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I love racing and I love food so my “food” topic for this Friday is Five Races With the Best Food
- Sarasota Music Half Marathon
This race had the best post-race brunch ever: egg casserole, sausage, bacon, french toast, pastries, fruit and more.
And yes, I sampled it all.
my first plate…
2. Camp Chingachgook Challenge 10K/Half Marathon
This race ended with a big barbecue: chicken, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, salads, fresh fruit, etc. YUM!!
3. Perfect 10 Miler (NJ)
This race boasted of having “Healthy Clean Eats.” There were pretzels, grilled zucchini, peppers, asparagus and chicken. I would have preferred a little of the unhealthy stuff too.
4. Bacon Hill Bonanza 5K/10K
I loved the food at this race. They had the the usual food (fruit, yogurt, bars, bagels)but also chili, pizza, rice & veggies, and homemade muffins & cookies (including gluten free ones).
And the best chocolate milk (milk straight from a local farm):
5. Mother’s Day bRUNch 5k
There was an awesome post race food display. In addition to cookies, bagels, bars, pastries, bananas, chocolate milk, etc, there was:
mimosas (minus the champagne)
chocolate fountain with pretzels, cake and fruit for dipping
I also had this:
chocolate fountain with pretzels, cake and fruit for dipping
Happy Running! What race(s) have you had the best food?
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Wow, I am so jealous that you have had such good food at these races! I may do the Perfect 10 this year…looks good to me!
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The one in NJ? It was good. I love free food after a race.
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That pretzel looks so good . . . well, as I’ve mentioned a time or two, Smuttynose. It was such a raw day and that chowder & lobster roll hit the spot.
Redding also had milk straight from the cows, but not by the time I got to it (after my massage). 😦
I wonder how many of those races still had such yummy food for the turtles . . .
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I think there was a lot of food at all of the above races. The last race I did had a lot of walkers and the cut off was 4 hours. I’d recommend it for a Florida race. I don’t want to repeat halfs but I am tempted to run this one again
Yes, Maine and lobster…on my bucket list.
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I like watermelon after a race too or oranges. Normally I am not really hungry until a while later it always seems weird to me when people are eating hot dogs and stuff after a race.
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It depends. If it is hot, I often don’t have an appetite for anything but watermelon.
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That Venus de Miles bike ride I did and will do this summer again had the best spread ever. Whole Foods catered, and there was wine and Goose Island beer. So good.
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Wow. Sounds awesome.
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There is a marathon/half in Rehoboth Beach DE in December that has amazing food after – pancakes, barbecue, other foods, good beer. That and the Mainly Marathons races where it’s good food before, during, and after.
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I’ll have to remember that Delaware race.
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You’ve really raced and ate well! I haven’t seen anything nearly that nice. My home town 5k does a nice pancake breakfast after. Other than that a couple races have Chicago style deep dish pizza and of course the VIP area at RnR races is really nice.
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pancakes – yum!!!
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You do find some great food! I need to watch your race schedule closer! 🙂 I loved the Celebration post race food- YUMMMMMMMM!
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That looked like such a fun race.
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Wow, great post race food indeed. Here, it is always the same thing. Oranges, ginger bread, maybe a banana, dark chocolate or a protein or granola bar. BORING. I did do one race that gave us a bag of apples as swag. But nothing like what you are describing !
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Usually here it is also just fruit and bars. Sometimes, you get lucky.
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You had me at bacon… 🙂
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Yeah, I know, right?
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OMG, asparagus at a race LOL That is my kind of race. The food at Sarasota was over the top 🙂 the last half I ran had a chipotle spread, but my tummy can not handle food right away lol I usually eat a banana and barely anything else for a few hours.
Richmond did have pizza, but I couldn’t eat a whole piece, my tummy is not ready after a run.
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It spends. Sometimes I can’t eat at all especially if it is warm or humid.
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