Miles to Health

Monday, January 26, 2009

After getting to 2 miles with week 1 program of the Personal Running Trainer, I started week 2 today, after doing Barry's Lower Body Fat Blaster. I knew week 2 was harder just decided to try the ignorance is bliss concept well it didn't help much, am sticking with the 7mph as my running speed and resting starting from 4mph, so for week 2 the program is now

5 mins warm-up
4 x 90 secs run with 90 secs rest
5 mins cool down

The goal is still 2 miles but unlike the last time while I was trying to get to 2 miles in 20 mins, so the lofty goal for this one is to get to the 2 miles in 18 mins, it took me 23:23 mins to get to 2 miles today. My leg and hip felt fine but running 7mph for 90 secs was a lot more tasking than doing it for 45 secs, I needed the whole 90 secs walking at 4mph just to catch my breath before the next challenge started, I pushed the last challenge to 120 secs but was too winded to do anything with the last 5 mins, definitely have room to grow on this one.

After the run, did 25mins of Spinning using week 1 running program, was actually quite fun then 20 mins on the stepper and then finish off with Candace Grasso Stretch and Relax program.

Took the day off today so I can spend some time with the kids, they had the day off due to teacher in service, so got a lot of things done including applying for my US passport which is one of the things on my goal to do list before the end of January, the FAFSA form for college was also completed.

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