We’ve caught you – guiltily eyeing up your kit and deciding that run can wait till tomorrow. After all, it’s nearly Christmas, right? Who starts a new fitness plan now? If you want to have a great running year in 2017, it’s worth making your preparations now. Use our simple nutrition, habit-forming and training plans over the next few pages to lay the groundwork. Then, next issue, we’ll help you step it up to make 2017 your best running year yet!
We know life’s busy at the moment and it can be easy to brush aside your fitness plans, promising yourself a new start in January. You don’t have to go into hibernation now, though. Just by committing to a few hours a week of training, healthy food shopping and simple headspace will give you a great base for next year’s big push towards fitness. Don’t worry, we’re not going to ask too much of you for now. Just follow our simple schedule and you won’t have to put any effort into the planning.