Best Burrito in the Caribbean – Marathon J

There is a sports bar called Cuddy’s in New Kingston, Jamaica, it is owned by the most popular Jamaican cricketer Courtney Walsh, their Burritos are something else, if you ever go there try them, or the curried goat which is also fantastic. Today I was taken to Trotters, a similar style sports bar, in Port of Spain, Trinidad, it is slightly larger and more up market, they claim to have “A World Famous Monster Burrito”, so I asked Kevon (I girl, I guess her parents wanted a boy) if they were better than Cuddy’s and she of course who’s ever heard of Cuddy’s? So I ordered one, on my gosh when this thing arrived it was the size of a house, stacked full of steak, it was as though the cow had died and they had thrown some roja sauce on, wrapped it in a tortilla and fork lifted it onto my plate. My conclusion then is that, this is worthy of the title “Monster” but as far as taste goes Cuddy’s wins, sorry Trotters.

What has this go to do with running, well I started to devour the Monster Burrito at 12.30 so I must have finished just after 1pm. I was told that running round the roundabout in the centre of Port of Spain is very popular and safe whilst it is light and there are plenty of people about. I was told it was about 2.5 miles round. There is a video of it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFrhu9xK98E&feature=related or search on a trip round the world’s largest roundabout, the centre of the roundabout is used for sporting activities and of course is where much of the partying happens during carnival season.

So at 5.23pm I set off, the first lap was not too bad and though the heat was tough, at least there was some breeze and of course things and people to look at as I ran round, rather than the dreaded treadmill timer, the second lap was much harder as I struggled in the heat, but worse to come was the Monster Burrito that started to bite back, I was sure I was going to see this thing again. Fortunately it only threatened a reappearance, though it did travel up my esophagus and back down a couple of times.

Most people were walking rather than running and the runners seemed to be going in the opposite direction to me, which was against the traffic flow, I’m not at all sure why but I plan to find out. Anyway, I finished at 6.06 some 43 minutes later. Given my running pace the time tells me it is not 2.5 miles round, I don’t think I was running 9 minute mile pace so I’d have the distance closer to two miles round.

Part way round

Port of Spain from the road in

Tomorrow is rest day my legs are tired!