Oh, The People You Will Meet

I promise I ate more than just cupcakes in DC. This past weekend was filled with meeting some of my favorite bloggers bonding over what else but food.

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Sana was my DC guide for all of Friday and Saturday. We met at the Healthy Living Summit and keep in touch ever since. Saturday night we had dinner at our agreed favorite restaurant ever: Whole Foods.

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The Arlington Whole Foods had an impressive salad bar collection. Resisting buying 5lbs of food, I got dressed kale, grilled asparagus salad, steak fajita filling(my first taste of red meat in 3 months), and herb roasted potatoes. It was almost all delicious, except for the cilantro in the asparagus and the fajita filling; I hate cilantro. Yep, this restaurant is going to go places.

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And then of course there was Holly and Madeline. You can read all about our adventures here. Early on Friday Holly tweeted that she would jump on me the moment she saw me and sure enough during the race expo she leapt right for me. I like a person who is true to their tweets.

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Saturday for lunch, Gena set up a small group to meet at Sweetgreens. Getting to this lunch was motivation through my entire marathon. It was so fun chatting with Sana, Matt, Anne, and Gena for two hours; the conversation flowed like we had just gotten together last week even though it was only our second or first time meeting.

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It’s the No Meat Athlete! I can die happy. If it looks like I’m laughing painfully it’s because Sana had just made an inappropriate joke.

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Friday night for our pre-race dinner a bunch of racers went to Pizza Paradiso to carboloading. There I got to meet Beth, Sarah, Alex, Mindy, and Christine for the first time.

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Ordering gluten-free at a pizza restaurant is never easy but lucky for me there was an awesome salad on the menu with cannellini beans, sundried tomatoes, marinated artichokes, and a parmesan dressing. I need to recreate this at home!

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Saturday night Emily put together a great meet-up at Northside Social(ps. If you’re ever there, order the “street nuts”). There were so many people there it was hard to talk and get a picture with everyone; I’m glad Emily snapped this photo of Caitlin and I. She’s epic and just as personable as you’d imagine.

And last but certainly not least: 

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Just kidding. Abe Lincoln isn’t a blogger.

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27 Responses to Oh, The People You Will Meet
  1. Emily Malone
    March 30, 2011 | 9:03 am

    🙂 Fun to see you this weekend! Great job (again) on the race – so proud!

  2. Ashley
    March 30, 2011 | 9:17 am

    *cough* http://abrahamlincolnblog.blogspot.com/

    Looks like an awesome weekend. I’m so jealous you got to meet all of those bloggers.
    It’s going to take me hours to photoshop my head into those pictures. *Sigh*

    • Heather
      March 30, 2011 | 12:59 pm

      gxidhfsdklfjsdkarjweioruslkdfjwe;jroweiufsldkjafsdfjklwejoirjsdflkj!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      ok. that is all.

      • Ashley
        March 30, 2011 | 9:36 pm

        ummm, you too?

        • Wannabe Chef
          March 30, 2011 | 9:37 pm

          It’s because of the abraham lincoln blog I’m guessing 🙂

  3. Stacy @ Every Little Thing
    March 30, 2011 | 9:21 am

    Really glad you got to meet up with everyone and have a great time! And I hope you had a great birthday! Will you be headed to the HLS again this year? I’m considering it, depending on where they end up having it (though we know it’s East Coast, which is good!).

    • Wannabe Chef
      March 30, 2011 | 9:28 am

      If It’s in a Northern city I will probably go. I had a blast last year but being on a student’s budget/calendar makes it hard to go to a lot of these conferences.

  4. Christine @ Merf In Progress
    March 30, 2011 | 9:25 am

    Love the picture with Abe. Wonder what the chances are that I could be running the National Half this time next year?

  5. VeggieGirl
    March 30, 2011 | 9:34 am

    The Abe Lincoln photo just made me laugh out loud 😀

  6. Beth @ Beth's Journey to Thin
    March 30, 2011 | 9:44 am

    It was so fun getting to hang out this weekend! Side note – can’t believe you don’t like cilantro. I LOVE it!

  7. Gena
    March 30, 2011 | 10:03 am

    It would be so cool if Abe Lincoln were a blogger.

    Or were alive.

  8. Jen
    March 30, 2011 | 10:33 am

    The last picture of Lincoln is so funny 😀

  9. Lauren @ Hungry Child in the City
    March 30, 2011 | 10:56 am

    I really want to meet other bloggers at some point, and I wish I had done the National Half to meet you all! So many bloggers were on the run last weekend! I love the pic of Lincoln, that’s very funny.

  10. Liz @ Tip Top Shape
    March 30, 2011 | 12:54 pm

    Haha, that Abe Lincoln photo is too funny!! Looks like you had a great time!! And I am totally with you on the cilantro thing. I think Ina Garten said something about how you either love or hate cilantro. I am totally on the hating end.

  11. Kate (What Kate is Cooking)
    March 30, 2011 | 2:18 pm

    I bet Abe would blog if he were alive today. Apparently he had a really high pitched voice in real life- he would probably feel more comfortable typing than speaking 🙂

  12. Adam
    March 30, 2011 | 2:35 pm

    Wish I could have been there! And the Gettysburg address would have been interesting in 140 characters… What do you think Abe’s twitter handle would be? THE_16TH or HONEST_DUDE?

  13. Sana
    March 30, 2011 | 2:53 pm

    Yay! I am on your bloggg, so uhh the man next to me at school is talking to himself. Send help.

  14. Jo @ Jo In the Kitchen
    March 30, 2011 | 3:51 pm

    I’m with you on the cilantro. Eeew.

  15. Averie (LoveVeggiesAndYoga)
    March 30, 2011 | 4:10 pm

    Evan…what an awesome post!! And all these meetups! honestly, you just accomplished going to Foodbuzz without the long flight to San Fran and the overwhelming nature of it all. You just met all the cool kids and all the blogs you’ve been reading for so long in such a wonderful, awesome way and venue. Soooo awesome!

    I miss Madeline so much. She and I saw each other every week for 9 mos, sometimes more often. I miss that girl so. 🙂

  16. Erin
    March 30, 2011 | 4:11 pm

    Jealski! Of THEM – they all got to meet YOU

  17. Sarena (The Non-Dairy Queen)
    March 30, 2011 | 5:21 pm

    Looks like you had a great time! What a great blogger event!

  18. chelsey @ clean eating chelsey
    March 30, 2011 | 9:38 pm

    Gosh, that looked like such a fun weekend! Surely I am more than jealous!

  19. Hannah
    March 30, 2011 | 9:42 pm

    Oh my, that last photo freaks me out because you look *so* much like my brother when he was a bit younger, and his name is Evan too. And he was born in DC (I’ll never forgive him for that. I’m the one who wants to live in Aemerica, he’s the one with citizenship.)

    • Wannabe Chef
      March 30, 2011 | 9:43 pm

      Your parents make good name choices 🙂

  20. Matt
    March 30, 2011 | 9:52 pm

    Great to meet you, Evan! And congrats on your marathon. Half an hour faster than my first one.

    And you are crazy. What’s this “now I can die happy” about?

    • Wannabe Chef
      March 30, 2011 | 10:06 pm

      You are famous, Matt. Let me put it this way: Me meeting you was like you meeting Tony Robbins, except don’t expect me to buy $200 worth of pills and drink the vegan, organic Kool-Aid.

  21. Kathleen @ KatsHealthCorner
    March 31, 2011 | 11:18 pm

    Looks like you had fun! 😀