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This is the second in an eight-part series at Women’s Running, following elite runner Neely Gracey as she prepares for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Orlando in February.
What are your biggest running dreams? Do you aim to take on a new distance—a half marathon, a marathon, an ultra? Aspire to qualify for the Boston Marathon or the Olympic Trials Marathon? Running consistently for a year, five years, and beyond? Picture yourself finishing a race strong, with your family waiting for you on the other side of the line?
Those big, ambitious goals—ones that inspire, motivate, and even scare us a little—drive so many of us as athletes. But sometimes, we can feel uncertain or overwhelmed about how to turn these outcome goals into reality.
That’s where another type of goal—process goals—come in. They’re small, daily steps that add up to big breakthroughs…
