Motivation Plan

After a nice tour, "Bike the Lakefront," offered by CAF today, I got a book from the CPL library--"The Beginning Runner's Journal"--and had skimmed through it for the past two hours. The book suggests a beginner for a walk/run to keep his/her objectives/goals/mission statements and especially a good motivation/positive attitude towards the walk/run, besides a running journal. I agree with the author and believe that I should start keeping a running journal. Though, I've been running for more than a year and finished Chicago Half-Marathon last year, it would be great to set my Motivation Plan and importantly to keep my running journal. The author sets an outline below for a runner to write down the motivation plan (I will come back to update this later). Also, there is an outline journal for two sets of 13-week program. I have recorded my running log for awhile (though not regularly and sometime often forgot to write down); this will be a good opportunity to use this journal page outline with some modifications. I probably will not use the suggested program (though, need to investigate the plan more carefully).

Motivation Plan
(To be completed)

Reasons for training
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Vision Statement
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Mission Statement
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Obstacles I might encounter and how I will overcome them
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Affirmation to keep me going
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Negative thoughts and feelings I might experience and how I will deal with them
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My social support Network
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My training cues
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My rewards
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source: Farres, Laura. 2003. The beginning runner's journal.