Fitness at Bee's

We started the day off with a stroll for Buddy and then left him in the RV while we went for a run inside the park. The outer perimeter road measures just over 1 km and includes a paved road where the RVs are parked and also a nature trail through the woods. We agreed to run 4 loops and then walk one with Buddy as part of our cool down. We ran the first bit together and then I went off on my own for a bit. Neither of us were carrying any water for the first time since being here, so we were both a little parched at the end. I finished my 4th loop and grabbed Buddy and a bottle of water from the RV and then went to meet Chris at the end of her 4th loop. She came by in a few minutes while I was chatting with a fellow walking his dog and she decided to squeak in another loop running so she would get her 5 km in. Of course, I couldn't run anymore because I had Buddy in tow and he was more interested in peeing two drops on every bush he could find. Bottom line was Chris ran 5 km and I only ran 4 km. She was quite proud of herself for that. We had a great pancake breakfast afterwards and are still chuckling about our respective runs.

After we showered up, we decided to take a drive over to Winter Garden which is about 15 miles east on Hwy 50. On the way, I also checked out a bike shop in Clermont while Chris mailed some Christmas cards at the post office. They supplied me with some route maps for local bike rides in and around Clermont as well as directions to several trailheads for the West Orange Trail. 22 miles of 14 ft wide asphalt bike trail. Hoping to try that out tomorrow. I had forgotten that Clermont is the staging area for the Great Floridian Ironman race. We also asked about local lakes for swimming but were told that Lake Minneola was closed for swimming except during the race. Just as well because we didn't bring our wetsuits anyway.

We continued on over to Winter Garden and checked out this huge mall on Daniels Rd. It is so new that the Barnes and Noble store was not even open yet. We wandered through a few stores including Sports Authority, Best Buy and Verizon. Surprisingly, none of the stores were very busy even though Christmas is fast approaching. Perhaps because it was a week day. We had lunch at Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries which was excellent!! Best burger we've ever had. So much food we could hardly finish it. Then we headed back to Clermont on old state road 50 which was the scenic tour and proved to be very picturesque. Unfortunately, I left the camera in the RV, so you will have to trust me on this one. Duh!

Once back at Bee's, we had a few hours to rest up before their Beehive restaurant opened for the regular and extremely well attended, Friday night all you can eat fish fry dinner. Also excellent!! Fried or baked fish (we tried both), baked potato or fries (baked), cole slaw, corn fritters and home made apple sauce for dessert. There was no way we could handle seconds. Although many people certainly did.

So we both agreed that yesterday was a bit too much food. Time to get the bikes ready and go work it all off. Hoping to let Buddy try out the bike trailer as well and there will definitely be pictures of that.