Hard Tempo

I did 10k today at lunchtime. It was a tempo day, so I did 30 minutes at my tempo pace of around 5:15/km. That was a seriously tiring workout. I was hungry at the start, which didn't help matters. About 3km into the tempo part I was really feeling it, but after a couple of minutes of wondering if 30 min at tempo pace was too much, my energy level rebounded. I did add 4 strides to the end of my workout during the cooldown part of my run.

I was actually going to do 1 km cruise intervals instead of the constant tempo pace, but once I got going I remembered why I hate intervals. I was constantly looking at my Garmin to see when my first 1 km lap was up. At around 900 m it dawned on me that if I did the workout I was planning I could look forward to 30 minutes of staring at my watch. Also, I had a hard time with the early pace, and was running most of the 1st km way too fast (around 4:45/km). So, I went back to the 30 min tempo run.