Boilermaker 15K Road Race | Apple Crumbles

Banana Cream Cheese Bread with Chia and Peanut Butter Center

It’s the week of the Boilermaker 15K road race. This past weekend the race route was very popular among local participants. I was out there on Saturday to start a 16 mile run. Ran with Zoey from our house (about the 2 mile point) to the starting line, home again to drop off Zoey then proceeded up to Utica College and back. It was a gorgeous day for running. As for the rest of my Boilermaker training, it’s been the most intensive in all the years I’ve been a registered runner for this 15K race. My workouts have been directed [...]

By Joanne|2014-07-07T14:36:11-04:00July 7, 2014|Baking|2 Comments

Cranberry Cinnamon Goat Cheese with Bacon Slices

In just a couple of days it will be time to run another 15K, The Utica Boilermaker Road Race. It can be fun or it can be tough depending on the goal. It’s not a flat course but the hills aren’t overly aggressive either. The crowd support is maxed out. You won’t see a more motivating crowd than what you witness while running from East Utica all the way to Varick Street by Saranac Brewery. And lets not forget that HUGE post race party with music, food, beer, and celebration. What are my expectations? I try not to expect anything [...]

By Joanne|2013-07-11T20:18:51-04:00July 11, 2013|Food|2 Comments

Boilermaker 2012

The Boilermaker 15K Road Race. It’s quite an event in Utica. The crowd is out in full force supporting runners with water, ice, popsicles, gin and tonics….gin and tonics? Well, yeah, that’s what I heard when passing one group handing out cups. I didn’t touch that one. We all line up in our color coded corrals and wait for the BOOM. The first BOOM is the wheelchair racers. They take off 15 minutes before runners. The 2nd BOOM is our signal. It takes some runners 10 minutes to reach the starting line after that 2nd signal. The race was open [...]