If I don’t like turkey, what exactly am I earning?
Wine is more like it!
By the time you are reading this, I will (hopefully) be done with Atlanta’s Thanksgiving Half Marathon. I am starting in the first group at 7:30am and – if I managed to stay with my pace team – I will be done by 9:15am. Forget turkey at that hour; I’m earning Waffle House!
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Rather than wax poetic about the millions of things I’m thankful for (really, I am), I thought I’d offer you something a bit different.
3 Tips for Thanksgiving:
1. Don’t sit in you great aunt’s chair. Trust your instincts (and your nose). That can’t be clean.
Source: happyplace.com
2. Watch out for the beans. You don’t want to be mistaken for that chair, do you?
3. Don’t make yourself miserable.
Bite #367 of that pie will not taste any different than bite #1. You’ll be trying to get rid of those leftovers for days anyway.
Click here for a few tips on keeping the gluttony under control… and an idea for using some of that leftover pumpkin puree. 
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In conclusion, I…
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Happy Thanksgiving!!
How did all the runners do?
What is/was the BEST dish of the day?
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Matt @ The Athlete's Plate
November 24, 2011 at 7:45 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Good luck today!
Kirstie @ Musings of a Happy Life
November 24, 2011 at 8:02 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Good luck!!
PS: Will run for margaritas. I love it!
Kiri W.
November 24, 2011 at 11:55 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I did my first ever 5K this morning!
29 minutes, 36 seconds 
I’m earning pecan pie, to be precise 
Laura
November 26, 2011 at 8:28 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congrats to you! That’s a great time – especially for your first. When is the next one?
Kiri W.
November 26, 2011 at 9:47 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Haha probably early December, otherwise home in Germany over the holidays!
Tessa @ Amazing Asset
November 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Good luck! I ran a 5-miler this morning and it did not go so well… lol oh well it was a fun experience
Laura
November 26, 2011 at 8:29 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The important part is that you did it, right? Happy Turkey Weekend!
Sylvia
November 24, 2011 at 2:05 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m getting over a bout of food poisoning so no running for me today
but good luck on your half today! I know you’ll kick its ass! Happy Thanksgiving!
Laura
November 26, 2011 at 8:29 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh no! Hope you are feeling well enough for some pie.
Heather @ Better With Veggies
November 24, 2011 at 7:02 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Congrats on your run this morning – any day started with a half marathon is a good day, right? Add to that Thanksgiving and it truly is a wonderful day.
This isn’t food, but my uncle shared some Apple Pie Moonshine he got from a friend at Thanksgiving and THAT was probably my meal highlight. Lots of other amazing food, but that was just unexpectedly cool!
Laura
November 26, 2011 at 8:30 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That sounds delicious. Did you make drinks with it or sip it?
Heather @ Better With Veggies
November 26, 2011 at 10:54 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Just sipping, it didn’t need anything else.
Hannah
November 24, 2011 at 10:08 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Good luck good luck!! And ahve some pie for me, m’kay? We no have the Thanksgiving over here in the Australia.
Parsley Sage
November 25, 2011 at 9:09 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Woo hoo! I bet you did an amazing job yesterday, well done
Hayley @ Oat Couture
November 25, 2011 at 11:38 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Haha that chair! And those someecards are hillarious, especially the first! Haha! Hope the race went really well and you had a fabulous thanksgiving minus the turkey of course!
Greg
November 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
For the record, it really was the chair. Happy New Year!
Professor Vegetable
November 26, 2011 at 1:22 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m a little late but Happy Thanksgiving!!!
I’m a little early like you but Merry Christmas too.
The best dish for me was these little fried things called “fried chicken” at the vegetarian restaurant I went to for Thanksgiving dinner. They were all different bite size morsels. Some were seitan or wheat gluten and some were mushrooms and so on. They tasted good and they CAME WITH BBQ sauce. That sauce made me happy!
Laura
November 26, 2011 at 8:31 AM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Neat idea! We have a veggie restaurant here that has items like that. I wish they could replicate Chick-fil-A!
Christin@purplebirdblog
November 28, 2011 at 7:08 PM (UTC -4) Link to this comment
NEVER overtrust the fart hahahahahahahah