Snowmageddon! Not Here in Texas! Need Some Motivation to Reach Your Fitness Goals?

Forget Snowmaggedon! We live in Texas (Thank God!) and it’s late winter or early spring, depending on your outlook on life. This means its 70 degrees one day and 30 the next. Be flexible! Get your run or walk done! Move forward towards your goals! A loop around the lake or a few miles on the treadmill will get it done! It could be worse, my peeps in Rhode Island are getting about 3 feet of snow today!

As we have talked about in the last few blogs, we are on a quest to run 2015 miles in 2015! Art and I have teamed up to get it done. That means we are accountable to each other to get 3 miles a day each done! We are actually doing very well and I feel the consistency is definitely helping my fitness level.  I feel stronger and more empowered since I have a teammate. I’ve even lost a couple of the holiday pounds! Yeah!

So here are a few suggestions to get you motivated to reach your own fitness goals:

1.     Grab a partner! It’s not square dancing, but having a partner really helps to get you off the pillow and out of bed in the morning. If you don’t have someone who has similar goals, then find an accountability partner at work or on Facebook. Check in with them and have them help you reach your goals! Keep a log or make a blog to track your progress!

2.     Buy a new pair (or two pairs!) of running shoes! There is nothing like breaking in a new pair of shoes to get the bounce back in your steps!

3.     Leave your watch at home! Forget about pace and just enjoy your runs. Time is irrelevant; it’s all about getting it done! This is not a race with anyone except your inner slug!

4.     Sign up for a short race that in the next 6 to 8 weeks. We are signed up for the Dallas Athletes’ St Patrick’s Day Sprint triathlon followed by the Rock and Roll Half Marathon; both in late March. That’s enough motivation to get me out of bed since an untrained race usually is painful (for your legs and your ego!)

5.     Think pizza!  Every mile you run burns around 100 calories. That means a 6 mile run is worth two pieces of yummy pizza! Or one slice and two glasses of red wine or two beers! Bribe yourself!

6.     When in doubt, use a very visible accountability counter. Here is one girl who is saving a dollar for every mile she runs in 2015. At the end of the year she is going to buy herself something totally frivolous (or several pair of shoes!)

Just a few motivations tips for today! I’m finding the more I talk about our challenge, the more motivated I get to get it done! Our next milestone is 200 miles and we are on target to reach that by the end of the week!  February is right around the corner and to reach our goal, we need to average 168 miles a month as a team. We should definitely reach our January goal by Friday and almost to 200 miles by the end of the first week of February!

Keep running! Every mile forward counts! Never give up!