09/01/2025
Happy New Year! Let's talk about your fitness goals.
How many miles will you run/walk in 2025?
Goals matter. Start with what you think is reasonable for a week. For an established runner, I always say 20. Since some can certainly be walked, that's less than three a day, totally reasonable. For a beginner, 18. I know, that's almost the same, but the difference is the beginner will be walking half of it.
Typically, an established runner may be doing various races throughout the year, which means building up mileage over weeks and months and then tapering leading up to the race, or maybe due to life and work, some times of year are busier than others, but I find that averaging 18/20 is reasonable.
I'm not saying it's easy.
I get it. It's easy to get busy with life and work, and all of a sudden, three days have gone by without any exercise. If that happens, you have to bump it up to four miles a day - or every other day - until you get caught up.
Even if only walking for fitness, three miles a day is doable.
Consider that time on your feet makes a huge difference in your health.
Standing is healthy. Sitting is not.
Walking is far better than standing, and running at least half the miles, even at the easiest pace, is going to be life-changing, health-changing.
Add one session a week of high intensity intervals, only appropriate after you've been running a while, and bazinga, you'll be a different person at this time next year.
