Is it really Wednesday already? This week has completely flown by and I find myself laying in bed trying to get this post done before I go to sleep tonight because I just realized what day it was.. that’s the kind of week it’s been. I was in Florida for the past 6 days with a bunch of friends for the Disney World Marathon. It was a blast!!! If you read my last post I talked about how I was nervous to run the half marathon because I hadn’t trained one bit. I actually did much better then I expected! All I know is I’m glad it’s over and I kicked butt! A majority of the group ran the full marathon and it was their first one. I’d love to run a full marathon some day but I think I just need to get over the mental aspect of it. I mean 26.2 miles?! That’s far. That’s even a far drive in my car!

The half marathon was actually scheduled for Saturday while the full marathon was on Sunday. Turns out the half was cancelled due to a really bad storm that was coming in during the same time of the race. Apparently you don’t mess with lightning in Florida. I was super bummed because I thought that meant no race for me. Thankfully they gave you the option to switch over your registration to full marathon at no extra charge so that’s what I did. By no means did I plan on running the full but I will admit the thought crossed my mind. How cool would it be to finish a full marathon when you didn’t even think you’d make it through the half? But I quickly realized it wouldn’t be cool.. it would be dumb. Because I would have most likely injured myself considering I didn’t train at all. That thought also quickly dissipated when I reached the 13 mile mark in the race and realized that I would be doing another 13 miles if I was doing the full.. so I was happy sticking to the plan. 

Now let’s move on to the food. If you really want to know what inspired me to make these greek chicken burgers I have to be honest and tell you it came down to what I had on hand. That’s how I usually come up with my recipes.. I don’t know if I’ve shared that yet. I usually try to take inventory of what we have on hand to see if there’s anything I can make with what we have before buying anything. Because nobody likes wasting food. I realized we had an almost full container of Tzatziki sauce that needed to be consumed in the next couple of days so there’s my inspiration. I wish I could tell you I was eating at a delicious authentic greek restaurant and had a dish that inspired this recipe.. nope, just some food that needed to be consumed. But that’s real life, isn’t it? And I like to keep it real.

I didn’t serve these burgers with buns but if you’d like to, by all means! They would actually be really good in a pita pocket. I think I’ll try that next time I make them. I served them with a cucumber tomato salad – I’ll post the recipe for that soon. 

Enjoy!