Finding time as a runner or walker to work out can be challenging, especially if you are training for a marathon, half marathon, or other endurance race.
Here is a trick for finding that time.
Trick Set up a tracking system that is in your face as you go to bed, when you wake up, or throughout the day.
Details There are at least five different approaches to tracking your workouts:

• Paper and pen: This is the least expensive way to track your running or walking workout.
  You can use ruled paper, or you can create tables or lists on blank sheets of paper.
  
• Spreadsheet file: This is like the "paper and pen" approach but (a) can be faster to populate (if you are a touch-typist), (b) is easier to edit without creating a mess, (c) lets you sort your workouts based on date, distance, or some other criterion, (d) lets you filter your workouts for, say, only those lasting at least a certain duration, and (e) can be reproduced quickly for, say, carrying with you or posting in your home, place of work, and car.
  
• Software: This is like the "spreadsheet file" approach but uses custom software instead of a spreadsheet program to let you track your workouts.
  An advantage of this approach over a spreadsheet file is that the "work" of thinking about what to track has already been done.
  Two disadvantages of this approach over a spreadsheet file are less flexibility and the extra cost (assuming that you have a free spreadsheet program or already have bought a spreadsheet program).
  
• Website: This is like the "software" approach but lets you use software hosted at a website to track your workouts.
  For some runners and walkers, a disadvantage of this approach over software installed on your computer is that your workout data may not be as secure.
  But an advantage of this approach over computer-installed software is that you can update and view your workout data wherever in the world you have Internet access.
  
• Electronics unit: For example, you can wear a GPS wrist unit that keeps a history of each of your workouts, including distance covered, total time, split times (if you use the "lap" button), average pace, and fastest pace.
  Accessing this history can be as instantaneous as pressing a few buttons on the unit.
  And it can be as sophisticated as docking it onto a computer-connected cradle, uploading the history through your computer and the Internet to a website, and viewing everything online -- including the route that you traveled, your pace and duration at any point along the route, and the elevation and elevation changes along the route.
  

Some workout-tracking approaches combine two or more of these methods.
For example, some pedometers and GPS units (electronics units) come with a program (software) that you install on your computer and from which you can print your workout records on paper and annotate with pen.
Which tracking approach you use depends on your budget and personal style or preference.
What matters is that your tracking is visible at the right time(s) of day to have a positive effect on your unconscious mind, which will lead you to find time for your next workout.
How It Works By reminding you daily about your workouts, this trick makes it a given to your unconscious mind that you must find time for your next endurance running or walking workout.