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Laughing all the way

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Last week was the Jingle Bell Run. My morning workout buddy, B, met me by the St Pete Pier for the 2.9 mile wanna-be 5k. I’d like to say we were laughing all the way, but the last 3/4 I really pushed and could hardly talk. It felt good though to be able to tell myself “You’re almost there, just keep giving it your all until the finish line,” and then actually following through with it. I don’t always listen to my own voice in my head. I’ve given myself a small challenge – not at all running related. Every once and a while I get about 6 grey hairs. I have stopped pulling them out. Just to see if I can keep the promise to myself despite the temptation. Then maybe I can ignore my mother in law’s amazing fudge. Or push the final mile instead of the final 3/4… if you can’t trust the promises you make to yourself, what can you believe in?

Speaking of Laughing All the Way… I’m working on some family photos cards. I send New Years Cards for 2 reasons:
1. we’re not Christian, so we don’t send Christmas cards.
2. Almost everyone we send a card to the kids get a gift from, and they have to send a Thank You note anyway, so this doubles as a thank you note.
Our photos for the card came out OK, but there’s not a great one of the 4 of us, or a great one of the 2 girls together. So I’ve been playing in Photoshop with these…

******SPOILER ALERT******

4 Darrows but Brian not quite smiling


Card #2 starring Wendy with a cast on her arm


Card 3 backed by a photo I took of Alice

We decided “Laughing all the way” was too Christian. Actually, the song Jingle Bells has nothing to do with Christmas – the lyrics are about a sleigh ride. But don’t try explaining that to an 84-year-old Jewish great grandmother!

Saturday I ran with a friend from yoga. We did almost 3 miles and ended back along the water where there was a yoga for charity class, all money benefiting sharks. I love outdoor yoga when the weather is nice. There was a light mist in the air which kept me cool, and had the sky been a bit bluer it would have been perfect. But we got to see white pelicans out in the Bay during class, which are apparently rare. And everyone got a blue marble, so we’re now all part of the Blue Marble Game. I know who I want to pass mine to!

can you find me?

That night Brian and I went to a Grinchmas party and I saw “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” for the first time. Yes, the cartoon, for the first time. It’s an annual party but I am usually socializing or popping in and out with other parties to attend. This time I plunked myself down and watched the movie!

Sunday I took a friend out shopping. In May I lost a dear friend to cancer, and her 14 year old daughter was in desperate need of new underthings. 5 hours later she got 7 bras, 11 pairs of panties, some clothes, some holiday gifts, and I had a few items too. We had Bra 101 lessons: wear dark under black, wear nude under white, wear the right band size so hopefully you don’t sag in the future, wear a sports bra that does it’s job, bras shouldn’t dig or poke, etc. I think she was relieved to not have to bra shop with dad.

In the evenings, my girls are busy with studying for midterms, science fair, history fair and the like. I’m planning winter break and Ragnar Florida Keys. Therefore, I’ll have to try to get all AM workouts in this week. This morning was 75 mins core yoga, and I think tomorrow is boot camp in the park. Off I go to plan the circuit! Other than running, what’s your favorite outdoor workout?

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Video of our TN Ragnar Relay Experience

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For the 2011 Tennessee Ragnar Relay, Brian and I put together a team of total strangers from the web for 200 miles of overnight relay running.  Anything could have happened, but in actuality it couldn’t have gone much better. Brian was a little hopeful that one of the team members would not show up so he could be a runner instead of a driver/captain. But everyone came. We had a dedicated driver in Van 1 whose wife was in that van, and Brian drove Van 2 while I was his navigator/sidekick.

I was a little concerned about drama in the vans. We had some friends in a stressed out van one time and they did not have nearly as much as we did on the race. But everyone got along and even became friends, signing up for future races together. They taught each other how to Tweet, shared secrets about pre-race meals, and celebrated each others Road Kills on the side of the van. There may have been a vinyl-cling skeleton whose member got longer – like Pinocchio’s nose – only skeletons don’t have noses if you know what I mean.

The only bad part was when my sleeping bag went missing and I was frozen when trying to sleep. But since we only had about 3 hours to sleep, it wasn’t that big of a deal. The foliage was gorgeous, the finish line was a great area, and the rolling hills were a nice change from Florida (because I did not have to run them.)

