bumbershoot
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2007
the thought that I "earn" a medal by doing a long run I would have had on my schedule anyway is a little silly to me.
As a previous poster said...a "race" is just another scheduled run...
I've had a real problem in the past to put in the training time I need, so... to have a medal sitting there, waiting for me, is MAJOR motivation to do the training. We did the Molly Weasley Ugly Jumper (Sweater for the Americans) Run virtual, and the medals sat in their bubblewrap until we did it. DS and I ran it over two days (b/c that's possible with virtuals) *on a cruise ship*. We were going to do the whole thing at once but slept in and by the time we were ready to run it was broiling. So we split it up. Dh was walking everywhere on the ship like crazy, even more walking than usual, and on the day he chose, once his fitbit hit the mileage he asked to have it awarded to him.
It works for us.
On topic for Virtuals, OFF topic for Disney...
I will admit to being tempted by some of the Hogwarts Running Club events, though, geek that I am...
Do it....
I had to check this out. This is seriously cool!
Do it!
I haven't signed up for one yet, but someone I know introduced me to Hogwarts Running Club and it is pretty amazing. I do want to do one of those at some point (huge Harry Potter fan here).
They have the TimeTurner even towards the end of the year where you can sign up for (aka "buy the medals" for those possibly more cynical, alternatively known as realistic...make your choice) for all of the events from that year. It's a good chunk of change all at once, but if you were underemployed in January but found a job in September, it works! I discovered HRC (Hogwarts Running Club...the initials do confuse some who follow politics LOL) during that event last year.
We'll have Umbridge Run medals coming in soon, and once we all get in our 13K (or until it sinks in), we'll award them to each other. (we were supposed to do it last weekend but we didn't. oh well!)
It's all quite fun. (and the Umbridge run charity makes up duffel bags of stuff for foster kids...one cannot argue with that charity, that's for sure!)