15 There's Still Time For You

Woohoo! We finished our 15 miler on Saturday morning all feeling pretty good. We me at our spot at 5:30 am (it was set to be a HOT day) and we had the pleasure of crossing paths with a couple of groups on their way home from Friday night activities. We had to give props to our mirror image foriegners who were about 50 feet in front of us and when we looked up they were stretching and doing lunges and pretending to run. 2 guys and a girl from either England or Ireland. We had to laugh! We made it to the lakefront and saw all of the people who were already gathering their spots for the air and water show; crazy! There was a beautiful red sun rising over the lake for the first 1/2 hour of the run. I was on the look out for Blanche on her bike and sure enough, she drove right by us right by oak st. beach; full makeup on. Our new guess is maybe she's like Benjamin Button and just wants a bike to reflect her true age.
Blanche Button!

By the time we finished our run around 8:30 Fullerton was jammed with cars and angry people who couldn't find parking for the air and water show. I frequently question suburbanites who constantly complain about traffic in the city and then drive their oversize SUV's to Chicago especially on a Cubs game day and the Air and Water Show.

Now for Sarks in the Park. It was nice to get a table right outside and right by the stairs (less walking :)). We sat down and ordered chocolate milk. For those of you that don't know, chocolate milk is one of the ideal recovery drinks/foods to have after a hard workout. Darren loves this fact. We instantly fell in love with this place when the waitress brought us giant glasses of super cold Dean's chocolate milk. We ordered breakfast (sad to say, they had no fruit) and chugged our milk. It was delicious, however, when they brought me my scrambled egg whites and wheat toast, i was nauseous at the thought of one bite! One thing I've learned is I'm famished after these long runs but have a hard time eating for a while afterwards. I tried to take a bite of the toast and i couldn't even swallow. Ugh! I think the guys felt the same (wait for their review) but were able to finish theirs. This place is a greasy spoon but nice service and great location. Our waitress said they could give us chocolate milk to go and we might go that route next time!