I was suppose to participate at Coach K Runners Hilly intervals at St Hans hills this morning but since it was raining I decided not to participate since I have had a cold this week and finally can come back and exercise again.

Since the rain didn’t want to leave I decided to do plain intervals on the treadmill at the gym by myself for the first time. I have participated at Coach K Runners plain intervals on a treadmill about 1 year ago.

The intervals exercise consisted of two sets

First 10 minutes warmup with a speed of 6 min/k and then it was time for the first set and realized that I totally forgot to stretch before I started  to run which I was punished for. My right knee protested and also my left butt so I decided to have a break between set 1 and set 2. Paused the treadmill and planned to continue where I ended but pushed the wrong button when it was time to get back doing set 2. So I had to start all over.

I am not sure what I did but when I was running 2 minutes intervals the treadmill just stopped. I hate when that happens. And then it happened again. So it was a bit screwed up at set 2.

The interval speed was 5 min/k but it seems to me that I can increase the interval speed next time I do this.

I am not very fond of treadmills but the positive thing with intervals on treadmills is that you can set a pace and keep it.

Afterwards I did the side plank and then 3 min regular plank.

Distance: 5.84 miles (9.40K)