Yup, I’m becoming a connoisseur on Root Beer Floats.  I’ve tried them in many locations and they are all different.  Sometimes it is made with A&W root beer. Sometimes it is made with soft ice cream.  Sometimes they give you the rest of the bottle of soda with your float .

My preference:

• Soft vanilla cream
• the rest of bottle or can so you can add to it when the foam dies down.
• I don’t care if it is A &W or not.
• Stewarts anywhere or LuckE Star in Warrensburg are so far my favs.

If you like Root Beer Floats, here’s some interesting trivia:

It was originally called the “Black Cow.”  The Black Cow was put together the first time on Aug. 19, 1893, by Frank J. Wisner, owner of Cripple Creek Brewing in Cripple Creek, Colorado. The tale passed down through the generations in the Cripple Creek community says that Frank got his inspiration of the snow caps on the Cow Mountain, sparking him to think of ice cream floating on top of the black Cow mountain. This vision prompted the name of the treat, The Black Cow.

August 6 each year is National Root Beer Float Day!! (If only I had know!!)

On the running front:

I am running every other day: walk stretch…run…walk stretch…run…walk stretch…run..stretch…ice

Running slowly 2-3 miles at most…in the mornings…not really painful but if I did more, I think it would be. I am listening to the PT and do not want to risk injury. 

I WILL RUN 13.1 MILES on NOV 6, 2011 or eat lots of root beer floats to drown my sorrows!!!!

Happy Running!