Twin Salad Mini Sand

Place of Purchase: CU, Han River Park, Seoul

Cost: 2200 KRW ($2.12)

KCal: 411

Style: Triple bread, cut into quarters, crust on

I was running in a 5km event this morning, and was a little early so decided to have something. Some running people say stuff like "carbo-loading" and eat gels or Clif Bars, I'm not that serious, I just ate because I was hungry. I was fortunate, I suppose to get the last sandwich on the shelf. I started running this year because I was really quite fat and I had gotten to avoiding looking at myself in the mirror or photos, just felt bad inside. I started running and eating less. Stuff happens when you do that, like the laws of thermodynamics take effect and as a result I got smaller and started to like my pictures better and now even take selfies sometimes.  

A lot of people came to the event, more than 500 I think. The longest course was a full marathon. That's too far for me. I felt a little bad doing the shortest 5km course, but 5km is 5km longer than I ran all of last year, so there's that. It was snowing and next to a river and it was a very good memory because it was beautiful. There's also an undeniable beauty in running amongst other people, a bonding because we're all tired and going through that same inner dialog of quitting but we don't and that makes us closer even if we never talk.

Ah, yes, the sandwich. It kind of sucked. The bread was a little stale and the potato and tuna salads were pretty tasteless. It wasn't spit-it-out bad, but it certainly wasn't good. Sometimes food is just calories to put in your body and nothing more, and that's just what this experience was. I did give some of the dry crusts to the pigeons outside the store, and I would think they have high praise of Twin Salad Mini Sand, as they seemed to appreciate it very much. This one goes right in the middle. 2.5 stars