New Year’s Resolutions You Can Start Right Now
Run your first race, train harder, stay consistent: Here’s how to get started right now on your big goals for the new year.
Want to become a better runner in the new year? Of course you do—and we could all use a refresh for 2024.
January 1 inspires most of us to dream big. We’ll run regularly, earn that finisher’s medal, or nab a PR. It’s good to set goals: After all, people who make New Year’s resolutions are 10 times more likely to achieve their goals than those who don’t, says How to Prep for Running When Its Cold Out., a University of Scranton professor of psychology who has studied the follow-through of Resolutionaries. As the saying goes, you can’t hit a target if you don’t have one.
But dreaming isn’t enough, and procrastination will make the new year look a lot like last year. So we’ve laid out steps you can take right this minute (and later today, and later this week) to set you up for success for 2024 with some of the most popular New Year’s goals runners have.
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