of conversation, we bid them adieu and headed out to check out a bar on the way home called the Sandbar Sports bar.<\/p>\n We got another snack – split some fish tacos that were to die for… so good, and a dollar margarita (which tasted about like you would expect).\u00a0 After that, I switched to drinking whiskey on the rocks because… it sounded good.\u00a0 Each glass ended up getting a little fuller when she served them, and there were some shots in there too.<\/p>\n We ended up meeting a cast of very interesting characters.\u00a0 Some folks visiting from Michigan – a retired teacher and her husband (didn’t catch what he did) who got divorced and remarried.\u00a0 Some locals that either worked at this bar or another in the area with crazy bar stories.\u00a0 An older gent who lived in the area and had some interesting stories.\u00a0 A very cheery, very drunk girl that we *think* was a prostitute.\u00a0 A fun bartender – she loved to hunt deer, she was going to grad school, and was complaining about being asked when she was having kids one month after getting married.\u00a0 I know that one, sister.<\/p>\n We decided that a cab was the safest bet with marathon tired legs (Zliten is paranoid of falling down after his bear fighting incident) and the cab driver didn’t even turn on the meter and we just tipped him.\u00a0 Awesome night.<\/p>\n Tuesday we woke up feeling a little rough and had a few bites off the hotel breakfast but we weren’t really into it.\u00a0 We swimsuited up one last time and hit the ocean for a bit, and then the pool.\u00a0 Usually, that’s a pretty good hangover cure trick for me, but it wasn’t cutting it.\u00a0 We tried to take a quick nap but the hotel maids thought we were out of the room and interrupted, so instead we just packed up and got going.<\/p>\n My stomach wanted little kid food, so we hit Beef O’Bradys.\u00a0 Huge menu of incredibly mediocre fare.\u00a0 We got fried pickles to start with, and I got half a grilled cheese and a side salad with ranch.\u00a0 The server was VERY nice and brought me a tiny side of tomato soup to go with it.\u00a0 I felt much better after, and we tried to find something to kill a little time before our flight.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n