Motivation is a process of meeting people's needs through the activity you want them to do. If you want others to join you in this club, you need to:

1. Ask what they like about running or walking.
2. Ask what they might want to get out of being part of a running or walking club.
3. After listening to their answers, think how being part of the Sullivan Striders might meet that person's needs. Keep in mind that the club can and should evolve to meet its members needs through the combined actions of its members. With the right contributions of time, effort and expertise, this club can be as good as you want it to be.
4. Express the ways in which joining the club would meet that person's needs. Provide membership application and collect membership fee. Membership fees enable the club to fund worthwhile activities. Other clubs have used fees to fund purchase of equipment and supplies, obtain guest speakers, coaches, nutritionists, massage therapists and other valuable personnel who can help create a quality experience for those clubs' members.
5. Follow up with that person to insure that the club continues to be a worthwhile experience for that person so that their needs are being met through the club activities which attracted them to joining. As people's interests change, the club may change to accommodate them, or they may move in different circles within the club. They may choose to become more or less involved than before. Either way, we need to stay flexible as a club to try to accommodate people's different reasons for wanting to join the Sullivan Striders.

Reasons you or others might give for joining the Sullivan Striders: (feel free to send more reasons to either email address below.)

1. Camaraderie
2. Fellowship
3. Opportunities to train with others
4. Opportunities to meet other people
5. To walk with others
6. To run with others
7. To be a better runner
8. To learn proper training
9. I'd like to increase my speed
10. Sharing the joy of fellowship with others
11. To run and have fun
12. As a beginning runner, I'd like the guidance of others
13. To be safer by running with others
14. To have a well-lit place to run at night in the late fall, winter and early spring
15. The more people you have in a club, the better it is.
16. I want to have a regular time and place to run with others.
17. To socialize and to better my times
18. To lose body fat
19. To build muscle
20. To feel better
21. To walk faster in 5k's
22. To help motivate me
23. To have a coach who can help me with my technique
24. To train for and finish my first marathon
25. To learn from a coach with experience

Further information:
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