I found out about this 13-Week Walk-Run Program and after reading the reviews, I thought perhaps I could do this too. So I ordered a used copy. While waiting for the book to arrive, I thought I could start my training by following what some of reviewers said was the first week’s training schedule: Run 30 seconds, walk 4:30 minutes, and repeat 7 times. That seems doable. And during my first two “training” sessions, that’s what I did. And guess what? I felt great, it wasn’t too demanding and at the end of the seventh repetitions, I was still in one piece and hardly felt tired. “Sup sup sui,” I thought.
And then the book arrived…

I searched the book for the second week’s schedule since no reviewers wrote anything about the second week. And to my utmost surprise, I couldn’t find the “run 30secs and walk 4:30 minutes” anywhere in the book. Instead in the book, the first day’s schedule was run 1 minute, walk 2 minutes, and repeat 12 times. And straight away I knew it was going to be a struggle and I was right. My first try at Day 1, after the 6th repetition, my legs were aching and my lungs felt like it was going to burst. I couldn’t get to the 12 repetition. I managed 9 and then walked all the way home. I was apprehensive about trying out Day 1 again but I want to run the 5K race so I gave it another try. And I succeeded on my second try, I managed the 12 repetitions…YAY!!

And that’s only Day 1 of the 13 week program…

carrot cake
This is my first ever carrot cake. I baked this using this Carrot Cake recipe from Allrecipes.com. It turned out really good, even my totally health conscious roommate liked it. My next endeavor would be blueberry muffins and then after that a banana cake.

Today while I was at the library, I overheard a girl telling her friend about a cake recipe using boxed cake mix and one can of diet soda, that’s it. I checked online and some people recommend using 2-3 egg whites so that the cake is fluffier and not so crumbly. I am totally intriqued by this. I’m going to the grocery store tomorrow to get the 2 ingredients for this cake.