Here’s how it all turned out in video form:

If you like that video even a little, please, please, please vote for it by clicking HERE. Scroll BELOW the sign up form (you don’t need to fill it out) and click the little “vote” square underneath our video labeled by “by Brian”. We’ve got a solid hold on second place, but we need the win for a free entry into next year’s TN Relay worth $1200. Do it now. Pretty please.

I’m so excited that this relay went so well, and the feedback was word for word what we had hoped for.

“All I had to do was show up and run.”

“It was so nice not to have to think about where to be – when, and just let you handle the logistics.”

“You really thought of everything and it was great having an experienced team captain.”

I could not have written better lines for our runners to say! And they liked our Drink Chia too! (Chia is totally the way to go to hydrate, avoid colds, and keep from getting those post-running headaches.)

Our Florida Keys Ragnar Relay team is full, but we’re headed to Arizona for the Del Sol Ragnar Relay in February and we’ve still got a few spots left on that team, so sign up soon if you’re interested. And we just announced that we’ll be putting together a team for Cape Cod in May, so you can gather friends and get in on the ground floor for that one.

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Wine & Dine Recap

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Last weekend was a busy one! Friday Brian and I loaded up the car and headed about an hour out for Fit Niche. I won a gift card, and we needed some safety gear for Ragnar Relay. We bought 2 butt lamps and owed $9 after the gift card.

Then we drove on past Disney to Fleet Feet Orlando. We had a $100 gift card, and enjoyed seeing their new, larger location. They were painting the track on the floor while we were there. We bought 2 headlamps and Brian got a pair of marked down Sauchony running shorts and we spent about $1.10.

From there we drove to Titusville to watch the FL Runners Cross Country Invitational. Our daughter could not run because of her injured ankle, but she was still there to support the team. We had rain here and there for a few minutes, which brought in tons of humidity. Ugh. I spent a lot of time handing out drink samples at the Drink Chia! booth – because I met them a couple weeks ago and it was more fun than being ignored by the teens at our school’s tent. (I know, I’m soooo old! Why would a teenager talk to me?)

Have you tried drinking chia yet? The biggest claims are that it hydrates, is full of omegas and antioxidants and helps with recovery naturally.

Our girls varsity took 2nd place! It was a nice end to a long day – and just the beginning of a fun night. From there we turned the minivan around and drove back to Disney. Brian and I had a room with friends at the All Star Movies resort. We showered the cross country away and had dinner at Downtown Disney. Bongos to be exact! The restaurant was packed with an hour wait for dinner, but we managed to find 4 chairs at the bar together and ate there. I started with tiny shrimp in yucca bowls and then split chicken and rice for dinner. We walked around and enjoyed the feel of a cold front moving in.

Saturday, we met some of our Digital Running team members. After communicating online for months it was nice to put faces with names. I was also able to hand out fun goodie bags with team shirts, Bondi Bands, Drink Chia, Bodyworks Bands, coupons, natural remedies and more. After breakfast, 3 of us headed over to the Wine and Dine Half Marathon Expo. The line for race packets and Tshirts wasn’t too bad, but the expo hall was quite packed.

Sandy gets her race packet

I was wearing my Bondi Band that said “RUN” in fluorescent green, and told the ladies at the Bondi Band booth I probably could have sold 20 right off my head in the past few days. A woman stopped me out running, a car attendant stopped me at the FL Runners meet, etc… the headband not only works to keep sweat out of my eyes, it also attracts a bit of attention.

I also went to get my free sample of organic yogurt. I told the woman at the booth I’m allergic to cucumbers and asked if there could be any hiding in the “natural flavors”. She said, “No, this is organic.”

I reminded her that cucumbers often are too.

We met up with Heather at the Running Skirts booth. She had run the 5k that morning and was working a 12 hour shift, and then was running the HM that night!

Purple & Lime for $10!

Sandy bought herself The Stick, which she had been wanting for some time, and got a good deal on. There was a Champion sportswear booth with really good markdowns upon markdowns, and I scored a $10 sports bra for one of the girls. I also handed out info about building our team for Ragnar Relay Key West, which we just decided to do INSTEAD of the Disney Marathon in January 2012.

