Motivation....a little bit lacking...

Thank you, thank you, thank you to Asics (and Scotiabank, Powerbar and Gatorade for making this Joe runner contest a possibility) for my new gear!! I am so thrilled to have been selected for this joe runner opportunity and extra excited for my new shoes and running outfit!!!!  Check it out! Brand new shoes, shorts, shirt and even socks and a hat!!!!! I feel so very lucky.  I have attached a silly picture of me posing for my husband with all my new stuff on haha.

I am also taking part in one of the Forerunner clinics down at West 4th tonight for the first time. I'm excited for the extra motivation to go run. I really struggled last week - I managed only one run the entire week - I did cross training 3X but only the one run. My running partner was finishing up her school semester and I was on my own which didn't work so well. Anyone have any good motivation tricks they use to motivate themselves? Other than having a running partner? I'm open to ideas - one of my girlfriends jokingly suggested I sleep in my running clothes and just get up and go...while it could work, I don't know how comfortable that would be haha.

Clifton - thanks for the tangent tip! I tried it for the 8 KM I had to do again last week...managed to save about 17 seconds off my time from the 8 KM two weeks before. I can see how that would add up over 21 kilometres. Seems like a trivial thing but I definitely noticed a difference.

I realized today that we are already half-way through April - that means just over two months to the race!!!!! Better get down to business...happy training everyone!!!