Yesterday was St. Patty’s Day, which for many people my age, it was the one day a year you can roll out of bed, crack a Guinness, and then blow off class. Or call a sick day. That’s the thing about graduating and becoming an adult: you have to be responsible and go to work.
Fortunately, yesterday was a nice quiet day at work, and I rocked out. It was kinda the theme for the day.
For me, St. Patty’s Day was less about Guinness (which I really can’t tolerate) and much more about the St. Patty’s Day 5K Pacer that I had signed up to run with some friends from Runfos (Runfos is a nonprofit I’ve gotten involved in lately, and you should totally consider getting involved) and had set as a sort of incremental step in my goal to doing the 10K at the River Bank Run in May.
I had done about 3.7 miles on a solo run earlier this week, and I was pretty impressed with my times. Yesterday’s run was through downtown Holland and while it was mostly flat, there was a killer hill that added many seconds for many runners. I ran with a couple other Runfos folks right up until the last block when I opened up.
I didn’t have a set goal for the run, other than to do it at a quicker pace than I’ve done before, and to that end I succeeded! I managed an average pace of about 9:20, which was about 5 seconds faster than my previous runs. It’s amazing to think that I ran 3 miles and wasn’t dead tired at the end; even running a couple blocks downtown (to the bar, naturally) left me panting not that long ago.
After the run, we weren’t really feeling all that tired, so we decided to go play a game of soccer.
A-Team Soccer fell to their opponents 10-4, but for a game where half the team had run 3 miles an hour ago, we did really well. We had just enough people on the team to manage a full rotation on field, and we put everything we had into it. We just didn’t have all that much left after the run, but we’re starting to develop the coordination as a team that we need to win games. We’ve got another game on Sunday, and I’m pretty excited for it.
But now it’s Friday night and it’s 10 at night and I’m getting ready to go back to bed (I took a nap as soon as I got home from work) because I am truly exhausted.
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