We had a quick lunch and headed back to the hotel room for a nap to prepare for the 10pm-3am race and post-race private party at the Epcot Food and Wine Festival.

before the start

Around 6:45pm, Joe and I drove our spouses to Epcot, where they caught the bus to the race start at Disney’s ESPN Wide World of Sports. In the meantime I enjoyed showing someone around Epcot who had never been before! We started with some “donde esta Donald?” in Mexico, and then rode the troll ride in Norway. We nibbled a bit on the Food and Wine Festival offerings, but not too much because we wanted to enjoy that with our spouses after the race. We found the big screen that was supposed to broadcast the start of the race for us, but they did not have the feed working. We hung around the screen talking to other race spectators, but when someone tweeted that Corals A&B were gone and C was lining up, I told Joe we might as well ride some rides. Our spouses were in Coral A, so we missed seeing their start.

We rode Ellen’s Energy Adventure with a very drunk woman, and then hit Test Track with a 10 minute wait time! The bit of screen time with Ellen made Joe a bit queasy, so I decided Soarin’ was probably not the ride for him. We were going to check and see if Off Kilter was playing in Canada, but we decided we were probably 10 minutes from Brian’s finish and sat by the big screen instead. At this point it was working, but the feed switched between 2 points – a random curve in the road of the half marathon, and the relay team hand off point.

Chillin after 13.1

Our meeting point was the big fountain, so we headed over there to wait for sweaty loved ones. I had Brian’s chia drink and dry sneakers out and ready. The temp dropped a bit and the humidity cleared away, leaving us with gorgeous 70-something weather at 11:30pm. My phone got a text that Brian crossed the finish line. We waited, and waited. No Brian. We figured he must have been waiting at the finish line for Sandy since spectators weren’t allowed at the finish line – and she’d love having someone there to greet her at the finish. Finally Brian came walking up. I gave him a huge hug and noticed 2 things right away.

  1. He was barely tired
  2. Sandy was not with him

Turned out Brian was not waiting at the finish, but rather spent 20+ minutes in a medical tent icing his knee. Other than some knee soreness he felt great, and was already sipping a beer. He was ready to eat and drink around Epcot. But no Sandy. Our phones got texts that she had finished, but no Sandy.We did, however, see our Columnist Contest Winner Tracy and her husband – who completed the Relay. She was the 8+ miler, and finished on such a high! She was smiling and glowing and bouncing like Tigger!

When she finally did arrive, she looked like she had been crying. Poor Sandy was waiting for us sweaty and tired at a DIFFERENT FOUNTAIN! After about 10 minutes of feeling lonely and rejected, the half marathon exhaustion started to wane and she realized she had remembered seeing another fountain on the park map BEHIND the “big silver ball” (aka Spaceship Earth.) Sure enough, there we were waiting for her. She was very nauseous, and even though Brian suggested she try to eat or drink to replenish, she couldn’t keep anything down. We decided to stroll around Epcot – as suggested by Jeff Galloway – to keep their legs from cramping up.

We nibbled yummy tasters from different countries (including Black Pepper Shrimp with Sichuan Noodles in China AND Artisan Cheese Selections with Thomasville Tome Sweet Gras Dairy, Le Delice de Bourgogne Lincet and Chevre Affine Wyngaard Kaas), not knowing until we returned the next day that certain ingredients had run out and we were getting sorta-kinda what the booths were supposed to be offering. When we hit Morocco, I suggested hot tea to Sandy to help warm her and hydrate. She bought a hoodie to wear over her hoodie, and sat and sipped the hot, mint tea. Slowly she started to feel human again. She was pissed because her neck and back were sore, which is not typical for her, and because she ran a 2:16 and was hoping to break 2:15. I had some Biofreeze waiting for her neck, and her husband had some coconut water that she tried to sip on. Also in Morocco was Sarah! (@5littleindians) We knew it was her by the gorgeous Snow White tutu she had twitpic’d earlier that day.

spooky Sarah in Morocco

The cooler weather certainly gave Brian what he wanted! He trained with Sandy at her pace for the race, but never really trained on his own. So, he wasn’t sure if he’d even run his own race that night. But with the cooler air and excitement of the crowd, he let the Disney Magic take over and ran a 1:36:44 – a pace of 7:23 min/mile! You can read his race report here. Sandy’s is here.

We got our money’s worth and stayed at the party until just before 3am. Then we got a good night’s sleep and met friends at EPCOT the next day to enjoy the Food and Wine Festival from 1pm-8pm.

