Tuesday : A Tiring Run

After 3 days of rest (Weekend and Monday), I was eager to run today but I am not sure what went wrong today. I left the office at 4.40 pm and immediately headed for the gym. I changed to a T-shirt and shorts and was on the treadmill at 4.55 pm. I selected the 5km program with Number one gradient (Number one gradient is automatically set between 3.5 and 1.5 km).

• I started to rum slowly at 7.5 km/hr for 300 m,
• Increased speed to 8.5 km starting from 4600 m and maintain to 4100m,
• At 4100m, treadmill speed increased to 9.5 km/hr. Maintained pace for another 200m.
• At 3900m, increased pace to the target pace of 10.0 km/hr,
• Between 3900 to 3500m, felt comfortable at 10.0 km/hr,
• At 3500 m, gradient increases to number one. Taking of a lot effort to maintain 10.0 km/hr,
• At 2000m, I manually decreased gradient to horizontal position. My breathing was becoming uneven,
• At 1500m, "Stitches" start to appear, reduced speed to 9.0 km/hr. Tried very hard to control breathing.
• At 1000m, "Stitches" disappeared. Increased speed to 9.5 km/hr.
• At 600m, increased speed to 10.0 km/hr.
  
• At 200m, reduced speed to 8.5 km/hr.
  
• Stopped at 0.0 m.
  

Total distance = 5.0 km. Total time = 34 minutes including 2 stops (1 minute total) to switch the iPod tracks. Calories used = 305 kcal.

My aim to run 10.0 km/hr for 5.0 km didn't turn out that well today. I have not yet reached a level of fitness to sustain this pace for 5.0 km.

I plan to try again this week.