January 1 is arbitrary but a good point to start from. It's nice how it coincides closely with the start of a training cycle for me this year. Ironically Wednesday (yesterday) is my rest day so I didn't actually run on the first of the year.
Resolution with out a plan rarely works, but making a plan without resolve is a contradiction. Both are needed in right proportion and bolster each other. I'm resolving to maintain my health (physical, mental, emotional) through running this year and that includes a plan to run a marathon in the spring. The resolve won't change in the spring, but I'll need to develop a new plan based on the same resolve.
Running helped me understand how to set big goals and break them down into smaller goals. Keeping things realistic as well as floating dreams out in the open. Sometimes my goal is to make it through all the workouts in a given week. Sometimes the goal is just to make it through one individual hard workout (i.e. speed work), sometimes the goal is just one part of a workout (400m). I've often had ambiguous goals in my life that give it form and structure, but with running, goal setting seems like an incredibly more concrete project. It also might have something to do with getting older and recognizing that I can only fit so much into my life and it is usually far less than I'd like.
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