The alternative title to this post should be “In which I am reminded why I don’t go to festivals with free wine.”
Backing up.
At about 9pm on Friday night, I decided to join Laura in running the Run for the Park 5K the next morning. I’d done this race previously, two years ago, and remembered it to be a decent race. I got there around 7:15 and registered and found Laura.
The race was a little hillier than I remembered. As usual, I went out too fast and got tired after the first mile. There was a big hill in the middle which was difficult but the last part of the race had a nice downhill. I ended up finishing in 30:45. I’m okay with that. It’s not my best effort but it’s certainly not my worst either. I’m usually satisfied if I can do a race in less than a 10 minute mile and this was 9:55.
After the race, I went home to shower, took a short nap and headed back to Grant Park to go to the Corks & Forks festival. Corks & Forks is tasting event from several different Atlanta chefs and part of the Grant Park Summer Shade Festival. Ten different restaurants were participating. Because I don’t eat beef or chicken, I didn’t know how much of the food I would be able to sample.
Fortunately, a lot of the restaurants had fish. I sampled:
• tuna tartar from BLT Steak
• tuna and red snapper ceviche from Graveyard Tavern
• watermelon and tomato gazpacho from Murphy’s
• some sort of beet salad from Market
• seafood mousse from Legal Seafoods
• some sort of punch from Rosebud
• shrimp and grits from Wahoo
• key lime pie from Seasons 52
My favorite was the tuna tartar.
And there was wine.
I think part of the problem was that since they were tastings, I wasn’t sure how much I was drinking and drank way more than I normally would. Fortunately, my friends live walking distance from the festival, so I went to their house afterwards and promptly fell asleep on the couch.
Needless to say, I kind of feel like ass right now.
Always fun to run with friends. Love a good food and wine festival but it is totally easy to overdo it! Get some rest
Ha! I love it! Reminds me of wine country – you are literally a little bit buzzed continuously for the duration of the trip. hehe
That red snapper ceviche was soooo good! You got some great shots! We kept going after the festival. I’m ready to detox today – hard core.
The one of all of us was blurry! I have a good one of you and Corinne though. I’ll email it to you.
Definitely ready for a detox too.
That is awesome! Congrats on the 5K first of all, great time. And wine festival? Bliss. As Jess said, so much like wine country! A fun little buzz all day…but can go downhill fast if you don’t keep track! haha. Hope you have a great day today resting up
it definitely went downhill. i was fine and them boom, i was wasted. oh well, good thing my friends lived around the corner!
oh boo – wine hangovers suck.
Sounds like a good time though and i’m glad you got to taste so much yumminess!
Congrats on the 5k!
Ohh that sounds like my kind of festival! I’m sorry you feel like crap though- it happens to the best of us
Great job on the 5K, Lee!
The wine festival sounds fun. I love wine but even a little gives me such a hangover! I hope you’re feeling good today!
Looks like a blast! I love that you always seem to do really adventurous things. If I wrote blog posts recapping my weekend it would include reading on the couch, doing crosswords and playing scrabble. Keith and I are soooo extreme! ha!
Hahaha – it happens to the best of us! Don’t feel like an ass
Hey, sometimes we drink too much wine and need to sleep on a friend’s couch. Been there, done that. I’ve had friends get drunk and sleep on my couch before and it’s totally fine.
Congrats on the 5K!