• Events,  Holidays,  Race Re-Cap,  Races,  Running

    Thanksgiving 2011 – Turkey Trot and a Feast

    I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! 🙂 Yesterday my Thanksgiving started out pretty good. Chris and I ran in the Troy Turkey Trot, Troy’s local thanksgiving 5K. I ran this race once two years ago and it was my second ever 5K. Good memories. 🙂 It was a little bit chilly at first yesterday but after a one mile warm up around Troy, we were ready to run.     A lot of people were dressed up in costumes, including a bunch of guys dressed up at Christmas presents. It was a pretty cute idea…I have no idea how they ran in those for 3.1 miles. The race started out…

  • Farmer's Market,  Food,  Restaurant Reviews

    Lunch at Loving Cafe

    Saturday morning my sister and I went to go check out the Troy Farmer’s Market. I think its one of the last weeks that it is outside, so we wanted to take advantage of it! I didn’t end up buying anything except some local honey, but my sister and I spotted a new storefront, Sticky Fingers Gourmet Apples! She ended up getting a dark chocolate with sea salt apple. I had a taste, it was great! After our trip to the market, we went to pick up Chris to go out lunch. Chris and I had been wanting to check out the Loving Cafe in Delmar. Its the closest vegetarian/vegan…