This Saturday Richard and I had lunch at Pine Twenty2 in downtown Orlando. We had been once before and decided to try it again with a Groupon.
As soon as you walk in there’s a station with pads and pencils to draft your order. Everything is customizable and there’s even vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options.
I ordered a black bean burger with smoked gouda, charred onions, tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, roasted red peppers and a house-made dijon balsamic dressing on organic greens.
With a side of their famous sweet potato fries!
We love how this place is customizable, in a great location, delicious and super friendly but we think the portion sizes could be bigger for the price. Also, I skipped most of my fries because they were so bland. Otherwise the salad was in.cred.ible.
Great Floridian Week Eight Training Recap
(week six here , week seven here )
Week 8 Totals
Swim: 2.5 of 3
Bike: 3 of 3
Run: 4 of 3
CrossFit: 3
Yoga: 1
Total training hours: ~17 hours
This week I was focused on my training plan first, then rest/recovery, then CrossFit and yoga. I wish I could have done at least one more yoga class but otherwise it was great!
Swimming is by far where I have the most room for improvement. The extent of my swim instruction was my friend showing me how to swim for 30 minutes after I signed up for my first triathlon. Ha! I’m working on setting up a few swim lessons to make my stroke more efficient.. and to give me more confidence in the water.
Sunday is normally my rest day but this week I did a light workout to get ready to head to Vancouver this week. I don’t know when I’ll be able to train so I’m squeezing in some workouts before I leave on Thursday.
Next week’s goals: I will be in Vancouver for eight days so my regular endurance workouts won’t be possible, but I am hoping to get as much time in the pool, on the bike and with my run shoes as possible. I am excited to run the SeaWheeze Half Marathon Saturday!!
How did you sweat this week? Any tips to exercise while away from home?
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have fun in vancouver! definitely looking forward to seeing what you did, what you like there – we’re headed to seattle for our honeymoon and want to hit vancouver, too!
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I read this quote and it brought my mind to your blog:
“I’m glad to be here right now, poking at my threshold. I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can. Maybe that spot is called I will.”
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Hi!
not sure if your looking for Vancouver eating advice but I thought id share anyways…not sure where you are staying but Cafe by Tao in North Vancouver is an AMAZING raw food cafe that you should check out if you can. However, over town there are 2 raw food places that I also really like Organic lives is yummy and so is Gorilla foods which is right downtown.
For a good vegan brunch you should try the wallflower modern diner on Main street, really yummy… another great place on Main (not great service tho) is Foundation, they have the best nacho’s!
Anyways, hope you have fun and good luck!