I’m leaving the year under the weather. I don’t think it’s auspicious at all (mainly because I don’t believe in stuff like that). Anyhow, a great year. Met some great new people, maintained some great friendships, good time at work, lots of PRs.
I had a bad week training-wise this week. I got behind on training early in the week and stupidly tried to catch up. The further I fell behind, the more stressed out I got and the less motivated I was to train. So this morning, I wrote coach an email owning up to my failure this week. Felt good to blow everything up and start fresh. Sometimes, that’s what I need to do. Accept failure and continue on.
However, that got me thinking about something. A new contest if you will. Rev3 has a partnership with the Ulman Cancer Fund to raise money for the fund (including an awesome Run Across America by Rev3 staff and some of the team), and coach and I had talked a bit about how I could put incentives (or, rather, disincentives) for myself to complete all of my workouts. He suggested a jar, where I put in some money every time I fail to do a workout (not fail to hit the targets, mind you). Here’s my idea:
- For every week I miss a workout, I pledge to donate $10 to UCF
- For every week I hit every workout, readers will each donate $1 to UCF
Obviously, there’s still a bit that needs to be worked out here. For instance, if I’m sick and get permission to not do a workout, does that count as missing a workout? Who keeps track of whether I miss a workout (I can actually just use the calendar of stuff… that’ll prove the workouts are there)?
More to the point though, would you (the collective you, my readers) be willing to join in on something like this? Leave a comment so I can gauge interest (I plan on holding up my end of the bargain regardless of whether others join in).