***Warning, if you’re hungry you may want to stop reading now!***

We started with a viewing of Captain EO, which is the same as it was in 1988. Michael Jackson at his finest! Then we started at the World Showcase Lagoon and enjoyed the food and drinks. Over the next 7 hours I shared:

  • Beef Empanadas from Argentina
  • Seared Mahi Mahi with steamed Rice, Hearts of Palm, and Coconut-Lime Sauce AND to drink a delicious LeBlon Frozen Caipirinha in Brazil
  • an unbelievable avocado margarita at the new-ish tequila bar in Mexico
  • a bite of Canadian Cheddar Cheese Soup and Canada’s Chicken Chipotle Sausage with Sweet Corn Polenta – my favorite!
  • Cheese Fondue that tasted like white wine
  • Caramel-Ginger Ice Cream in China
  • Frozen Red Stag Lemonade by Jim Beam
  • a not so great Sparkling Pomegranate Kir in France, where all the women serving were gorgeous
  • Nürnberger Sausage in a Pretzel Roll from Germany, which I wished was closer to the cheese soup
  • Amazing Griddled Greek Cheese with Pistachios and Honey in Greece (the hit of the day!)
  • Tuna Poke with Seaweed Salad and Lotus Root Chip from Hawaii
  • a sip of Brian’s Seven Tiki Mai Tai and a bite of his Shrimp Cake on a sugar cane skewer with Singapore Noodle Salad in Singapore
  • Potato Pierogies with Caramelized Onions and Sour Cream in Poland
  • and for “dessert”, Brian waited in a long, talkative line for ME to get a Baked Cheese Ravioli with Creamy Beef Bolognese Sauce, Parmesan Cheese, Melted Mozzarella in Italy

I missed the Vegetable Curry served in a Bread Loaf in South Africa, the chocolate lava cake in Ireland and the pumpkin mousse. I guess that means I need to go back!

We also managed to catch an Off Kilter show in Canada, rode the troll in Norway, met the inventor of the Bracelet Buddy, and met Duffy the bear. At a few points we bumped into Samantha from the Digital Running Club with her family, too – but I think we forgot to take pictures.

On the way home Monday morning, Brian and I stopped at Cracker Barrel for breakfast. Yes, we were still physically capable of eating. I ordered the yogurt and fruit parfait, hold the muffin. Here’s what I really wanted:

with fresh caramel mousse topping! I dare you not to think about food now!!

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BITTS 5k, gross food & Coupon deals

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Saturday I ran the first BITTS 5k.

B.I.T.T.S. is a local boot camp. I don’t know what it stands for, but my friend Sandy does their bootcamp a few days a week, and has Brian as her running coach the other days. Since the BITTS lady knows Sandy runs, she asked her to help organize the 5k. There wasn’t much to organize their first time around. It was just at a local park with chalk arrows on the ground showing our course.
The race benefited Operation Attack on Poverty. If you brought food or clothing donations it was free.

Sandy & me before the 5k, 6:55am

The sights were boring at first – mobile homes and parking lots – but ended with a lake, bridge and trees.

They had smoothie coupons, water bottles and pens in little drawstring backpacks as goodie bags. Then a Kodak rep came with BPA-free reusable, collapsible water pouches on carabiners. Those were cool! I got some more from her to use for Digital Running goodie bags.

There were prizes for the first 4 finishing males and females, and a few random prize drawings. They picked “16th female” out of the basket, and I won an oil change. That’s probably my first race prize! They also had a prize for the first finishing stroller-pusher. She got a Kodak all-in-one photo printer-scanner-fax machine! (But she handed the stroller off to her husband and mile 2 so some say she cheated, but she was the only one with a stroller so she won by default).

I ran in my Tees by Tina tank top, spinning shorts from Bodyrock, Brooks shoes – don’t remember the socks. I had a Bondi Band that I actually wore on my wrist to wipe away sweat.

Me, post-5k

I also made a new playlist, and some of the songs were from online suggestions of songs I never even heard before. I checked to make sure they had the right tempo, and then chose 14 random songs to keep my feet moving and surprise my brain that morning. (14, in case I fast-forwarded through some).

The funniest part of the race (for me) was running towards the 2-mile marker, which was the BITTS lady’s dad in a lawn chair pointing which way to go. Right at that moment Axl Rose was singing “Where do we go now?” from Sweet Child o’ Mine (they weren’t ALL new songs, but it was an online suggestion) and the lyrics just went perfectly with the seated dad pointing me around to the right.

