May 12th was the annual SAI Crawfish Boil and it was a serious throwdown. The boys shipped up 300+ pounds of Crawfish direct from Baton Rouge, LA and despite this picture, those little critters were none too happy about flying cargo.

The boil started at 4pm on Saturday and I believe the crawfish, corn, sausage and potatoes were being served until 2am the following morning with the kegs flowing until well past 4am.

I hope to have pictures up soon of the event so you can see the the peeling techniques of a bunch of NYC novices on Louisiana crawdads.

Well, I guess I need to have some mention of running today and my preparation for this event. Knowing that this crawfish boil and bonanza was coming up I set out that morning and ran a nice 8 mile run at an easy 7:50 pace. I am still running into Brooklyn over the bridge and my new destination is McCarren Park. This was a once desolate park but has dramatically changed in the past year. As evidence check out the new construction overlooking the park.

My favorite is the building on the left that if you look hard enough you can see Mario climbing his way up to get to the Princess

UPDATE - A Little Crawfish Boil