Thrill of the Grill 5K

Today, Ryan and I participated in our first 5k, Central Market's Thrill of the Grill. Ryan was a rockstar and turned in a really good time 26 minutes and some odd seconds.  I on the other hand was not as awesome. I turned in a time around 29 minutes and a few seconds. Under 13 minutes per mile, but no where near where I'd like to be.  Anyway, here are a couple of pictures, one of Ryan and I waiting at the starting line and the other of the race about to begin. 

Although running in these races isn't really my thing, I am sure that I will do another one of these in the future. Not the near future as summer is fast approaching and I am not running in 90+ degree heat. I do think that we might just participate in this same 5k again next year. It was really well run, not too big of a race (only 1,700 runners) and we got an excellent Central Market breakfast afterward. All in all a wonderful day, minus the running and all. Just kidding!

Ready for the Thrill

Ryan and I just signed up to run our first 5K together and I am pretty excited. We decided to run in the Thrill of the Grill 5K held at the Central Market in Plano, benefiting the Plano ISD Education Foundation. My goal is to run the 5k in under 30 minutes. Not a huge goal as I do it all of the time in my workouts, but there is a large difference for me running on a treadmill indoors and running in a large crowd of people outdoors. Now this race isn't as large as say the Race For The Cures held around town, but last year they had around 900 participants. The best part? The race registration fee also gets you in to a breakfast buffet with live music. All in all, I think this is going to be an awesome event!

Fondue It Again Soon

Yesterday I went to Central Market for their annual Hail to the Cheese event. While there I really wanted to pick up some great cheeses and what better to do with cheese than make fondue. I picked out a great Emmentaler Swiss and French Gruyere. I also picked up the ingredients for a chocolate desert fondue.

When it was time to create the fondue, I started chopping up the bread and Ryan grated all of the cheese. He then got out our fondue pot only to realize that we had lost the cord that you must have to plug the fondue pot in. We decided that we had already prepped dinner so we headed out to buy a new pot. Luckily after an hour of searching, we found the exact same fondue pot and just used the cord. Not the cheapest option, but definitely the only option so that we could have fondue that night.

We ended up eating some of the best fondue I have ever had, and we frequent Melting Pot, so that is saying a lot. The only thing that would have made the fondue night better would be if Central Market had had dark chocolate chips instead of milk chocolate. Overall it was an awesome fondue date night!