New Year’s Resolutions for 2020 All Runners Can Get Behind

Want to become a better runner in the new year? Maybe for the next decade?

Of course you do. January 1 inspires most of us to dream big. We’ll lose 20 pounds, run regularly, earn that finisher’s medal. 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 John C. Norcross, Ph.D., 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.