Posts filed under ‘health’
1st Half
I’m back from norCal and my first half marathon with Team Challenge. Its been a few weeks. I wanted to write all about it sooner, my bad.
All in all, it was an amazing experience, can’t really describe very well. I suggest you sign up for a half marathon and experience the joy yourself. If you happen to be involved with a charity that partakes in races, or want to be involved with one that does, SIGN UP!
In other news, I participated again in Detroit’s 2nd annual 48hr Film Project. My team is great and quite talented. The screening is tonight and I’m pretty excited. I was unable to go to last year’s, so this will officially be the first time seeing my name on the big screen.
I also got a Google Voice number, courtesy of Mark. If you wanna make contact, you can always e-mail at paddy@itspaddytime.com or now you can call at 313-4PDYTME! Fun!
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Nature, Goulet/potw
It’s been a hot minute and a lot (kinda) has happened since last I blogged.
The biggest thing would probably be that I turned 25 on the 22nd. Yikes. My quarter-life-crisis is still hanging around, though I think its been around long before I actually had my birthday. I’m OK and everything, but hitting 25 is the magic number that kinda kicks ya in the pants a little. To celebrate I went west to Holland, MI. Good times were had, got wacky, said hello to Big Rock Candy Mountain and sang a lot of 90s music.
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Oh yeah! I also saw This American Life Live on Thursday. What a treat. It’ll re-air on May 7th if you missed it, and I believe it’ll be on the radio, but I highly recommend seeing it for the extra visual greatness. Do it!
Sooo, yesterday, withsome trepidation I went for a run with my good friend Eric Elliot aka E-dub at Paint Creek Trail in Rochester. Eric has been running like a maniac for some time now. Me on the other hand have been a runner for a while, but mostly off and on like. His idea was to do 13 miles, since I’m training for one naturally. I tell him I’ll run for my required hour of training for the day and see where I’m at after that. So far, I’ve been up to about 5-6 miles. About a half mile in is when the thunderstorm downpour started. It felt simultaneously crazy and awesome to run in that weather. Frogs and worms came out to play. The thing about Eric is he’s a crazy motivator. I was definitely not on the same level as him and my body was not ready for that amount of action, but he kept insisting and pushing me to the finish. Around mile 9 I had to take it down a notch andwalk for a while. Eric wasn’t having any walking, but I had to. I was glad because I hung out with 8 deer. After some recouping, I jogged out the last few .miles. So after all the crazy weather, nature and jello-legs, I made it 13 miles. Farthest I’ve ever traveled on foot in one stretch. I’m glad Eric pushed me. It was about time something like that happened. So, for that E-dub is this week’s Person of the Week!
Last note. Went to Jumbo’s, my favorite karaoke on Saturday nights to finish off my birthday celebrations. I gotta say, its just not the same since Nick the karaoke guy got replaced. If anybody wants to go down I might have 1 or 2 more visits in me until I find another cool dive bar w/singing.
take it easy cheesy.
-p.
Corktown 09
Hi friends,
I may not have been adequately prepared for it, but I was looking forward to running today’s 4 miles since last year.
I love the Corktown Race, mostly for the large number of people that come out to run and walk and for the jolt of energy I get when I hear Irish music pumping toward the finish.
So today pretty much rocked, starting with such lovely weather. Mitch came out to run and we had some family and friends come out to cheer us on which was also great. This was my first time participating where I got kinda stuck trying to figure out where to go, then all of a sudden the gunshot went off and it was go time, so being stuck in the crowd took us a minute to get past the starting line. It was ok though.
The only trouble I had in the run came around mile 3, which seemed like forever to get to, when my leg started feeling sore. I felt it was ok to keep going a steady pace, and seeing that I was only a mile away from hearing that sweet sweet music at the finish line I let it all hang out.
Official stats:
I came in 41 out of 61 in my sex/age group and 1480 overall out of around 3000? I’ll do better next year! My pace was 9:24/mile, not bad?
Also, it felt sweet to represent Team Challenge for the first time, rockin my training shirt. I knew there were other teammates there but I didn’t catch em. Next time.
A great burrito at Chipotle Grill topped off the afternoon, still can’t wait to sleep.
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