It is a social and situational enrichment. Any of the local Fleet Feet stores can also give you information on race options. Be careful NOT to get into the trap of doing the same workout, the same distance, the same course, every day. Running the same course and same pattern every day trains the body ONLY for that level of demand and extent of demand. Run new courses and run difference paces over your training week, for this allows your body to develop a range of adaptive changes to what later demands will be placed on it.
Life is about growing and only weeds grow without a real program.
These are credible and appropriate goals, but try to set goals that you can define clearly and truly make progress toward. I was so wasted from that strain that I had to come home from my birthday party that evening. We all age, and we do slow down and sometimes injuries force us to address new burdens in addition to age. And even if we were not national level athletes earlier, we often find that we go through cycles of injury and compromise in our training and fitness.