5 km run — 0 seconds

Follow a representative 5 km run and the hour it takes the body to settle again.

Representative model

Interactive 3D is loading into this same frame contract.

First strides · 00:00:00
Breathing catches up · 00:02:00
Steady effort · 00:10:00
Last strides · 00:30:00
Early recovery · 00:40:00
Later recovery · 01:00:00

Happening now

The run has just begun; the displayed values are still close to the resting reference state.

Explore the mechanism The demand rises

From the first strides the leg muscles need far more energy each second than they did at rest, and the systems that supply them begin to scale up.

Evidence for this step

Muscle contraction typically increases glucose uptake into working muscle by moving GLUT4 transporters to the cell surface, by a route separate from the one insulin acts through, and circulating insulin usually falls during aerobic exercise. moderate · View sources

Model status

Representative modelEducational only

Educational physiology only; not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment guidance.

This event shows a representative pattern, not a personal prediction.
Timing and magnitude vary with fitness, pace, terrain, heat, altitude and recent food.
The recovery shape shown here is an illustrative teaching curve; real recovery timing differs between people and between runs.
Displayed ranges are conservative teaching ranges drawn from published reference values and have not yet received formal domain approval for publication.

Open the liver in system focus

5 km run — 0 seconds

Breathing rate

Blood oxygen saturation

Blood glucose

Insulin signal

Muscle glucose uptake

Dominant working fuel