Day 2 of my commitment to health

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Ok, I have managed to complete my personal targets for the long weekend. I managed to go for the walk - run on Sat/sun and ran 1:1 today.

To clarify the above sentence, Please let me refer to about.com.

It all started when  I started going for half an hour walks around the park (Lampton Park) over the last two weekends. This inspired me to go for a run last monday. Well, I barely managed to run for 2 mins at a stretch before I had to walk home!!!
So being the nerd I am , I went to the net to look up advice on basics on running and the site I best liked was http://running.about.com.

I started the weekend with the intention of following the 8 - week program (http://running.about.com/od/getstartedwithrunning/ht/getstarted.htm)

The essence is:
  1. Week one: Walk for 6 minutes, then jog at an easy pace for 1 minute. Repeat 3 times. Aim for three sessions with that same sequence for week one.
  2. Week two: Walk for 5 minutes, then jog for 2 minutes. Repeat 3 times. Aim to do three sessions in week two.
  3. Week three: Walk for 3 minutes, then jog for 4 minutes. Repeat 4 times. Aim for four sessions in week three.
  4. Week four: Walk for 2 minutes, then jog for 5 minutes. Repeat 4 times. Shoot for four of those sessions in week four.
  5. Week five: Walk for 2 minutes, then jog for 8 minutes. Repeat 3 times. Do four of those sessions in week five.
  6. Week six: Walk for 2 minutes, then jog for 9 minutes. Repeat 3 times. Try to do four sessions for week six.
  7. Week seven: Walk for 1 minute, then jog for 11 minutes. Repeat 3 times. Do four sessions this week.
  8. Week eight: Try walking for 5 minutes to begin and end the workout, and run for 20 minutes in between. By the end of the week, try to run for 30 minutes without stopping.
Well, after two days of week 1 , I realised that, it was not challenging me physically ( in fact I did not even work up a sweat), so from today I signed up to the e course - 3 weeks to a 30 min running habit (http://running.about.com/c/ec/1.htm)

Today's schedule was 1 min run and 1 min walk repeated 10 times.(Which I completed!!)

I would recommend the about.Com's running & jogging site and especially advice from Jesslyn Cummings (http://running.about.com/mbiopage.htm)


Ihope write in tomorrow then where I log in tomorrow's efforts.

Weight : not checked

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