by Joey | Oct 14, 2014 | Throwback
**I’m reporting in under a haze of cold medicine. I cannot be held responsible if this post ends up making no sense whatsoever. Also? Someone pass the tissues?
This weekend was the bomb.com If you follow me on instagram, you got a little taste of how it was all going (and if you don’t..why don’t you? All the cool kids are doing it. Okay, maybe not, but whatever).
12 is a special number in my family, so how freaking random is it that I ended up with 12 for my first race?
The 5k was good! I am not a morning runner (or a sunshine runner…yes, I’m a vampire), so I knew both of those things would be adjustments. My normal pace is somewhere in the 10:30-11 minute range. We bolted out and about a half mile in I realized I was struggling a bit. Looked down at my phone…I was running a freaking 9 minute mile. I knew I couldn’t keep that up for all 3 miles, so I slowed from the pack (I blame the fact that I am considerably shorter than everyone else haha). Because I started out too quick, I ended up with a side stitch somewhere around 1.5 miles and (ugh) had to walk for a few seconds twice. All in all it was good though! I finished in 33 minutes (not my best time ever, but also not bad considering I had to walk twice).
The game was Ah-FREAKING-maz-ING! The team has been doing SO well this year! We knew last year would be a growing season, so it’s just been so much fun to watch the guys actually kick some butt! We won (against Butler, whom we lost to last year) 28-9!!!
Oh, and during halftime…this happened!
This isn’t my photo. It belongs to someone on the football staff, but I can’t remember who!
The equipment manager proposed to his girlfriend in the middle of a really sweet speech!
Somehow, I wasn’t dead to the world after our crazy morning. I ran home and showered (it was hot! on Saturday) and then we were off to Raleigh for our 10 year reunion!!
It was just so awesome to see familiar old faces and catch up on life! I know a lot of people have mixed feelings about their HS reunions, but in general I just like people. And everyone had such wonderful stories to tell and it was just so neat to see the adult sized versions of people we were all once friends with! That lovely group up there ended up closing down the event (and I might have had too much to drink or too little to eat…or both). The neatest thing about this photo is not only were we all HS buddies, we’d all gone to middle school together, too!!
We didn’t leave Raleigh until 3AM! We live an hour away. And we’d both woken up at 6AM. I…I think we’re too old for that hah!
Sunday, I spent the first half of the day on the bathroom floor (oh, sweet hangover). And then I moved to the couch and didn’t move for two days. I was really hoping I’d wake up this morning (yes, I’m blogging this in real time, am I fired?) feeling more human but no such luck. It might be a work-from-the-couch day and hope for the best!
