Saturday I ran five kilometers at the Pure Gym Quarry Lake location. I started about noon and ran for half an hour. The weather was perfect, with the temperature in the mid 70s and a very little wind.
This location of Pure Gym is built on the site of an old quarry, which is now filled with water and has become a small lake. The running trail around the lake is about 1.1 kilometers long, with a lot more hills than I was expecting. The lake is totally surrounded by a fence and I had to get a code to open the gate. I have been told that the lake is about one hundred feet deep. When it gets warmer I will try to go for a swim. There were a lot of ducks swimming on the lake today, but no people. Here is a picture of the lake with the distances marked off.
I had set up my Garmin to pace me for a thirty minute, five kilometer run. I started out strong but soon slowed down, and finally had to walk for sections of the course (The lady who was walking her dog on a leash didn’t help my pace either). I will have to keep working on it until I can run the course in 30 minutes.