I conquered Miramar Lake – and by conquer, I mean that I ran it all the way around non-stop at a pretty good pace even if I say so myself.  I was really debating whether I should try to make it around the lake or not.  I think the longest run I’ve done prior to today is about 4 miles.  I really wanted to make it around the lake – it would be much better than just stopping at one point and turning around.  Miramar Lake is also not flat – there aren’t any major hills but it does have some short spurts of ups and downs pretty frequently.  My goal was to run it under 52 minutes without stopping.  The loop, while most people say is 5 miles is really 4.92 – so just a bit shy.  Most of the time I’ve been running – I run at about a 10 minute pace and add on to that when there are hills involved.  Recently I’ve been trying to speed up.  I was doing pretty well throughout most of the run – always checking at each half mile and mile to make sure I was going under 10 minutes/mile.  I must have been going pretty fast early on – I think these were the splits (is that what it’s called?)  1 mile / 9:16; 2 miles / 19:10; 3 miles 29:15; 4 miles 39:30; 4.92 miles; 48:48.  I also remember getting kinda tired near the end but really trying to push through.

I felt so accomplished.  =D  This is the longest run I’ve done yet and I beat my goal by about 3 minutes!  Yay!  Now that I’ve been able to do it – I’m not afraid to try again.  Though it did take a lot of work and I really had to push myself to keep chugging along.  It wasn’t easy – but it’s doable.  :)