Motivation, meet-ups and other random things....

So obviously this group needs a little more maintance and direction than what it has. I wanted to start a group for central Illinois for motivation over all else since that seems to be the biggest issue for me at least and I'm sure for some of you as well. I figured we'd know the hangups and downfalls of living in this area (like the extreme cold we've had recently) and could give tips about things to do on rainy days. I also had a hope that we would be a smaller group that could get to know each other well enough to plan outings if possible. Like if anyone lives near enough to Bloomington maybe we could plan a summer constitution trail walk, and attempt to walk the whole thing. Or any other good trails anyone knows of. Stuff like that. But in ordder to get to do things like that we need to have participation here on the group forums. As long as we have people posting on the topics put up I'll be around to moderate. Feel free to post your own topics or suggest new forums and topics that you would like to see. I would really like to see this group thrive as I think it would be nice to have some support in the area. Hope to see you all soon.

Katie

I think that the walk sounds really good.  I think I'm about an hour or so south of Bloomington but I'd be willing to come up and walk some trails.  Once the weather gets nice I like to go to Washington Park in Springfield, i think the loop around the park is a few miles or something and once the flowers bloom its BEAUTIFUL!

Let me know when you want to walk together and I'll be up to it, hopefully more people are too!

Yay! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks this would be a good idea. I'm about a half hour north of Bloomington so it's not too far away for us. I just know that the consitution trail is supp;osed to be a really good trail to go walk/run/biking on. I've been on parts of it but not the whole thing...it goes like all through bloomington normal. Theres also a shorter trail thats like a block from my house that I like to walk down when it's nice out. I havn't gone too far on it though because I don't know where it ends and I don't want to get lost lol! Does anyone know if there are any good trails in like peoria or urbana or anything? Maybe we could plan like weekend walk dates during the summer and go to different trails each time!

Hey guys, I just saw the forum and am excited to see some people in the area. I'm in Peoria and have been doing the CC thing for almost a year I think. I'm always looking for new things to do to motivate me to keep going and to keep my interest. What a great idea having a meet up. I'm about 30-40min from Bloomington, I'm in Peoria. We have a great park here that would be fun for hiking it's called forest park nature center. They have trails that can be challenging, beautiful flowers, wild animals and a building with allot of informational fun things to look at. Also we have a few parks here with baseball diamonds that we could put an amateurs game together if we got enough people. That would be a blast. Making a day for just us sounds like so much fun. I couldn't agree more about the importance of having support in the area you live in. People in Florida don't always understand the possibility of taking a walk in the middle of January in IL is not always there. I'm a driven person, but when you lose 100lbs and have to deal with the winter in IL, can we just say bad combination. 

-Ang