I am up to two minutes of running with four miutes of walking. I do those intervals six or seven times. The running program I am completing is featured in the book 'Run Your But Off' by Runner's World. I have been doing this for three months. The book says to take as long as you need to get your endurance up and increase the duration of your run. I started with walking. Then I did thirty seconds of running. Then I did a minute. Now, I am up to two minutes. I started on the two minute runs three days ago.
Yesterday was a day of rest for me. You give your muscles a day of rest and you do something else. Today, I am picking the running back up. I go at 8:00 in the evening on most days. If it rains then I do not go. I only have one pair of shoes.
The purpose of this book if to gradually help you run and to help you lose weight. It helps you increase your endurance from walking to running straight for thirty minutes. I like the book. It has a foreward by Amby Burfoot that is interesting.
I have recently just started keeping the food log that is mentioned in the book. I am not a healthy eater. Allthough, over the past few months I have made some healthy changes. That is something else that will be changing over the next six months.
I have started keeping a training journal as well. They say you keep yourself more accountable if you keep a training journal. That is what I am doing.
I do not like the food ,though. In fact, I hate it. I have to sit there and remind myself of the fact that I eat unhealthy. I am a perfectionist and if everything is not perfect I feel rotton. The training journal is great. I am active and I have something worthy to put in it. The food log..I need to work on it.
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