Today was the Automattic Worldwide WordPress 5k and what a beautiful day it was. Spring is just starting in Michigan, but the temperature rose above 80 degrees as if it was the middle of summer.

… at Automattic we work from all over the world, and we use internal blogs for socializing and exchanging non-work ideas in addition to making WordPress.com and our other products more awesome. One of the things we’re really concerned about is staying healthy – we even have an entire blog dedicated to fitness. We had a great idea: Get all 80 Automatticians from 62 cities to run/walk a 5k on the same day. Read more on the WordPress.com News blog

I participated in a couple of ways. In the morning, I played 18 holes of golf for a 4.5 mile walk shown on this map (click to view on RunKeeper.com).

I took a couple of videos so you could join me on the final hole and did my best to commentate in the spirit of Masters Sunday.

Since I had to get in a 40 minute run for duathlon training, I ran 4.6 miles before the sun went down. Map of the route is below (click for a detailed view).

I’ve been addicted to exercise since the beginning of the year so I was excited when we announced this 5k day. It’s a win for everyone when we can motivate people to get off the couch or away from the computer to burn some calories. I wonder how many kilometers in total people logged for the event. Next time we’ll have to set up a counter. My total for the day was 14.64k (9.1 miles).