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Hello all you furry fitness fanatics!

Spring is in the air and the sun is peaking through. 🌞 While some of us are busy totting up the miles with their canine companion, others may have thrown in the towel, or chosen not to do the plan.

You are not alone. Even Dog Furiendly's founder Adele went off-track just a couple of weeks in. It’s really easy to lose motivation when you start a new exercise program, especially when you’re a beginner. Now she's sourcing a new lease of motivation to get back into the swing. You can too!

Perhaps today is a great day to start?

Here are our top six running motivation tips for when you need it most.

Get Dressed in Your Gear
We all know the feeling of coming home after a hard day at work and dreading the thought of putting on a still-sweaty pair of trainers. However, the simple act of getting dressed in your workout clothes can be a huge motivator.

Run in the Morning
There are always a million reasons not to do something, but they’re never as good as the reasons to go ahead and do it anyway. By working out in the morning, you won’t have enough time to talk yourself out of it. And the best part? Your workout is done and dusted before breakfast.

Get Organised
Lay your running stuff out the night before. Make sure you have plenty of energy-releasing snacks in the cupboard. Get into a routine with your dog, so that they know what time they can expect to go out every day.

Remind Yourself Why You Started

Give yourself a kick up the Tail Wag by remembering why you started in the first place. You could be running for health reasons, to bond more with your dog, improve your mental health or to take on a new challenge. Sometimes we need to remember why we started before we can get to the finish line.

Listen to a New Playlist
Is your playlist getting old and tired? Try adding a few new songs, create a new playlist altogether, or listen to some of the amazing pre-created running playlists on Spotify. Listening to a song you really like can make a huge difference to your workout.

Safety tip: Stay safe while listening to music. Turn your volume down low enough to hear traffic, bicycle bells or the sound of your dog barking.

Run with a (non-furry) Pal
While Tail Wag to 5K is all about running with your dog, it could be a good idea to have another human around too. Running with a friend is the ultimate motivator. You’ll have someone to talk to on your run and you’ll always have an incentive to turn up.

If at fur-st you don't succeed...

Try, try again! You’ve got this! Are you taking part in Tail Wag to 5K? Perhaps these tips have given you a new sense of motivation? Reply to this email to let us know!

Don't forget to join our Strava club to meet other memebers of the community and to help by keeping each other accountable. You can also keep up-to-date with how many miles we've run or walked collectively with our pups visit dogfuriendly.com/tailwagto5k.

Complete your 5K to earn a medal

Complete your 5K, snap a screenshot and email us [email protected] to get your Burns bamboo medal in the post!
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Using your heels to help dogs with wheels

Make your experience count by raising money for a Broken Biscuits. Why not consider picking a local 5K race to aim for while raising awareness and money for this tail-wagging charity? One of the ways you can do this is by setting up a Just Giving page, or a donation page on Facebook and inviting your friends and family to donate! Don't forget to tag Dog Furiendly and Burns Pet Nutrition in your fundraising posts and with the #tailwagto5k so we can show our suppawt.

Click here to learn more about the incredible work Broken Biscuits do!
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Remind me what I signed up for?

Studies have shown, that exercise is easier to stick to when you have a friend to do it with. Well, there is no better friend than your dog! We've teamed up with Burns Pet Nutrition to create a FREE exercise programme to gradually help you and your dog to run a 5K with your pooch in just 10-12 weeks. In conjunction with human running experts RunWales and canicross experts PawRunner, our tail-wagging programme has been carefully created for beginners; considering the health of both human and hound throughout.
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