I went in the race knowing I avg a 12-min-mile and came away with a 36+ min 5k, so I was right where I expected. But my friend Janet said the course was long.

What they need next year: Music & someone stretching people out at the finish. Or if they want to attract a larger crowd – a chip-timing system. But since all I was expecting was a little neighborhood 5k, it was just fine.

Songs I ran to: Warmed up to Coming Home – Diddy Dirty Money
Black Horse and the Cherry Tree – got me started off right
Moves Like Jagger – by now my heart figured out that I was running and this makes me smile
Stronger – Kanye version (since OJ had Isotoners…)
Boys & Girls – by Pixie Lott (hadn’t listened to her in many months)
Waka Waka – we used to dance to this in Zumba class so it gets me moving!
Keep Your Head – the Ting Tings (new to me)
Tightrope – Janelle Monae (new to me, I skipped the last 2 mins)
Gone Daddy Gone – Gnarls Barkely (recommended online) kept me from taking a walk break
Run Run Away – Slade (the old 80s song, ended up skipping it)
Sweet Child o Mine – GnR version
In My Head – Jason Derulo (one of those songs I am embarrassed to admit I dance my butt off to in the car.)

lunch of champions

I had a volunteer meeting for a fundraiser that afternoon where we were treated to a diner lunch and gelato – the snacks of 5k running champs I’m sure! I got 2 eggs over hard, has browns and plain whole wheat toast (which was under $4!) I was surprised that the diner was decked out with Marilyn Monroe art and memorabilia. Choosing a gelato flavor was much more difficult. I ended up with half extra-dark chocolate and half turtle cheesecake. YUM!

While we were talking on the sidewalk eating gelato we met up with a guy who started a 501c3 that sets up booths around town where people can paint wooden swings, and they hang the swings around the city. (Does that make him the lead Swinger?) I’m not really sure how they raise money or what for (I’ll read about it eventually), but I suggested he do pink swings for Oct. Breast Cancer Awareness month and help support My Hope Chest, and he really liked that idea. If any of you bloggers want to write a PINK POST for Oct. Breast Cancer Awareness month, I am friends with the Founder of My Hope Chest and can provide answers to interview questions, artwork, data, etc.

That night we had a couple fun things going on. Some of our friends are in a Rotary group. Their Rotary is raising money to create a Flugutag to race for the Tampa Bay Red Bull Flugtag. (Seriously, click that Flugtag link. Even the first 10 seconds are worth the giggle.) They had a movie night in someone’s backyard. They were projecting Anchorman on a big sheet and set up chairs and had food & beverages for sale. The great news is that the hosts live a few blocks from us and want to start hosting movie night every Fri. Basically they’ll just project a movie and let friends know which one it is, and if it’s something you like you can stop on by. Brian and I got cozy in the hammock – but we missed the end of the movie because I got a text…

**WARNING – GROSS FOOD AHEAD** Our friends wanted to take a little adventure to find Munchies 420 Cafe – a hole-in-the-wall in Sarasota that manages to put everything and anything on a sandwich. Take for example the FAT SANDY which is a footlong hoagie with 2 cheeseburgers, chicken strips, onion rings, crinkle cut fries and mozzerella sticks – and to hold it all together it is topped with Mac&Cheese! Although I am always up for an adventure in the middle of a Sat night, I am not always into foods that will cause tummy problems, heartburn and 3 weeks of running off extra calories. Thus I went along, but did not order junk food for myself. I did try their still-warm homemade potato chips and they were delicious. The verdict in the Fat Sandy? The burgers were over cooked and pulled off, one chicken tender was over fried, but the rest blended together in a hard-to-eat, wonderous munchie fantasy. The onion rings were the best part. Or so I was told. By the time we drove back across the bridge from Sarasota I was wiped out and fell asleep before I could count backwards from 99.

– To quickly backtrack to what I missed blogging about earlier last week, Fri I didn’t workout since I knew I was going the 5k on Sat. The Cross Country team came in first place for Varsity Girls. Alice ran despite her tendonitis and took a few mins off last week but is not quite back to below 23 mins yet. Their new shirts say “May the Course be with you” :) Thurs I did a 3.4 mile run to prep. Not what I would suggest if you are RACING a 5k, but fine for just getting out there and running a 5k.

