How can I use targets to improve my running performance?

Описание: Why New Year’s Resolutions Can Improve Your Running (If You Do Them Properly)

🏃‍♂️ Many running New Year’s resolutions fail — not because runners lack motivation, but because their goals are vague, unmeasured, and never reviewed. This video explains why clear performance targets work, why tracking matters, and how runners can use evidence rather than emotion to assess progress across a season.

Using well-established research from behavioural science and sports psychology, this video shows how specific, time-bound outcome goals improve focus, decision-making and race execution — and why trends and averages matter more than one-off PBs.

✨ What you’ll learn:
✅ Why specific, time-bound goals outperform vague running resolutions
✅ Why outcome targets give direction (and process goals alone don’t)
✅ Why single race results are noisy — and averages reveal true fitness
✅ How feedback loops drive improvement across a racing season

📊 Plus: See how the myrunningtotal Running Race Tracker helps you:

Track performance objectively using age grading
Compare this year vs last year (or longer-term trends)
Measure progress against stretch targets
Make evidence-based decisions about races and distances

If you’re setting running New Year’s resolutions this year and want them to actually improve performance — not just motivation — this video shows how to do it properly.