What is your mountain?

First off, welcome to Spring, it may still be hiding, but I promise it is here. With Spring comes the official start of the 2014 Bellin Run Training Schedule. If you haven’t gotten a schedule in the mail, you can either contact me and I will send you one, or you can find one online by clicking here. For those that have already signed up, Thank you! If you haven’t already done so, please do. While you may be thinking there is plenty of time to sign up, know that by signing up now you are more likely to follow through and have a successful training season and race day. Everyone who signs up before May 1st will receive an extra gift for doing so. We all like free stuff, right?!

If you haven’t already seen the Powernet post we are once again hosting My Team Triumph for a lunch and learn. The event details are as follows:

Lunch 'N Learn: April 2
Conf Room G1-2
Noon to 1 p.m.

PLEASE plan on attending as Christian Jensen (Executive Director of the Wisconsin Chapter and the Green Bay Press Gazette’s Person of the Year) will again be bringing one of the MTT captains to help share what MTT means to him and more information about the Triumph Mile of which we are a sponsor. You will no doubt be inspired to set new goals for yourself and even how to help others achieve theirs.

What is your mountain?

I think we all know that we should have a plan to achieve or maintain the level of health and fitness over the course of our lives. For some of us, it is no doubt a struggle as stress, lack of time, motivation all can get in the way of the plan we laid out for ourselves. Things get out of control and pretty soon not only have we missed our goals, but maybe we have even backslid. Now we start to stress out about how much more work we need to do and just give up. It is SO easy to fall into this cycle. The good news is that we can do something about it. There are so many things that are out of our control, so why are we letting those things hinder our progress. Focus on what you can control. We can control what we eat, our attitude, our amount of exercise. I know we have all heard it before, but everyone has the same 24 hours in a day. It is time to take control of that and take some of it for yourself. By using Google, you can find thousands of sites with exercise tips for busy people just like you.

So I challenge you to make a plan for yourself. Start with small and easy steps. Along the way make goals for yourself that are challenging but achievable. You may have a long term goal in mind, but focus on the next twelve to thirteen weeks to start. No one climbs a mountain by jumping out of a helicopter onto a vertical wall and starts climbing. We start at the bottom where the terrain is only a gradual climb. As we go along we achieve new milestones and get stronger. The terrain gets more challenging but we are prepared to tackle it because we started at the beginning and put in the work. That is one of the reasons why I think the Bellin Run training schedule is so perfect because it starts at the beginning. It asks you to go 1 mile. Walk, run or crawl, go that one mile. It could be the one mile that changes your life. This Sunday it is going to be nearly 50 degrees and after the winter we have had we couldn’t ask for a nicer day to start our training.