Maybe not so fast...
I was rereading the older posts in this blog and realized that I never corrected a mistake via this venue. I corrected it via Facebook, but I must make amends in every direction. I did not run a 6:50 mile. It was some time around the 4th or 5th time that I went to this particular track that I noticed, in very large letters (much to my chagrin), a sign that said, "1 mile = 5 laps." I had been running the standard 4 lap mile. I was so heart-sick, heart-broken, and discouraged! Here I had been working so hard to get my "mile" under 7 minutes and it turns out that I wasn't even running a full mile! I know, I know. I did get my 4 lap time down considerably. The first time I ran 4 laps, it was around 9 minutes, so I did knock off an amazing 2:10. So, I timed myself running an actual 5 lap mile and my average is somewhere around 8 1/2 minutes. I'll be running again this spring and summer and my goal is to get the ACTUAL mile under 7 minutes just so I can...