Can I tell applescript to run an Automator workflow?

I was wondering if there was any way to tell applescript to run my workflow?

Sure there are two ways:
1) save your workflow as an application, then launch it like any other app
2) tell application "Automator" to execute workflow 1
(the latter is an actual AppleScript example that runs the active workflow. There are other ways of specifying which workflow to use, but since you weren't specific in your request I can't be more precise.)

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