Deals I took advantage of at Publix this week:

V8 Fusion (instead of the apple juice the kids drink) – Buy one at $3.99, get one free. And I had a $1 off coupon off each, so I got 2 for $1.99 – that makes them $1/ea. We don’t buy the Light because it has sucralose. (Don’t eat foods that rhyme with gross!)

Hunts tomato sauce BOGO – this is the larger can than I usually buy, but I can use half at a time and keep the other half in a jar in the fridge. So for us it’s 4 meals worth of tomato sauce for $2.

Publix frozen organic margherita pizza on sale $3.99

Polaner all fruit spread – this is part of Brian’s PBJ lunch staple – on sale 2 for $5. Coupons on their web site.

Herbal Essences (the usual deal) 2/$5 and $1 off coupon. I wish I had 2 coupons… My kids use a lot of shampoo!

“Buy theirs, get ours free” deal. I bought 2 bags of Nestle chocolate chips with a Save $1/2 coupon and got 2 bags of Publix chocolate chips free. 2 bags are going in the freezer for Thanksgiving when we bake whatever suits our fancy. One is getting hidden in the pantry for me to munch on after dinner at night the next few weeks (shh), and one is going in banana bread that I am baking later today.

And I had a “spend $50 get $10 gift card” coupon, so I’ll save $10 next week. My receipt showed a savings of $35.94.

Then we got free tampons at Target. On sale for $6.99 & I had a $2 off coupon = $5. Their special was buy a box, get a Target $5 gift card = like getting it free! I try to buy my bananas at Target too – they are always cheapest there. $.24/banana. Everyone else sells them buy the pound, but I have done the math and for us it’s cheaper, plus we eat about 12 bananas a week at our house.

Target has Kashi TLC bars Buy 5 get the 6th box free. I put that with 3 coupons – 2 said Save $1.50/2 boxes and one said Save $1.50/any box. So I save $4.50 plus got the free box and we’ll have TLC bars the next few weeks for lunchboxes and the occasional breakfast-on-the-go.

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Join Our Ragnar Team!

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Many of you have heard me talking about our Digital Running Ragnar Relay team, but do you really know what it is about? Do you really know how much fun it is going to be? You really want to be a part of all this running fun!!!

Quick run down of the fun… 12 runners split into 2 vans with 2 drivers. (Or the runners can be drivers, but for our team we will have dedicated drivers who can be back up runners if someone gets injured.) There is a starting city and an ending city for each Ragnar Relay. For the TN race, your team starts in Chattanooga and runs to Nashville – approx 193 miles.

The route is mapped out and each leg is predetermined – so the first person might run 3 miles and the 2nd might run 9, but it’s up to Ragnar and we’ll place you in the right spot based on your ability and comfortability. Each of the six Van 1 runners does a leg, then they meet up with van 2, pass off the baton – which is actually a slap bracelet, and then everyone in van 2 runs a leg while van 1 tries to find some eating and resting time. (But not bathing, that just doesn’t happen. Baby wipes are your friend!) Once you and all your teammates have run once, you get to run again, and yet again. So everyone has 3 legs over the course of 30+ hours straight through the night. You might be the 6am or the 6pm… depends on your legs and the speed of your runners.

Our team is about the fun during the run, and the social aspect of the grand adventure behind it all. So, our Ragnar Relay TN team is perfect for any runner! If you have elite running friends that do 12 miles before 7 am with one eye closed, have them read this. And the buddy who just started the Couch to 5k and needs to get off of Diet Coke should read this too! Coach Brian will place them in the correct legs of the race.

There is an after party that usually includes a free drink, live music, some bar running special in town…but you’ll be too tired to dance or party so we’ll have to do that the next day together.

The race is Nov 4-5, so there will be great fall midwestern leaves and temperatures… and perhaps hills…

We’ve got it ALL figured out for you! You get to hang out with running buddies (always fun!), we’ve divvied up gas, lodging, van rentals and race entry fees. And I’ll be the “Team Mom”, so I’ll have the little things you might forget, like antibiotic ointment, safety pins, tissues, sunscreen, a cooler of cold water, yoga stretches at breaks, etc.

We left our Florida Ragnar – running from Miami to Key West – hungry for more. Sure you’re tired and just plain hungry, but if you love it – you leave wondering, “When do I get to take part in this craziness again?” and again… If you want to learn more, click here.

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