The Epicurious Runner

Oh my god! That is all I can say. This burger has lived up to it’s expectations times 100! It was so fricken good I can not even express it’s greatness. Derek had this burger a few months ago and he wouldn’t stop talking about it for like 2 weeks. After picking up my race number we headed over the massive line to consume the best burger EVER. There are three Shake Shacks in Manhattan, but we ended up at the one in Madison Square Park. The line was humungous and it took us an hour and 15 minutes to get to the front, but let me tell you it was seriously well worth the wait! It was a beautiful day in the city and I couldn’t have asked for a better day before my race!

Okay, enough talking, I will let the pictures speak for themselves. I ordered the Double Shack Burger with a side of Cheese Fries, a Diet Coke, and a Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Frozen Custard! Mmmmmmmmmm What? I have to load up on carbs before my race. Right?

So, if I haven’t said it enough, this was the best burger I have ever had and I don’t think there is anything that will ever live up to that first bite that I had.

I’ve never had frozen custard before and I was super excited to try it! It was soooo delicious and the texture was amazing. It tasted like pudding almost, it had a nice creamy and thick consistency and it was just amazing. I want to start a ritual where Derek and I go to Shake Shack the day before every race I run. I should start signing up for more races

I just love food, man!

Half Marathon T -12 Hours!

I had such a good day yesterday! I wanted to write about it in a separate post. I was hoping to write about my day last night, but I was unfortunately exhausted and was done with writing for the day.

I woke up at 5:45 took a shower and was out the door at 7am. I was lucky enough to get on the ‘R’ train right when I got in the subway station. I got to my interview like 20 minutes early so I wandered the streets a little before going inside.

I was the first one there : )  I walked in the store and it was AMAZING! I haven’t been in a lululemon before and it was like heaven. There were so many awesome colorful clothes and it made me happy. The interview itself went really well in my opinion. It was a group interview and there were 6 other people there. They also mentioned that most of the other stores in Manhattan are hiring so I suppose if I do get hired that I won’t necessarily be working at that specific one. They are a great store and have really good beliefs and there is a sense of community there. I love what they stand for and I REALLY hope I get the job! I now just have to wait for a phone call to go in for a second interview.

After my interview, I hung out at Starbucks, while I waited for Derek to meet up with me. We went from there to the Landmark Sunshine theater to see ‘The Road’. I went into this movie knowing absolutely nothing about it and it was amazing. It was so emotional and I was fighting back tears the whole time. I pretty much just cried through my nose. I fought back my tears for so long and hard that they had no where else to go but out my nose and the back of my throat. I will be writing a review of it later at Mapcidy.com, so be sure to check it out.

We got home around 2:30 and I instantly got all my gear on and headed out into the warm 33° weather and tackled my 6 mile tempo run. Got back just in time to sit down and write for 4 hours. I had scheduled 4-8 as time to write up a few entries for Healthkicker.com.

When I was done with writing we went to the amazing BAREBURGER! Yes, it was just as amazing as it usually is. This is by far my favorite restaurant / burger place in Queens. It is so good. They finally got their liquor license too, so we were able to enjoy some delicious beer on tap! They had about 7 0r 8 beers on tap, quite impressive for such a small place.

And now, some food porn.

I got the original bareburger with Piedmontese Beef and it was perfect. I also got an Acai wheat beer, but unfortunately the picture I took is really blurry so I don’t want to post it.

It was one busy day that I was happy to end with a delicious burger!