Grow Your Motivation

"For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned."

The one spot in your house where you can draw some inspiration from: the Runner’s Cave. Do you have a spot like that? You might have some medals or trophies? Possibly some quotes or motivation? Maybe a few photos of you kicking butt?

In this week’s blog, I wrote all about the “runner’s cave” Carly and I (really me) are starting to put together in our office. Since both of us are more coach than athlete these days, every once in a while we need to draw upon motivation to keep the intensity sky high for our athletes/clients.

We do this with some help, obviously. Our office has Villanova gear from my heyday and it has a whole bookcase section on running - novels, coaching theory, and magazines to provide us with a boost if we need it.

Lastly, our growing runner’s cave is packed with workout equipment to keep up in tip-top shape.

Your runner’s cave doesn’t have to be packed with everything we have in ours, but a spot full of motivational items is sure to help get you out the door when the going gets tough.

Need more details? Here’s this week’s blog post.

Friday’s Action Plan:

Find a quote that really speaks to you and print it out using Canva (here’s a quick tutorial I made about Canva).

If you’re not a quote person, put together the 3-5 pieces of workout equipment that you always use and store them in one central location.

Big Events Coming Up:

Chicago Marathon is in 26 days

HS cross country kicks off this weekend - I’ll be announcing/working at the Cherokee Challenge

What’s Got My Attention:

Article: How running brand Tracksmith has taken an anti-Nike approach to building a brand

Video: Rachel Schneider’s pre-Worlds workout

Quote of the Day:

“A little progress each day adds up to big success.”

Connect with me:

Our Facebook group specifically for runners is here.

I’m on Instagram

I’m on Facebook

I’m on Twitter

Here’s my blog

Thanks for following along in the journey! Have something you’d like to add? Have suggestions or comments? Email me: TrainwithMarc@gmail.com

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