Valentine’s Weekend
Love was in the air this weekend!
Along with snow, lots and lots of snow…
He looks surprisingly happy standing in the middle of waist high snow, huh?
I kicked off Valentine’s morning by sneaking off with some girlfriends for an early morning run and letting Henri sleep in (the best gift by far in his eyes). It was supposed to be -15* with the windchill so coach called off our scheduled long run tempo (to save our lungs) and told us to get in 17-18 miles at an easy pace.
3 girls in 3 different Boston Marathon jackets + 2 hours 16 minutes of cold weather running = a ridiculously fun bonding sesh! I wish I could show you a picture of the turkey that paced us for about 200m’s but I was a bad blogger (but pretty normal runner) and didn’t bring my phone so here’s a pic of our frozen faces post run. 😉
Afterwards Court and I hit up Bittersweet Co. for some coffee. This cappuccino was the foamiest I’ve ever had – just the way I like it!
Luckily, Henri and I were able to beat the snow into Boston for our Valentine’s getaway!
I was excited to bring Henri to Papagayo because I knew that their authentic Mexican food would win him over. After drinks… beer for him, blood orange cocktail for me we ordered the guacamole + ceviche appetizers which were both out of this world!
For the main course Henri had the Verde Enchilladas and I got the Beef Burrito. Everything was clearly very fresh and so soooo tasty!
By the time dinner was over the snow was starting to come down in earnest so we forwent our original plans for the back-up plan of a Red Box marathon in our room.
In the morning we woke up to full on blizzard conditions and laid around for a few hours reading before braving the elements to make the trek to breakfast.
My latte, steel cut oatmeal and lemon-poppyseed scone were well worth the cold walk to Thinking Cup.
Even though our plans were derailed by the storm (ice skating on frog pond and walking the Freedom Trail) it was still the perfect little trip just the two of us. Being in the suburbs it’s easy to feel like there are no good restaurants around so it was neat to get into the city for 24 hour and check out a few “hip” places we’ve been wanting to try, it was exactly the Valentine’s Day weekend that we needed. 🙂
What was the best thing you ate this weekend?
Suburbs or city?
Did anyone race this weekend? How did it go? 3 Lauren Floris Training athletes raced this weekend and all of them blew their races out of the water! I can’t wait to tell you more tomorrow!