Start tracking your training for your upcoming 5K, 10K, half-marathon or marathon using tools perfected by pro-women athletes—USA Champion Lauren Fleshman and Irish Olympian Ro McGettigan (that's us)! This training journal will keep you accountable, help you set and achieve goals, make training more fun, and record all your efforts in a beautiful and unique design (check out the photos to the left!)
We cherish our training diaries & know why they are such an important tool. A training diary is integral in tracking progress, and the patterns which emerge help us figure out what does and doesn't work for our training and racing. But, we also believe that a training diary can be so much more than a recording device.
What we've created is an inspirational training tool for athletes that is fun to keep up with. Between the two of us, we have competed for over 35 years at the highest levels of sport: from youth track clubs up to the biggest stage in the world: The Olympic Games. Our biggest breakthroughs haven't come from physical preparation alone...they've come from approaching our running more holistically, with attention to the mind and spirit as much as the body. This training diary includes the secrets and tricks we have learned along the way to accomplish that. Give the gift of self-development and awareness today!
Make your training more rewarding and fun to track with a simple, beautiful design.
Provide a framework for keeping your running as an integrated piece of your life as a whole.
Help you set, stick to, and accomplish your goals.
More benefits include: increase your motivation and inspiration; evaluate and measure your progress; learn from your mistakes; build your self-confidence; plan your next steps; and keep you in touch with reality.
Beautiful and clean design that allows you to see an entire month's training, making it easy to find patterns and rhythms in your training and racing at a glance.
Original illustrations of encrypted floral designs that become your "cue" for each month.
Insight into mental training tools used by professional athletes.
Goal-setting tips & work-sheet.
Lo & Ro's Map to BELIEVING in yourself & your dreams.
Inspiration to keep up your training diary by 12 women leaders in the sport.
"Bigger Picture" page allows you to chart important variables that affect your training & racing.
Reversible design! Flip it over to use it as a blank notebook, using the lined pages and blank pages for whatever you wish.
Made in the USA in the city of Pittsburgh, PA, with printers powered by alternative energy.
Printed with vegetable based inks on 100% recycled materials. Beautiful foil-stamped covers.
Every page is hand-illustrated by Lo & Ro.
We want to encourage you to use a training diary and we aren't alone! Inspiration to use your training diary is provided by 12 amazing current professionals in the sport from around the World who share a love of training diaries: Olympians, National Champions, NCAA champions, and CEO's.
Special thanks to the Sisters who shared their wisdom for this journal! Find out more about each amazing contributor by following the links below:
Molly Huddle, Mary Cullen, Kim Smith, Stephanie Reilly, Malindi Elmore, Georgie Clarke, Mary Wittenberg, Amy Yoder Begley, Ann Gaffigan, Dottie Lessard, Lauren Fleshman, Roisin McGettigan
"We were simply smitten with the B.I.A. Training Journal. We review a lot of different workout products, but this one really stood out for doing more than just tracking facts and miles. It gives women a place to dream, feel and doodle. It gives them a place to not just reach their fitness goals -- but to feel proud about themselves inside and out!" – Fit Bottomed Girls™
“I’ve kept a running log for the last 11 years and the Believe I Am journal has been my favorite, it’s not just a space to log miles but a journal to map out the years plans, details and dreams while encouraging a positive mind-set along the way!”
Molly Huddle - (US Olympian & 5k record holder, Saucony athlete).
“My Believe I Am journal is one of my most cherished running gadgets. I’d pick it over my Garmin any day if I had to choose.”
Meggie Smith - (Medical student & blogger).
“My Believe I Am journal is so much more than a training journal for me. Not only has it helped me set and achieve my running dreams but it is also helping me open my heart up to other areas in my life that I want to improve on. I am so grateful for my journal and for the incredibly strong and inspiring sisters in sport who I have come to know and love through using it!”
Jessica Myer Hofheimer - (fitness trainer).
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