You knew that this probably wasn’t going to be your ordinary day when you look out and see a log cabin house going down the road. It was our neighbors that they made for the parade tomorrow for Lawler’s Irish Festival, and they were bringing it into town this afternoon before the town was too full with cars. 
Tonight was the night that our town had it’s first Irish Fest and it began with the 5K. A lot of my family was going to run tonight in the race, but you know how it goes – stuff came up and all that.. and the ones who actually went into the race was only about half of what we were planning a couple of weeks ago. But it’s their loss and we knew that we were going to have a good time!
Looking good!
The weather was hot and it looked like it could storm, but as the starting of the race came closer, there were way more that the 120 people that they thought that might join in. I heard unofficially that there might have even been more around the 260 to 280 amount. Whatever the count was, everyone was ready to have a good time. Now since this was my second time running, I kind of felt a little bit more comfortable with the whole thing. William was also running and he said that he’d go with me, but he hooked up with some of his friends and I said that I’d be fine. Since last week, I bought a little IPod to use and I’m thinking this way I couldn’t hear myself breathing so hard. Also it should keep me on a pace. Well, anyway that’s my theory. I was so worried about getting it set, that I hardly heard the National Anthem when it was being sung. But soon we were off. OK, I felt pretty good and I set the little IPod timer for 30 minutes. My goal was to be at 29 ish minutes. Things were going OK and every so often the IPod would stop playing music and tell you just how fast you were running and how far. OK, cool right? I was running at a 9 minute mile and things were good. Well, for awhile. Then it slowed down and I thought to myself to just keep running. It was a little disconcerting when the pregnant girl passed us, but we were determined not to the let the mom with the baby stroller get by! As the last mile was getting closer the voice on my IPod said 5 minutes left. OK, I knew that I could do this. I tried to pick up the pace and then I heard 4 minutes. OK. Then she came on and said 3 minutes. At this time I just thought to myself, ‘how do I shut this stupid IPod off!’ And even though I really didn’t have too far to go to the end of the race and I could even see it, but I ran out of gas. As I was running to the end all I could see were tons of people on the street and I thought to myself, if all these people were done already? But they were just friends and spectators just watching the race. Whew, that’s good. My time was 32:04. Well, not 29 is it. After a quick shower to get cleaned up, we went back into town to see the band for the night and also to check out what was going on. I’m thinking Saturday was going to be a fun and very full day!