How about run txt?

"I'll run tomorrow morning."

Those are usually the first words I think on Saturday mornings as I roll over on my futon to reset my alarm.

A couple things to note here:

1) The snooze function on my phone has increased my laziness 10 fold.

2) Yes, I sleep on a futon. I'm hip like that.

3) Tomorrow doesn't come very often.

I'm not what anyone would call a lazy person. I take 18 credit hours a semester, work 30+ hours at the newspaper, sit on Kent State United Way's board, plan stuff with student leadership in the Dive, etc., etc.

Lately though, I've been an unmotivated person. I always tell myself I can do this later. Procrastination is every college student's enemy.

When I tell myself I'll do my long run tomorrow, tomorrow becomes tomorrow, and tomorrow becomes tomorrow. You get the idea. It just never happens.

I think this is why having a running partner is so important. Running partners do more than just chat while jogging; they encourage each other.

This morning if I had gotten a text or anything from someone telling me or asking me to run, I probably would have. I would have jumped out of bed, thrown on my running stuff and headed outside. A simple text message is encouragement. It's knowing you're running for someone else.

It's like a team almost. You don't work for yourself, you work for the guy next to you. When I'm running by myself, the guy next to me is a large, middle-aged man mowing his lawn in cutoffs. He's not exactly someone I want to work for. So I don't run.

I'm one of those people who don't like to disappoint. I also don't say no very often. So if someone tells me to run, I'll do it. Maybe I'm a little weird in that sense. But that's what gets me to run.

So next time you hear me talking about running, send me a text the next day. I'll feel guilty and run. And you'll feel great knowing you've just manipulated me into doing something.