Tonight I ran intervals at the gym on the treadmill. It was supposed to be an easy run night, since on Saturday I am running my first 5K of the season. It will be the Starflight 5K. I only ran for thirty minutes and did about four intervals. The first was more a warm up interval, for the second I sped up to 6.6 MPH and maintained that for ten minutes. Then the last two I sped up to 7.5 MPH and 8 MPH and tried to maintain those speeds as long as possible. In both cases it was about thirty seconds. I seemed better at these speeds than a couple of weeks ago when I couldn’t even breath, I was bouncing around so much and needed more air than I could get.
Hopefully the race will turn out good and I get a personal best. Anyway it should set a benchmark for the entire spring season. My goal is to get under 30 minutes for the season, and I would really like to get under 29 minute. We will see what happens.