Monday, January 23

My Little Motivator

I’ve been trying to think of a way to help me stay on track with my running. Not only for now but also as a reference in the future. The only thing I could think of to do is the old school chain thing.

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I am doing Couch to 5K which has actually turned into Ease into 5K (iPhone app). I personally think this new way is more difficult (for now) but looking forward, I think it is a better plan.

I wrote the week on each ring and the total number of minutes that I will actually be running that day. I did that so after I finish, I can look back and see that I ran however many minutes in a week or month rather than what it took me to do in 8 weeks. One day I will hopefully be able to say in did in 2 or 3 runs, what I did here on this whole entire chain. I’m pretty excited about it!

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Its pretty crazy that you can go from running 6 minutes total (in intervals of seconds) to 30 minutes straight in 8 weeks. I’m taking it one goal at a time. This is my first big goal with all this…

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Kale will start running next week because of his LASIK so we will be right on track for our first 5k to actually RUN together!

I’ve always had the dream to become a runner but never the motivation. I truly do have it set in my head this time and decided to make this to help keep me on track.

Ideally, I would LOVE to have a running partner so I wouldn’t have to use anything like this but I wanted to do something to look back to anyway. Do yall have anything yall use to help stay on track?

1 sweet ♥ comments:

Anonymous said...

I need a running partner also, wished we lived close to each other. Keep it up you are doing great! Jodi