So I did a silly thing yesterday. I was looking around at the virtual races online in which you can earn medals for running for example 5K, 10K, or whatever. I find most of them too expensive, I mean, I'm just having fun. Not planning on buying medals every week either, I just wanted 1 to gift myself for fun. And then I came on this Dutch site with reasonably priced medals and I saw thé medal I really have to have: a snail-medal! I call myself a snaily when running, because I run rather slow (kinda Slow Jogging). So I ordered it!
I do have to register an activity first before they send it to me and I have planned to gift myself the medal when I reach 60 minutes of running. The most I have run at this moment is 40 minutes and I am now following a plan to run 30 minutes during weekdays (keeping always 1 day rest between 2 runs) and lengthen the time in my weekend run every 2 weeks. If all goes well, I would reach the 60 minute mark in the weekend of 27th of March. This is still nearly 2 full months before I can claim the medal, but now I can look forward to it.
Call me an idiot for doing this, but I thought to do something fun with my running. This will probably be the only medal I gift myself though, no worries. I just couldn't pass up this one. Snaily medal, here I come!
That’s awesome! Having a goal to work towards is such a huge motivator for me too! I love sitting down and making spreadsheets of my plan and my progress, crossing stuff off as I complete things. But a gift at the end....perfect!
That's a brilliant idea- wish I'd thought of it when I ran my first hour non stop!- although I did tell everyone I possibly think of about my achievement so perhaps flashing a medal too would have been overegging it a bit...Don't forget the selfie on presention day!
The site is called VirtueelNL and thanks, I love it too. Can hardly wait to get it, but alass I promisd myself I would only get it when reaching 60 minutes and that is only in 2 months...
Nothing silly about finding an incentive! There are some great virtual challenges and medals out there🏅 - and in the absence of real events, what else have we got?! 🤷🏼♀️😀I have really enjoyed working towards virtual challenges over the last year - enjoy yours when it arrives!🐌🏅🙂
Oh what a super idea. And it’s a smashing looking medal.! Enjoy your 60minutes and gifting yourself a medal is the icing on the cake!🍰🐌I think you’ve started a trend now. I’m certainly going to have a 👀 at this site. Enjoy!
I love it! That is brilliant, and good fun, and definitely something to look forward to. Please send a photo of you wearing your snaily medal with pride when you get it! 🐌 🏅🐌🏅🐌🏅.
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You CAN run TOO slow!
First race and first medal!
10km virtual race PB!
