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Starting on 1 April (no it’s not an April fools joke) I am planning on a new and unique challenge for the 10Hours Community — I am launching the ‘30 Days to a Better Runner‘ project.

I’ve run this offline with some of my clients previously  in 2006 and 2007 and it was pretty powerful…so why not make it happen online? If you’re interested in participating,  please read on carefully.

Of particular note – this year I’m asking those participating to sign up as registered participants. You don’t have to do it – but to get the full benefits from it I ask that you do. I’ll explain more on why I’m doing this below.

You can register here:

Here the details of the challenge this year:

The Idea

The idea behind this is simply to have a group of athletes setting aside a month of their time to work at improving their running. While we all want to be better runners sometimes it becomes one of those things that we’re going to do…some day.

I personally find that I improve (in all areas of my life) when I’m more intentional and set aside a specific time to make the improvements. That’s what this project is about.

Interested in joining us? If so, read on…

How It Works

Each day from April 1st until May 1st  I will make a post here on 10Hours that is part of the project.

Posts will be designed to each have two aspects to them:

1. A teaching component
2. A practical component

The idea is that often teaching remains in the realm of theory and doesn’t actually prompt those digesting it to DO something. This project is more about DOING than learning. I hope you will learn, but to be honest if you’ve been running for a while some of what we’ll cover many will have heard before – but this project will give you a framework and hopefully some inspiration to put what you know into action.

Some of the practical components will be more relevant to some runners than others so you may not choose to do all of them but they will be on a variety of areas of running including gear, strength, speed, flexibility, endurance, nutrition, recovery, training tools, etc.

This 3o day project is designed for beginner and newer runner but many of the components will be relevant to intermediate and more advanced runners also.

To Participate

As mentioned above – this year I’m asking those who want to do the challenge to register their email addresses. You will receive one email per day over the 31 days notifying you that a new post is up, giving you the link to it as well as a little extra information for registered participants.

You don’t have to do this and can follow the posts via our RSS feed – but I’m asking for you to register for a few reasons:

1. Sometimes signing up for something is important in making us accountable to do what we say we’ll do.
2. It will enable me to give a little extra information than the posts contain themselves. On the blog the posts will be written in a way that anyone will hopefully benefit whether they do the full challenge or not – but in the emails that I send each day pointing you to the post I will include a little extra information just relevant to those doing the challenge.
3. My hope this time is to let the 3o Day Challenge live on way beyond the first 31 days. People will be able to signup and do the challenge at any point as the emails will be sent via an auto responder. [pending]
4. It will give me a little more insight into who is doing the challenge which will hopefully means I can tailor it a bit better to peoples needs.
5. Lastly – there’s a couple of things I’m working on as a bonus for those who register. I’ll write more of these as they firm up.

If you sign up for the 30 days you’re more than welcome to unsubscribe at any point if you feel it is not helpful or not quite where you’re at.

At the end of the 30 days I’m not planning on sending too many more emails. I may add a few more tasks over time but the daily emails will stop. If I do keep sending a few emails, again you’re welcome to unsubscribe if it isn’t meeting your needs.

Sign Up to participate in the Challenge Here:

Name:
Email address:
How did you hear about this?:	Twitter 10HoursAWeek Website A friend / training partner Other
What is your A race this year?:	Ironman Half Iron (70.3) Sprint/Olympic Marathon Half Marathon Other

I’m looking forward to the 30 Day Run Project and hope that you’ll join me.

Patrick

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