Mad Manatee Mentors CLOSED (Poptart/pet pic bribes?) (Page 94)

Originally posted by laffinrock

Originally posted by tcarlson78

Originally posted by Artemis 2 days into my training plan and I'm right on track. I feel like I should put a dollar in a jar every day I'm on track and take one out if I miss a workout. Bribery does wonders for me.

I never thought of that. What an awesome way to invest in yourself and keep you on track for training! That cash could be used for a nice reward post event or to pay it forward to help someone else achieve a goal. I need to get a jar out and start that. Perhaps even add a bonus deposit for meeting a training goal. What say the Manatee's, what should the investment structure be? +1 daily workout, -2 missed workout, +2 or 5 for goal achievement, +x or -y for difference in event result (time/place), etc? Of course we should include other rewards, bonus, and penalties.

I'd say use whatever structure motivates you and make it as simple or complicated as you want.  If guilt motivates you, great, but if it doesn't, don't set yourself up to fail.  I used rewards (bribes, really) really effectively when I started training last year.  My rewards were gear (the list is on my blog if you're interested).  I've recently found that if my goal was to do x for y amount of time, I'd get discouraged and start getting down on myself if I messed up and had to start over.  For example, I currently have a goal of 4 weeks of strength training = a new foam roller.  While that's a great goal, I haven't been able to do it and it's really frustrating.  Distances worked really well in the past so I think distances and times will be my focus for now.

Your list is great!!!  I really want to replace my Fitbit One with a FitBit Charge HR, but I'm not sure how long of sticking to training plan = replacement for pedometer that is already causing problems.  Logically my brain says to end of training plan, but I don't want to wait that long.  

Originally posted by fortissimo

Originally posted by rrrunner I've also seen the $per mile approach. $1 or 50 cents or whatever. Of course for any of those to work for me if have to give up my current habit of buying when I see something I like or see a good deal. I'm thinking something BIG after my marathon. :D

If I hit my goals for my races this year I'm buying a Dooney & Bourke Mickey Mouse bag when I run the Avengers Half at Disneyland in November. I've never had a "real" purse and since I'm really 5 not almost 50 I thought this would be a something to aim for!

Ooh...good bribery!!  I might have to do something like that for the Disneyland Half in September.  They have really cool jackets.

Did you sign up for the Avengers Half already?

Way to go, Stacey!!  Running nearly the whole way and smashing your time goals are super awesome!!  Keep up the good work!

ETA:  BTW, to put in a short link, click the icon that looks like a couple of circles with a line connecting them (5th icon from the left, at least on my screen; it says "Insert/edit link" when you hover your cursor over it).  Then put in the URL on the first line of the pop-up screen, and put in the text you want on the 2nd (ex: in this case, you could type the words race report).

uncomfortably warm {MELON PRESS} and sad SLURP ...

There is one positive. It makes you so depressed you want to off yourself, but I don't have enough energy to either do it or even care, really.

Incredibly bad humour is always welcome.

The fever and headache (unfortunately the joint pain is omnipresent ... this is the disease I got the lasting arthritis from, and it's REALLY bad right now) do spike but then also recede sometimes for as long as a couple hours so I do get some reprieve.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya

uncomfortably warm {MELON PRESS} and sad SLURP ...

There is one positive. It makes you so depressed you want to off yourself, but I don't have enough energy to either do it or even care, really.

Incredibly bad humour is always welcome.

The fever and headache (unfortunately the joint pain is omnipresent ... this is the disease I got the lasting arthritis from, and it's REALLY bad right now) do spike but then also recede sometimes for as long as a couple hours so I do get some reprieve.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya

That'll get you time and HR data, but for the distance, I think you need a footpod.  The 920 will do it without the pod (not sure if it's in the HR monitor or the accelerometers in the watch).

So, the only reasonable approach is to get the 920.

Matt

uncomfortably warm {MELON PRESS} and sad SLURP ...

There is one positive. It makes you so depressed you want to off yourself, but I don't have enough energy to either do it or even care, really.

Incredibly bad humour is always welcome.

The fever and headache (unfortunately the joint pain is omnipresent ... this is the disease I got the lasting arthritis from, and it's REALLY bad right now) do spike but then also recede sometimes for as long as a couple hours so I do get some reprieve.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya

uncomfortably warm {MELON PRESS} and sad SLURP ...

There is one positive. It makes you so depressed you want to off yourself, but I don't have enough energy to either do it or even care, really.

Incredibly bad humour is always welcome.

The fever and headache (unfortunately the joint pain is omnipresent ... this is the disease I got the lasting arthritis from, and it's REALLY bad right now) do spike but then also recede sometimes for as long as a couple hours so I do get some reprieve.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya