New year, new you?

A note on the new year, new diets, new exercise regimens, and old, copyrighted ideas in the Satisfy vs Nike fiasco.

In the USA the holiday season feels like a two-month extravaganza from Halloween to New Year with Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, and Christmas in the middle.

It’s a relentless barrage of celebration. It’s an onslaught of food and drink, culminating in a week-long stretch of (hopefully) work-free sofa time. It’s no surprise that people get to January burnt out — both physically and mentally — and strive for change.

Along with a better diet, better sleep, and better exercise regimen, alcohol is among the first things that people try to change their relationship with. Changing my relationship with alcohol is how I inadvertently started running again as an adult.

Story time: It was 2007, and I was in my first job out of journalism college. I hadn’t landed at one of the trade mags like I was aiming. Instead, I got a gig as the online editor for the largest independent radio station in the UK. I was also freelancing for some of the biggest music magazines in the world. I was young, I was in the thick…