How to Make 2024 The Best Running Year of Your Life

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00:00 Intro
00:24 Why should you plan your running training?
02:33 Why you need to set your goals before planning.
03:28 Why yo need a slow and steady progression
04:42 Why you shouldn't bee a slave to your training plan
06:12 How to plan your running training

[jonr]

New competition series - Stroller marathon!

[defeqel]

Having suffered from bad shin splints, I'd argue that consistent strength and mobility training will make things much more enjoyable in the long run, especially tibialis and calf muscles.

[jotaylor]

I love your honesty in sharing your moods, mistakes....and triumphs of course. So much of this rings true with me. I NEED planning and structure in my life, so I create it. Having retired, moved to France and left my UK running club with our 2 x weekly sessions, weekly Park Runs, races, my running mates, I was training on my own in France and a bit lost. My saviour was my Garmin watch run programmes, youtube mobility and strength classes...and of course your wonderfully motivational videos. A year of solo training later I felt fast enough and confident enough to join my local french running club (no Park Runs in France and the club/race level is higher than in UK). I have entered the Champs Elysee 10km in February and a half marathon in The Hague in March. At 69 and so much slower, I swallow my pride and am just grateful I am injury free and can do what I love...running. So thank you for your videos and taking us all on your life journey with all its ups and downs. May 2024 have more ups than downs for you....unless you're doing one of your incredible mountain races again. ❤😅

[ericflynn]

I love your content! You are so good at explaining the basics and it's obvious you have gone through a lot of the same struggles with running many of us have

[danjohnson]

“Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht” is an old Yiddish adage meaning, “Man Plans, and God Laughs.”

I think your planning strategy makes a lot of sense; identifying key races and planning training backwards from there. That said, there are so many variables that can wreak havoc on our plans, how our body is feeling, the weather, life events, etc. As you pointed out at the start, always best to listen to our body over whatever our plans might be.

I heard that 80 percent of us runners get injured in the course of a year. Don't know if it is accurate or not, but I wouldn't be surprised. As I age I'm prioritizing overall health over speed. This means more rest days, strength training, cross training, etc.

[josephhausfeld]

Göran, thank you for your content. You are very motivating but also acknowledge that we are all human and that keeping up with training can be difficult but also not being too hard on ourselves. Keep it up!

[drnkz]

Agree! I use garmin coach to motivate me and make sure I do different sessions during the week

[tirvplumbing]

Hppe you had a nice xmas. 😊 Im experimenting with Garmin race coaching on my watch. Keeps me accountable following the daily suggestions.

[andrecarvalho]

All I want, for 2024, is to get back to running, and to run with confidence. I had to stop in early 2023 due to knee pain (a posture-derived issue with my foot), and I miss this activity in my daily routine.

[jorgens]

Hi Göran! Love your videos and content. You don't say that you should follow the 10% rule when it comes to progression but it would be interesting to see another video with focus on progression (the 10% rule is not a good rule since if you do 50km/week today you will do 130km/week in only 10 weeks and 336km/week in only 20 weeks, a bit hard for most of us😁).

[tiotom]

Good editing in the first bit Göran! Keep up the good work ❤ Greetings from Barcelona!

[williammoelgaard]

Always get shin splints☹️ Hopefully this year will be better!

[herceg]

Love this channel. Nice to listen to and it's very understandable. Regarding running, even though it's good to have running plan, the first 50m-100m of my run, I can tell if it is going to be a good or bad run. It's the feeling in my legs or body. That kind of decides my plan whatever that is.

[SanderBessels]

Even 10% increase is quite a lot. If you reduce it to 5%, this will mean a factor 12, 6 increase, if you keep it up for a year!

This means you turn a 10 km week in a 126 km week!

Small increases add up to BIG increases over time. Consistency is the key. And a training plan can definitely help with consistency.

The book Atomic Habits deals with the topic of how to build consistency in anything you want to improve at. A definite must-read!

[chrism]

I love it . I did have a plan in October. Twisted my foot lol. Black and blue 😮at 54 it was nasty twist .oh well I kept road cycling.but still 2.5 months since a really good run . hopefully soon .happy new year 🍺

[timbarklow]

Can't wait for 2024! Plus a bonus we will get extra inspiration from the Paris games 🤘😎🤘

[jimmybondy]

i'm turning 57 this year, so no chance to go for a personal best. :)
my goal is very simple: stay fit and healthy as long as possible.

[danontherun]

Wise points. I've always been more motivated with a plan versus just doing my own thing. Maybe it is my track background...

[hisyamuddinaris]

Awesome Goran..thank you for the tips..merry Xmas and happy new year…

[IAmSchtolz]

Useful, informative, positive. Great as always. :) You may also try to incorporate Macro/Micro/Mezo cycling terms for structuring. Also, adding sleep/stress info and including in calculation of "past training intensity" might be interesting. As your recovery/motivation and load are highly dependant on your rest. Maybe it was in a video but i missed it. :)