WANTED: Encouragement (Read 900 times)

Make your running log viewable so we can trash you if you don't post some consistent running. Buy some überexpensive gear so you have to justify it by running often. Post whenever you want abuse. Most of all, make it fun! Run easy.

Make your running log viewable so we can trash you if you don't post some consistent running......

AHHHHH.....PEER PRESSURE! Excellent idea!!! I log my runs with SportTracks on my computer, so I don't feel the need to do an online log. I will log my runs here, too.............let the abuse begin!

Look at all those lousy zeros in your running log! Fix that!

I have planned every week worth of runs from now through October and have two HMs in there as my goal.

That's my major motivation, a circled date on the calendar and the daily mileage to get there. I consider the mileage a minimum, and try to add a REALLY EASY lap or two around the block as often as possible. My most frequently used course is about seven and a half miles, most of my runs logged on it are longer than that. That extra half mile or mile (or two) at the end of a run really adds up over the course of a year. Join a pace group. Figure out what is a realistic (or better yet stretch) goal and chase that pace bunny. Read the Look What I Can Do forum and the reports in the Racing forum. Yesterday I found a great thread* that turned an eight miler into 13.1. The mental aspect of running is often overlooked, motivation can be half the battle. Find what works for you, then share it here Sean. Best of luck to you. *MTA: a great and apparently overlooked thread, why not drop by and give Peggy an attagirl? Two replies seems pretty weak to me.

AHHHHH.....PEER PRESSURE! Excellent idea!!! I log my runs with SportTracks on my computer, so I don't feel the need to do an online log. I will log my runs here, too.............let the abuse begin!

0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0,0 Get moving and get the zero's outta there. You Zero!!!!!!!

OK, now we're talking! Thanks for the pushes everyone! I appreciate it. Logged my first run on RA. I am going to register for my first race and post it with my training calendar on my beer fridge. With the frequency I visit that fridge maybe it will guilt me into drinking less and running more........double bonus! Cheers everyone! Sean

OK, now we're talking! Thanks for the pushes everyone! I appreciate it. Logged my first run on RA. I am going to register for my first race and post it with my training calendar on my beer fridge. With the frequency I visit that fridge maybe it will guilt me into drinking less and running more........double bonus!

Something that I do is that I tell my family and friends that I'm going to run in such and such race on such and such day..............Its not long before people start asking me how my training is going..and I have to have a good answer.. AND - you KNOW someone is going to ask you about the race and you just cant say you got lazy - didn't train - so you didn't run.........The more people that know about my runs, the better because you have to do it and you have to do it well.... This works pretty well for me...