"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow"
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Website: www.dailymile.com
It is created as a facebook for athletes but have some really fun features! Going off yesterdays post, it is a great way to go public with your goals and plans so that you have people helping keep you accountable. There is an option to "motivate" your friends, and you can send them little encouragements to help them in their own personal training. to It is also a way to create that "fit identity" I mentioned yesterday. During set-up, you can set yourself as a runner, cyclist, athlete, tri-athlete, or swimmer. I got my brother hooked last night and am so excited to share the fun with you too!
My absolute favorite part of the website is how it tracks your training. Your profile shows your weekly workouts/mileage but you are able to get a list on your whole entire training from the start. I went through and entered all my runs throughout the marathon training. It keeps a log on how many total miles you have done, time, pace, distance, and calories burned.
There are also some fun stats that are fun to look at. Since my training began I have burned 152 doughnuts, saved 13 gallons of gas, powered 907 TVs and have covered 1% of the earth!
If you are competitive you are able to compete against your friends or join one of the many created competitions that are out there. They have everything from seeing how many people can run 1/2 a mile a day to seeing who can run the most miles in January. I actually recently won a competition on who ran the farthest on Christmas-you don't get anything but a pat on the back, but it was exciting and a good motivator to keep going!!
You can put in your planned races and it will help keep your goal in sight and gives you a countdown (as you can see on the side of the blog)
It also allows you to put in other workouts and cross-training. Lifted weights for an hour? Log that! Yoga? Log it!
I recently found this so I am sure I haven't found all the awesome features it provides, but it is a great way to implement technology into your own personal goals. There is everyone on there-those just getting started into walking everyday to those crazy Ironman tri-athlete!!
In fitness,
Megan
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