Thursday, December 1, 2011

Facebook--My accountability partner

I love Facebook for a lot of reasons--today I love it because it provides me with a 366-person accountability team.  I again faced the sluggish monster today as the clocked rolled around to 12:00 and it was time for a lunch break run.  Though the day was beautiful, sunny yet chilly with a lovely breeze--I really just wanted to skip my run.  I grappled and grappled with it.  Finally I posted this on Facebook:

"Why do I not feel like going for my lunch time run? It's beautiful outside with the perfect balance of sunshine and chilliness--why am I not springing out of my work chair and into my running shoes today?? OK, Facebook, I'm going to let you hold me accountable...off I go."

As soon as I hit "post" I felt this compulsion to go because now everybody knows!  While I was running I thought a few times, "I so just wanna stop and walk" but then I thought of the RunKeeper post that would occur at the end of my run, and I didn't want everyone to see that I only went .75 miles.  It was a real motivator!  In the end I went 3.01 miles in 30:51 minutes and was proud to have it posted on Facebook as proof that I had slayed the sluggish monster once again.  Thanks, Facebook--you came through for me today!

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