Tonight I have a Food and Wine dinner at the Grand Floridian. It'll be a multi-course meal paired with wines from Domain Serene. I was lucky enough to go to a Domain Serene dinner last year at the Flying Fish at the Boardwalk and so I was super excited when I got the opportunity to go this year.
While I am excited for all of the wonderful food I'm going to get, I'm also well aware of the calories that I'll be eating today. So, I decided to hit the high side of my conditioning runs today. I ran for 45 minutes which equaled 4.51 miles with the Galloway plan.
The run overall felt really good and my watch worked really well. I'm finally getting used to the pace being calculated a bit slower than my Nike+ app. Since I start my runs early, before the sun comes up, I found that the light was easy to turn on and off to check my progress. You just have to tap the Bezel with two fingers and the light comes on. You touch it the same way again and it turns off or you wait a few seconds and it turns off on its own.
So now I've burned roughly 500 calories that I can give myself for the dinner tonight. Yes, I'm well aware I'll still be going over my calorie intake today, but I think I can make an exception for this amazing dinner. In all honesty, I went to another similar dinner last week (I worked it, but still got to eat), and I really didn't gain much. I think it's because I'm probably getting better nutrients and better food than I normally eat...
Tomorrow I should have plenty of extra energy and calories to do a killer workout, right?
Showing posts with label Food and Wine Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food and Wine Festival. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Monday, July 30, 2012
Tower of Terror Reminder- 2 Months To Go
This evening I was pleasantly surprised to find an email from runDisney about the Tower of Terror 10 Mile.
In all honesty, it was mostly an ad for the hotel, after race party, and a few other things, which I pretty much ignored. It did have the link to the galloway plans, but my training is going decently well (except for the heat) for this race so I'm not too worried about the Galloway plans. There was also a little tid bit about the Food and Wine festival. I totally forgot that the festival was starting just about the same time as the race (my parents would be disappointed considering F&W is one of the events we look forward to and plan for).
The email did have one semi-important reminder... the race itself is 2 months out. That means I have 2 months to finish getting in a good zone and feeling good. I've already asked for my days off to be altered around the race (ok, I'm working the day of, just not the day after).
If I had to, I could totally run the race now. I might not feel my best, but I could do it. Actually, considering I've been running some of my fastest runs as of late, it wouldn't be that bad of an idea...
In all honesty, it was mostly an ad for the hotel, after race party, and a few other things, which I pretty much ignored. It did have the link to the galloway plans, but my training is going decently well (except for the heat) for this race so I'm not too worried about the Galloway plans. There was also a little tid bit about the Food and Wine festival. I totally forgot that the festival was starting just about the same time as the race (my parents would be disappointed considering F&W is one of the events we look forward to and plan for).
The email did have one semi-important reminder... the race itself is 2 months out. That means I have 2 months to finish getting in a good zone and feeling good. I've already asked for my days off to be altered around the race (ok, I'm working the day of, just not the day after).
If I had to, I could totally run the race now. I might not feel my best, but I could do it. Actually, considering I've been running some of my fastest runs as of late, it wouldn't be that bad of an idea...
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Good Luck Food and Wine Runner!
Tonight I will be resting and getting some sleep before heading into work tomorrow morning. However, that is not the case for a lot of people. Yes, most people aren't heading to work tomorrow considering it's Sunday, but that's not the group I'm talking about. I'm talking about all those runners running the Food and Wine Half Marathon here at Disney World!
I have a few friends running the race tonight and I wish them all the luck. The course looks pretty interesting and I'm thinking about doing it next year. So, good luck to those running the race tonight and have fun at the after party!
They did pick a great weekend for the race. Not only are there all the fun activities associated with the race, but you also have the opening weekend of Food and Wine. I walked around it today and there was a lot of interesting and good looking food. I had a lobster roll from the America Pavilion that was really good.
It is also Walt Disney World's 40th birthday! I trekked over to Magic Kingdom this morning for all the festivities. There were special shirts and other merchandise pieces, but they all went pretty quick. I think the shirts were sold out in like 5 minutes! They also had special event cupcakes for purchase. When you entered the park you could get a special button, they had special park maps, and they had a special show and parade. I was able to get right in front of the castle so I had a great view of the whole thing and it was pretty cool. A few stories, music from the Disney World Marching Band and Dapper Dans, as well as all of the characters. It was a great morning!
Again, good luck to all of the runners! I'm sure the race will be a great one!
I have a few friends running the race tonight and I wish them all the luck. The course looks pretty interesting and I'm thinking about doing it next year. So, good luck to those running the race tonight and have fun at the after party!
They did pick a great weekend for the race. Not only are there all the fun activities associated with the race, but you also have the opening weekend of Food and Wine. I walked around it today and there was a lot of interesting and good looking food. I had a lobster roll from the America Pavilion that was really good.
It is also Walt Disney World's 40th birthday! I trekked over to Magic Kingdom this morning for all the festivities. There were special shirts and other merchandise pieces, but they all went pretty quick. I think the shirts were sold out in like 5 minutes! They also had special event cupcakes for purchase. When you entered the park you could get a special button, they had special park maps, and they had a special show and parade. I was able to get right in front of the castle so I had a great view of the whole thing and it was pretty cool. A few stories, music from the Disney World Marching Band and Dapper Dans, as well as all of the characters. It was a great morning!
Again, good luck to all of the runners! I'm sure the race will be a great one!
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